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Your Company's Growth Potential Begins with Africa Tech Festival


Africa Tech Festival 2026 is the premier platform for companies looking to showcase innovative solutions, promoting thought leadership, enhance brand visibility and generate months' worth of quality leads in just 3 days!

Attracting a diverse mix of industry-leading partners and tech giants, the festival consistently delivers exceptional ROI for clients. In 2026, expect exciting new launches and unique opportunities to connect with 15,000+ tech, telecoms and start-up leaders from around the globe, all aimed at driving Africa's digital transformation.

Join your peers as they gain the latest market insights from key industry pioneers, attend exclusive VIP events, and enjoy enhanced networking opportunities.

Sponsor or exhibit at Africa Tech Festival 2026 to grow your business, unlock innovation, and position your brand at the heart of Africa’s vibrant tech scene!

Lead Generation in 2025 for Sponsors & Exhibitors


29900+

Leads generated onsite via lead scanning

21900+

Connections made via the Event App

15%

Connected with their target audience

Unrivalled opportunities to grow your brand in 2026


Africa Tech Festival delivers a wealth of features, experiences and content stages for you to build a package that ensures your participation goals are exceeded. Here's how you can get involved in 2026:

Note: The brochures below contain 2025 information. Please ask for 2026 pricing and partnership details, while we’re working on the new editions.

Speak & Sponsor

With 15+ diverse content stages aligned to all industry verticals, amplify your brand visibility among senior tech decision-makers.

Exhibit

Across three halls, our world class expo boasts 300+ exhibitors demonstrating their tech in action, whilst enhancing their brand and connecting with their next distributor, investor or reseller.

PLUS with Microsoft, Meta, Orange, HONOR, Roche, HPE | AMD, Vertiv, Ericsson, Cassava Technologies, Eutelsat, Digital Realty, Business France, Nokia, and Openserve already onboard, can you afford to miss out?


NEW FOR 2025: AfricaIgnite gets it's own Expo!

AfricaIgnite brings together the continent’s top entrepreneurs, corporates, investors, and policymakers—offering a unique space to showcase innovations, build partnerships, and drive impactful change.

2025 boasts FOUR content stages, Next-Gen Talent, Investor Day (NEW), Founders Day, the highly anticipated Start-up Pitch Competition, Hackathon, Investor Lounge & a curated Investor-Start-up Match-Making Programme.

Secure a start-up Pod

Are you looking to highlight your region's most innovative start-ups and scale-ups or grow your start-up?

AfricaIgnite is the ideal setting for you to meet with potential investors and VCs (those eager to drive growth of new companies) whilst exhibiting alongside and gaining market insights from industry leaders.

Africa Tech Festival Awards

Extend your brand presence beyond the show floor by sponsoring the Africa Tech Festival Awards and demonstrate how your company is celebrating and supporting innovation and excellence across Africa's tech scene.

The Africa Tech Festival Awards returns to the Bay Hotel, Camps Bay in 2025

LeadersIn Africa Summit

The Africa Tech Festival 2025 LeadersIn Africa Summit is an exclusive, invite-only leadership event for the continent's most senior & influential tech leaders, returning to the spectacular Forum Embassy Hill.

Run under Chatham House Rules to foster frank, actionable dialogue between Africa's tech senior leaders, this interactive, curated content feature explores the critical, sector-shaping issues pertinent to Africa’s digital development journey.

The AFEST

AFEST is the ideal platform to raise brand visibility amongst your prospects whilst aligning your brand with Africa's premier tech event and the overall aim of putting Africa Tech on the Global Stage.

AFEST 2025 is returning to it's iconic breach front venue, the Grand Africa Cafe & Beach


Ministerial Summit

The 2nd Annual Africa Tech Festival Ministerial Summit, in partnership with the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT), connects you directly with 15+ Ministers and 200+ senior leaders.

Are you looking to break into new African markets? Need face time with government procurement teams and enterprise buyers? This is your moment.

National Showcase

Africa Tech Festival is where government delegations, national tech champions and global investors converge to shape the future of African tech.

