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GLOBAL AFRICA TECH

Giving Algeria
a continental stage.

Bringing a national telecommunications ambition into a continental conversation.

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The Global Africa Tech audience and illuminated stage inside the CIC auditorium.
Global Africa Tech at the CICAlgiers / 28–30 March 2026
Client
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications
Algérie Télécom
Sector
Technology & telecommunications
Our role
Strategy, brand & summit experience
Location
Algiers, Algeria

Algeria had the infrastructure and the ambition to play a larger role in Africa’s digital future. Global Africa Tech gave that ambition a place to be seen, heard and discussed at continental scale.

Led by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and Algérie Télécom, the project brought policy, infrastructure, innovation and investment into one conversation. The challenge was to give a new platform the clarity and stature to convene it.

We connected the strategic narrative to the brand, digital platforms, communication and participant experience. From the first campaign encounter to the arrival at the CIC, each part had to make the same ambition tangible.

Inside the story
Direction

Finding the idea that could hold it together

Ministers, institutions, private businesses, startups and international experts would arrive with different priorities. Global Africa Tech needed an idea broad enough to connect those perspectives and clear enough to guide the whole experience.

We built the strategic storytelling around “Connecting Africa across Sea, Land, Air and Space.” Submarine cables, terrestrial networks, wireless connectivity and satellites became four dimensions of the same continental ambition.

Four dimensions. One direction.
Original Global Africa Tech Sea theme campaign artwork.
SeaSubmarine cables and global data flows.
Original Global Africa Tech Land artwork showing terrestrial fibre infrastructure.
LandTerrestrial networks and continental infrastructure.
Original Global Africa Tech Air artwork showing aerial platforms and satellite services.
AirConnectivity beyond physical limits.
Original Global Africa Tech Space artwork showing the orbital connectivity theme.
SpaceSatellites and future technologies.
Connecting the infrastructures that connect a continent.

The idea gave the program, identity and communication a common structure. It helped turn a complex discussion about technology and sovereignty into a platform people could understand and recognize.

Explore the four pillar artworks
Identity

Building a brand equal to the ambition

A new summit has to establish its stature from the first encounter. We developed an identity that could speak with institutional authority while carrying the energy of technological progress.

The logo brought together references to Africa, technology and forward movement. A system of forms, colours, typography, backgrounds and key visuals gave the platform a recognizable expression across formal communication, campaigns and digital interfaces.

That shared system made it possible for a ministerial announcement, a speaker profile and a public campaign to feel like parts of the same platform. Global Africa Tech could introduce itself with a clear voice from the beginning.

Original Global Africa Tech logo variations.
An identity that works across formats and scales.
Global Africa Tech primary colours: deep navy, purple and white.
Deep navy, purple and white — the primary palette.
Archivo Expanded display typography in the GAT identity.
Archivo Expanded — the display typeface.
Explore the identity system · 10 visuals
Digital experience

Designing the journey before people arrived

The experience began well before the summit doors opened. Participants needed to understand the platform, find relevant information, register and prepare for their time in Algiers.

We connected the website, registration system and mobile application around those journeys. Different audiences — including delegates, speakers, media and general participants — required appropriate information, interfaces and access.

The app brought together networking, real-time communication and QR-based credentials. Registration also provided a shared data foundation for segmentation and access management, linking the digital experience to the practical requirements of the event.

The original Global Africa Tech website design.
The website — a shared entry point for the summit’s audiences.
The original One Tap Away campaign presenting the Global Africa Tech mobile app.

Information, registration, access and connection — carried through one participant journey.

Explore the digital platform work
Public conversation

Bringing the conversation beyond the venue

Global Africa Tech needed to become familiar before people reached the CIC. We developed a communication rhythm that introduced the ambition, gave space to speakers and participating countries, and built anticipation around the summit.

The content system adapted the same story across social platforms. Paid media on Meta and LinkedIn supported awareness and engagement, then directed audiences toward the event platforms and registration.

Communication continued through the live event and its wider coverage. It allowed the platform to reach people who would never be in the room, while giving participants, partners and institutions a recognizable story to share.

From a public invitation to participation.
The original Global Africa Tech key visual with the Martyrs Memorial and event symbol.
01 / Introduce the platformA recognizable public invitation, carrying the summit’s central idea.
Original purple Global Africa Tech registration campaign, with a laptop and the message Participants registrations are open.
02 / Turn interest into participationA registration campaign connecting the promise to a clear next step.
The original Global Africa Tech D-3 countdown artwork.
03 / Build anticipationA countdown that keeps the summit present as the opening approaches.
Explore the selected campaign work
77.7M+
Reported reach across web and social

The project documentation records more than 6,000 mentions and 587,000 interactions across the wider digital conversation.

Brand experience

Turning the CIC into the world of Global Africa Tech

At the CIC, the identity became an environment. We carried the brand through the spaces, messages and orientation points that participants would encounter throughout the summit.

The venue was organized around different uses, including startup, media, B2B and press areas. Pillars, photocalls, wayfinding and screen content gave those spaces a shared visual language while helping people move through them.

The presence also extended into airport and urban visibility. Those encounters connected the arrival in Algiers to the summit itself, giving the platform a presence beyond the conference rooms.

The CIC exhibition hall, with visitors, branded columns and the Global Africa Tech identity.
The CIC, turned into a branded environment.The event identity across the exhibition hall, columns and visitor paths.
A Global Africa Tech panel stage and branded screens at the CIC.
The same world, across conference spaces.The stage and screen system carried the visual identity into the program.
Explore the CIC photographs
Delivery at scale

Making scale work for each participant

A summit attended by thousands of people is experienced one arrival, one interaction and one journey at a time. The systems behind the event had to support that individual experience.

We structured check-in around QR verification, linked badge assignment and differentiated access. Flow management, real-time coordination and on-site support connected the registration data to the physical arrival experience.

More than 40 operators supported check-in, badge distribution, orientation and attendee assistance. This human layer helped make a large institutional gathering easier to navigate for the people taking part.

40+On-site operators

Supporting the moments that shape an attendee’s experience: arrival, access, orientation and assistance.

From registration to the experience on site.
  1. 01RegistrationA shared participant profile.
  2. 02QR verificationCredentials connected to access.
  3. 03Badge assignmentThe right badge and access level.
  4. 04OrientationPeople supported on site.
Badge-wearing attendees watching a demonstration among the Land and Space displays at the CIC.
A live experience, one participant at a time.Attendees wearing event credentials on the CIC demonstration floor.
The shift

A continental ambition made visible

Algeria’s digital ambition gained a stage that brought the continent into the conversation.

Global Africa Tech brought together institutions, ministers, experts and business leaders from across Africa and beyond. Algérie Télécom and the Ministry had a platform through which national infrastructure and ambition could be expressed at an international scale.

Our contribution was to give that platform a coherent form: a strategic idea, a recognizable brand, a connected digital experience and the systems to carry it into a live summit. The result gave Algeria a stronger voice in the discussion about Africa’s connected future.

An address from the CIC podium, with Global Africa Tech screen branding and the Algerian flag.
An ambition given a public stage.An institutional address within the Global Africa Tech environment at the CIC.
10K+Participants
45+Countries represented
30+Ministers in attendance
150International experts

Summit figures reported in the Global Africa Tech 2026 project documentation.

Scope of work

#brandstrategy #brandidentity #creativeconceptdevelopment #corporatecomms #digitalcampaigns #mediaBuying #webdesign #UXdesign #brandexperience #internationalsummit #corporateevents

Another shiftYalidine — The brand catches up with the business.
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