Africa Hyperscalers to Host Strategic Industry Session on AI Infrastructure Readiness

Africa Hyperscalers is convening policymakers, operators, and digital infrastructure leaders for a strategic session on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, titled: “AI-Ready Africa: Building the Compute, Cloud, and Connectivity Foundations for the Next Digital Leap.”

The session will examine what Africa – and particularly Nigeria – must put in place to ensure its telecom networks, data centers, and cloud environments can support emerging AI-driven applications at scale.

Scheduled speakers include: President, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Tony Izuagbe Emoekpere; Chief Executive Officer, Open Access Data Centres, Dr Ayotunde Coker; General Manager, Architecture and Enterprise IT, MTN, Bukola Ajayi; Chief Executive Officer, Tizeti, Kendall Ananyi; Director, IT Infrastructure Solutions, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Oladejo Olawumi; Regional Account Executive, Vertiv, Okechi Osuagwu; Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer and Group Head of Artificial Intelligence, Mike Salem; and Co-Founder, AI in Nigeria, Dotun Adeoye.

Through keynote insights and panel dialogue, the session will explore how AI adoption is reshaping network planning, compute workloads, and energy systems, and what investments are required to build resilient, scalable AI-ready infrastructure. Discussions will also focus on policy alignment, interconnection ecosystems, cloud localization, and the development of regional talent and capability pipelines.

Executive Director of Africa Hyperscalers, Temitope Osunrinde, said the session is designed to help industry leaders move from high-level ambition to actionable readiness.

Osunrinde noted, “AI presents enormous opportunities for Africa’s digital ecosystem but its impact will only be realized if the underlying compute, power, and connectivity layers are scaled sustainably. This session will highlight proven use cases, outline emerging infrastructure demands, and offer practical steps stakeholders can take to ensure their networks, data centers, and talent pipelines are truly AI-ready.”

The webinar will take place on Zoom at 10:00 AM (WAT), November 19, 2025, and is open to C-level executives, network planners, regulators, and technology partners. To register, click here https://convergenceafrica.hyperscalers.news/ai-infrastructure-readiness-session/