CWG Plc has concluded the fifth version of its TeXcellence Conference, reinforcing its dedication to advancing discussions on Africa’s digital growth and the circumstances required to translate technological innovation into sustainable financial worth.
Held on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, on the Landmark Event Centre in Lagos, TeXcellence 5.0 convened enterprise leaders, policymakers, know-how practitioners and different stakeholders underneath the theme Accelerating Africa’s Digital Future. The convention examined the sensible calls for of digital transformation, together with enterprise adoption of synthetic intelligence, digital public infrastructure, monetary companies, cybersecurity, expertise growth and the artistic economic system.
In his welcome handle, Adewale Adeyipo, Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of CWG Plc, challenged members to evaluate the continent’s progress in opposition to three questions: Are we shifting sooner? Are we shifting in the proper course? And is the drive sustaining that progress sturdy sufficient to keep up it?
The questions, he argued, are central to any severe evaluation of acceleration. Greater exercise and technological adoption should be matched by clear priorities, dependable infrastructure and the capability to maintain progress over time.
“ Africa has never suffered from a shortage of speed. What we’ve often lacked is direction and a sustained force,” Adeyipo stated.
His remarks positioned explicit emphasis on the connection between innovation, infrastructure and the business power of African know-how companies. As the sector attracts extra substantial financing, corporations should reveal the monetary self-discipline and operational capability required to ship constantly, serve rising markets and maintain long-term progress.
“African tech companies are no longer being financed as an experiment. Our organizations are now being seen as a real company, against revenue, receivables, and strong balance sheets,” he stated.
Adeyipo cited roughly $4.1 billion in funding for African know-how corporations in 2025, comprising fairness and debt financing. He famous that debt accounted for a considerably bigger share of the funding combine than it did in 2019, reflecting a altering funding atmosphere in which the monetary efficiency and resilience of know-how companies matter more and more.
He additionally drew consideration to the disparity between Africa’s inhabitants and its share of world knowledge centre capability, highlighting the infrastructure hole that should be addressed if the continent is to help its increasing digital ambitions. Innovation, he maintained, requires reliable infrastructure able to supporting enterprise operations, digital companies and financial exercise at scale.
The handle mirrored a central concern working via TeXcellence 5.0: the necessity to align Africa’s technological ambition with the techniques, establishments and enterprise capabilities that make progress sustainable.
That concern was explored throughout the convention programme. Sessions examined the sensible utility of synthetic intelligence in African enterprises, the event of digital public infrastructure, the function of belief and identification in digital finance, and the circumstances required for African artistic companies to develop and retain worth from their mental property. Discussions additionally thought-about the connection between expertise, alternative and the continent’s digital future.
The convention’s fifth version marks a major milestone for CWG’s flagship platform. Across its editions, TeXcellence has offered a discussion board for stakeholders from the private and non-private sectors to look at the alternatives and constraints shaping Africa’s know-how ecosystem. Its continued give attention to these points displays CWG’s curiosity in the broader atmosphere in which African companies undertake know-how, develop capabilities and compete.
For CWG, sustaining this platform is a part of a wider dedication to the event of enterprise know-how and the development of Africa’s digital economic system. The firm’s perspective is grounded in the operational realities going through companies: know-how should be reliable, match for objective and supported by the infrastructure and experience required to ship enterprise worth.
As the continent’s digital economic system expands, the questions raised at TeXcellence 5.0 will stay related to corporations, traders and policymakers alike. The job forward is to make sure that funding produces lasting functionality, innovation is supported by dependable techniques, and the momentum behind Africa’s digital growth will be sustained.
