Senior policymakers, regulators, telecom operators, financial institutions, and digital infrastructure providers will converge in Accra on May 6 for a closed-door executive session examining Ghana’s readiness to support artificial intelligence at scale.
The session, titled “AI-ready infrastructure: powering the future of enterprise innovation,” is being convened by Africa Hyperscalers in partnership with Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure. It will be held at the Lancaster Hotel and is designed to bring together senior stakeholders from across Ghana’s digital infrastructure ecosystem for structured, off-the-record engagement.
The timing reflects a broader shift in the global AI conversation, away from software capability toward the physical foundations that determine where artificial intelligence can actually be deployed: compute capacity, power availability, interconnection depth, and trusted cloud environments. For Ghana, organisers say the question is whether the country’s foundational infrastructure can scale fast enough to support enterprise and national AI demand.
Ghana already benefits from growing data centre interest from regional and global operators, including PAIX Data Centres, Equinix through its MainOne platform, and Digital Realty. Regulatory momentum is also building, with the Bank of Ghana encouraging stronger localisation of critical financial workloads, a signal that is expected to drive demand for secure in-country compute capacity in the banking sector.
The session will include a regulatory keynote address and contributions from senior infrastructure and policy leaders. Speakers include Solomon Richardson, Director of Technical Services at the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), representing Director General Dr. Mark-Oliver Kevor; Wojtek Piorko, Managing Director for Africa at Vertiv; and Joseph Koranteng, Managing Director of Digital Realty Ghana. Emmanuel Kwarteng, Country Manager at Equinix Ghana, Olufemi Muraino, Regional Director for Atlantic and West Africa at Inlaks Limited, Harriet Yartey, Managing Director of CWG Plc Ghana and Vice President of Regions, and Temitope Osunrinde, Director at Africa Hyperscalers, will also contribute. Representatives of major financial institutions and telecom operators are expected to attend.
Discussions will focus on data centre capacity requirements for artificial intelligence workloads, power reliability, interconnection maturity, enterprise adoption pathways, and policy alignment around data sovereignty and trusted cloud environments. The session also forms part of broader positioning efforts to establish Ghana as a node within West Africa’s emerging digital infrastructure corridor, following the launch of Ghana’s National Artificial Intelligence Strategy.
