Be part of shaping Africa's digital leadership agenda
Engage with ATLF as a partner, participant, policy contributor, or supporter of year-round initiatives designed to move the continent from ambition to strategic advantage.
ATLF convenes heads of state, cabinet ministers, chief executives, institutional investors, and regulators to shape the decisions, capital frameworks, and execution models that will define Africa's digital future.
The Africa Technology Leadership Forum (ATLF) is the continent's dedicated platform for senior leaders navigating the intersection of technology, governance, capital, and execution. We do not address technology adoption — we address what happens at the decision-making level: how institutions govern digital transformation, how capital is structured and deployed, and how execution capability is built and sustained.
ATLF operates year-round, convening through a curated portfolio of flagship and thematic initiatives — each designed for different audiences, different levels of engagement, and different outcomes. What unites them is an unwavering focus on decisions that shape Africa's digital future at scale.
We convene governments, enterprises, regulators, investors, and development finance institutions not for dialogue alone, but to produce actionable frameworks, investment pathways, and leadership outputs that outlast any single event.
ATLF does not convene practitioners learning new tools. We convene decision-makers who govern institutions, deploy capital, and set policy — the people whose choices determine whether digital ambition becomes digital reality.
There is no shortage of digital ambition in Africa. ATLF's purpose is accountability and execution. Our convenings are structured around delivery challenges, institutional constraints, and governance trade-offs that rarely surface on public stages.
Digital transformation cannot be solved within sectoral silos. ATLF deliberately places government policymakers, private sector CEOs, institutional investors, and development finance institutions in the same room — because the solutions require all of them.
ATLF does not import global playbooks and apply them to Africa. Our programming, dialogue design, and outputs are rooted in the fiscal, regulatory, institutional, and infrastructure realities that African leaders actually navigate.
ATLF is built for continuity. Insights from our initiatives feed year-round policy engagement, investment pathway development, and leadership capability building — producing outcomes that extend well beyond any single convening.
ATLF's work is anchored around four interconnected domains — each addressing a critical dimension of what it takes to build durable digital advantage across the continent.
ATLF's work is anchored around four interconnected focus areas:
Strengthening the capacity of institutional leaders to govern digital transformation, manage risk, and make high-stakes trade-offs at national and enterprise level.
Advancing frameworks for financing scalable, sustainable digital infrastructure through public, private, and blended capital — with accountability for returns.
Moving Africa beyond pilots and proof-of-concept to platforms that operate at scale — building the institutional muscle required for delivery, not just adoption.
Embedding data governance, cybersecurity, and digital resilience as foundational requirements — not afterthoughts — in Africa's digital architecture.
ATLF delivers impact through a set of curated initiatives designed for different audiences and outcomes.
ATLF's annual flagship convening — Africa's most senior decision-level platform for technology leadership, capital strategy, and execution. ATLC brings together the continent's most influential voices for two days of structured dialogue, closed-door policy exchanges, and high-level networking.
Intensive, structured engagements designed for senior executives and public officials who need to move beyond awareness to capability. Labs are small, curated, and built around practical challenges.
Closed-door, high-trust convenings that bring together policymakers, regulators, DFIs, and private sector leaders to address the regulatory and capital deployment challenges that are rarely discussed openly on conference stages.
Targeted workshops convened around specific sectors or institutional mandates — enabling leaders in finance, health, agriculture, infrastructure, and public administration to engage with the digital transformation challenges most relevant to their domain.
ATLF collaborates with governments, regulators, corporates, investors, development partners, and ecosystem institutions committed to building Africa's digital future.
Partnerships are structured around shared objectives, long-term value, and tangible outcomes.
ATLF is structured as a continuous platform, not a single conference moment. Our engagements generate:
Outcomes from ATLF initiatives feed into year-round dialogue, follow-up engagements, and future programming.
Engage with ATLF as a partner, participant, policy contributor, or supporter of year-round initiatives designed to move the continent from ambition to strategic advantage.