With unparalleled visibility and influence, it’s the ultimate platform to attract investment, build powerful partnerships and lead in digital and business transformation.

Why partner with Africa Tech Festival?


Lead Generation

With 54% of 2025 attendees Director Level or above and 1,000+ VIPs, Africa Tech Festival has done the hard for you.

Generate months' worth of qualified leads across three days and builds lasting, profitable connections around every corner.

Nurture Customer Relationships

Across the week, and across Cape Town, Africa Tech Festival offers unparalleled networking opportunities to foster deeper connections with current and potential clients.

These include the Leaders In Africa Summit, The Africa Tech Festival Awards, New Networking Features, AFEST, Ministerial Summit, Executive Networking, ATF Connect (1:1 Meeting Services), The Investor Breakfast, Happy Hour Drinks, and more!

Thought Leadership

Whatever your area of expertise, leverage Africa Tech Festival's 10+ content stages to launch a new product or demonstrate how your company is leading the digital revolution alongside 450+ industry trailblazers.

View 2025 Speakers >>

Raise Brand Awareness and Visibility

On and off the show floor, Africa Tech Festival boasts multiple branding opportunities, helping to position your brand at the forefront of the tech industry pre-, during and post-event.

Opportunities include branding at the CTICC and at events throughout the week, social media and email promotion, onsite interviews, delegate bag and lanyard sponsorship, and much more!

Media & PR Outreach

Got a new product to launch? Announcing a new partnership? Leverage Africa Tech Festival's extensive Media and PR coverage to build powerful stories around your brand.

We're thrilled to have APO Group as our Official Newswire partner this year.

Year-round Digital Opportunities

With a global reach, and an active community of 100k+ contacts across emails, our websites and social media, we deliver unparalleled reach across all industry verticals. Take advantage of our multi-touch points communication opportunities to ensure that your clients keep your brand front of mind year-round.

Kenny Joda

Commercial Head

FiberOne Broadband

Africa Tech Festival 2024 exceeded our expectations, providing a vibrant platform for meaningful networking and engagement.

Having a booth at the event allowed us to interact directly with attendees, address inquiries about our company, and showcase our services to a highly targeted audience. The event not only offered valuable leads and new business opportunities but also created a space to connect with industry leaders and gain insights into the latest tech innovations across Africa.

Kudos to the organizers for delivering such a well-executed and impactful festival

Exhibitor Satisfaction 2025


90%

Maintaining your company's profile/brand position

88%

Providing thought leadership within our industry

81%

Meeting/selling to new customers

3 EXPO HALLS. COUNTLESS OPPORTUNITIES.


After a very successful 2025 event, 92% of Sponsors & Exhibitors (completing our post-event survey) are likely to sponsor/exhibit at ATF next year.

Strategic positioning transforms visibility into opportunity. Secure your premium booth location now and maximise your ROI when it matters most.

New Business Reports: Get Your Free Copy


Data Centres: The Backbone of Africa's AI and Connectivity Future

Africa’s data centre market is booming, but the story is about more than infrastructure.

Our new report, Data Centres: The Backbone of Africa's AI and Connectivity Future, explores how data centres are at the heart of Africa’s digital boom, powering AI, cloud, and connectivity.

For those seeking to play a role in this transformation, join AfricaCom 2026 to engage directly with the leaders and policymakers defining the next chapter in Africa’s connectivity story.

AI as Africa’s Competitive Edge: From Hype to ROI

AI adoption in Africa is moving fast, powered by cloud maturity, cyber resilience and a young, digital-first market. Enterprises aren’t just experimenting anymore; they’re scaling and looking for partners to help them modernise, embed trust and unlock AI’s potential.

Our new report, AI as Africa’s Competitive Edge: From Hype to ROI, explores where investment and innovation are converging — and what that means for technology providers ready to act.

It’s also a preview of the conversations happening at AfricaTech 2026, where enterprises, regulators and global tech leaders will come together to turn opportunities into partnerships.

Exhibition and Conference FAQ