AfricaCom 2019: Accelerating Business Transformation to Strengthen African Economies

Cape Town, South Africa, October 21, 2019--AfricaCom is the place to meet everybody who’s anybody in African telecoms and technology; bringing together 15,000 attendees, 450 speakers and 500 exhibitors.  Whether your focus is connectivity infrastructure, disruptive technologies, digital services or ICT strategy, this is the place to network, learn and get deals done.

To be held from November 12-14, 2019 at the Cape Town International Convention Center (CTICC) in Cape Town, South Africa, AfricaCom is the place to be if you are looking into the Africacn telecommunications market--one of the fastest growing markets in the world today. AfricaCom is the largest ICT exhibition on the continent, covering topics like 5G, wholesale telecoms and digital video distribution.

This year’s AfricaCom features Africatech for the first time.  AfricaTech is the part of AfricaCom dedicated to IT and enterprise digital transformation. Designed to help attendees successfully navigate their digital transformation journeys, AfricaTech will take over the whole of CTICC 2 and include an exhibition area split into dedicated technology zones, as well as play host to tech-focused tracks and features including AI Africa, Fintech, IoT Africa and new for 2019, Data Centres Africa. 

The AfricaCom Headliners conference will return in 2019 and are once again completely free to attend. Speakers already confirmed include the Hon. Mohamed Rahman Swaray, the newly appointed Minister of Information and Communications for the Republic of Sierra Leonne; Ahmad Ahmad, president at Confederation of African Football (CAF); Calvo Mawelo, CEO at MultiChoice Group and Isabel Dos Santos, chair at Unitel, among others.

Other show features  due to return are the AHUB, LeadersIn Africa Summit and the AfricaCom Awards, that recognise the sterling efforts and innovation organisations and individuals are doing to realise Africa’s full digital potential.

For more information or to register for free, go to: tmt.knect365.com/africacom