From 19 to 21 October 2026, Cotonou hosts the new edition of Africa Digital Expo (ADEX), organised by One Africa Forums. Four hundred participants and thirty-five international speakers are expected at the Golden Tulip Le Diplomate to discuss the major projects of the continent\u2019s digital transformation.<\/p>\n
The themes chosen are not distant speculation: they describe projects already under way in Benin. Data governance refers to the framework set by the Personal Data Protection Authority, which any company holding a customer file must now respect. Digital government echoes the national platforms already in service \u2014 MonEntreprise.bj for business creation, service-public.bj for procedures, AHILIDO for checking companies (read our article<\/a>).<\/p>\n As for cybersecurity, it is becoming a matter for business leaders as mobile payments, e-invoicing and online storage become widespread in SMEs. A company that takes payments by mobile money and keeps its accounts in the cloud now has a digital risk to manage, just like a cash-flow risk.<\/p>\n For a digital entrepreneur or digital services provider, ADEX\u2019s main value lies less in the conferences than in the B2B area and exhibition stands. Three days in the presence of thirty-five international speakers and four hundred participants offer a density of qualified contacts that is hard to reproduce otherwise.<\/p>\n For the support organisations accredited by S\u00e8m\u00e8 City, particularly those focused on digital, the event offers useful regional visibility at a time when several of them are looking to broaden their partner base (see the list of accredited organisations<\/a>).<\/p>\n Source:<\/strong> APIEx \u2014 International forums, trade fairs, competitions and partnership platforms, July-December 2026.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quatre cents participants et trente-cinq intervenants internationaux attendus \u00e0 Cotonou pour ce rendez-vous consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 la transformation digitale africaine.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":1687,"template":"","secteur_activite":[97],"type_evenement":[107],"class_list":["post-1686","evenement","type-evenement","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","secteur_activite-numerique-tech","type_evenement-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akeda.media\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evenement\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akeda.media\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evenement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akeda.media\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/evenement"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akeda.media\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evenement\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/akeda.media\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/evenement\/1686\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akeda.media\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akeda.media\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"secteur_activite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akeda.media\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/secteur_activite?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"type_evenement","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akeda.media\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type_evenement?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to make the most of it<\/h2>\n