AfricaCom SESSIONS 9 - 12 November 2020 PRE-DAY - VIRTUAL AFRICACOM 2020 - 09/11/2020 Virtual Event
Chair’s opening remarks Panel: Partnering for greater reach: where are One by One – Tackling Inequality and African viewers to be found? Empowering the Underrepresented 11:30 - 11:40 Video Exchange Africa 12:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 14:45 Video Exchange Africa Safe, Secure, Inclusive Tech Ecosystems Participants
Russell Southwood - CEO, Balancing Act • Telco and OTT collaboration, accelerating • Discussing the biggest challenges of delivering affordable data pricing and unleashing the power genuine opportunities for all in South Africa, of OTT regardless of gender or financial status • Analysing the role of social media for user- • Highlighting the powerful potential of technology Panel: New models for monetisation in Africa’s generated content creation and online viewing to connect and uplift those traditionally left behind content landscape habits. • Leveraging partnerships to reduce socioeconomic 11:40 - 12:10 • Understanding shifting consumer preferences inequality Video Exchange Africa through TV vs mobile viewing • Exploring the Kolisi Foundation’s work during the COVID pandemic • Analysing the future of advertising, subscription and FTA against production output Participants Participants • How has major production investment from global Moderator: Russell Southwood - CEO, Balancing Act Joel Smith - COO, The Kolisi Foundation streaming giants impacted the industry? • Building the content economy: from premium Merlin Naicker - Group Executive: SABC Television, Rachel Kolisi - Co-Founder, The Kolisi Foundation international content to quality local productions South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Siya Kolisi - Co-Founder, The Kolisi Foundation Craig Kelly - CEO, AfricaXP Participants Mahlatse Mashua - CEO, The Kolisi Foundation Joe Munene - Managing Director, Broadcast Division, Moderator: Russell Southwood - CEO, Balancing Act The Standard Group PLC Amman Fissehazion - Chairman at Association of Orange POESAM Awards Ceremony Ethiopian Broadcasters & CEO, EBS TV Combating Internet Misinformation in Africa’s 14:40 - 14:55 Paolo Rizzardini - Chief Commerical Officer and Orange POESAM Awards Executive Board Member, Mondia Tech Ecosystem Participants Clare Kandola - Founder and CEO, The Vidya Collective 13:00 - 13:45 Safe, Secure, Inclusive Tech Ecosystems Speaker: Alioune Ndiaye - CEO - Middle East and Africa, Orange In Africa, digital misinformation and propaganda Streaming media on the continent campaigns have begun to emerge on social media and Speaker: Elizabeth Tchoungui - Executive Director 12:10 - 12:30 messaging platforms. These practices could bring CSR, Diversity and Philanthropy, Orange. Deputy Chair Video Exchange Africa negative effects to the continent’s politics and for the Orange Foundation, Orange Covid-19 relief efforts. They could also adversely • Evaluating the importance of connectivity for a impact the rise of Africa’s technology sector. This continent in lockdown and the impact on OTT panel discusses past and current digital subscription services and consumption misinformation efforts in Africa and seeks speaker behaviours. insights on steps that should be taken at the industry • Creating compelling and intuitive user experiences and policy level to out and combat online propaganda across digital products on the continent. • Making quality of experience the next frontier for strategic differentiation Participants
MODERATOR: Tomiwa Aladekomo - CEO, Big Cabal Participants Media
Izu Osuigwe - CEO, Forest Digital TV Emmanuel Lubanzadio - Head of Public Policy for Sub- Saharan Africa, Twitter
Daniel Kimmage - Principal Deputy Coordinator - Global Engagement Center, U.S. Department of State
John Marshall - CEO, World Ethical Data Forum & Executive Director, World Ethical Data Foundation
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Road to Return: The role of public-private partnerships in navigating a safe route back to business
15:00 - 15:45 Safe, Secure, Inclusive Tech Ecosystems
In the Covid-19 pandemic, lives and jobs will depend on safely opening economic activity. South Africa is now leading the way in electronic contact tracing and notification with its CovidConnect and CovidAlert apps, a partnership between the Department of Health, GovChat.org, Praekelt, Discovery Health, BCX and a number of other agencies. Globally, the Commons Project is a non-profit organisation leading the way in enabling safe cross-border travel with its recently launched CommonPass.
Participants
MODERATOR: Miriam Altman - Professor of Practice 4IR, School of Economics, University of Johannesburg & Commissioner, National Planning Commission, South African Presidency
Gaurang Tanna - Head, Policy Coordination and Integrated Planning, National Department of Health, South Africa
Paul Meyer - CEO, The Commons Project
Jean Philbert Nsengimana - Former Minister of Youth and ICT, Rwanda & Managing Director-Africa, The Commons Project
Ronald Whelan - Chief Commercial Officer, Discovery Health
Eldrid Jordaan - Founder & CEO, GovChat.Org
Roundtable: Digital connectivity for schools and learners
16:00 - 17:00 Ericsson Digital Roundtable
Giga, is an ambitious initiative driven by UNICEF and ITU and aims to secure wider public and private support to connect every school to the Internet, and every young person to information, opportunity and choice. As a supporter of the Giga initiative, Ericsson is proud to host this Round Table during AfricaCom 2020.
Participants
MODERATOR: Fida Kibbi - Head of Marketing & Communications, Ericsson Middle East & Africa
Speaker: Heather Johnson - Vice President for Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, Ericsson
Speaker: Chris Fabian - Co-Founder, Giga; Senior Adviser, UNICEF Innovation; Co-Lead, UNICEF Ventures
Speaker: Alex Wong - Senior Strategy Advisor and Lead, Giga, ITU
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TIME ERICSSON DIGITAL ROUNDTABLE ORANGE POESAM AWARDS SAFE, SECURE, INCLUSIVE TECH ECOSYSTEMS VIDEO EXCHANGE AFRICA
11:00 11:30 - Chair’s opening remarks 11:40 - Panel: New models for monetisation in Africa’s content landscape
12:00 12:10 - Streaming media on the continent 12:30 - Panel: Partnering for greater reach: where are African viewers to be found?
