AfricaCom 2025: Your Guide to What’s Happening
For the second year in a row, the Preseem Team is headed to Africa! 🌍 We’re excited to join “the largest gathering of Africa-focused connectivity leaders in the world” at AfricaCom—part of the Africa Tech Festival—taking place Nov. 11-13 in Cape Town, South Africa.
You can find Preseem in the Government of Canada Pavilion at booth D2. If you’re at the event, come and chat with our friendly team—Gerrit Nagelhout (Co-founder and COO), Rob Payne (Director of Sales), and Sam McManus-Redden (Senior Customer Success Manager).
They’ll be happy to speak with you about our work with African ISPs, and how our platform helps operators see everything in one place across vendors, access technologies, and subscribers.
Preseem for African ISPs
Checking the conference agenda, there’s plenty of interesting panels and discussions covering Africa’s ongoing digital journey, with topics divided into four groups/tracks: Main Stage, Connectivity, Data Centres, and Telcos of Tomorrow. Here’s a few of the key sessions we’re looking forward to catching.
Key Sessions and Panels at AfricaCom 2025
Tuesday, November 11th
- Navigating the Journey of 4G/5G in Africa: Spearheading the Future of Connectivity and the Network: 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Hall 4 CTICC 1 Exhibition/Connectivity) – This panel session will showcase innovative projects driving 5G business models in Africa across multiple industries. The panel, including representatives from Ookla and Tejas Networks, will also explore how to accelerate 5G deployment while protecting consumers.
- Digital Content Creation in Africa: A New Era for the Industry: 3:10 p.m. to 4:10 p.m. (Hall 3 CTICC 1 Exhibition/Main Stage) – This Main Stage panel discussion features experts from TikTok and the BBC who’ll look at how to overcome challenges such as load shedding and power cuts and how they can impact online gaming. They’ll also look at technology that can help enhance the online gaming experience for consumers. As an award-winning QoE (Quality of Experience) platform provider, this is a subject with which we’re very familiar!
Wednesday, November 13th
- Bridging the Digital Divide: Creating Seamless and Meaningful Creativity Across Africa: 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Hall 4 CTICC 1 Exhibition/Connectivity) – Securing funding for connectivity projects is one of the main topics for this panel session, as well as a look at affordable Wi-Fi initiatives and public networks across the continent.
- Emerging Technologies Spearheading the Future of Telecoms: 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (1.41 and 1.42 – Level 1 CTICC 1/Telcos of Tomorrow) – Experts from ipNX Nigeria, TelkomSA, and others, will dive into projects enabling profitable 5G-driven business models in Africa, and how telcos are investing in technology to improve networks and customer service.
- Living in a Data World: Utilizing AI to Enable Better Decision-Making for Delivering Seamless Connectivity: 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Hall 3 CTICC 1 Exhibition/Main Stage) – Your third option in the 12:30 slot today is an expert panel that will talk about how to use data to facilitate informed decisions faster. Shameless plug: Preseem’s proactive platform also provides unique metrics and data that can be used to deliver real business value for internet service providers.
Thursday, November 14th
- Fibre as the Lifeline of South Africa’s Digital Economy: 12 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Hall 4 CTICC 1 Exhibition/Connectivity) – On the last day of AfricaCom, sit in on this Fireside Chat with Makgosi Mabaso of OpenServe, South Africa’s largest telecommunications infrastructure provider with the biggest fixed broadband network in the country.
- The Backbone of Connectivity in Africa: How Fibre is Driving the Future of Connecting Africa: 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Hall 4 CTICC 1 Exhibition/Connectivity) – After the Fireside Chat, stick around in Hall 4 for this roundtable on, among other topics, fibre networks, technological advancements shaping connectivity, and projects underway to improve bandwidth.
Other Special Events to Attend
There are plenty of opportunities to network and have fun at the Africa Tech Festival, especially at AFEST, the official networking party of the event! Join your fellow conference attendees at the Grand Africa Cafe and Beach on Tuesday, November 11th, at 7 p.m. for an evening of musical performances, fun activities, and the chance to connect with thousands of your colleagues. AFEST tickets are included with Platinum or Speaker passes, or can be purchased separately.
The following day, if you’ve been lucky enough to score an invite, check out the annual Africa Tech Festival Awards at the Rooftop on Bree, starting at 6:30 p.m., where the most innovative and impactful tech achievements across Africa will be celebrated. Award categories include Telco of the Year, Innovation for Impact Award, Connectivity for All Award, Female Innovator of the Year, and much more 🏆
Visit Preseem at AfricaCom 2025
As mentioned above, you can find the Preseem Team in the Government of Canada Pavilion at booth D2. Our team will be happy to talk about our work with African ISPs, explain how we help fibre and fixed wireless providers use data to provide high-quality broadband experiences at scale, or provide a brief demo so you can see our platform in action. See you in Cape Town!
