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The African ICT industry's Biggest Networking Event
10 – 13 November 2025
Cape Town, South Africa
ABOUT
The meeting place for Africa's internet
It’s not about competition. It’s about connection.
Now in its 13th year, this unique event connects the people, industries, and ideas shaping the backbone of Africa’s digital future. From telecoms and cloud to internet exchanges, content delivery, and data centres – Open Access is the neutral ground where everyone talks to everyone.
ABOUT
Origins of
Open Access
Where Africa’s internet community comes together
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.
1000
Global Industry Leaders
720
Bilateral Meeting Sessions
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.
COUNTDOWN
Be part of the conversations shaping Africa's digital future.
Registrations now open!
HOSTS
Hosted by
Open Access is hosted by Teraco, Digital Realty and iColo, with support from our valued sponsors.
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.
The leading carrier-neutral data center provider that operates state of the art facilities in Kenya and Mozambique.
NAPAfrica is Africa’s leading interconnection platform, supporting a diverse ecosystem of global carriers, cloud providers, CDNs, ISPs, enterprises and digital services.
SPONSORS
Main Sponsors
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.
Arista Networks is the leader in building scalable high-performance and ultra-low-latency networks for today's data center and cloud computing environments.
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.
Octotel builds open access fibre-optic networks in Cape Town, providing fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) and fibre-to-the-business (FTTB) services in partnership with leading internet service providers.
Sponsorship Opportunity
1000
Global Industry Leaders
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.
Enquire About SponsorshipNOW AVAILABLE
Open Access
Meeting Tool
Schedule meetings using our dedicated app.
The Open Access 13 meeting tool is available to all delegates. Send introductions, schedule 1:1 meetings or chat with other delegates.
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.
Get the Brella App
Available from the App Store or Google Play Store
AGENDA
What's happening
Open Access is Africa’s biggest ICT industry networking event
Monday
10 November
09:00
NAPAfrica Team Touchdown
By Invitation Only
By Invitation Only
Classified
16:30
Exclusive Sponsors & VIP Guest Event
By Invitation Only
By Invitation Only
An undisclosed location
Tuesday
11 November
09:00 - 15:00
Data Centre Tour
By Arrangement Only
By Arrangement Only
Teraco CT2, Brackenfell
09:00 – 17:00
Bilateral Meetings @ Peering Café
Southern Sun The Cullinan
Wednesday
12 November
09:00 - 15:00
Data Centre Tour
By Arrangement Only
By Arrangement Only
Teraco CT2, Brackenfell
09:00 – 17:00
Bilateral Meetings @ Peering Café
Southern Sun The Cullinan
18:30 – 00:00
Open Access Wheels Up Event
For your eyes only
REGISTRATION
Register to Attend
Open Access is an exclusive 'By Invitation Only' event, and space is limited. Register your interest to attend one or more Open Access events.
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.