13:00 13:00 - Combating Internet Misinformation in Africa’s Tech Ecosystem
14:00 14:40 - Orange POESAM Awards Ceremony 14:00 - One by One – Tackling Inequality and Empowering the Underrepresented
15:00 15:00 - Road to Return: The role of public- private partnerships in navigating a safe route back to business
16:00 16:00 - Roundtable: Digital connectivity for schools and learners
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Informa Tech Welcome Better Africa Summit 5G Africa Chair’s welcome and opening remarks: The global 5G state-of-play 09:00 - 09:05 10:30 - 11:30 Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Huawei Forums 11:30 - 11:40 5G Africa Working together for Africa ICT development and Participants Chair’s Opening Remarks economic recovery Thecla Mbongue - Senior Research Analyst, Omdia 09:05 - 09:10 Participants Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Speaker: Leo Chen - President, Southern African Participants Region, Huawei Chairperson’ Opening Remarks
Nitesh Singh - Managing Director and Lead for Speaker: Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams - Minister of 11:30 - 11:35 Communications, Media & Technology, Accenture Communications and Digital Technologies, Republic of Mission Critical Technologies: Africa Africa South Africa Participants Speaker: John Omo - Secretary-General, African Telecommunications Union Dr Amanat Hussain - Executive Chairman, Issured Opening Keynote Address Speaker: Sharoda Rapeti - Non-Executing Partner, FTI 09:10 - 09:30 Consulting Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Chair’s opening remarks 11:30 - 11:40 Accelerating Africa’s Digital Future Video Exchange Africa Enhancing Digital Infrastructure for a Better 10:35 - 10:55 Participants Connected Africa Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Chair: Clare Kandola - Founder and CEO, The Vidya 09:30 - 09:50 Participants Collective Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Fadi Pharaon - President – Middle East & Africa, Participants Ericsson Kevin Zhang - CMO - ICT Infrastructure, Huawei OPEX Optimization Forum 11:30 - 12:30 Building a pan-African connectivity strategy to Huawei Forums Panel: Mobilising Africa’s tech industries to connect the next billion fight the COVID-19 outbreak Saving site OPEX with digital power, site reform and 10:55 - 11:10 operation optimization 09:50 - 10:35 Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Participants Participants Speaker: Peng Jianhua - President, Digital Power Panel: Mobilising Africa’s tech industries to fight the Alioune Ndiaye - CEO - Middle East and Africa, Orange COVID-19 outbreak Product Line Site Energy Domain, Huawei Speaker: Norman Nhidza - Group CEO, Distributed • Exploring how AI, IoT and other emerging Power Africa technologies have helped trace, track and test Chair's Closing Remarks across the continent 11:10 - 11:15 Speaker: Izak Phillippus Botha - Chief Expert, Digital • Looking at the privacy concerns of wide-scale data Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Power Solution, Huawei gathering and tech deployment Speaker: Paolo Gemma - Chairman of ITU-T SG5 WP2 • Examining the role technology has played in Participants Environment, Energy Efficiency and the Circular fighting the spread of misinformation Nitesh Singh - Managing Director and Lead for Economy, ITU • Taking lessons from countries that have performed Communications, Media & Technology, Accenture well during the outbreak Africa Participants Protecting critical connectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic MODERATOR: Nitesh Singh - Managing Director and Chair's Opening Remarks Lead for Communications, Media & Technology, 11:35 - 11:55 Accenture Africa 11:30 - 11:35 Connecting the Next Billion Connecting the Next Billion Charles Molapisi - GCTIO, MTN Group • Understanding the vital role of internet connectivity Participants Dorothy Tembo - Executive Director, The International during the COVID-19 outbreak Trade Centre Dion Jerling - Managing Director, Connect Earth • Working with network providers to sustain critical services: government, e-healthcare, financial Miriam Altman - Professor of Practice 4IR, School of services Economics, University of Johannesburg & • Enhancing network resilience and additional Chair's Opening Remarks Commissioner, National Planning Commission, South spectrum resource African Presidency 11:30 - 11:35 Dr Ahmed Ogwell Ouma - Deputy Director, Africa Digital Infrastructure Investment Participants Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Participants Steve Chege - Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Safaricom Tomiwa Aladekomo - CEO, Big Cabal Media
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Network models and infrastructure of the Ericsson Keynote Panel: Exploring the growth of digital content future creation 11:55 - 12:15 11:35 - 11:55 Connecting the Next Billion 12:05 - 12:30 Digital Infrastructure Investment Video Exchange Africa
• Improving infrastructure sharing to enhance Next-Gen ICT Infrastructure Brings • Exploring the impact of social media, vloggers and business offerings Connectivity for All Africa branded content • Exploring strategies for increasing 5G • The power of digital to enable a generation of Infrastructure investment 11:55 - 12:15 African content creators Digital Infrastructure Investment • How mainstream content services are embracing Participants mobile viewing in Africa Participants Clive Charlton - Head of Solution Architecture - Sub- Participants Saharan Africa, Amazon Web Services Chen Kuan-Hong - Chief Consultant, National Broadband and Full-fiber Analysis Office, Huawei Moderator: Clare Kandola - Founder and CEO, The Vidya Collective
Case-study presentation: Delivering critical Paola Audrey Ndengue - Founder & Producer, Pannelle Wearable Technology for Public Safety: and lifesaving products where and when they & Company Promise, Principles and Practicality are needed, safely and reliably Stephen Horn - Director & Producer, Politically Aweh, 11:55 - 12:15 11:35 - 11:55 Bouncing Biscuit Studios Mission Critical Technologies: Africa Mission Critical Technologies: Africa Djo Moupondo - Chairman, La Clique Music Group Participants Participants Neil Pursey , Hoorah Digital Michelle Hoogenhout - Senior Data Scientist & Co- Israel Bimpe - Director, Africa Sales & Customer founder Ingane Health, Galvanize Inc. Success, Zipline Panel: The critical role of policy in creating competitive telecoms markets Panel Discussion: The 5G to the home 5G Progress and Prospects in Africa opportunity; how FWA is changing the telco 12:15 - 12:55 11:40 - 12:00 services landscape Connecting the Next Billion 5G Africa 12:00 - 12:30 • How are governments and regulators addressing • The road to 5G: 4G performance is key for the 5G Africa the biggest challenges in African telecoms: future of 5G infrastructure, connectivity, inclusion, security, and • 5G consumer potential • The evolution to remote working and reviewing shifting market patterns • 5G deployment challenges how telcos have catered to this unprecedented • Exploring the process of how policy is created, • Importance of connectivity during COVID-19 market need implemented and monitored across African • Is uncapped home broadband the commercial way telecoms Participants forward? • What potential does intra-African cooperation on • Bundling a FWA strategy with content services policy hold for the continent’s telecoms markets? Chafic rT aboulsi - VP and Head of Networks, Ericsson • When will 5G substitute broadband? Are there better ways to work together? Middle East and Africa • Where is the African telecoms market heading and Participants how will this shape the next generation of policy and regulatory challenges? Fireside chat: Celebrating and exploring the Jorge Mendes - Chief Officer: Consumer Business Unit, Vodacom Group drama landscape Participants Moderator: Thecla Mbongue - Senior Research 11:40 - 12:05 MODERATOR: Stephen Song - Fellow, Mozilla Analyst, Omdia Video Exchange Africa Foundation Herve Suquet - CTIO, Middle East and Africa, Orange • How to cultivate local talent in film & drama series Onica Makwakwa - Head of Africa, Alliance for Giovanni Chiarelli - CTO, MTN South Africa for theatres, TV and OTT Affordable Internet • What makes drama compelling for local and Hossam Elgamal - Chairman, Africa Information & international appeal? Communication Technologies Alliance & iken • What is the impact of the global streaming giants on the industry and local talent development? Caecilia Nyamustwa - Director of Legal Services, Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Participants Zimbabwe
Moderator: Clare Kandola - Founder and CEO, The Vidya Collective
Maropeng Vushangwe - Director & Cinematographer, TeddyBling Pictures
Steven Markovitz - Producer, Big World Cinema
