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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1Join ITW Africa’s opening keynote chat show to hear from a carousel of the leading decision makers and industry giants from across the connectivity ecosystem. Fresh insights, exciting updates and expected predictions are all on the agenda to dive into how the biggest names in the industry are shaping Africa’s digital future.
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1Governments and policymakers are at the forefront of unlocking the potential for digital transformation. This panel delves into the key challenges faced by Africa’s policy makers, identifying regional discrepancies and infrastructure gaps, as well as highlighting best-practice and opportunities to foster regional cooperation.
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How are government digital strategies are impacting policy and regulatory frameworks
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Understanding the challenges faces by ministries and regulatory authorities and how the private sector can support
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Exploring areas of collaboration and cooperation between private and public sectors
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Radisson Blu - Kifaru Room, Floor 1Start your day with a morning of inspiration at our dedicated Women-in-Tech Africa forum. This empowering event will feature leading female voices in the industry sharing their stories and experiences, overcoming challenges and driving dynamic change in an otherwise static sector.
Learn about impactful initiatives promoting diversity, equity and representation, and engage in a workshop focused on building essential career skills to support your professional growth.
Chairs opening remarks (10 mins)
Faith Waithaka, Chairperson, ADCA
My story (20 mins)
Hear from 2 senior women in the African telecom sector share their experience and journey through Africa's digital industry.
- Caroline Kamaitha General Manager – Uganda, Raxio
- Maria Miguel Pinto, General Manager – Angola, Raxio
Panel discussion | Accelerating diversity in the workplace (40 mins)
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Addressing barriers to entry and career advancement
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What is needed to develop skills and build a pipeline of talent?
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Creating policies and cultures that support diversity
Speakers:
- Chanél Oldfield, Head of CAPACITI , CAPACITI
- Efua Dougan, Managing Director, DSConsortium
- Susan Mbatia, Director Corporate Development, iColo
Moderator:
Faith Waithaka, Chairperson, ADCA
Upskilling Through Strengths: Accelerate Your Career with What Makes You Unique (20mins)
Workshop Lead: Nadia- Habsatou, Founder & President, Learn&Adapt
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1Africa’s infrastructure gap presents major barriers to social, economic and digital development, with the continent facing a financing gap of US$68 – 108bn according to the African Development Bank, but Africa accounts for just 7% of global PPP investment. How can PPPs bridge financing gaps, drive innovation and expand access to digital services?
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How can PPPs help bridge financing gaps and unlock funding for large-scale projects?
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The role of the public sector in lowering policy and regulatory barriers
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Fostering inclusivity through supporting digital access and rural expansion
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Next steps for private and public sectors to accelerate PPP adoption
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Networking lunchLarder Terrace, Radisson BluLocations:
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Exhibition hall - Mount Kilimanjaro, ground floor
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1The lines between infrastructure operators and cloud service providers are starting to grey, as the business models undergo rapid transformation and diversification. With demand for cloud infrastructure, products and platforms accelerating, what does this mean for the once separated industry sectors, and how will this transform company identify?
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What is driving diversification and expansion into new service offerings?
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Impacts on business models and revenue streams, where are the next opportunities?
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Strategic partnerships with cloud, content and technology companies
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Implications for new market competition and industry dynamics
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Radisson Blu - Kifaru Room, Floor 1Ensuring access to reliable, cost effective and green power is essential to supporting the rollout of digital infrastructure across the African continent. Addressing this trilemma, ITW & Datacloud Africa hosts an afternoon of energy and ESG focused discussions, bringing together leaders and decision makers to discuss grid and policy challenges, managing growing load pressures, tackling ESG goals and exploring alternative solutions and new innovations.
Opening presentation | The state of Africa’s grid infrastructure: Where will the power come from?
Discussion 1 | Grid and policy challenges
Discussion 2 | Managing future power growth forecasts
Discussion 3 | Tackling stakeholder carbon reduction targets
Discussion 4 | Exploring best practice for renewable energy and efficiency solutions
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1The pace of technological transformation and adoption is pushing the telecom sector to evolve at an ever-faster pace. Hear from leading industry voice to understand how telcos are evolving their business models, service offerings, and implementing new tools and innovations to stay ahead of the curve.
