Solving Africa's
Connected Future
16 - 19 November 2026
Cape Town, South Africa
The meeting place for Africa's internet
Community. Opportunity.
Diversity.
For 14 years, Open Access has been where Africa's internet community stops competing for a moment and starts connecting. Telecoms, cloud, internet exchanges, content delivery, data centres. Everyone talks to everyone here, on neutral ground. It started with one idea: bring a diverse community together to shape the internet in Africa. Fourteen editions later, that's still the whole point.
Africa's internet future is a puzzle with millions of moving parts – people, infrastructure, protocols, decisions.
No single player solves it alone.
Teraco started Open Access with a simple but powerful idea: create a meeting place for a diverse community to influence and shape the internet in Africa. Today, Open Access is by invitation only, spanning three days in Cape Town and hosting thousands of industry leaders. It’s focused, curated, and built on the same foundation: open conversations in a collaborative, neutral space.
Open Access brings together more than 1,000 delegates in a jam-packed week filled with bilateral meetings, networking opportunities, and exclusive by-invitation-only social events. This is where conversations spark opportunities. Where networks grow stronger. And where the future of connectivity in Africa is being written. Open Access is the meeting place. The place to be. The art of connection.
Africa's internet future is in your hands.
Your Move. Register Now!
Hosted by Teraco & Digital Realty
Teraco, Africa’s leading carrier-neutral colocation provider, is the first provider of highly resilient, vendor-neutral data environments in sub-Saharan Africa.
Delivering a safe and open meeting place accelerating collaboration, innovation, and growth for leading enterprises and service providers on the world’s largest data center platform.
Main Sponsors
NAPAfrica is Africa’s fastest growing interconnection platform, supporting a diverse ecosystem of global carriers, cloud providers, CDNs, ISPs, enterprises and digital services. Dedicated to making the internet more accessible across Africa, NAPAfrica continues to play a critical role in keeping African internet traffic local, reducing costs, and improving network performance.
PTX Technologies is a leading innovation consultancy specialising in digital infrastructure, offering advisory and execution consultancy services to explore, innovate and succeed in launching advanced capabilities to market.
TransmissionCo is a DWDM optical transmission services company focused on delivering high-capacity terrestrial wholesale bandwidth within Africa.
Cell C is a leading mobile provider in South Africa offering a wide range of products and services, including voice, data, device and SIM deals to millions of customers.
Arista Networks is the leader in building scalable high-performance and ultra-low-latency networks for today's data center and cloud computing environments.
Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible. Our technologies help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses.
KIXP interconnects local Internet Service Providers (ISPs), mobile operators, and content delivery networks across distributed points of presence in Nairobi and Mombasa, drastically reducing network latency and bandwidth costs by keeping local traffic local.
IXPN is helping shape a stronger African internet by enabling networks to exchange traffic locally, serving as foundation for a more connected and self-reliant digital economy across the continent.
Sponsorship Opportunity
Sponsor The African ICT Industry’s Biggest Networking Event
As the digital landscape continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, Open Access aims to unite thought leaders, industry experts, and innovators from around Africa and the world. This event promises to be a transformative experience, exploring the African internet’s limitless potential and its crucial role in shaping our interconnected world. The Open Access conference is poised to bring together a diverse audience, including C-suite executives, technology enthusiasts, researchers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.
By participating as a sponsor, you will not only gain excellent industry exposure but also align your brand with a forward-thinking community committed to pushing the boundaries of connecting the African continent.
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Brella App
Connect and stay up to date with our dedicated mobile app
The Open Access Brella app is available to all delegates. Stay up to date, connect with other delegates and schedule 1:1 meetings. The app is also your ticket to the final evening’s wheels-up social event. Show your personal QR code at the door for entry.
How to Get Started
Look out for an invite email to join the Open Access Event
Use your unique Join Code to join the Open Access Event and start networking.
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Available from the App Store or Google Play Store
What's happening
Open Access is Africa’s biggest ICT industry networking event
Monday
16 November
09:00
By Invitation Only
16:30
By Invitation Only
Tuesday
17 November
09:00 - 15:00
By Arrangement Only
09:00 – 17:00
TBC
By Invitation Only
Wednesday
18 November
09:00 - 15:00
By Arrangement Only
09:00 – 17:00
18:30 – 00:00
Your Move. Register your Interest.
Open Access is an exclusive 'By Invitation Only' event, and space is limited.
Terms and Conditions
Open Access is a private, by-invitation-only event hosted by Teraco Data Environments and its sponsors. Attendance is restricted to our clients and wider community and we reserve the right to limit the number of attendees. Admittance to Open Access venues is strictly subject to a valid confirmation email from the organisers. Submitting this form is NOT an automatic registration to attend Open Access. You are subscribing to receive updates and information about this event. You will receive confirmation by email if you are eligible to attend this event, along with information on the Bilateral Meetings, the Meeting Tool or any other associated events. By attending Open Access you consent to Teraco using photos, videos or other digital media images taken at the event in all its publications.