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Panel: Reform Roadmaps: Digital Panel: SES Industry Days Africa 2020 – 5G Africa Speaker Live Q&A Session infrastructure governance and the role of Content and consumption: where are African 13:10 - 13:20 policy viewers to be found? 5G Africa 12:15 - 12:55 12:30 - 12:55 Participants Digital Infrastructure Investment Video Exchange Africa Dejan Kastelic - Group Chief Technology Officer, • Creating and implementing ICT policy frameworks • Exploring how and where African viewers are Vodacom Group that are pragmatic, inclusive, flexible and market- watching Jorge Mendes - Chief Officer: Consumer Business driven • How does consumption change depend on viewing Unit, Vodacom Group • Identifying and removing bottlenecks across platform? business levels • Creating content that works for different Dr Jinshan Liu - Senior Director, 5G Marketing and • Devising policy that targets digital inclusion and environments Solutions, Huawei increasing access to the continent's fourth • How to measure the impact and success of multi- industrial revolution platform content Moderator: Thecla Mbongue - Senior Research • Leveraging the power of international bodies such Analyst, Omdia as the World Bank, International Finance Participants Giovanni Chiarelli - CTO, MTN South Africa Corporation, International Monetary Fund and Moderator: Clare Kandola - Founder and CEO, The World Economic Forum Herve Suquet - CTIO, Middle East and Africa, Orange Vidya Collective Chafic rT aboulsi - VP and Head of Networks, Ericsson Participants Amman Fissehazion - Chairman at Association of Middle East and Africa Ethiopian Broadcasters & CEO, EBS TV MODERATOR: Aubrey Hruby - Senior Fellow, Africa Center. Co-founder, Africa Expert Network Clint Brown - Vice President, Sales and Market Development, SES Video Africa, SES Break Eleanor Sarpong - Deputy Director and Policy Lead, Alliance for Affordable Internet Valentine Gaudin-Muteba - Managing Director 13:20 - 14:10 Southern Africa & Regional Director Anglophone 5G Africa George Njuguna - CIO, Safaricom Africa, TRACE Siyabonga Mahlangu - Group Executive: Regulatory Abdulai Awudu - General Manager, Multimedia Group ( Affairs and Government Relations, Telkom MultiTV & Adom Brands), Multimedia Group Ltd Panel: Rewriting the telco strategy handbook: What changing market conditions mean for African operators Fireside chat: How to integrate and deploy Service Provider Keynote: Vodacom’s 5G critical communications infrastructure to meet 13:50 - 14:30 commercial launch emerging network challenges Connecting the Next Billion 12:50 - 13:10 12:15 - 12:45 • Exploring adaptive strategies for telcos adapting to 5G Africa Mission Critical Technologies: Africa shifting African market trends: voice > data, bespoke package demands, disruptive tech • Reviewing the Liquid Telecom partnership; How Participants integration (5G & IoT) can industry collaboration accelerate a nation’s • Are non-traditional market entrants creating a Moderator: Dr Amanat Hussain - Executive Chairman, digital transformation? saturated African telco market? How this drives Issured • What actions has Vodacom taken to cope with the operational excellence and diversified er venue data demand during the Covid-19 lockdown? What Ken Rehbehn - Directing Analyst, Critical streams are the key learnings? Communications, Omdia • Exploring the journey from a product- to customer- • What is the vision for Vodacom’s FWA services? focused model: leveraging the power of Immanuel Pillay - Senior Manager: Networks and • What is the consumer pick up of 5G services? Has data-driven customer insights to build a dynamic, Telecommunications, eThekwini Municipality it met expectations and what is the long-term targeted strategy vision for 5G services – both consumer and • Managing business operations to control capital enterprise ones? expenditure and build ROI while building 5G: Fast-Forward Connectivity in Africa Participants productive partnerships 12:30 - 12:50 Dejan Kastelic - Group Chief Technology Officer, 5G Africa Participants Vodacom Group Participants MODERATOR: Paul Hjul - Managing Executive, Hjul Consulting Dr Jinshan Liu - Senior Director, 5G Marketing and Selorm Adadevoh - CEO, MTN Ghana Solutions, Huawei NETWORKING LUNCH 12:55 - 13:50 Richard Ullenius - VP & Head of Global Solutioning, Connecting the Next Billion CSG Matt Reed - Practice Leader - Middle East and Africa, Omdia NETWORKING LUNCH
12:55 - 13:50 Digital Infrastructure Investment
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Panel: Implications of COVID-19 for African Mobile Broadband Forum How the evolution and integration of mobile digital infrastructure investment applications will optimise emergency response 14:00 - 15:00 13:50 - 14:30 Huawei Forums 14:25 - 14:45 Digital Infrastructure Investment Mission Critical Technologies: Africa Accelerating 4G and maximizing network value with • Exploring the importance of digital infrastructure: 4G and 5G collaboration Participants improved connectivity, AI-driven public health Lyndsey Duff - Senior Lead - Africa, what3words systems, the role of IoT and big data analyses Participants • Exploring mid- to long-term repercussions of the Speaker: Mohamed Madkour - Vice President, Carrier COVID outbreak: Impacts on open-access BG Marketing and Solution Sales Dept., Huawei broadband investment, 4G & 5G rollouts, and the Fireside Chat: The Journey of Building a future of work Speaker: Zhengzhou . - Director, Overseas Business Successful Emerging Market Telco Development, Unisoc • How are governments and regulators dealing with 14:30 - 14:55 the threat of reduced investment and competition? Speaker: Lin Ranhao - CEO, Tele1 Connecting the Next Billion Exploring the importance of PPPs in a digital infrastructure context Speaker: Cherine Magora - Strategic Partnership Participants • Can African infrastructure emerge stronger from Director Middle East& Africa, TikTok MODERATOR: Adrian Ho - Practice Leader, Omdia the COVID-19 pandemic? Speaker: Edwin Wang - Vice President, Wireless Malik Melamu - CEO, MTN Sudan Network Marketing and Solution Sales, Huawei Participants Speaker: Yoyo Chen - Global VP, Tozed MODERATOR: Tomiwa Aladekomo - CEO, Big Cabal Media Speaker: Shawn Yu - Vice President, Wireless Network Fireside Chat: African Alliance - Deepening Marketing and Solution Sales, Huawei regional integration to close the infrastructure Deemah Alyahya - Digital Economy & Innovation Advisor, Founder, WomenSpark gap 14:30 - 15:10 German Cufre - Global Head, Digital Infrastructure Panel: SES Industry Days Africa 2020 - Digital Infrastructure Investment Investments, International Finance Corporation Technologies that will Transform Telecoms Atsushi Yamanaka - Chief Advisor, Rwanda ICT and 5G • Technology and intelligence sharing to provide Innovation Ecosystem Strengthening Project under-developed countries with access to more 14:10 - 14:50 efficient and advanced technologies 5G Africa • Exploring the potential of power pooling and other Case study presentation from the City of Cape • Expectations for the 5G SA standards and when electricity integration strategies Town: How the future control room will help will it become a mainstream technology? tackle today’s threat • The role of Open Networks technologies in 5G: Participants market appetite, expectations, timelines and 13:50 - 14:25 requirements Eleanor Sarpong - Deputy Director and Policy Lead, Mission Critical Technologies: Africa • Building technologies for specific use cases; Does Alliance for Affordable Internet one size fit all and what options are economically Participants Kojo Boakye - Director, Africa Public Policy, Facebook viable for telcos Pierre DeWet - Group Health and Safety Officer, • AI + 5G: Innovative applications and vision Digicall Group (Contractor managing the Transport • Deployment models and new services from Information Centre for the City of Cape Town) commercial standalone and new core Fireside chat: Safer, Smarter Cities: How to • Dynamic spectrum sharing to achieve faster improve public safety in the Fourth Industrial Kobus Swanepoel - Head: Stakeholder Management of coverage Revolution Era the Transport Directorate, City of Cape Town • The role and collaboration with hyperscalers for 5G 14:45 - 15:15 Jaco Groenewald - Head: Operations, Public • Relieving network congestion and realising low Mission Critical Technologies: Africa Emergency Communications Centre, City of Cape latency edge computing Town Participants Participants Estelle-Mare Le Keur - Head: Service Quality, Public Moderator: Dr Amanat Hussain - Executive Chairman, Emergency Communications Centre, City of Cape Sigal Barda - VP Product, Head of 5G Portfolio, Ribbon Issured Town Moderator: Thecla Mbongue - Senior Research Juma Assiago - Head of Safer Cities Programme, UN- Analyst, Omdia Habitat
Nicholas Naidu - Managing Executive: Technology Tracy Larkin Thomason - Deputy Director, Nevada Strategy, Architecture & Innovation, Vodacom Department of Transportation Schalk Visser - CTO, Cell C
Imran Malik - VP, Global Sales Fixed Data, SES Networks, SES
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Developing a practical deployment strategy for 5G Africa Speaker Live Q&A Session 5G-NR 15:10 - 15:20 14:50 - 15:10 5G Africa 5G Africa Join this interactive session and ask your questions to • It is now over a year since initial commercial today's speakers, who will address them live! launch of sub-6 GHz 5G • Initial deployments were undertaken with limited Participants portfolios of available base station models Colin Bryce - Director, Mobile Network Engineering, • Operators have had to overcome some practical Commscope deployment issue with this 1st generation product • What lessons can be learned and what is need to Sigal Barda - VP Product, Head of 5G Portfolio, Ribbon develop a practical 5G deployment strategy Moderator: Thecla Mbongue - Senior Research Analyst, Omdia Participants Imran Malik - VP, Global Sales Fixed Data, SES Colin Bryce - Director, Mobile Network Engineering, Networks, SES Commscope Nicholas Naidu - Managing Executive: Technology Strategy, Architecture & Innovation, Vodacom
Panel: Are integrated submarine-fibre-satellite Schalk Visser - CTO, Cell C strategies the future of African connectivity?
