[kictanet] FYI: Investors in Data Centers in Africa Heading to Monaco for First Ever Summit

[Peter Wakaba]

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*PRESS RELEASE*

*Investors in Data Centers in Africa Heading to Monaco for First Ever
Summit*

*Infrastructure investment and challenges faced by Africa will take center
stage during the Summit with energy being among them*

MONACO, Monaco, March 22, 2016/ -- In the first event of its kind, an
exciting one-day Summit will meet in Monaco to explore the next phase of
data center and cloud development across the continent.

Invest in Data Center Africa (http://www.DataCloudCongress.com/africa
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-collocated at Datacloud Europe – will meet at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
on 8th June 2016 to discuss current and future investment in Africa data
centers, connectivity via subsea cables and dark fiber, energy supply,
cloud, IT investment, risk and the availability of funding.

The program will feature a host of inspiring top level speakers from both
investor organizations and operating companies in Africa and
internationally.

International consulting company BroadGroup, who research and produce
Datacloud, will provide a Market Assessment and Outlook for the Africa data
centre landscape.

“Africa infrastructure is a growth story for the next decade,” commented
Philip Low, Managing Director of BroadGroup. “We are seeing the emergence
of carrier neutral data centres, and importantly IP peering exchanges that
will spur hosting and cloud growth over the next 24 months in several
countries. But the summit hopes to create more investor led opportunities
as well as assess the risk and prospects.”

Infrastructure investment and challenges faced by Africa will take center
stage during the Summit with energy being among them. Case studies and
empirical examples will be showcased, contributing to a realistic
perspective for data centre investors.

Datacloud 2016 is Europe's foremost networking and business deal making
forum for data center and cloud players, their customers, investors and
suppliers. Attracting 1800+ executives from more than 60 countries as well
as 90+ exhibiting companies, delivering a unique networking opportunity and
to secure real-time deals.

Sponsor and exhibitors should take early action to assure participation in
what will be EMEAs largest networking event including this highly targeted
summit for Africa.

*Distributed by APO (African Press Organization) on behalf of Invest in
Data Center Africa. *

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@InvestDCAfrica @DatacloudEurope

*For more information contact:*

John Vather
+ 44 (0) 207 199 5732
john.vather at broad-group.com

*SOURCE*
Invest in Data Center Africa

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