Africa Tech Festival 2026
Africa Tech Festival 2026 (incl. AI Summit Cape Town)
Cape Town festival covering African telecom, data centers, cloud and AI, including the AI Summit.
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Incorporates the AI Summit Cape Town.
About Africa Tech Festival 2026
Africa Tech Festival runs November 17–19, 2026 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, drawing 12,000–15,000 attendees. It is organized around six pillars, among them data centers and AI, and incorporates the AI Summit Cape Town.
Who should attend
Attendees include African telecommunications operators, hyperscalers, data center developers, enterprise IT teams and government representatives.
Why it matters
African digital infrastructure is expanding quickly, with new subsea capacity, colocation buildout and early AI deployments arriving together. The data center and AI pillars make this the most comprehensive single view of that buildout on the continent.