14:55 - 15:35 Connecting the Next Billion Roundtable discussions on FWA and Private Networks • Creating cohesive strategy across connectivity routes to identify and meet deficits 15:20 - 16:20 • What are the benefits and pitfalls of integrated 5G Africa connectivity strategies? Are there protocols for Available to all 5G Africa attendees, these informal, working across connectivity mediums? Chatham House Rule, interactive discussions give you • Exploring case studies of successful African the opportunity to reflect on odat y’s presentations and integrated connectivity projects engage in conversation with peers on a given topic, Participants moderating by leading industry analysts. Please register for the roundtable of your preference by MODERATOR: Temidayo Oniosun - Managing Director, emailing [email protected]. The roundtables Space in Africa are limited to 8 attendees each and slots are allocated on a first come basis.
Chair's Closing Remarks Roundtable 1: Fixed wireless strategies, pricing and marketing 15:10 - 15:15 Digital Infrastructure Investment Moderator: Dario Talmesio, Research Director, Omdia
Participants Roundtable 2: Private networks in Africa
Tomiwa Aladekomo - CEO, Big Cabal Media Moderator: Pablo Tomasi, Principal Analyst, Omdia
Participants
Moderator - Fixed wireless strategies, pricing and marketing: Dario Talmesio - Research Director - Service Provider Strategies, Regulation, 5G Accelerator, Ovum
Moderator - Private networks in Africa: Pablo Tomasi - Principal Analyst, Omdia
Chair's Closing Remarks
15:35 - 15:40 Connecting the Next Billion Participants
Dion Jerling - Managing Director, Connect Earth
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09:00 09:00 - Informa Tech Wel- come 09:05 - Chair’s Opening Remarks 09:10 - Opening Keynote Address 09:30 - Enhancing Digital Infrastructure for a Better Connected Africa 09:50 - Panel: Mobilising Africa’s tech industries to fight the COVID-19 out- break
10:00 10:35 - Accelerating 10:30 - Better Africa Sum- Africa’s Digital Future mit 10:55 - Building a pan- African connectivity strat- egy to connect the next billion
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11:00 11:30 - 5G Africa Chair’s 11:10 - Chair's Closing 11:30 - Chair's Opening 11:30 - Chair's Opening 11:30 - OPEX Optimiza- 11:30 - Chairperson’ 11:30 - Chair’s opening re- welcome and opening re- Remarks Remarks Remarks tion Forum Opening Remarks marks marks: The global 5G 11:35 - Protecting critical 11:35 - Network models 11:35 - Case-study pre- 11:40 - Fireside chat: Cel- state-of-play connectivity during the and infrastructure of the sentation: Delivering criti- ebrating and exploring the 11:40 - 5G Progress and COVID-19 pandemic future cal and lifesaving prod- drama landscape Prospects in Africa ucts where and when they 11:55 - Ericsson Keynote 11:55 - Next-Gen ICT In- are needed, safely and re- frastructure Brings Con- liably nectivity for All Africa 11:55 - Wearable Technol- ogy for Public Safety: Promise, Principles and Practicality
12:00 12:00 - Panel Discussion: 12:15 - Panel: The critical 12:15 - Panel: Reform 12:15 - Fireside chat: How 12:05 - Panel: Exploring The 5G to the home op- role of policy in creating Roadmaps: Digital infra- to integrate and deploy the growth of digital con- portunity; how FWA is competitive telecoms structure governance and critical communications tent creation changing the telco ser- markets the role of policy infrastructure to meet 12:30 - Panel: SES Indus- vices landscape emerging network chal- 12:55 - NETWORKING 12:55 - NETWORKING try Days Africa 2020 – lenges 12:30 - 5G: Fast-Forward LUNCH LUNCH Content and consump- Connectivity in Africa tion: where are African viewers to be found? 12:50 - Service Provider Keynote: Vodacom’s 5G commercial launch
13:00 13:10 - 5G Africa Speaker 13:50 - Panel: Rewriting 13:50 - Panel: Implica- 13:50 - Case study pre- Live Q&A Session the telco strategy hand- tions of COVID-19 for sentation from the City of book: What changing African digital infrastruc- Cape Town: How the fu- 13:20 - Break market conditions mean ture investment ture control room will help for African operators tackle today’s threat
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14:00 14:10 - Panel: SES Indus- 14:30 - Fireside Chat: The 14:30 - Fireside Chat: 14:00 - Mobile Broadband 14:25 - How the evolution try Days Africa 2020 - Journey of Building a Suc- African Alliance - Deepen- Forum and integration of mobile Technologies that will cessful Emerging Market ing regional integration to applications will optimise Transform Telecoms and Telco close the infrastructure emergency response 5G gap 14:55 - Panel: Are inte- 14:45 - Fireside chat: 14:50 - Developing a prac- grated submarine-fibre- Safer, Smarter Cities: How tical deployment strategy satellite strategies the fu- to improve public safety for 5G-NR ture of African connectivi- in the Fourth Industrial ty? Revolution Era
15:00 15:10 - 5G Africa Speaker 15:35 - Chair's Closing 15:10 - Chair's Closing Live Q&A Session Remarks Remarks 15:20 - Roundtable dis- cussions on FWA and Pri- vate Networks
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Chair's Opening Remarks Home Broadband Forum Fireside chat: Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural and Emerging Markets 09:00 - 09:05 10:30 - 11:30 Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Huawei Forums 11:30 - 11:55 Connecting the Next Billion Participants Accelerating FTTx with ‘Plan, Deploy, Operate, Install and Maintain’ solutions Participants Aubrey Hruby - Senior Fellow, Africa Center. Co- founder, Africa Expert Network Participants Aniel Jhingoeri - Head of Platforms and Devices, Radisys Speaker: Dean Yu - Vice President, Southern Africa Nathan Smith - VP Product/Business Development, Region, Huawei Smarter networks accelerating Africa’s digital Reliance Jio agenda Speaker: Charles Qiu - Vice Director, Access Network 09:05 - 09:25 Marketing & Solution Sales Dept., Huawei Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Speaker: Sunil Piyarlall - Technical Lifecycle Executive, Chair's Opening Remarks South Africa Telkom • Bringing down the cost of complexity with smarter 11:30 - 11:35 networks Speaker: Franklin Ocharo - HOD of Home business Service Provider Technology • The benefits of network automation in operation Dept., Kenya Safaricom Participants • Mobile Financial Services as an enabler of Speaker: Dikah Sylvester - GM of Fixed Network, economic growth Lerato Mbele - Presenter - Business, BBC World News Ghana Vodafone • Talent at the core of digital transformation
Participants Cloud & AI Forum Accelerating Africa’s journey towards the 4IR Lucky La Riccia - Head of Digital Services, Ericsson 11:30 - 12:30 10:50 - 11:10 Middle East and Africa Huawei Forums Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Participants Huawei CLOUD, empowering industry digital Developing Consumer-Focussed Telco transformation Business Models for Pan-African Growth Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, Deputy Chair, Presidential Participants 09:25 - 09:45 4IR Commission Speaker: He Shi - Director, Southern Africa Cloud & AI Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Business, Huawei Participants Chair's Closing Remarks Speaker: Michael Langeveld - Vice President, Huawei Peter Ndegwa - CEO, Safaricom Cloud, Africa Region, Huawei 11:10 - 11:15 Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Speaker: Guy Zibi - Founder and Principal, Xalam Analytics accelerateHER Africa Take-Over: Driving Participants Entrepreneurship across Africa for Women Speaker: Marcus Tay - Chief Tech Director, Huawei Aubrey Hruby - Senior Fellow, Africa Center. Co- Cloud - Africa Region 09:45 - 10:25 founder, Africa Expert Network Speaker: Lulu Wood - Co-Founded and CMO, Afrishop Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Speaker: James Maina - Expert Intelligent Participants Virtual AfricaCom Awards Part I Collaboration Sales Dept., Huawei Cherie Blair QC - Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for 11:15 - 11:25 Women Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote
