The University of Nairobi was honored to host the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Second Biennial Conference on the 18th-20th of November 2019. The conference dubbed “Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Defining a Role for Research Universities”. This happened at the University towers. The two-day international conference was attended by over 220 participants from all over the world, with a great number of the participants being from ARUA member universities.