Register right this moment to attend MWC Kigali, 29-31 October 2024
GSMA MWC Kigali will return to the Kigali Conference Heart from 29-31 October 2024.
MWC Kigali, Africa’s largest and most influential connectivity occasion, will convene highly effective innovators and political leaders from throughout the whole continent, geared in the direction of driving the digital economic system ahead and enabling socio-economic progress.
MWC Kigali will ship a variety of keynotes and panel classes hosted by business thought leaders and main enterprises, focussed across the 4 occasion themes: Linked Continent, The AI Future, FinTech, and Africa’s Digital DNA. Lately confirmed audio system embrace Airtel Africa’s CEO, Sunil Taldar; Amini’s Founder & CEO, Kate Kallot; the GSMA’s Director Basic, Mats Granryd; the ITU’s Secretary-Basic, Doreen Bogdan-Martin; Lelapa AI’s CEO and Co-founder, Pelonomi Moiloa; MTN Group’s FinTech CEO, Serigne Dioum; Republic of Rwanda’s Minister of ICT and Innovation, Hon. Paula Ingabire; Take Again the Mic’s CEO & Founder, Derrick Ashong and, Wi-Flix’s CEO, Louis Manu.
For the primary time in Africa, the GSMA Ministerial Programme will likely be hosted at MWC Kigali, marking a brand new chapter within the dedication to advancing the digital agenda in Africa. The programme will convene probably the most influential telecommunications leaders from throughout the African continent to debate coverage and regulatory matters key to the area.
The Mobile for Development (M4D) team will as soon as once more play a central function on the occasion, driving innovation in digital know-how to scale back world inequalities. M4D will host the ‘Cellular for Improvement Theatre’, a devoted house for keynote classes, panels, and discussions. Themes will vary from AI for impression and humanitarian innovation, agriculture, and local weather, to digital inclusion and gender. Additionally returning this 12 months is the Cellular Cash Management Discussion board, which can discover key tendencies and improvements in cell monetary companies.
The MWC Kigali keynotes will cowl a few of Africa’s most urgent digital connectivity points. Keynote 1 will talk about how digital applied sciences are driving socio-economic growth in Africa to handle the continent’s distinctive challenges. Keynote 2 will deal with the transformative potential of AI, together with the way it can drive sustainable and inclusive progress throughout Africa. Keynote 3 will see audio system discover the fast evolution of Africa’s Fintech panorama and the applied sciences impacting funding alternatives. Whereas Keynote 4 will discover how the evolving content material panorama is permitting African content material creators to be heard and celebrated globally.
An agenda of GSMA Summits will likely be hosted throughout the occasion, inviting business leaders and policymakers to find the problems affecting enterprises in areas from community safety to variety in tech:
- The Security Summit will deal with probably the most urgent safety challenges cell community operators face right this moment, within the context of a quickly evolving cyber threat panorama.
- The Digital Summit will discover the digital economic system’s potential in Africa, exploring how digital applied sciences and coverage reform can drive important socio-economic progress in Africa.
- The AI Summit will cowl each the huge potential and the related dangers of AI applied sciences in Africa, because the know-how’s prevalence grows within the world economic system.
- The 5G Summit will deal with the limitations stopping the know-how’s widespread adoption and methods to unlock its potential for each enterprises and shoppers.
- The Diversity for Tech Summit will deal with the pressing want for larger incapacity inclusion in Africa’s tech sector, making certain that folks with disabilities have entry to the instruments and alternatives they should succeed.
MWC Kigali is held alongside the Africa Well being Tech Summit and FEWA (Way forward for Training and Work in Africa), providing an in-depth exploration of connectivity challenges and alternatives within the well being and schooling sectors. We’re proud to have the help of our stellar line up of sponsors, exhibitors and occasion companions, together with Africa CDC, Africa Union, Huawei, inABLE, MTN, the Republic of Rwanda, Sensible Africa and ZTE.
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