Africa Tech Week 2025 | 25 May 2025 | 4 Energy Ln, Century City, Cape Town, 7441, South Africa

Attend the event and learn first hand how to leverage technological change in order to gain the competitive edge, making you and your business relevant in an age of exponential disruption. All this and more to be delivered by an unmissable line-up of Top Local and International Speakers representing some of the world’s most influential companies such as Microsoft, Google and TikTok to name a few.

What to Expect
• Start-Up:Pitching Battle
• Tech Problem:Solving Workshops
• Live Demos
• Exponential Networking
• Epic Exhibitions

Learn how tech is disrupting the below industries
• AI & the Future of Work
• RegTech
• FinTech
• ConnectTech
• Financial Services
• Digital Transformation
• Unlocking Investment
• GreenTech, Mobility & Infrstructure
• HumaniTech

2025 Speakers

Nkomo
Economic Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative, South African Permanent Mission to the WTO

Tebogo Leshope
Acting CEO, Sentech

Jan Liebenberg
CTO – Network Infrastructure, NOKIA Southern Africa

Hon. Mondli Gungubele
Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies

Satish Babu
CTO, IBM SA

Duduetsang Makuse
Public Policy Manager, SADC, Meta

Lavina Ramkissoon
Advisor to African Union and Founder, hu da ta

Alderman James Vos
Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth, City of Cape Town

Sandy Rheeder
CIO, Mukuru

Tendai Tizirai
Head of Market Expansion, Mukuru

Tim Mitchell (MBA)
Digital Transformation & CX Leader, Cadena Growth Partners

Nomsa Chabeli
Group CEO, SABC

Lwandile Bayana
Founder, Eezy Technologies

Lorraine Nyawo
Head of Product Domain: Financial Services, Mukuru

Juan Seco
Chief Growth Officer, Mukuru

Grant Hughes
IT Manager: Cybersecurity & GRC, Engen

Dumisa Ngwenya
Head of Research and Innovation, Sentech

Itumeleng Segaloe
Chief Strategy Officer, Sentech

Dr. Mashilo Boloka
CEO, Film and Publication Board

Kopano Thage
Acting Executive: Media Business, Sentech

Mmapula Kgari
Acting Executive Broadband, Sentech

Mobe Flenk Mnisi
Interim Chief Operations Officer, Sentech

Nomahlubi Ogoh
Acting Chief Technology & Information Officer, Sentech

Qaqamba Jikela
Head: Southern Region, Sentech

Steven Tshehla
Managed Infrastructure Business Portfolio Manager, Sentech

Ian Merrington
Group CEO, UVU Africa

Victoria Nxumalo
Founder & Executive Director, Girls In STEM Trust

Richard Dewing
Founder, Venture Technology Partners

Jordan Seke
CRM Advocate, Strategist, and Change Manager, Wits University

Terrance Naidoo
Chief Product Officer, LexisNexis

Prof. Moses Azong Cho (PhD)
Chief Researcher and Precision Agriculture Group Research Leader, CSIR

Joseph Ndaba
4IR Commissioner, Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and CEO, MDIHub

Stephen A. Newton
Managing Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, Aleph Group

Lungiswa Khethelo
Manager, Khayelitsha Bandwidth Barn

Lara Rosmarin
Head of Entrepreneurial Development, UVU Accelerate

Joylynn Kirui
Senior Cloud Security Advocate, Microsoft

Dr. Angus Hay
Regional Executive South Africa, Africa Data Centres

Divesh Sooka
GM, ALX SA

Chris Erasmus
Country General Manager, South Africa, Amazon Web Services

Benedict Macon-Cooney
Chief Policy Strategist, Tony Blair Institute