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Investors in Data Centers in Africa Head to Monaco for 1st Summit

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 -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 programme will feature a host of inspiring top level speakers from both investor organisations 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.

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