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Diversifying revenue streams beyond connectivity: exploring new service offerings
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How telcos are leveraging the latest technological advancement
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What role will AI and automation play in operational transformation?
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Will increasing pressure on capital allocation push operators to adopt more asset-light business models?
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1Much of the data content consumed in Africa is hosted outside the content, with the local market severely underserved. Despite enormous growth in digital infrastructure, Africa still lacks the capacity to store, process and control its data. What does the recent surge in efforts by African governments to bolster digital sovereignty and local data ownership mean for the sector?
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What is Africa’s approach to digital sovereignty?
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The challenge of data storage and protection
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How could data sovereignty laws impact the deployment of cloud infrastructure?
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Radisson Blu - Kifaru Room, Floor 1To keep up with accelerating demand for connectivity and digital access, the next US$100bn of investment will be critical to driving growth and connectivity across Africa. We bring together investors, private equity leaders, institutional financiers and infrastructure operators to understand investor expectations, appetite for risk and long-term capital outlooks to foster collaboration and uncover the strategies to drive investment into Africa’s future.
Chairs remarks & opening presentation
Fireside chat
Open discussion
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Where will the next US$100bn come from? The role of private equity, public funding and institutional finance
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How are investor expectations impacting entry and exit timelines, appetite, and long-term capital outlook?
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Capital allocation trends towards M&A
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, enterprises face mounting challenges in managing IT systems. Critical sectors like financial services, e-government and healthcare rely on resilient, secure and consistent connectivity with failures leading to serious repercussions. This panel brings together IT and technology leaders to explore the pressures of ensuring system resiliency, mitigating security threats, and understanding what keeps them up at night.
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How are AI, automation and cloud computing reshaping enterprise IT operations?
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What are the primary cybersecurity challenges and how can emerging threats be proactively combated?
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How are enterprises leveraging outsourcing to enhance efficiency, and what are the trade-offs?
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Radisson Blu - Kifaru Room, Floor 1Africa’s fibre industry faces increasing pressures to support demands for network densification, expansion and cross-border connectivity to support growing demand for capacity and resiliency. Join industry leaders and stakeholders to discuss actionable strategies for driving growth and innovation in Africa’s diverse fibre ecosystem.
Chairs remarks & opening presentation
Fireside chat
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- Pricing and business models; what’s working?
- The impact of satellite services on fibrecos
- Bringing connectivity inland to Africa’s landlocked markets
- Accelerating regional cooperation on cross-border connectivity
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1Driven by mass digitalisation and macro growth factors, the African cloud sector is poised for record expansion and hyperscalers are racing to meet demand. But how prepared are infrastructure companies, service providers and policymakers, and what form will hyperscale footprint take across the continent?
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How are data and digital consumption trends shaping demand for cloud services and infrastructure?
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What impact is aggressive expansion in the European and US markets having on capital allocation into Africa?
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Ensuring access to clean and sustainable power to meet future demand for hyperscale-ready infrastructure
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1Africa’s datacentre market is evolving rapidly, facing the enormous challenge of bringing together long-term infrastructure development with the short-term dynamism of Africa. Hear from C-level leadership to explore what this shifting landscape means for datacentre expansion, consolidation and growth to shape Africa’s digital future.
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How has Africa’s datacentre industry changed in the last 12 months since Datacloud Africa 2024?
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Where are the opportunities to grow service offerings beyond equipment hosting?
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Regional variations in demand for data centre deployments and the move to spoke markets
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Will we see an increase in M&A activity over the next 5 years?
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1The global data centre industry is riding high on the global wave of hype and activity around the adoption of artificial intelligence. The US market has seen much of this action, with an emerging question of what role the rest of the world will play. Africa represent's just 2.5% of the global AI market, but the rapid growth in access to digital applications and services could transform AI adoption on the continent. This panel dives into this frenzy to understand what AI really means for Africa, how ready the continent is, and separating fact from fiction.
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Cutting through the hype: How do we assess the real implications of AI?
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Understanding demand for AI services, key drivers and use-applications in Africa
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Regional variations in AI-driven demand and implications for data centre deployment
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The role of government in supporting regulatory frameworks for the adoption of AI services and infrastructure
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Radisson Blu - Kifaru Room, Floor 1In 2024, multiple submarine cuts led to significant disruption across multiple countries and sent the industry spiralling. Since then, further cable cuts, new threats, geopolitical tensions and an overwhelmed supply chain has put pressure on the resiliency and sustainability of the sector. This 90-minute workshop gathers leading voices and industry experts to discuss the next steps in shoring up resiliency and redundancy, planning the next wave of subsea cable expansion and assessing subsea supply chain resiliency.