1. Last Mile Connectivity Award Intelligently navigating the COVID outbreak: 2. Most Innovative Product or Service Award striving for societal benefit over profit 3. COVID-19 Response Award
10:25 - 10:50 Vote now at: https://tmt.knect365.com/africacom/ Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote awards
Participants The AfricaCom Awards are a bit different this year. In MODERATOR: Aubrey Hruby - Senior Fellow, Africa recognition of the significant contribution made by Center. Co-founder, Africa Expert Network Africa’s tech community in the ongoing battle against COVID-19, and the critical role that tech will play in Shameel Joosub - CEO & Executive Director, Vodacom fuelling Africa’s economic recovery, the 2020 Group categories all fall under a central theme: building a better, more inclusive digital world. Virtual event audiences are more diverse than ever before. For this reason, all the 2020 categories are open to public votes – it is an entirely people’s choice awards ceremony.
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Telecom Infra Project: Breaking The Mould! - Telecom Infra Project: Breaking The Mould! - Telecom Infra Project: Setting The Pace Going Open Going Open Towards Open and Disaggregated Transport Networks 11:35 - 11:55 11:35 - 11:55 Digital Infrastructure Investment Telecom Infra Project 11:55 - 12:15 Digital Infrastructure Investment Telecom Infra Project (TIP) will play a vital role in Telecom Infra Project (TIP) will play a vital role in addressing the specific challenges and opportunities addressing the specific challenges and opportunities Telecom Infra Project (TIP) will play a vital role in for connectivity in Africa by transforming how for connectivity in Africa by transforming how addressing the specific challenges and opportunities networks are designed, built, and deployed through networks are designed, built, and deployed through for connectivity in Africa by transforming how open and disaggregated TIP Technology. Join TIP at open and disaggregated TIP Technology. Join TIP at networks are designed, built, and deployed through AfricaCom 2020 to hear from community members in AfricaCom 2020 to hear from community members in open and disaggregated TIP Technology. Join TIP at the region on updates of commercial progress and the region on updates of commercial progress and AfricaCom 2020 to hear from community members in opportunities for the future. opportunities for the future. the region on updates of commercial progress and opportunities for the future. In this session, speakers discuss the Telecom Industry In this session, speakers discuss the Telecom Industry landscape in Africa focused on OpenRAN and 5G, landscape in Africa focused on OpenRAN and 5G, Open Optical Packet Transport (OOPT) is becoming a motivations for being a TIP Member, latest projects motivations for being a TIP Member, latest projects hot topic globally. This session will bring the operators and achievements and their view for the opportunities and achievements and their view for the opportunities perspectives of opportunities for OOPT in Africa for of this technology in the region. of this technology in the region. the next years to come and how TIP can help address the main challenges and foster innovation for these Participants Participants opportunities. MODERATOR: Mark Walker - Associate Vice President, MODERATOR: Mark Walker - Associate Vice President, Participants IDC IDC MODERATOR: Sterling Perrin - Principal Analyst, Pieter van der Westhuizen - Group Technology Pieter van der Westhuizen - Group Technology Heavy Reading Executive, MTN Executive, MTN Hussain Nabee - Technology Executive, Vodacom Razvan Ungureanu - Chief Technology Officer, Airtel Razvan Ungureanu - Chief Technology Officer, Airtel Africa Africa Abdou Dia - CEO, VTS
Developing a telco digital transformation Service Provider Interview: 5G launches in Panel: Protecting profit in a landscape of strategy for the 4IR small African island nations changing operator models
11:35 - 11:55 11:40 - 12:00 11:55 - 12:35 Service Provider Technology 5G Africa Service Provider Technology
• Developing a stepwise process for building and • Reviewing the business case and investment • Diversification of er venue streams in light of implementing a digital transformation strategy requirements for small island nations’ 5G launches disruptive technologies: 5G, IoT & AI • Tools for predicting and working with disruptive • eMBB and FWA services: What is the so-far market • Exploring digital trends: surging data use, growing technologies and trends pick-up, vision and next steps required to make video and financial service demand • Understanding organisational and staffing these mainstream services? • Building multidisciplinary teams to create agile requirements • What are the socio-economic benefits for the development, functionalities and working practices • Exploring novel forms of ecosystem engagement nation from having access to such advanced • Developing business models that consider technologies? What needs to be done from a customer XP and cost control f Participants regulatory, political, social and technology perspective for 5G to deliver its full benefits in Participants Charles Molapisi - GCTIO, MTN Group small nations? MODERATOR: Saint Doe-Tamakloe - CCO, MTN South Participants Sudan 5G Africa Chair’s welcome and introductory Matt Reed - Practice Leader - Middle East and Africa, remarks Interviewee: Shoaib Khan - CTO, Cable & Wireless (Seychelles) Omdia 11:35 - 11:40 Interviewer: Danson Njue - Senior Research Analyst, Raul Martinez - Chief Commercial Officer, Upstream 5G Africa Omdia Simo Mkhize - CCO, Cell C Participants Dobek Pater - Managing Director, Africa Analysis Danson Njue - Senior Research Analyst, Omdia The value of connectivity in poor, marginalised and remote areas
11:55 - 12:20 Connecting the Next Billion Participants
MODERATOR: Mike Jensen - Managing Director, Independent ICT Consulting
Patrick Byamungu - Co-founder and Director, La Difference
