Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities 2024
Your Company's Growth Potential Begins with Africa Tech Festival
Africa Tech Festival 2025 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 2025, 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 2025 to grow your business, unlock innovation, and position your brand at the heart of Africa’s vibrant tech scene!
Tafadzwa Wachenuka
Project Manager
Grumium Engineering
We're thrilled to have secured two investors who are eager to support our vision.
Currently, we're finalizing the agreement paperwork, and we attribute this success largely to our participation in the Africa Tech Festival. The opportunities and connections made at the festival have been instrumental in making this achievement possible.
Why partner with Africa Tech Festival?
Lead Generation
With 59% of 2024 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.
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 500+ industry trailblazers.
Gain Real-Time Industry Insights
Stay ahead of the curve with the latest industry trends and developments. Use these insights to inform your future strategies and tailor your services to meet client and prospect demands.
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!
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 LeadersIn Africa Summit, The Africa Tech Festival Awards, AFEST, The Investor Breakfast, Happy Hour Drinks and 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.
Lead Generation in 2024
29900+
LEADS GENERATED BY SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS
21900+
Connections via the Event App
15%
had either signed contracts or have contracts currently out with clients resulting from the event
Unrivalled Opportunities to grow your brand in 2025
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 2025:
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 HONOR, Vertiv, WIOCC, Ciena, Space 42, Arabsat , Business France, Eutelsat, Hytera, Ekinops, Zoho, MCPM, Infobip, Euphoria, FasterPay and First Serve Ventures 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
Exhibitor Satisfaction 2024
90%
Launching a new brand/product/service
88%
Finding new distributors/partners/resellers
81%
Increasing awareness of brand(s)/ products/ services
Exhibition and Conference FAQ
What are the operating hours of the exhibition?
expand_moreExhibition opens from 10am to 6pm on 11-12 November 20254.
Exhibition opens from 10am to 4pm on 13 November 2025.
Please note: Exhibitor access 8am-10am on all show shows with an exhibitor badge. NO other badges will be permitted before 8am so please avoid hosting meetings on your stand before the Expo opens.
Where can I find the Partnership & Exhibition packages and pricing?
expand_moreAcross the three expo halls, the content stages, meeting rooms and offsite events including AFEST, The LeadersIn Africa Summit and the Africa Tech Festival Awards, Africa Tech Festival provides a variety of packages and pricing to cater for all budgets and event objectives. We also offer more bespoke packages to meet your business needs.
How do I become an exhibitor?
expand_moreContact us to view the live floorplans, secure your preferred spot and start maximising your event ROI!
How do I become a speaker?
expand_moreIf you're looking to provide ground breaking industry insight alongside our visionary speakers, get in touch to learn more about our thought leadership pricing and packages.
Where can I find the Agenda?
expand_moreLearn more about what to expect by viewing the 2024 Agenda