Our Partners
Our sponsors are the backbone of our success, driving innovation and collaboration within the digital ecosystem. Explore their stories, learn about their contributions, and discover how your organization can join this influential network. Together, we build a stronger, interconnected future.
Diamond Sponsor
Open Access Data Centres (“OADC”) is a subsidiary of WIOCC, established in 2018 with African developmental support/funding from IFC and Proparco; now owned by 10 major African telecom operators and leading Africa focused private equity fund manager, African Capital Alliance (ACA).
OADC is supporting and accelerating Africa’s digital transformation by investing $500m over 5 years (2021-2026) to establish a pan-African presence of Tier III certified inter-linked Carrier Neutral and Open Access data centres. OADC’s aim is to offer truly world-class infrastructure, operations, and services, and to become the pre-eminent pan-African infrastructure partner to Cloud Operators, OTTs, Content Service Providers (CSPs), Telcos/Carriers, Metro Operators, ISPs, Government, Finance & Large Enterprises.
OADC’s LOS1 data centre is on a 4-ha site in the Lekki district of Lagos, close to all major sub-sea cable landing stations. The Equiano subsea cable lands directly into the Data Centre, minimising risks associated with terrestrial backhaul. At full build, the initial 2-ha facility delivers up to 20MW site load via diverse 33kV supplies and 6,200 sqm of IT white space.
Platinum Sponsor
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
Gold Sponsor
AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is a neutral member-based association that operates multiple interconnection platforms around the world, interconnecting over 1000 IP-networks worldwide. Our leading platform in Amsterdam is one of the largest hubs for internet traffic in the world with over 13 Terabits per second (Tbps) of peak traffic. Connecting to AMS-IX ensures customers such as internet service providers, telecom companies and cloud providers that their global IP traffic is routed in an efficient, fast, secure, stable and cost-effective way. This allows them to offer low latency and engaging online experiences for end-users.
As the leaders in configurable transceivers, FLEXOPTIX is your one-stop optics shop – WE DO OPTICS!
With the FLEXBOX series – unrivalled since 2008 – we make the universal transceivers that work with nearly every device.
Silver Sponsor
The Internet Society Foundation was established in 2019 to support the positive difference the Internet can make to people everywhere. Guided by our vision of an Internet for Everyone, the Foundation champions ideas and enables communities to unlock the Internet’s potential to tackle the world’s evolving challenges. Through a variety of funding areas, the Foundation awards grants to Internet Society Chapters as well as non-profit organizations and individuals dedicated to providing meaningful access to an open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet for everyone.
Rack Centre is the leading Tier III Carrier and Cloud neutral data centre in the West
African region. Established in 2012, the company focuses solely on providing best-
in-class data centre colocation services and interconnection between carriers and
customers. The Carrier and Cloud neutrality advantage allows customers to manage traffic to get better value, lower latency, and higher resilience and creates an open market for partnerships between customers, networks, cloud and content providers, the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, AF-CIX, a fast-growing IXP and managed service providers.
Team Cymru’s mission is to save and improve human lives. We are unrivalled across three disciplines; digital business risk platforms, free to use community services and support services to over 143 Government CSIRT teams. Our business risk and threat intelligence platforms empower global organizations with unmatched Threat Reconnaissance and Attack Surface Management capabilities to meet the challenges of today’s cyber threats. Community Services equip those who run the internet to defend it from criminals who wish to disrupt and cause harm, and CSIRT enables Governments the tools to outmaneuver nation state threat actors. Since 2005, our reputation remains unchallenged.