Innovation Africa Digital Summit 2021

27th – 28th October 2021

Host Partner

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia has been selected as the location for the 18th annual IAD Summit

IAD 2020 acknowledges the fact that Africa is a diverse continent of nations at different stages of ICT maturity.

ICT maturity rankings are a measurement for how well a country is progressing and a benchmark for how they are performing alongside their neighbours.

IAD 2020 will be attended by Policy Makers, Regulators, Service Providers and Major End Users from across Africa along with carefully selected solution providers, investors and consultants who can address the challenges and support the development of National Agendas with Infrastructure, Value Added Services, Strategy Guidance, Investment and Business partnership.

We are pleased to return to Ethiopia for the fourth time of hosting the IAD Summit in 2020. This is an exciting time of growth and development in Ethiopia with Market Liberalisation

Who should attend?

This webinar is primarily intended for CXOs, members of executive committees, regulators of the telecoms and ICT industry, technical directors and financial directors of large African enterprise companies.

Agenda

Day 1

08:00

REGISTRATION & NETWORKING

09:30

WELCOME & OPENING CEREMONY

WELCOME CEO Extensia

National ICT Maturity Insights UN Agency

Keynote Opening National Objectives and Priorities Minister

10:30

NETWORKING BREAK

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY

11:00

Panel – AFRICA ATTRACTIVENESS

How to attract international interest and foreign direct investment to support the development of connectivity coverage and improvements in services

12:00

Keynote – DIGITAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

How to encourage capacity building and the upskilling of the local workforce to support a long-term vision for growth and sustainability

12:15

KEYNOTE – SHARED VISIONS

How to align the commercial imperatives of the service provider with the national growth and development objectives of government

12:30

SOLUTION SHOWCASES

Presentations Short presentations from attending vendors and solution providers, showcasing solutions

12:45

Welcome to lunch

CEO Ethiopia – Huawei

12:50

NETWORKING LUNCH

14:00

Panel – PRACTICAL STEPS FOR IMPROVING NETWORK COVERAGE

How infrastructure sharing, satellite, opex business models, service diversification and government interventions can support the expansion of essential networks into low income and sparsely populated areas

14:45

3 keynote sessions – FROM URBAN 5G TO RURAL BROADBAND

How policy makers and regulators can create a conducive environment to reduce risk and encourage investment into the next era of ICT development

16:00

NETWORKING BREAK

16:35

Panel – PRACTICAL STEPS FOR COST REDUCTION

How to encourage service providers, and the industry at large to, reduce the cost of access to ICT

17:15

Keynote –

What the planned improvements in ICT Infrastructure bring to Ethiopia?

17:30

ETHIOPIA FUTURE VISION

CEO – Ethiopia Communications Authority

State Minister – MiNT

Day 2

08:00 – 10:00

VIP Breakfast Briefing | Regulatory Round Table

09:30

NETWORKING

10:00

Panel – FINTECH AS A DRIVER FOR GROWTH

How Fintech can encourage and support Network Coverage and ICT access in Africa?

10:45

Keynote – MICROFINANCE AND ADVANCED DIGITAL FINANCIAL SERVICES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Mastercard

11:00

Keynote – FINTECH PARTNERSHIPS

How fintechs and ICT service providers can co-exist and collaborate for mutual reward and to accelerate national agendas

11:15

NETWORKING BREAK

11:45

Panel – ENERGY AS A SERVICE

How to solve the energy bottleneck for supporting network expansion demands

12:30

Panel – NETWORK SECURITY

How to improve revenue assurance, secure networks and improve quality of service

13:15

NETWORKING LUNCH

14:30

Panel – CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT

How Metrics like Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) and Net Promoter Score (NPS) and solutions like Know Your Customer (KYC) and Customer Delight can help you to improve your customer acquisition, retention and ARPU?

15:15

Panel – EVERYTHING AS A SERVICE

How cloud services are helping you to reduce CAPEX, improve time to market with new product lines and supporting continuous improvement

16:00

NETWORKING BREAK

16:30

Panel – AFRICA RISING

National Agenda Reviews –Countries across Africa are measured against affordability, access and engagement in ICT. In this closing session of IAD 2021 we will hear from some of the countries putting ICT at the centre of their development strategy as they share their experience and aspirations for improving their ICT maturity ranking.