Africa Tech Summit Nairobi 2027 is a business and investment focused technology conference, and the organiser states that the ninth edition will convene in Nairobi, Kenya, at the Sarit Expo Centre on 10 and 11 February. The year is 2027. The event is the Nairobi instalment of the Africa Tech Summit series, which has previously run editions in other African cities and in London, and the Kenyan edition has become the series' principal gathering. The organiser's published figures for the summit describe more than 2,000 delegates, more than 1,000 companies, more than 170 speakers and more than 90 exhibitors, without specifying which edition those numbers cover, so they are best read as the scale the event presents itself at rather than as a confirmed figure for 2027.
The event is run under the Africa Tech Summit name, with Andrew Fassnidge listed as managing director on the organiser's pages. The organiser does not publish a registered legal entity name on the event site, which is worth noting for anyone needing a formal counterparty. Alongside the summit itself the organiser maintains an investment showcase format and states that it holds a database of more than 350 investors, which indicates that capital introduction is treated as a core function of the event rather than an adjunct to the conference programme.
The Sarit Expo Centre in Nairobi is the stated venue for 2027. The subject matter is the commercial and investment side of African technology rather than its engineering: the organiser's framing is built around connecting companies, investors and operators, and its own measures of success are delegates, companies, investors and showcase sessions. In practice that places financial technology, mobile and digital services, startup financing, and the regulatory and market access questions attached to them at the centre of the discussion, since those are the segments in which African technology has attracted the most capital and in which Kenya in particular has built depth.
The audience is founders and operating executives of African technology companies, venture capital and development finance investors, corporate and banking executives with digital businesses or partnership ambitions on the continent, and the regulators and policy officials whose decisions govern market entry. For executives based outside Africa, the summit functions as a condensed route into a market that is fragmented across many jurisdictions and difficult to survey from a distance; for those based on the continent, it is one of the few settings where investors from multiple regions are present at the same time.
The event matters because of Nairobi's particular role. Kenya has established itself as one of the primary hubs for technology investment and company formation in Africa, with an unusually deep mobile money and digital payments market, a concentration of regional headquarters, and a venture ecosystem that attracts capital from Europe, the Gulf, the United States and increasingly from within Africa. That position makes decisions taken in Nairobi, both commercial and regulatory, influential across East Africa and often beyond it. For a board considering African expansion, a partnership with an African technology business, or an investment in the sector, a February summit that assembles founders and investors in one building offers something that desk research does not, which is a reading of where capital is actually moving and on what terms, at a point early enough in the year to shape the rest of it.
