Tech Talk Africa

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  Africa Can’t Build Digital Infrastructure Alone, But Partnerships Need Guardrails with Director Magalie Anderson 19.09.2026 17分

  What are your thoughts? International Telecoms Week x Datacloud Africa 2026 Conference Podcast Edition Director of ICT, Magalie Anderson - African Union Commission Africa’s digital infrastructure is moving fast and the hype is loud, but the real question is who builds it, who pays for it, and who sets the rules that protect people while still attracting investment. We’re joined by Magali Anderson, Director of ICT at the African Union Commission, for a grounded conversation on what continenta...
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  Unboxing Africa’s Digital Future with Director Thomas Kaberi 19.09.2026 38分

  What are your thoughts? International Telecoms Week x Datacloud Africa 2026 Conference Podcast Edition Director of Partnerships, Growth & Commercial, Thomas Kaberi - Qhala AI talk gets loud fast, but the truth is quieter and heavier: cables, power, fiber, cooling, racks, and data centers decide what’s possible long before a chatbot ever answers a question. From the floor of ITW Africa 2026, we sit with Thomas Kaberi, Director of Growth and Partnerships at Nkala, to unpack the idea of “u...
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  Meaningful Connectivity with Co Founder Mea Thompson 19.09.2026 16分

  What are your thoughts? International Telecoms Week x Datacloud Africa 2026 Conference Podcast Edition Co-Founder & CCO Mea Thompson - unconnected .org “Connected” can be a lie we tell ourselves with a coverage map. A school can sit inside a service area and still be offline where it counts, with no devices, limited digital literacy, or internet that’s too expensive or unreliable to support learning. We sit down with Mia Thompson, CCO and co-founder of unconnected.org, to get specific ...
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  How Cassava Designs Resilient Connectivity For AI Workloads Across Africa with Senior VP Marco Gagiano 19.09.2026 15分

  What are your thoughts? International Telecoms Week x Datacloud Africa 2026 Conference Podcast Edition Senior Vice President of Connectivity, Cloud & Cyber Security, Marco Gagiano - Cassava Technologies A single cable break shouldn’t be able to knock whole regions offline, yet Africa’s digital infrastructure still has chokepoints that turn routine failures into major outages. From the show floor at ITW 2026, we sit down with Marco Cargiano of Cassava Technologies to get specific about ...
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  Can Africa Scale Data Centers Without Wasting Power with Head of Data Centre, Mourad Younes | Schneider Electric 19.09.2026 18分

  What are your thoughts? International Telecoms Week x Datacloud Africa 2026 Conference Podcast Edition Head of Data Centre, MEA region, Mourad Younes - Schneider Electric AI is changing data center design faster than most teams can rewrite their playbooks, and the pressure shows up everywhere: power demand, heat rejection, talent, timelines, and the gap between big visions and real execution. From ITW 2026, we sit down with Murat Yunes, Head of Data Center for Middle East and Africa at Schne...
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  Yes, We Have The Bandwidth, But Can We Afford It with CEO Ayotunde Coker 19.09.2026 22分

  What are your thoughts? International Telecoms Week x Datacloud Africa 2026 Conference Podcast Edition CEO Ayotunde Coker - Open Access Data Centres (WIOCC Group) Africa’s internet future won’t be won by a single shiny megaproject. It gets built in the unglamorous details: where fiber actually runs, where networks can interconnect, how data centers scale from core hubs to edge sites, and most of all, where dependable power comes from. From the floor of ITW 2026, we sit down with the CEO of O...
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  Africa’s Digital Infrastructure Moment with Managing Diretor Silvia Peneva 19.09.2026 20分

  What are your thoughts? International Telecoms Week x Datacloud Africa 2026 Conference Podcast Edition Managing Director, Silvia Peneva - ITW, Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF) & Techoraco Africa’s digital infrastructure is having a real moment and the most interesting part is how fast the lines are blurring. At ITW Africa and Data Cloud Africa, we talk with Sylvia about why the connectivity world (fiber, subsea cables, peering, internet exchange) is increasingly inseparable from ...
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  How Smart Africa Turns Digital Policy Into On The Ground Results with Director Thelma Quaye 19.09.2026 30分

  What are your thoughts? International Telecoms Week x Datacloud Africa 2026 Conference Podcast Edition Director of Digital Infrastructure, Skills and Empowerment, Thelma Quaye - Smart Africa. Everyone wants to talk about AI, but the uncomfortable truth is that compute capacity isn’t evenly owned and access to GPUs can turn into a geopolitical lever. So we step back and ask a more useful question: where can Africa realistically win in the AI value chain over the long term? From Nairobi...
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  How iX Africa Is Building A Carrier Neutral Data Center Hub In Kenya with CEO Snehar Shah 19.09.2026 14分

  What are your thoughts? International Telecoms Week x Datacloud Africa 2026 Conference Podcast Edition CEO Snehar Shah - iXAfrica Data Centres The loudest thing at ITW 2026 isn’t a press release, it’s the reality that Nairobi is becoming a real contender in the global digital infrastructure conversation. We sit down on the conference floor to talk about what changed, what’s still missing, and what it actually takes to build a serious data center ecosystem in Kenya. We dig into iX Africa’s ...
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  What If Your Career Ladder Is Not About Age with CEO Dorcas Muthoni 19.09.2026 20分

