Big Tech Africa 2025 : connecting african tech ecosystems
From September 9 to 11, 2025, Tunis hosted Big Tech Africa 2025, the event connecting African tech ecosystems. Startups, investors, and tech hubs met to share knowledge, experiences, and opportunities, and to build a sustainable pan-African network.
Report from Tunis, Dounia Ben Mohamed, Images Ahmed…
Big Tech Africa 2025 is more than a tech expo: it is a platform for connecting talents and African ecosystems. Skander Haddar, President of the Organizing Committee, emphasizes: “Big Tech Africa is an African gathering to connect African talents to the world.” The goal is clear: create synergies between hubs, startups, and investors, and enable local innovations to spread across the continent.
Create synergies between hubs, startups, and investors, and enable local innovations to spread across the continent
The event brought together 15,000 participants from 32 countries and provided a unique collaboration space with 200 exhibitors, including 100 African startups. Panels, workshops, and networking moments allowed participants from different countries to share best practices, experiences, and projects, fostering mutual understanding and long-term partnerships.
GoMyCode, a pan-African platform for tech training, illustrates this model. Yahya Bouhlel explains how the company used Tunis as a proof of concept, before replicating its model in Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, and Senegal. This creates a network of African skills and attracts investors at the continental level.
Linking Nigeria to Tunisia, South Africa, and Uganda to operate as a single continent
Gbite Oduneye, General Partner at ODBA, stresses the importance of connecting national ecosystems: “It’s about linking Nigeria to Tunisia, South Africa, and Uganda to operate as a single continent.” Investors thus discover talents and solutions often overlooked by traditional channels.
Big Tech Africa demonstrates that an interconnected African ecosystem is possible. Exchanges, partnerships, and collaborations between countries, hubs, and startups strengthen the continent’s competitiveness and equip young entrepreneurs with the tools to innovate and succeed at a pan-African level. This event confirms Tunisia’s role as a strategic hub for connecting all African tech ecosystems and building a sustainable network to support the continent’s technological development.
