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Africa Tech Festival 2026

Name: Africa Tech Festival
Start: 2026-11-16
End: 2026-11-19
Location: Cape Town International Convention Centre

Africa Tech Festival is one of Africa’s largest technology events, bringing together telecom leaders, investors, startups, enterprise decision-makers and policymakers to explore the technologies shaping the continent’s digital future. Organized into six core pillars - Telecoms & Connectivity, Data Centres, AI, Cybersecurity, Startups, and Digital Transformat…

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45Speakers

166Sponsors

15Exhibitors

1Sessions

190Companies · in total

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Speakers

Programmed at Africa, in alphabetical order.

Abu Wole

Managing Director West Africa · Equinix

Alex Okosi

Managing Director, Africa · Google

Arno Smit

Cofounder and Head of Product · BioCertica

Bunmi Cynthia Adeleye

Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer · Shoprite Nigeria

Caitlin Burton

CEO Zipline Africa & Intl Markets · Zipline

Charles Molapisi

Group Chief Technology & Information Officer · MTN Group

Donatien Chedom Fotso

Applied AI/ML Lead · Deutsche Bank

Dr. Blaine Lomberg

Chief Technology Officer · Cornerstone Institute

Elaine Kyalo

Group Head of Africa Wireline Network · Airtel Africa

Emmanuel Lubanzadio

Africa Lead · OpenAI

Furaha Maseke Marwa

Founder and Chief Technology Officer · Analytica-Ai

Hon. David Tshere

Minister of Communication and Innovation · Government of Botswana

Hon. Samuel Nartey George

Minister of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations · Republic of Ghana

Hon. Solly Malatsi

Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies · The Republic of South Africa

Jabulile Dlamini

CTO · Eswatini Mobile

Jürgen Peschel

CEO · Botswana Telecommunications Corporation

Kamogelo Radebe

Senior Data Manager · First National Bank

Kerissa Varma

Chief Security Advisor, Africa · Microsoft

Kim Sim

Chief Information Officer · Mr Price Group

Lazola Ndamase

Head of Data, Insights & MI · ABSA Bank

Leo Skarlatos

CEO · AT Ghana

Mandla Magagula

CTO · Libex

Agenda

Selected from 1 sessions.

TBA
Cybersecurity Evolution: Liquid Technologies' Insights at Africa Tech Festival
Nic Rudnick, Group Deputy Executive Chairman of Liquid Intelligent Technologies, delivers a session at Africa Tech Festival 2023 on the evolution of technology and the consequences…

Company intelligence

What does it mean when 190 companies show up, and 19 bet on three roles at once?

190 companies. nineteen are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room

19All threespeak · spons · exh

130Sponsoringsponsor only

0Exhibitingexhibitor only

41Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Acmetel·AFR-IX Telecom·Altron Modular·Axon Global·Comores Cables·FiberOne Broadband·Flytxt·Hytera·Infosim·ManageEngine·MTN·Odoo·Spacecom·Tarana·Zoho·Digital Realty·Mauritius Telecom·Microsoft·Orange Middle East and Africa

Speakers by seniority

76% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

C-suite2556%
Founder / Owner12%
Director / Head of818%
Manager / Lead511%
Marketing / Brand12%
Other roles511%

Of 45 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies

#	Company	Roles	Speakers
1	Acmetel	SponsorExhibitor	-
2	AFR-IX Telecom	SponsorExhibitor	-
3	Altron Modular	SponsorExhibitor	-
4	Axon Global	SponsorExhibitor	-
5	Comores Cables	SponsorExhibitor	-
6	FiberOne Broadband	SponsorExhibitor	-
7	Flytxt	SponsorExhibitor	-
8	Hytera	SponsorExhibitor	-
9	Infosim	SponsorExhibitor	-
10	ManageEngine	Sponsor · GoldExhibitor	-
11	MTN	SponsorExhibitor	-
12	Odoo	SponsorExhibitor	-
13	Spacecom	SponsorExhibitor	-
14	Tarana	SponsorExhibitor	-

Sponsors by tier

platinum3

2% of 166

gold2

1% of 166

silver7

4% of 166

connectivity partner1

1% of 166

exclusive networking event sponsor1

1% of 166

headline1

1% of 166

lanyard sponsor1

1% of 166

next gen talent1

1% of 166

private briefing sponsor1

1% of 166

space tech partner1

1% of 166

bag sponsor1

1% of 166

coffee point sponsor1

1% of 166

coffee sponsor1

1% of 166

unspecified144

87% of 166

At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

Google×21 peers
AWS×17 peers
Red Hat×17 peers
IBM×16 peers
Samsung×13 peers
Amazon×12 peers
Datadog×12 peers
Google Cloud×12 peers
Accenture×10 peers
Intel×10 peers
NVIDIA×10 peers
Oracle×10 peers

Related events · by shared sponsors

Conference	Date	City	Shared sponsors
MWC27 Barcelona	March 1, 2027	Barcelona	9
ITW 2027	May 18, 2027	National Harbor	6
Telecoms World Asia 2026	October 27, 2026	Bangkok	4
GITEX AI ASIA 2027	April 29, 2027	Singapore	4
Web Summit 2026	November 9, 2026	Lisbon	3
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America	November 9, 2026	Salt Lake City	3

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190 companies. nineteen are betting more than once.