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What lessons have been learnt from the subsea cuts over the past 24 months?
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Understanding emerging threats to subsea cable infrastructure; concerns and mitigations
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Addressing the growing pressures on Africa’s subsea supply chain and maintenance fleet
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1Whether driven by customer demand, investor expectations, operational costs or impending policy, building sustainable and efficient data centres has become critical to meeting the expectations of customers; both local and international. This panel explores the innovative strategies and solutions being implemented to ensure the next generation of African data centres meet required operational standards - and modernising those already built.
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Exploring modular datacentre design approaches to sustainably scale operations
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What impact are reporting and ESG requirements having on real investment into alternative energy generation
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How can AI-driven tools be utilised for energy efficiency, cooling systems and predictive maintenance?
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1A robust and diverse local internet ecosystem is vital for enhancing connectivity and driving economic growth. But many African markets still face the challenge of small internet ecosystems that struggle to grow on their own. What role do datacentres have to play in supporting interconnection, and support the growth of localised internet ecosystems?
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How are datacentres supporting the growth of IXPs to localise interconnect and reduce costs?
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Fostering collaboration between ISPs, CDNs and data centres
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Strategies to promote local cloud solutions and encourage enterprise in the digital economy
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Join DIF and AfIDA in the 12th investment pitches by six entrepreneurs presenting exciting projects focused on DRC, Kenya, Uganda, Namibia, Zambia, and Senegal with solutions covering green data-centres, rural connectivity, fibre and IOT. Over thirty minutes, each project will receive feedback on sources of capital and innovative ideas for improving the risk-reward of these by a panel of mentor consisting of seasoned deal-makers.
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Vivek Mittal, CEO, Africa Infrastructure Development Association (AfIDA)
Ville Wacklin, Expert, Digital Investment Facility14.40 – 15.10 Navon World
1.5 MW High Performance Computing Tier III Enterprise Data Centre powered by geothermal energy
Romi Sumaria, Co-Founder, Navon World
Erin Beilharz, Advisor, Navon World
Ben Roberts, Advisor, Navon World15.10 – 15.40 DemshiTelco
5 MW Colocation data-centre with an initial 3MW phase1
Ferdinand Nghiyolwa, DemshiTelco
Werner Shilunga, Managing Director, DemshiTelco15.40 – 16.10 Ukama Inc
4G data local area networks - providing access for 300,000 rurual consumers in Zambia
Kashif Ali, Founder & CEO, Ukama Inc
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2 MW data centre and Wireless Network with IOT solutions for rural Senegal
Mamadou Lamine Faye, Director General, Mirahtec
Ramatoulaye Fall, Commercial Director, Mirahtec16.40 – 17.10 Rain Communications
5 edge data centres connecting a new submarine cable landing station in Mombasa to tier 2 cities in Kenya and Uganda.
Barry Macharia, Co-Founder & CTO, Rain Communications
Alex Nayagah, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Rain Communications17.10 – 17.40 Techminds Technologies
5 x 0.5 MW edge data-centres, combined with fibre and cloud for e-Government
John Gitau Kariuki, Director Strategy & Growth, Techminds Technologies
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1Satellite adoption is rapidly driving connectivity in Africa. Competitive prices on direct-to-device connectivity, meeting rural coverage goals and diversifying resiliency routes are all accelerating demand for non-terrestrial services. How will this evolving dynamic drive both cooperation and competition, from strategies, commercial and regulatory angles?
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Opportunities for collaboration between satellite operators and local stakeholders to accelerate affordable access to connectivity
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Does direct-to-device pose a threat to carriers and network providers?
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Regulatory and spectrum allocation challenges for satellite operators
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1The expansion of data centre and fibre deployments, subsea cabling and emergence of new non-terrestrial solutions is creating an ever-expanding range of tools and innovations network providers can utilise to reach end-users. This panel explores how leadership from across Africa’s connectivity industry are navigating this increasingly complex ecosystem, and how to adapt to a new age of holistic coverage.