  What are your thoughts? International Telecoms Week x Datacloud Africa 2026 Conference Podcast Edition CEO Dorcas Muthoni - OPENWORLD Tech careers rarely move in a straight line, and Dorcas says we should stop pretending they do. We talk about what it really takes to build a sustainable career in a fast changing industry, especially for women who step away for family, school, or life and then come back to new tools, new terminology, and a whole new market. If you have ever felt behind, disco...
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  Human-Centered AI Adoption In African Workplaces Featuring Melody Mukhwana Season Finale 25.07.2026 1時間

  What are your thoughts? AI is everywhere now, from banks to hospitals to government offices, but we keep skipping the question that decides whether any of it works: are the people who have to use these tools actually ready? Stella Gichuki sits down with Melody Mukhwana, VP of Agentic Education at mindhive.ai and a change management consultant, to talk about the human side of AI adoption in African organizations. No algorithm talk for its own sake, just what happens inside teams when AI walks ...
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  Heroes Without Scrubs Featuring Uzma Qureishi 11.07.2026 35分

  What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa | Season 2 Episode 09: Heroes Without Scrubs Guest: Uzma Qureishi, Senior Manager EHR Operations at AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, EAST AFRICA Some of the most important work in healthcare happens far from the bedside, and it still saves lives. I’m joined by Uzma Qureishi, an award-winning health IT leader who’s helped transform hospital care by keeping patient safety and real clinical workflows at the center of every digital decision. From the very sta...
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  AI Sovereignty in The Age of the Kill Switch with Fractional CIO/CTO Timothy Laku 27.06.2026 51分

  What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa | Season 2 Episode 08: AI Sovereignty in The Age of the Kill Switch Guest: Timothy Laku, Fractional CTO/CIO A single policy decision can break your AI roadmap overnight. That’s not fearmongering, it’s the new operating environment when frontier AI models, GPU supply chains, and model weights sit inside global power dynamics. We sit down with fractional CIO Timothy Laku to unpack a scenario that should make every African CTO, CIO, founder, and pol...
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  Responsibility by Design Featuring AI Leader Shiphrah Wairima 06.06.2026 34分

  What are your thoughts? AI is moving at “anything you can imagine is real” speed, and that pace is already colliding with cybersecurity, elections, scams, and jobs. We talk with Shiphrah Wairima, Kenya's President / AI Advocate, in the Global Council for Responsible AI, about what AI governance actually looks like when you stop treating it like a policy buzzword and start treating it like safety work. From her background in information technology and security operations to her focus on AI sec...
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  Green Tech Diplomacy featuring Belgium's Ambassador to Kenya 25.04.2026 36分

  What are your thoughts? Kenya’s tech story is bigger than startups and bigger than mobile money. When digital infrastructure grows, energy demand grows with it and that forces a hard question: can the digital economy scale without going green first? We talk with Belgian Ambassador Peter Maddens about why his team links “digital and green,” and what that looks like on the ground in Nairobi, including a retrofitted net zero embassy with solar power, water recycling, on-site cooking gas, and hy...
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  How To Become A Builder Not Just A User | A Conversation Featuring The Special Envoy on Technology, for Kenya 11.04.2026 49分

  What are your thoughts? Guest: Ambassador Philip Thigo - The Special Envoy on Technology for Kenya AI hype is loud, but the real question is quieter: are we building the infrastructure that makes AI work for us, or are we stuck as permanent users of other people’s systems? I’m joined by Ambassador Philip Thigo, the only African tech envoy, to unpack what “AI is infrastructure” means from a Kenyan and African perspective and why that framing changes everything from investment to regulation. ...
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  People Still People | A Conversation with Serge Blockmans 21.03.2026 42分

  What are your thoughts? Guest: Serge Blockmans - Independent Advisor | Change Management Go live is a moment. Transformation is a behavior change that survives the moment. I sit down with Serge Blockmans, who helped bring SAP and ERP into the East African market, to revisit what digital transformation looked like in Kenya before the term became fashionable. Back then, organizations wanted controls, governance, and trustworthy data, not buzzwords. That foundation still shapes today’s ERP impl...
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  Building Amanzi Cloud: Decentralized AI Infrastructure For Africa By Africa Featuring Justice Mukaro 28.02.2026 32分

  What are your thoughts? Guest: Justice Mukaro - Founder of Strateji & Zimbabwean entrepreneur What happens when Africa stops importing assumptions and starts exporting standards? We sit down with founder and computer scientist Justice Mukaro to unpack a bold, practical plan for sovereign AI: Amanzi Cloud, a decentralized infrastructure designed to keep data local, cut costs, and connect every country into one living network. Justice’s water metaphor makes complex systems feel simp...
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  After The Hype: AI, Power, And Policy With Harry Hare 14.02.2026 33分

  What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa | Season 2 Episode 02: After The Hype Guest: Harry Hare, Chairman & Publisher at CIO Africa A pandemic rewired our habits, but did it truly change our leadership? We open the door on Kenya’s post-COVID tech reality—how hybrid work became muscle memory, how decision-making evolved, and where old instincts still hold back progress. Then we wade into the storm ahead: elections, uncertainty, and AI stepping onto the political stage. From deepfakes that...
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  The AI Infrastructure Reckoning Conversation With Co-Founder Michael Michie 31.01.2026 1時間 2分

  What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa | Season 2 Episode 01: The AI Infrastructure Reckoning Guest: Michael Michie, Co-founder of EverseTech and Special Advisor on AI to the Kenyan Government Africa’s digital future isn't just about the code we write; it’s being laid in the cables, servers, and power grids that most people will never see. In this season premiere, we move past the headlines to ask the hard questions: Who owns the compute? Who controls the data? And who pays the energy...