The Next $1 Trillion Opportunity: Building Africa Through Technology
Africa's definitive technology forum returns for its sixth edition — convening the policymakers, investors, founders, and builders who will define the continent's digital decade.
ATAEx 2026 Nominations Are Open!
Recognising Africa's technology leaders, innovators, and digital transformation champions.
Where Africa's trillion-dollar digital future takes shape.
The Africa Tech Alliance Forum is a continental platform — now entering its sixth year — dedicated to the infrastructure, policy, and capital questions standing between Africa and its next phase of digital economic growth.
AfriTECH 6.0 brings together Africa's most consequential technology voices to confront a question the continent can no longer defer: what will it actually take to convert Africa's digital promise into the next trillion-dollar economic reality — and who is already building the infrastructure to get us there?
This is not a spectator event. It is a working conversation between those who make policy, those who deploy capital, and those building the companies, platforms, and infrastructure that Africa's future runs on.
Ideas. Innovation. Impact.
A curated, high-signal gathering built for Africa's most ambitious builders and decision-makers.
Powerful Conversations
Hear from technology executives, government leaders, investors, and innovators tackling Africa's biggest digital opportunities — with the shared goal of turning insight into action.
Build the Connections That Matter
AfriTECH is designed for the room. Connect with founders, investors, regulators, operators, and decision-makers from across Africa's technology ecosystem in one curated space.
Discover What Africa Is Building
Explore the emerging technologies, breakthrough ideas, and homegrown solutions transforming Africa's digital economy — and meet the people behind them.
Real moments. Lasting impact.
Explore moments from the Africa Tech Alliance Forum and the ATAEx Awards archive as we build toward AfriTECH 6.0.
The leaders building Africa's digital future.
A spotlight on technology, telecommunications, regulation, and digital infrastructure leaders across the ecosystem.
Dr. Aminu Maida
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)
Engr. Gbenga Adebayo
Chairman, Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON)
James Agada
Technology and innovation ecosystem
Ikechukwu Nnamani
CEO, Digital Realty Nigeria
Leadership spotlight. Please confirm each individual's event participation before labelling these profiles as confirmed speakers.
The Next $1 Trillion Opportunity
Africa's digital economy has attracted tens of billions in investment, produced multiple unicorns, and built payment infrastructure that global markets now study. And yet the infrastructure gaps, capital constraints, and policy fragmentation between where Africa is and where it is going remain real and large.
AfriTECH 6.0 asks — with precision and without deferral — what will it take to build the Africa this next trillion dollars imagines? What must change in infrastructure? In regulation? In how capital is deployed? And in how Africa's builders lead?
Every speaker, every session, and every conversation at AfriTECH 6.0 is oriented around a single, answerable question: who is already building — and what do they need to finish the job?
Celebrating the people building Africa's future.
The Africa Tech Alliance Excellence Awards (ATAEx) recognise outstanding technology leaders, innovators, organisations, and change-makers making a measurable contribution to Africa's digital economy. Now in its sixth edition, ATAEx has become one of the continent's more credible technology recognition frameworks — built on peer evaluation and editorial rigour.
Recognising African Tech Excellence — 2026 Edition
From fintech and cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, and technology journalism, ATAEx 2026 celebrates the individuals and organisations pushing the boundaries of what African technology can achieve.
Nominations for ATAEx 2026 are now open.
2025 ATAEx Winners — Celebrating Last Year's Champions
Recognising the individuals and organisations honoured in the 2025 edition.
ATAEx Man of the Year
Prof. Adewale Peter Obadare
Founder / Chief Visionary Officer, Digital Encode Limited
Digital Transformation Leadership Award
Muhammed Rudman
CEO, Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN)
Fintech Leadership Personality of the Year
Dr. Ebehijie Momoh
CEO, AfriGo Pay Financial Services Ltd
Technology Personality of the Year
George Agu
Founder / President, ActivEdge Technologies
Life Time Achievement Award in Data Centre Management
Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani
CEO, Digital Realty Nigeria
ICT Innovation Storyteller Award
Samson Akintaro
News Editor, Nairametrics
Digital Reporting Excellence Award
Joan Aimuengheuwa
Managing Editor, Techeconomy
Blockchain Advocate of the Year
Chukwuemeka Enoch Mbaebie
AI Leadership in Business Transformation Award
John Itodo
Cybersecurity Personality of the Year
Happiness Obioha
CEO, Tizel Cybersecurity
Excellence in Regulatory Innovation Award
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)
PR Champion of Africa Award
Skot Communications
Come for the ideas. Leave with the connections that build Africa.
AfriTECH 6.0 is designed to turn conversations into partnerships and ideas into action — on the continent's most pressing digital economy questions.
Learn From the People Building Africa
Gain direct insight from the founders, executives, policymakers, and investors who are already working on the trillion-dollar opportunity.
Expand Your Network Strategically
AfriTECH is a curated room, not a mass-admission event. Every person in it is there because they are building, investing, or enabling Africa's digital future.
Discover Africa's Next Big Ideas
Meet the startups, platforms, and infrastructure builders working on solutions the continent needs — and be first to see what is coming.
Celebrate African Tech Excellence
Experience the ATAEx 2026 Awards and celebrate the individuals and organisations defining what African technology leadership looks like.
Be part of the conversation that builds Africa's next trillion dollars.
AfriTECH 6.0 brings together the policymakers, investors, founders, and builders shaping Africa's digital future — in one room, on one day, with one shared purpose.