TEMS Africa ICT Expo 2026

Attendees, exhibitors & solutions

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Industry trends

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Glossary

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ICT (information and communications technology)

The umbrella term for the connectivity, hardware, software, cloud and managed services bought by East African enterprises and public bodies. Use it as your filter when scanning the exhibitor list: most stands at this Nairobi show sit somewhere between network infrastructure, devices and the software layer.

2

Systems integrator

A firm that designs, installs and supports multi-vendor ICT projects for clients instead of reselling one brand. In Nairobi they are often the route into enterprise and county-government tenders, so they are worth a stand conversation even if you sell only a single product line.

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ISP (internet service provider)

A licensed operator selling internet access over fibre, wireless or satellite. Kenyan ISPs are licensed by the Communications Authority of Kenya, and many exhibit to reach the SMEs, estates and campuses they do not yet serve directly.

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Last-mile connectivity

The final leg linking a building, campus or estate to a carrier or data-centre network. It is the recurring bottleneck in East African deployments and a frequent comparison point between vendors on the floor.

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Colocation and data-centre capacity

Rack space, power and cross-connects rented inside a third-party facility rather than built in-house. Buyers from banks, telcos and SaaS firms use the show to compare uptime commitments and latency into Nairobi and Mombasa network nodes.

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Uptime and SLA (service level agreement)

The contracted availability and response commitments attached to a hosted or managed service. Ask for the measured figure and the service-credit mechanism behind it, not the headline percentage on the stand banner.

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Mobile money integration

Connecting a product or payment flow to Kenya's mobile wallet rails, which carry a large share of consumer and small-business payments. Vendors pitching retail, fintech or utility software should be able to explain how their stack talks to local wallet APIs.

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Data controller and data processor

The two roles defined under Kenya's Data Protection Act, 2019: the controller decides why personal data is processed, the processor acts on its instructions. Registration with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner is a compliance question that surfaces in most Nairobi software procurement.

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Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) licensing

The regulator that licenses telecoms operators and issues type approval for communications equipment in Kenya. If you plan to sell radio, telecoms or connected-device hardware locally, type-approval status is a stand-level question, not a paperwork afterthought.

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Proof of concept (PoC)

A scoped pilot, often four to twelve weeks, run before an East African buyer commits to a full rollout. Exhibitors who arrive with a PoC template and agreed success metrics usually shorten the sales cycle that starts at the show.

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Cloud and hybrid hosting

Running workloads in public cloud, a local data centre, or a mix of both. Latency, data residency and connectivity cost drive the choice in Kenya, and those three questions come up repeatedly in visitor conversations.

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Managed services and MSSP

Outsourced monitoring, security or IT operations sold on a recurring contract. Regional integrators use the show to find upstream vendors whose tooling they can run under their own service brand and support model.