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Balancing infrastructure investments with regional needs to address diverse connectivity demands
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The role of non-terrestrial solutions in complementing traditional infrastructure
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How can telcos, data centre operators and satellite providers collaborate to ensure seamless coverage?
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What strategies are being employed to ensure accessibility and affordability?
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1Africa is widely acknowledged as the continent of untapped potential; A growing population, rapid economic and social development, and quick adoption of digital services. How are some of the leading global players looking at opportunities in Africa compared to growth in their home markets?
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Where do international carriers see growth opportunities in Africa?
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How are international carriers balancing investment needs in home markets?
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What best practice learnt in other regions can be applied to the continent, and what are the biggest unique hurdles?
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Radisson Blu - Kifaru Room, Floor 109:00 – 09:45 | Opening Keynote & Panel
Keynote Address - Africa’s Next Digital Architects: Empowering Young Talent in Infrastructure
Speaker: Douglas Njenga, Director – Regulatory & Strategic Affairs, WIOCC Group and Director ASEFTopic:
- Africa’s infrastructure boom & opportunities for young professionals
- How networks, cloud, and data centres are transforming economies
- Skills and mindset needed to thrive in a fast-evolving sector
Panel Discussion (25–30 mins): “From Learning to Leading: Preparing Africa’s Young Talent for the Infrastructure Era”
Moderator:
- Mark Tinka – Transmission Co.
Panellists:
- Judy Nguru – Senior Data Center Strategic Negotiator, Business Development, Google
- Caroline Kamaitha – General Manager, Raxio
- Nikki Popoola – Sales Director, WIOCC
- Aurelien Bayart – Regional Key Account Manager, Nokia
09:45 – 11:00 | Exhibition Tour for Students - Guided by Industry Hosts
11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:40 | Student Engagement Session
Opening Keynote (10–15 mins)
Topic: “Leadership in Action: Building Africa’s Digital Future”- Leading infrastructure projects in Africa
- The responsibility of young talent in shaping connectivity
- Lessons for the next generation of leaders
Quick-Fire Q&A with Industry Leaders (50 mins)
Session 1 (20 mins): “Pathways to Impact: How Young Talent Can Join and Lead Infrastructure Projects”
Speakers:- Yashnath Issur– CEO Nxtra – Airtel Africa
- Charles Kupperusamy – COO, CMC Networks
Session 2 (20 mins): “Empowering Africa’s Next Digital Leaders: Linking Infrastructure Growth to Talent Development”
Speakers:- Fiona Asonga – CEO, TESPOK
- Ben Roberts – Board Chair, Young Scientists Kenya
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1Amid rapid growth in voice and messaging, Africa’s messaging ecosystem faces a pressing challenge; trust is eroding. While aggregators have benefited from increasing traffic, a growing proportion of this stems from spam, scam and fraudulent messages that harm customers and end-users, jeopardising the long-term sustainability of the sector. This panel addresses the current trust deficit, how to realign commercial incentives, and what collaborative mechanisms are needed to drive enforcement, transparency, and quality of service
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Identifying fraud in messaging networks and how the industry is contributing to the problem
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What impact is this having on enterprise, mobile operator and hyperscale brands, and the impact on their confidence in business messaging
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Can commercial models be realigned to disincentivise fraud?
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What industry-wide initiatives and collaborations can help drive progress and identify fraudulent activity?
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Radisson Blu - Kifaru Room, Floor 1Governments, telecom operators, technology and innovation players, investors… are all stepping up initiatives to speed up Africa’s digital transformation and achieve digital sovereignty. What roles d ...
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Radisson Blu - Mount Kenya Ballroom, Floor 1Rich Communication Services (RCS) is seen by some as the future of business messaging. Offering enhanced security, multimedia capabilities and interactivity. For Africa, where mobile is engagement dominates and trust in messaging is under pressure, RCS hold enormous promise. This panel explores where RCS stands in Africa today; what it offers, the barriers that remain, and how to accelerate meaningful adoption and monetisation.
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Next steps for implementing RCS practices across fragmented markets
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Can RCS avoid the pricing pitfalls that have undermined other platforms?
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What is the current state of RCS enablement in Africa, and who are its current leaders?
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Examples of industries adopting CPaaS and its role in improving operational efficiency
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Exploring barriers to adoption
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