East Africa Tech Forum 2025

East Africa's leading gathering of stakeholders working across various verticals of the tech ecosystem

Kigali Convention Center, Rwanda | November 6th 2025
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At the forefront of East Africa's innovation

East Africa's tech ecosystem is rapidly growing, the region is experiencing a surge in technology adoption and innovation, fueled by a young and tech-savvy population, and boasts a vibrant startup culture with numerous incubators and accelerators. Key sectors like fintech, agritech, and climate tech are driving this growth, East Africa Tech Forum, previously known as Africa Tech Forum, returns for its 3rd edition, to exclusively focus on the growth opportunities across East Africa's tech ecosystem. East Africa Tech Forum provides a veritable meeting place for startups, regulators, investors, enthusiasts, disruptors and everyone working across various layers of the ecosystem

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What's You can expect in 2025

Live Expo

We are expanding our exhibition arena at this year's edition of the East Africa Tech Forum, providing more partners with an opportunity to showcase their latest solutions, services and products to the entire value chain of the tech ecosystem.

Pre-event Happy Hour

As a prelude to East Africa Tech Forum, we are convening attendees for a night of networking, fun, and revelry that you won't want to miss. We are looking forward to delivering a truly unforgettable evening!

Pitch Live

At this year’s edition of the East Africa Tech Forum, We are launching a Pitch live, providing the brightest enterpreneurs across various markets, with an opportunity to present their groundbreaking innovations and ideas.

New Stages and Content

To exolore multiple contents, we are introducing new categories of conversations at this year's edition of the event.

Networking

To aid 1-2-1 networking, we are designing lounges that cater to optimum value for quick discussions amongst stakeholders participating at the event.

2025 Key Themes

Financial Inclusion

VC/PE

Web3. Crypto & Defi

AI & Cloud

Creative Economy

Identity & Fraud

E-commerce

Fintech

Payments & Banking

Governance & Regulation

Startup

Healthtech

Climate Tech

Talent & Workforce

Digital Infrastructure

Partner With Us

Exhibition

We provide you with unrivaled opportunities of reaching your target market and demonstrating your solutions in East Africa's fast growing Tech ecosystem.

Thought Leaderships

Joining panel sessions, fireside chats, breakout sessions and keynote sessions are some of the ways to profile your brand as a leader through demonstration of thought leadership to a unique audience across the East Africa Tech ecosystem.

Brand Awareness

East Africa Tech Forum plays host to senior industry leaders, exploring partnership provides you with an opportunity for raising your brand awareness and positioning it for growth.

Lead Generation

We bring industry leaders and customers to East Africa Tech Forum, providing you with an opportunity to generate qualified leads and network with sector stakeholders.

Media Visibility

We leverage multiple media platforms to ensure your brand messages gets to the right audience before, during & after the event. We have done this multiple times for multiple brands.

Industry Leadership

We provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate leadership across the tech ecosystem, through our sponsorship opportunities.

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2025 Sponsors and Partners

Media Partners

Who speaks at EATF

Els Boerhof

Managing Partner,

Goodwell

Joyce-Ann Wainaina

Managing Partner,

Chui Ventures

Charles Eloi Cyusa

Head of Digital Financial Services and Market Infrastructure,

Access to Finance Rwanda

Nathaniel Luz

CEO,

Cheqwa

Esther Ndeti

Managing Partner,

Unconventional Capital

Eveque Mutabaruka

Chief Information Officer,

Bank of Kigali

Oladotun Akangbe

Chief Marketing Officer,,

Flincap

Jansen Durham

CEO,

Fixa Rwanda

Gbenga Adigun

CEO,

Scrella

Lily Ngarambe

Country Manager-Rwanda,

Yellowcard

Samuel Tanyengwa

CEO,

TransUnion Rwanda & Head of Growth Africa Regions

Mark Mico

Head of Payments,

Equity Bank Rwanda

Vivens Uwizeyimana

CEO,

Umurava

Akshay Grover

Founder,

AMADI

Sem Rwema

Account Manager,

Odoo Africa

Ibrahim Yusuf

AI Research Engineer and Team Lead,

InstaDeep

Dorcas Rutunda

Group Head of Business Expansion & Product Development,

ITM

Highlights from Previous Editions

Who Sponsors our Events

Africa Tech Series is a subsidiary of Eventhive, Eventhive is Africa's leading B2B2C event servicing company with event portfolios across Lagos, London, Nairobi, Kigali, Johannesburg and New York.

Eventhive operates in the heart of the knowledge and information economy across major sectors in Africa. We enable businesses to grow through connecting them with knowledge, ideas and opportunities.

Industries We Operate In:

Oil & Gas.Energy.Tech.Mining.Finance.Transport.Telecoms.Aviation.Real Estate.International Trade.Agribusiness .Private Equity/VC.Creative Economy .Power.Business of Entertainment

Cities We Operate In:

Lagos.London.New York.Kigali.Nairobi.Johannesburg