Session Description
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a distant promise, it’s an active force reshaping economies, societies, and industries. For Africa, AI represents a generational opportunity to leapfrog legacy challenges and drive inclusive, sustainable growth.
By 2035, AI is projected to add over $1.5 trillion to Africa’s GDP, unlocking transformative value across sectors such as agriculture, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecom. The telecommunications sector, in particular, stands to gain significantly, leveraging AI to enhance network intelligence, improve operational efficiency, and deliver personalized, next-generation services.
Equally, telecommunications also play a vital role in powering and enabling AI. Unlocking AI’s full potential demands bold, decisive action from the ecosystem to empower the telco sector to overcome barriers. This means addressing critical challenge, such as digital infrastructure and data environments, to regulatory frameworks and AI talent gaps; success will require close collaboration between policymakers and operators on all of these elements.
Join us as leading voices in the field share visionary strategies, scalable innovations, and transformative solutions to overcome these barriers and shape the future of AI and connectivity.