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Event Sponsor, Leader of the year & Top Tech student award sponsor

About Telkom

Telkom SA SOC Ltd is a leading information and communications technology services provider in South Africa. Our mission is to seamlessly connect people to a better life. We carry this through in all our brands, whether at the consumer, business, or wholesale level.
Telkom consists of the following business units: BCX, an end-to-end digital solutions provider; connectivity and wholesale division Openserve; Telkom Consumer and Small Business and property company Gyro.

For more information, visit www.telkom.co.za

Tech entrepreneur award sponsor

About Vaxowave

Vaxowave is a service-oriented digital technology company specializing in multi-cloud solutions, technology transformations, and consulting services, which enables us to lead companies into the technological future.
We are proud to be a unique company with a new perspective on solving age-old problems. Our commitment to investing in our people and ecosystem, and giving back as we grow, is at the heart of our operations. Our unique delivery model fosters investment in emerging small businesses, creating symbiotic relationships that ensure sustainability for ourselves, our clients, and our partners.

For more information, visit www.vaxowave.com

Top Tech Innovator & Rising Star Cloud award sponsor

About Business Connexion

At BCX, we pride ourselves on being one of the leading South African end-to-end digital partners for corporates and enterprises across the African continent, within the Private and Public Sector. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Telkom Group, we aim to become the number 1 digital partner of choice for clients within our chosen markets. BCX drives business results by helping our clients place their customer at the heart of their organisations. Enabled by our technological capabilities such as converged communications, cloud services, industry solutions, cyber security and digital edge, BCX will innovate solutions to deliver exceptional value through better experiences along the value chain. To do this we combine local market understanding and deep industry expertise with some of the world’s most advanced Information and Communication Technology, together with a tireless commitment to make your unique digital journey as seamless as possible.

For more information, visit www.bcx.co.za

Tech4Good award sponsor

About Bidvest Bank

Bidvest Bank’s history begins with the acquisition of the Rennies Group which included Travel and Forex in 1998, prior to being granted a banking license in 2000. Today Bidvest Bank operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bidvest Group Limited.
Over the past 25+ years the bank has extended its services to fleet and asset management services, foreign exchange, and business financial solutions and products. These include transactional banking, savings and investment, asset and vehicle financing, trade solutions, and merchant solutions.

For more information, visit www.bidvestbank.co.za

Rising Star Security award sponsor

About Vodacom Business

Vodacom Business provides digital transformation solutions including, connectivity, data storage, IoT, cybersecurity, and customer experience improvement. Clients include major banks, mining organisations, retailers, and public sector organisations.

For more information, visit www.vodacom.co.za

Rising star – Coding/Emerging Technologies award sponsor

About ABSA

At Absa we are proudly pan-African, and treasure our diversity, which we leverage in the service of others. We believe everyone should have access to the transformative power of financial services, to help them plan, dream, and aspire to change their lives - because everyone’s story matters. We believe in possibilities, in the actions of people who always find a way to get things done. We believe in creating seamless customer experiences to make their possibilities real and in supporting them every step of the way, delivering innovative technologies and propositions to make more possible.
We believe that brick by brick we will enable and empower our colleagues, customers and communities across Africa. This is how we bring our purpose - Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together… one story at a time – to life.

For more information, visit www.absa.co.za

Mentor of the year award sponsor

About MTN Business

MTN Business, the preferred ICT partner for African businesses, drives digital transformation. Our solutions span Managed Networks, Cloud, IoT, and Security. With an extensive footprint across Africa, we empower geographic expansion. #BusinessDoneBetter

For more information, visit www.mtnbusiness.co.za

Trailblazer award sponsors

About Liquid Telecom

Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business unit of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group present in more than 20 countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. Liquid has firmly established itself as the leading provider of pan-African digital infrastructure with an extensive network covering over 100,000 km. Liquid Intelligent Technologies is redefining network, Cloud and Cyber Security offerings through strategic partnerships with leading global players, innovative business applications, smart cloud services and world-class security on the African continent. Liquid Intelligent Technologies is now a comprehensive, one-stop technology group that provides customised digital solutions to public and private sector companies across the continent under several business units including Liquid Networks, Liquid Cloud and Cyber Security and Africa Data Centres.

For more information, visit za.liquid.tech

About Africa Data Centres

Africa Data Centres is Africa’s largest network of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre facilities. Bringing international experts to the pan-African market, we are your trusted partner for rapid and secure data centre services and interconnections across the African continent. Strategically located, our world-class facilities provide a home for all your business-critical data. Proudly African, we are dedicated to being the heart that beats your business.
Africa Data Centres’ aim is to unveil various business opportunities and to develop a strategic network of partnerships. This will further strengthen Africa Data Centres’ superiority in providing our customers with the highest standard of interconnected, carrier- and cloud-neutral data centre facilities throughout Africa.
Africa Data Centres is part of the Cassava Technologies group of companies who is a leading communications solutions provider across 13 countries primarily in Eastern, Southern and South Africa that serves mobile operators, carriers, enterprise, media and content companies and retail customers with high-speed, reliable connectivity, hosting and colocation and digital services. It has built Africa’s largest independent fibre network, stretching more than 73,000km.

For more information, visit www.africadatacentres.com

Table sponsors

About AWS

The AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure is the most secure, extensive, and reliable cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Whether you need to deploy your application workloads across the globe in a single click, or you want to build and deploy specific applications closer to your end-users with single-digit millisecond latency, AWS provides you the cloud infrastructure where and when you need it. With millions of active customers and tens of thousands of partners globally, AWS has the largest and most dynamic ecosystem. Customers across virtually every industry and of every size, including start-ups, enterprises, and public sector organizations, are running every imaginable use case on AWS.
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For more information, visit www.aws.amazon.com

About Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. Cisco inspires new possibilities by reimagining your applications, securing your data, transforming your infrastructure, and empowering your teams for a global and inclusive future.
Discover more on The Network and follow us on Twitter at @Cisco and @Cisco_SA

For more information, visit www.cisco.com/c/en_za

About Eskom

Eskom, established in 1923, represents South Africa in the Southern African Power Pool and is the largest producer of electricity in Africa in addition to being the largest of South Africa's state owned enterprises.

For more information, visit www.eskom.co.za

About Mimecast

Mimecast: Work Protected™
Since 2003, Mimecast has stopped bad things from happening to good organizations by enabling them to Work Protected. We empower more than 40,000 customers to help mitigate risk and manage complexities across a threat landscape driven by malicious cyberattacks, human error, and technology fallibility. Our advanced solutions provide the proactive threat detection, brand protection, awareness training, and data retention capabilities that evolving workplaces need today. Mimecast solutions are designed to transform email and collaboration security into the eyes and ears of organizations worldwide.

For more information, visit www.mimecast.com

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo. Visit us at nttdata.com
Previously known as Dimension Data, the company rebranded to NTT DATA, in Middle East and Africa, in 2024.

For more information, visit www.services.global.ntt/en-us