Africa’s Scale Of Connectivity, Cloud, Capital On Focus At Hyperscalers’ Conference

Technology experts are expected to converge astatine the Hyperscalers Convergence Africa 2025 successful Lagos connected October 7, 2025, to statement however the continent tin standard connectivity, cloud, and capital.

The lawsuit is simply a one-day gathering of integer infrastructure operators designed to illustration the aboriginal of Africa’s integer economy. Organised by Africa Hyperscalers, the league volition convene policymakers, investors, and manufacture leaders to statement however the continent tin standard information centres, grow connectivity, unlock diligent capital, and physique trusted integer infrastructure.

According to the organisers, the docket volition tackle Africa’s astir urgent priorities—from the travel to 2,500MW of information centre capableness to weaving subsea and terrestrial fibre into a resilient backbone to preparing enterprises for an AI-driven future.

The organisers stated the themes are critical: “ Fixed broadband inactive reaches less than six per cent of households, astir section unreality infrastructure remains clustered successful 4 markets, and last-mile entree for homes, SMEs, and agrarian areas is limited—deepening the integer divide.

“With Africa’s colonisation projected to deed 2.4 cardinal by 2050, the request for localised, unafraid integer services is pressing. Open-access infrastructure, harmonised regulation, and workforce improvement volition determine whether Africa captures its integer aboriginal oregon depends connected others.”

The COO,  IHS and 2025 Conference chairperson, Kazeem Oladepo, said, Africa’s integer trajectory is being shaped present arsenic connectivity, compute, and superior volition determine whether the continent captures the worth of its ain integer future. We indispensable instrumentality vantage of this model of opportunity.

The league volition diagnostic keynote addresses, sheet sessions, and networking opportunities designed to foster collaboration crossed backstage assemblage operators, governments, and financiers.

Confirmed speakers see Bill Kleyman, main enforcement serviceman of Apolo.US and enforcement seat for Data Centre Programmes astatine Informa; Guy Zibi, managing Partner of Xalam Analytics; and Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, manager wide of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).

Operators seeking strategical visibility and determination partnerships, investors scouting infrastructure-ready opportunities, policymakers shaping regulatory frameworks, tech platforms and hyperscalers gathering Africa’s unreality and AI ecosystems, and builders and innovators acceptable to showcase ideas and larn from peers were expected to attend.