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Telecom Infra Project: Setting The Pace Telecom Infra Project: OpenWi-Fi - Filling The Panel: Universal ICT access by 2030: Africa’s Towards Open and Disaggregated Transport Connectivity Gaps Digital Moonshot Initiative Networks 12:15 - 12:35 12:20 - 13:00 11:55 - 12:15 Digital Infrastructure Investment Connecting the Next Billion Telecom Infra Project Telecom Infra Project (TIP) will play a vital role in • Exploring the Digital Moonshot Initiative's key Telecom Infra Project (TIP) will play a vital role in addressing the specific challenges and opportunities elements: infrastructure, investment, ecosystem addressing the specific challenges and opportunities for connectivity in Africa by transforming how development & inclusion for connectivity in Africa by transforming how networks are designed, built, and deployed through • Predicting the industry impacts of a truly networks are designed, built, and deployed through open and disaggregated TIP Technology. Join TIP at connected continent - agriculture, healthcare, open and disaggregated TIP Technology. Join TIP at AfricaCom 2020 to hear from community members in education, e-commerce AfricaCom 2020 to hear from community members in the region on updates of commercial progress and • Examining where African connectivity stands in the region on updates of commercial progress and opportunities for the future. comparison to the rest of the world opportunities for the future. Wi-Fi plays an important role in the service basket of Participants Open Optical Packet Transport (OOPT) is becoming a operators. With the change in how people connect to MODERATOR: Dion Jerling - Managing Director, hot topic globally. This session will bring the operators work, learn and play, operators are having to find Connect Earth perspectives of opportunities for OOPT in Africa for supplementary connectivity methods, such as Wi-Fi, to the next years to come and how TIP can help address fill the connectivity gaps. In this session, operators will Sonia Jorge - Executive Director - Alliance for the main challenges and foster innovation for these not only share their view on furthering connectivity Affordable Internet & Head of Digital Inclusion opportunities. offerings with Wi-Fi, but more importantly how Program, The World Wide Web Foundation OpenWi-Fi can address these specific opportunities. Participants Learn how the TIP community is coming together and Nomso Kana - Commissioner for 4IR & Governor, working towards advancing this technology. Nuclear Energy Foundation Agency Sterling Perrin - Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading Katherine Getao - CEO, ICT Authority, Kenya Hussain Nabee - Technology Executive, Vodacom Participants
Abdou Dia - CEO, VTS Philipp Zindler - Director: Africa, Deloitte Panel Discussion: Spectrum management for Leanne Da Cerca - Senior Manager - Group Enterprise Unit, MTN 5G Applying AI Automation Across the Entire Khetan Gajjar - Executive Head: Fixed & Mobile 12:20 - 12:50 Lifecycle of Network Operations (Technical & Commercial) Lead, Vodacom 5G Africa 12:00 - 12:20 • Temporary spectrum; to invest or not, and 5G Africa contingency planning. Telecom Infra Project: OpenWi-Fi - Filling The • Minimising the infrastructure investment required Analysing the applications of advanced intelligence in Connectivity Gaps for new spectrum bands: from TowerCos, to a series of critical telco operations: sharing and wholesaling 12:15 - 12:35 • Reviewing innovative spectrum allocation models • Planning Telecom Infra Project • Delivery across the world • Onboarding Telecom Infra Project (TIP) will play a vital role in • Monitoring addressing the specific challenges and opportunities Participants • Updating for connectivity in Africa by transforming how Akinwale Goodluck - Head of Africa, GSMA • Decommissioning networks are designed, built, and deployed through open and disaggregated TIP Technology. Join TIP at Themba Phiri - Executive Head: Regulatory, Cell C Participants AfricaCom 2020 to hear from community members in Moderator: Danson Njue - Senior Research Analyst, the region on updates of commercial progress and Eva Andren - VP and Head of Managed Services, Omdia opportunities for the future. Market Area Middle East and Africa, Ericsson Dr. Ing. Kenneth Ashigbey - Chief Executive Officer, Wi-Fi plays an important role in the service basket of Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications operators. With the change in how people connect to work, learn and play, operators are having to find supplementary connectivity methods, such as Wi-Fi, to fill the connectivity gaps. In this session, operators will not only share their view on furthering connectivity offerings with Wi-Fi, but more importantly how OpenWi-Fi can address these specific opportunities. Learn how the TIP community is coming together and working towards advancing this technology.
Participants
Philipp Zindler - Director: Africa, Deloitte
Leanne Da Cerca - Senior Manager - Group Enterprise Unit, MTN
Khetan Gajjar - Executive Head: Fixed & Mobile (Technical & Commercial) Lead, Vodacom
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Software-defined ve erything - managing 5G Africa Speaker Q&A Session PowerX 2025 Digitized Facility: New Era, New complexity from core to edge Power 12:55 - 13:05 12:35 - 12:55 5G Africa 13:50 - 14:10 Digital Infrastructure Investment Digital Infrastructure Investment Participants Participants New digital infrastructure is software defined, across Joel Randrianasolo - CTO, Telma Madagascar many layers from multiple vendors, from central data Dr Fang Liangzhou - CMO - Digital Power, Huawei centers and public cloud right to the cabinet or Shoaib Khan - CTO, Cable & Wireless (Seychelles) customer premises. Wrangling software complexity is Themba Phiri - Executive Head: Regulatory, Cell C a primary challenge for communications companies globally. Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Moderator: Danson Njue - Senior Research Analyst, Panel: Public-private partnerships are key to Canonical, shares his insights on how to best tackle Omdia connecting Africa this challenge, through a comprehensive exploration Akinwale Goodluck - Head of Africa, GSMA 13:55 - 14:35 of: Connecting the Next Billion Dr. Ing. Kenneth Ashigbey - Chief Executive Officer, • Public clouds, private clouds and micro clouds Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications • Understanding the importance of private-public • Layers of software-defined infrastructure Eva Andren - VP and Head of Managed Services, partnerships to unlock internet access – who’s • Application management and integration in a multi- Market Area Middle East and Africa, Ericsson involved and how are they created? vendor, multi-cloud world • Examining some of the planned large-scale • The new wave of IoT applications broadband connectivity projects in Africa and how they will affect citizens and businesses Participants NETWORKING LUNCH • Exploring the process of creating and bringing an Mark Shuttleworth - Founder & CEO, Canonical 13:00 - 13:55 African PPP project Connecting the Next Billion • Lessons from countries where PPPs have successfully deployed transmission network Fireside chat: Enterprise purchasing trends and infrastructure – India, China & Brazil Networking Lunch revenue opportunities in the next decade Participants 12:35 - 13:00 13:00 - 13:45 MODERATOR: Dion Jerling - Managing Director, Service Provider Technology Service Provider Technology Connect Earth
• Identifying investment planning and technology Tunde Fafunwa - Lead Advisor, Digital Centre for utilisation criteria Break Excellence at United Nations Economic Commission • Tracking plans for service provider technology for Africa deployments 13:05 - 14:00 Onica Makwakwa - Head of Africa, Alliance for • Which new products are on the service provider 5G Africa Affordable Internet horizon? Which service provider technologies canpower Africa’s 4IR in to the next decade? • Which countries and organisations are leading Panel: OpenRAN: The journey from market technological innovation? potential to network deployment Private Networks in Manufacturing Interview: • Where is new investment coming from on the Ford’s Experiences with Private Networks continent, internationally? 13:45 - 14:25 Service Provider Technology 14:00 - 14:20 Participants 5G Africa • Status check on the current position of OpenRAN Adrian Ho - Practice Leader, Omdia tech and its likely rollout in Africa In this session Tony Sceales will interview Chris White • Unpacking the benefits for telcos, vendors and from Ford to deep-dive into Ford’s private network Amos Mwongera Mutiga - Co-Founder and Director, broader mobile infrastructure journey. Red Brick Africa • Understanding the challenges to OpenRAN technology roll-out – deployment and security Participants
