ABOUT ATWCE
Africa’s Future Is Being Built Now.
We Are Building It Together.
ATWCE is Africa’s premier annual technology congress. This is not an event. This is a movement.
THE VISION
A Platform Built for the Moment Africa Has Been Waiting For.
ATWCE is Africa’s answer to Davos, GITEX, and Web Summit — not in imitation, but in ambition and in the unapologetic belief that Africa’s technology story deserves a global stage built specifically for it.
“Africa is not catching up. Africa is leaping ahead. ATWCE is where that leap takes off.”
The Numbers Are Undeniable. The Moment Is Irreversible.
Projected digital economy by 2050
People across 54 nations going digital
World’s youth will be African by 2030
Faster than global average tech growth
Source: McKinsey Global Institute.
MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER
Lorde Ambrose
- Founder & Ambassador
- Africa Technology World Congress Expo
- London
- Lagos
- The World
Lorde Ambrose | Founder, ATWCE | London, United Kingdom
FOUNDER MESSAGE
Africa has always been the story the world has told about itself through a lens it did not choose. ATWCE is our answer to that. It is our platform, our stage, and our declaration that the continent’s technology future will be shaped by the people who believe in it most deeply.
Africa is not the future. Africa is the now the world has been slow to recognise — 1.4 billion people, the youngest workforce on earth, a $700 billion digital economy in motion. And today, with more than five billion smartphones connected across the globe, the world is watching like never before. Every innovation, every breakthrough, every story of African excellence reaches every corner of the earth in seconds. ATWCE exists to make sure Africa is always the story being told.
I built this platform because Africa deserves a stage of its own — not to stand apart from the world, but to stand with it. As an equal. As a powerhouse. As the partner that global technology, investment, and innovation cannot afford to overlook.
The deals struck here build industries. The partnerships forged here open continents. ATWCE is the catalyst — driving constant, never-ending improvement across ten of the most critical sectors shaping humanity’s future. From Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity to FinTech, HealthTech, Renewable Energy, and Creative Technology — every pillar of this platform is a declaration that African excellence is limitless. This movement travels across this extraordinary continent — city by city, nation by nation — because no single place can contain what Africa is becoming.
Africa is not arriving. Africa is leading. And ATWCE is where the world comes to witness it.
Lorde Ambrose
- Founder, Ambassador & Architect of Africa's Future — ATWCE
THE 10 PILLARS OF ATWCE
ATWCE is built on ten transformative pillars — each one a gateway into Africa’s most dynamic and high-growth sectors, and together, the most comprehensive technology agenda the continent has ever assembled.
PILLAR 01
Artificial Intelligence
The single most important access point into Africa's 54-nation technology economy.
PILLAR 02
FinTech and Digital Payments
Africa is the world's mobile money capital. 700M+ accounts. $230B financial services market by 2030.
PILLAR 03
Renewable Energy
Powering 600M+ Africans through solar, wind, and green hydrogen. $125B investment needed by 2030 (IEA).
PILLAR 04
Smart Cities and IoT
Africa will build more cities in 30 years than any continent in history. $5T+ infrastructure opportunity by 2030.
PILLAR 05
AgriTech
60% of Africa's workforce in agriculture. $1T+ output potential with technology adoption.
PILLAR 06
HealthTech
Bridging Africa's healthcare access gap. $45B digital health market projected by 2030.
PILLAR 07
Cybersecurity
Africa's digital economy growing faster than its security infrastructure. $2.5B+ market by 2026.
PILLAR 08
Blockchain and Web3
7th largest global crypto market. $3B+ received in Africa in 2023. 300M+ potential DeFi users.
PILLAR 09
Robotics and Automation
Africa's fourth industrial revolution. $40B+ manufacturing growth. 500M jobs touched by automation.
PILLAR 10
Creative Technology
Afrobeats, Nollywood, African gaming going global. $4.2B music industry by 2030.
OUR MISSION
To build the world’s most consequential annual platform for African technology, investment, and innovation — uniting global governments, corporations, investors, and founders on African soil, across the length and breadth of this great continent, to accelerate Africa’s digital transformation and establish Africa as the defining technology force of the 21st century.
We do not wait for the world to discover Africa.
We bring the world to Africa — on our terms.
THE DECLARATION
Make Africa Great Again.
Not a promise. Not a slogan. A commitment — written in every deal closed, every investment made, every founder funded, every government partnered, and every young African who looks at this continent and sees not what it was told it could never be, but everything it was always destined to become.
Constant. Never-ending. Limitless. This is the philosophy of ATWCE. This is the legacy of Lorde Ambrose.
