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BIG TECH BACKS AI SUMMIT: Is Africa’s Data Being Prepped for Corporate Harvesting? (Image source: 123RF)
EXCLUSIVE: In a move that has watchdogs SCREAMING, global tech giant Veeam has been CONFIRMED as the lead sponsor of the ITWeb AI Summit 2026. This is NOT just another corporate event—it’s a potential DATA GOLD RUSH disguised as a “forum for digital transformation.” The summit promises to shape Africa’s AI future, but at WHAT COST?
Veeam, a powerhouse in data backup and “ransomware resilience,” is now positioning itself at the HEART of the continent’s AI conversation. Critics are SLAMMING this partnership as a brazen conflict of interest, asking: Is this about empowering Africa, or about a foreign corporation securing UNFETTERED ACCESS to the continent’s most valuable new resource—ITS DATA?
The event’s own organizers admit it’s happening at a “critical juncture.” But for whom? While naive executives network and “share ideas,” the REAL agenda may be far darker. AI doesn’t just “strengthen economies”—it HOARDS power, automates jobs, and creates surveillance infrastructures that make Orwell look like an amateur. This summit, backed by a data management titan, could be the Trojan Horse that LOCKS IN a future where African sovereignty is traded for algorithmic efficiency.
Business leaders are being lured in with promises of “practical insights,” utterly blind to the LONG-TERM DANGERS. They are sleepwalking into a system where their nations’ digital futures are dictated by the very entities that profit from controlling the flow of information. This isn’t progress; it’s a CORPORATE TAKEOVER of an entire continent’s destiny.
The registration page is open, but the question remains: Are they signing up for a conference, or SURRENDERING their digital autonomy? The future they’re planning for you is one where YOU are the product, and your data is the currency of a new colonial empire.
Author: Kayitsi.com