Sevice Provider Address: Telma Madagascar’s Interviewee: Chris White - Electrification Manager - Participants Europe, Ford 5G launch experience George Debbo - Independent Telecommunications Interviewer: Tony Sceales - Head of Programme 12:50 - 12:55 Consultant, George Debbo Telecom Development for the 5G Testbeds and Trials 5G Africa Alex Botting - Director, International Programs, Open Programme, DCMS (UK Department for Culture, Participants RAN Policy Coalition Ministry and Sports)
Joel Randrianasolo - CTO, Telma Madagascar Amrit Heer - Head of Business for Europe & Middle East, Parallel Wireless Digital Transformation Forum
NETWORKING LUNCH 14:00 - 15:00 Huawei Forums 12:55 - 13:50 Digital Infrastructure Investment Boosting user experience and improving operation efficiency with digital tools
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Panel: What is the future of satellite broadband Fireside chat: Building critical operator-OTT 5G Africa Speaker Q&A Session investment in Africa? partnerships 15:10 - 15:20 14:10 - 14:50 14:25 - 14:50 5G Africa Digital Infrastructure Investment Service Provider Technology Participants
• Exploring the role of satellite in closing A market once limited to video consumption via Danson Njue - Senior Research Analyst, Omdia infrastructure and connectivity gaps in Africa’s satellite is now flourishing – connectivity has enabled underserved regions new ways to deliver and engage audiences with Alexey Vedin - Director, Nexign • Examining the future of low-Earth-orbit satellite content and as a result we are seeing many new Paul Hjul - Managing Executive, Hjul Consulting constellations considering the OneWeb and Sky & relationships between content and service providers. Space challenges In this session 3Vision, a leading content firm talk to Hugo van Zyl - Managing Executive for Mobile Network • Creating regulation that enables a reliable, cost- MGM about creating strategic OTT partnerships with in Consumer, Telkom effective and secure service for African satellite telcos. connectivity • The changing distribution landscape for MGM in Roundtable Discussions on Mobile Edge Participants the region over the last few years Computing and 5G Cost Management • Opportunities for partnering with telcos and MODERATOR: Temidayo Oniosun - Managing Director, understanding the conditions necessary for a 16:00 - 17:00 Space in Africa successful relationship – finance, marketing etc. 5G Africa Abimbola Alale - Managing Director, Nigerian • Exploring what the advent of 5G on the African Available to all 5G Africa attendees, these informal, Communications Satellite Limited continent means for operator-OTT partnerships? • Does size matter in the success of cooperative Chatham House Rule, interactive discussions give you Jean-Claude Tshipama - Business Development ventures? the opportunity to reflect on odat y’s presentations and Director, Konnect Africa • Telcos and video versus the incumbent Pay TV engage in conversation with peers on a given topic, moderating by leading industry analysts. Please Dr Riad Hartani - Co-Founding Partner, Xona Partners providers register for the roundtable of your preference by emailing [email protected]. The roundtables are limited to 8 attendees each and slots Fireside Chat: Nigeria’s National Broadband Panel Discussion: Debating the Viability and are allocated on a first come basis. Opportunity for Private Networks in Africa Plan 2020-2025 Roundtable 1: Cost management for 5G 14:20 - 14:50 14:35 - 15:00 Connecting the Next Billion 5G Africa Chris Nicoll, Senior Principal Analyst, Omdia • Exploring the link between internet connectivity • Should enterprises be allocated spectrum Roundtable 2: The mobile edge computing in Africa resources? and GDP growth in Africa’s largest mobile • What role will service providers play in private 5G telecommunications market Moderated by: Paul Hjul, Managing Executive, Hjul networks • What will successful execution mean for internet Consulting • Business models for private networks penetration and affordability • Understanding the verticals’ pain points • What will the plan mean for Nigerian telcos? Participants • How should a telco be structured to be positioned • The role of submarine in getting Nigeria on-grid Moderator - The mobile edge computing in Africa: as the private networks’ success partner? Paul Hjul - Managing Executive, Hjul Consulting • Security considerations and benefits for private Participants networks Funke Opeke - CEO, MainOne Moderator - Cost management for 5G: Chris Nicoll - Senior Principal Analyst, Omdia Participants Olusola Teniola - President, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) Moderator: Pablo Tomasi - Principal Analyst, Omdia
Paul Hjul - Managing Executive, Hjul Consulting Chair's Closing Remarks Alexey Vedin - Director, Nexign 14:50 - 14:55 Service Provider Technology
Service Provider Keynote: Practical considerations for 5G
14:50 - 15:10 5G Africa
• How Telkom views 5G as an end-to-end eco- system? • How Telkom has used temporary spectrum, including 5G spectrum
Participants
Hugo van Zyl - Managing Executive for Mobile Network in Consumer, Telkom
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TIME 5G AFRICA AFRICA TECH FESTIVAL CONNECTING THE NEXT DIGITAL INFRASTRUC- HUAWEI FORUMS SERVICE PROVIDER TECH- TELECOM INFRA PROJECT HEADLINE KEYNOTE BILLION TURE INVESTMENT NOLOGY
09:00 09:00 - Chair's Opening Remarks 09:05 - Smarter networks accelerating Africa’s digi- tal agenda 09:25 - Developing Consumer-Focussed Tel- co Business Models for Pan-African Growth 09:45 - accelerateHER Africa Take-Over: Driving Entrepreneurship across Africa for Women
10:00 10:25 - Intelligently navi- 10:30 - Home Broadband gating the COVID out- Forum break: striving for societal benefit vo er profit 10:50 - Accelerating Africa’s journey towards the 4IR
11:00 11:35 - 5G Africa Chair’s 11:10 - Chair's Closing 11:30 - Fireside chat: 11:35 - Telecom Infra Pro- 11:30 - Cloud & AI Forum 11:30 - Chair's Opening 11:35 - Telecom Infra Pro- welcome and introductory Remarks Bridging the Digital Divide ject: Breaking The Mould! Remarks ject: Breaking The Mould! remarks in Rural and Emerging - Going Open - Going Open 11:15 - Virtual AfricaCom 11:35 - Developing a telco Markets 11:40 - Service Provider Awards Part I 11:55 - Telecom Infra Pro- digital transformation 11:55 - Telecom Infra Pro- Interview: 5G launches in 11:55 - The value of con- ject: Setting The Pace To- strategy for the 4IR ject: Setting The Pace To- small African island na- nectivity in poor, margin- wards Open and Disag- wards Open and Disag- 11:55 - Panel: Protecting tions alised and remote areas gregated Transport Net- gregated Transport Net- profit in a landscape of works works changing operator mod- els
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TIME 5G AFRICA AFRICA TECH FESTIVAL CONNECTING THE NEXT DIGITAL INFRASTRUC- HUAWEI FORUMS SERVICE PROVIDER TECH- TELECOM INFRA PROJECT HEADLINE KEYNOTE BILLION TURE INVESTMENT NOLOGY
