Senior executives from across Nigeria’s telecom and digital infrastructure ecosystem will gather in Lagos on April 9, 2026, for a high-level industry session examining how artificial intelligence, next-generation connectivity and interconnection infrastructure are reshaping the country’s communications market. Africa Hyperscalers is partnering with the session for the second year as part of its continued work convening operators, infrastructure providers, regulators and investors around the execution priorities shaping Africa’s digital infrastructure economy.

The event comes at a critical moment for Nigeria’s telecom sector. After a decade defined by broadband expansion and mobile penetration growth, the industry is entering a new phase where value creation increasingly depends on compute infrastructure, data-center capacity, interconnection depth and AI-enabled network architectures.

Participants will explore how operators, infrastructure companies and digital platforms are repositioning around emerging opportunities across the telecom value chain, including edge computing, carrier-neutral interconnection, sovereign cloud capacity and distributed AI workloads.

The session will bring together more than 100 senior decision-makers from across the ecosystem, including infrastructure investors, data-center operators, IXPs, wholesale connectivity providers and enterprise network specialists.

Speakers include Ibrahim Dikko, Chief Executive Officer, BCN Nigeria, Dr. Ayotunde Coker, Chief Executive Officer, Open Access Data Centres, Muhammed Rudman, Chief Executive Officer, Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, Reuben Oshomah, Regional Executive, Avanti Communications, Ayomide Jones, EMEA Business Development Manager, West Africa, Equinix; Dr. Krishnan Ranganath, Chief Executive Officer, UniCloud Africa, Hakeem Adeniji-Adele, Deputy Managing Director, eTranzact, Shayo Olumide, Associate Vice President, Africa Finance Corporation, Tunji Alabi, Chief Executive Officer, Infratel Africa, Jason Ikegwu, Partner, Phillips Consulting, Okey Ekweanya, Partner, Kenna Partners and Oluseyi Lala, Divisional Chief Executive Officer, ipNX Business, and Gbemisola Osunrinde, Chief Executive Officer, smartcomply, among others.

Discussions are expected to focus on how artificial intelligence is changing traffic patterns and infrastructure demand, how 5G deployment strategies are evolving under new capital constraints, and how data-center expansion is becoming central to Nigeria’s next connectivity cycle.

The gathering also reflects growing recognition that telecom strategy in Nigeria is no longer defined solely by spectrum and subscriber growth, but increasingly by infrastructure coordination across fiber, IXPs, cloud platforms and power-secure compute environments.

The session will take place in Lagos on April 9, 2026.

Registration is available at: https://ntf.eventhive.ng