ADCD 2025 — Program*

Day 01

February 2nd, 2025

8:00 - 9:00

Registration & Networking

9:00 - 9:15

Opening Ceremony

9:15 - 9:30

Role of the Global South In the AI Era

Amir ben Gacem

Co-founder and CEO - SOLECRYPT

Tunisia - United Kingdom

9:45 - 10:00

Digital Investment Facility

Teppo Kettula

Digital Investment Expert & Manager Economy - Digital Investment Facility (DIF)

Finland

10:15 - 11:00

Coffee Break Sponsored by Global Gateway

11:00 - 12:00

Speakers Live Interviews powered by THD - Digital Club

11:00 - 11:15 

Global Cloud Situation and how to respond to the challenges

Edwin Kuss

Director Global Sales -  Hystax

Germany

11:30 - 11:45

Running AI applications and Workloads

Dr. Fouad Omri

Founder of PredApp

Tunisia - Germany

12:15 - 12:30

The Why’s and How’s of Getting a Top-Level Domain for Your Business

Rolandas Japertas

Business Development Manager - It.com

United Kingdom

12:45 - 14:15

Lunch & Networking Sponsored by It.com

14:15 - 14:30

Boost Hosting & Domain Sales with Africa-Specific Strategies

Filip Borcov

Incredible at Site.pro

Africa

14:45 - 15:00

Immersion cooling

Franco Caroli

Business Development Director - Submer

Spain

15:15 - 15:30

Le Cadre Juridique du Cloud en Tunisie : Enjeux, Obligations et Bonnes Pratiques

Zied el Air

Lawyer / Chief Data Officer

Tunisia

15:45 - 16:00

Achraf Maazoun

Senior Manager - EY

Tunisia

16:15 - 16:30 

Data center et Durabilité

Fatma Khlif

Founder - CanDo

Tunisia

16:30 - 17:00 

Green Data Centers Hackathon Results

17:20 - 19:30

Freetime 
Relax 
Network

19:00 - 22:00

Cocktail Party

Day 02

February 3rd, 2025

8:00 - 9:00

Registration & Networking 

9:00 - 9:15

Datacenters : Un boulimique à mettre à la diète

Lyes Zahaf

Architect & Project Manager - Shabaket

Tunisia

9:30 - 9:45

Understanding Traffic 

Francisco José Pereira Carvalho

VP Sales and Business Development - BotGuard

Germany

10:00 - 10:15 

Containerized Data center

Nouvameq

Tunisia

10:15 - 11:00

Coffee Break Sponsored by nouvameq

11:15 - 12:15

Speakers Live Interviews powered by THD - Digital Club

11:00 - 11:15

Do we have enough resources to feed AI?

Antonio Calvelli

VP Sales EMEA

11:15 - 12:30 

Datacenter environments Protection & Monitoring

Mohamed Douiri

Business Development Manager - Elco Solutions

Tunisia - Germany

12:15 - 12:30 

Data Center is it the right time to invest?

Dr. Ayotunde Coker (FBCS, FIOD)

Africa Data Centres
Association Chairman and CEO, Open Access Data Centres (OADC)

Nigeria

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch & Networking Sponsored by Elco Solutions

14:00 - 14:15

How to protect your Brand and traffic with Domain Names

Mr. Kehel

Founder of The First Ever Arab Domain Community

Morocco

14:30 - 14:45 

5 Datacenter predications from Uptime Institute

Mohamed Radhouane Machta

Sales Manager North & Central Africa - Uptime Instute

Tunisia

15:15 - 15:30

RGPD, Data protection, Sovereign Cloud : protectionism or business opportunity

Zied El Air - Lawyer/ Data Protection Officer

Tunisia

15:45 - 16:00

IT economic development models (Should Africa build its models or apply successful global developed models?)

Temi Fedeyi

Treasurer & Head of Data Center Services - Galaxy Backbone

Nigeria

16:05 - 16:20

Domain Names as Catalysts: Driving Africa's Digital Economy Forward

16:20 - 19:30

Freetime 
Relax 
Network

19:00 - 22:00

Gala Dinner - Live Music

*Program is subject of continuous updates and adjustments