12:00 12:00 - Applying AI Au- 12:20 - Panel: Universal 12:15 - Telecom Infra Pro- 12:35 - Fireside chat: En- 12:15 - Telecom Infra Pro- tomation Across the En- ICT access by 2030: ject: OpenWi-Fi - Filling terprise purchasing ject: OpenWi-Fi - Filling tire Lifecycle of Network Africa’s Digital Moonshot The Connectivity Gaps trends and revenue op- The Connectivity Gaps Operations Initiative portunities in the next 12:35 - Software-defined decade 12:20 - Panel Discussion: everything - managing Spectrum management complexity from core to for 5G edge 12:50 - Sevice Provider 12:55 - NETWORKING Address: Telma Madagas- LUNCH car’s 5G launch experi- ence 12:55 - 5G Africa Speaker Q&A Session
13:00 13:05 - Break 13:00 - NETWORKING 13:50 - PowerX 2025 Digi- 13:00 - Networking Lunch LUNCH tized Facility: New Era, 13:45 - Panel: OpenRAN: New Power 13:55 - Panel: Public- The journey from market private partnerships are potential to network de- key to connecting Africa ployment
14:00 14:00 - Private Networks 14:35 - Fireside Chat: 14:10 - Panel: What is the 14:00 - Digital Transfor- 14:25 - Fireside chat: in Manufacturing Inter- Nigeria’s National Broad- future of satellite broad- mation Forum Building critical operator- view: Ford’s Experiences band Plan 2020-2025 band investment in OTT partnerships with Private Networks Africa? 14:50 - Chair's Closing 14:20 - Panel Discussion: Remarks Debating the Viability and Opportunity for Private Networks in Africa 14:50 - Service Provider Keynote: Practical consid- erations for 5G
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TIME 5G AFRICA AFRICA TECH FESTIVAL CONNECTING THE NEXT DIGITAL INFRASTRUC- HUAWEI FORUMS SERVICE PROVIDER TECH- TELECOM INFRA PROJECT HEADLINE KEYNOTE BILLION TURE INVESTMENT NOLOGY
15:00 15:10 - 5G Africa Speaker Q&A Session
16:00 16:00 - Roundtable Dis- cussions on Mobile Edge Computing and 5G Cost Management
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Chair's Opening Remarks Virtual AfricaCom Awards Part II Panel: The impact of foreign investment in Africa’s digital infrastructure journey 09:00 - 09:05 10:30 - 10:40 Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote 11:50 - 12:30 Digital Infrastructure Investment Participants 1. Building a Better, More Inclusive, Digital World Award Jan Vermeulen - Editor At Large, MyBroadband • Status check in to current and predicted future 2. Female Innovator of the Year Award trends of direct foreign investment in Africa’s 3. Enterprise CXO of the Year Award technological ecosystems 4. CXO of the Year Award • Examining the increasing role of overseas Cloud Computing: Exploring Africa’s next businesses in Africa’s tech boom digital frontier Vote now at: https://tmt.knect365.com/africacom/ • Exploring the relationship between on-continent awards 09:05 - 09:25 African businesses and multinationals investing in Africa's digital infrastructure Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote The AfricaCom Awards are a bit different this year. In Participants recognition of the significant contribution made by Participants Africa’s tech community in the ongoing battle against Zubin Chagpar - Head of Public Sector, Middle East & COVID-19, and the critical role that tech will play in MODERATOR: Aubrey Hruby - Senior Fellow, Africa Africa, Amazon Web Services fuelling Africa’s economic recovery, the 2020 Center. Co-founder, Africa Expert Network categories all fall under a central theme: building a Mohamed Nasr - Assistant ICT Minister for Global better, more inclusive digital world. Virtual event Information Infrastructure (GII), Ministry of audiences are more diverse than ever before. For this Panel: Africa’s Digital Decade: exploring the big Communications & Information Technology (MCIT), reason, all the 2020 categories are open to public trends for the next 10 years Egypt votes – it is an entirely people’s choice awards 09:25 - 10:05 ceremony. Linda Munyengeterwa - Director for Infrastructure for Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote Africa and the Middle East, International Finance Corporation • Examining the most impactful tech trends in Africa IP Network Forum over the next 10 years, and their impact for the Eric Osiakwan - Managing Partner, Chanzo Capital continent's digital economy 10:30 - 11:30 Jane Coffin - Senior Vice President - Internet Growth, • Exploring the opportunities and risks of Huawei Forums The Internet Society exponential investment • The transition from digital transformation concepts Leading intelligent IP networks, accelerating intelligent to implementation and impact connectivity • How do governments and regulators keep pace NETWORKING LUNCH with evolving tech ecosystems? Participants 12:30 - 13:15 Speaker: Samuel Chen - Director, Southern Africa Digital Infrastructure Investment Participants Marketing & Solution Sales Dept., Huawei Jan Vermeulen - Editor At Large, MyBroadband Speaker: Hugh Ujhazy - Vice President, IOT & Telecom, Fireside Chat: Smart Cities – transforming a Tunde Fafunwa - Lead Advisor, Digital Centre for IDC Excellence at United Nations Economic Commission metropolis through digital infrastructure Speaker: Joachim Horn - Chief Technology and for Africa Information Adviser, Smart and PLDT 13:15 - 13:35 Jimmy Nguyen - Founding President, Bitcoin Digital Infrastructure Investment Speaker: Zoltan Miklos - General Manager of Network Association Planning, MTN South Africa • What are the objectives and benefits of a smart Razvan Ungureanu - Chief Technology Officer, Airtel city? How does infrastructure fit into the matrix? Speaker: Tony Hu - Vice President, Data Africa Communication Product Line, Huawei • Examining African smart city leaders and contextualising what the plans mean in a wider African context Fireside Chat: The African Continental Free Terrestrial fibre connectivity is more important Trade Area (AfCFTA): implications for tech than ever to Africa’s digital economy • What else is happening across Africa: Accra, Lagos 10:05 - 10:25 and Kigali? Can Konza Technopolis be Africa’s 11:30 - 11:50 Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote ‘Silicon Valley’? Digital Infrastructure Investment Participants • The early adopters – how are Toronto, Barcelona & Participants other examples leading the way and what can Dorothy Tembo - Executive Director, The International Yonas Maru - Managing Director, BCS Group others learn from them? Trade Centre • Has the COVID-19 outbreak impacted smart city development? Chair's Closing Remarks Participants 10:25 - 10:30 Africa Tech Festival Headline Keynote MODERATOR: Dr Riad Hartani - Co-Founding Partner, Xona Partners
Omeshnee Naidoo - Director of Information Systems, City of Cape Town
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TIME AFRICA TECH FESTIVAL HEADLINE DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT HUAWEI FORUMS KEYNOTE
09:00 09:00 - Chair's Opening Remarks 09:05 - Cloud Computing: Exploring Africa’s next digital frontier 09:25 - Panel: Africa’s Digital Decade: ex- ploring the big trends for the next 10 years
10:00 10:05 - Fireside Chat: The African Conti- 10:30 - IP Network Forum nental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): implica- tions for tech 10:25 - Chair's Closing Remarks 10:30 - Virtual AfricaCom Awards Part II
11:00 11:30 - Terrestrial fibre connectivity is more important than ever to Africa’s digi- tal economy 11:50 - Panel: The impact of foreign in- vestment in Africa’s digital infrastructure journey
12:00 12:30 - NETWORKING LUNCH
13:00 13:15 - Fireside Chat: Smart Cities – transforming a metropolis through digital infrastructure
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