7th Africa Data Security Conclave · 2026
Africa’s tax infrastructure and the data protection imperative
Africa’s yearly conversation on data, security and trust
The Africa Data Security Conclave brings together the people who build, regulate and depend on Africa’s digital systems. It began in 2020, hosted by Taxtech, and has been held every year since.
Each edition takes one theme and works through it with a keynote, expert panels and open questions. The focus has moved from data protection and cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure and now tax.
Africa is digitising tax. Who protects the data?
Revenue authorities across Africa now run on digital platforms, APIs, cloud infrastructure, AI and data analytics. Every step makes collection faster, and every step moves sensitive financial, personal and corporate data somewhere new.
ADSC 2026 brings regulators, technology leaders, lawyers, security professionals, academics and policymakers into one room to work out how to modernise tax without putting that data at risk.
Files returns and invoices
Collects and processes
Exchange in real time
Match and verify
Store and analyse
Shared internationally
Who protects the data at every step?
Four panels. Global perspectives, African realities.
Building trustworthy tax systems
Data protection as a foundation for fiscal modernisation
How can African revenue authorities use technology and data to collect more, while keeping public trust, protecting taxpayer rights and staying accountable? The keynote draws on jurisdictions that built data protection and cybersecurity into their tax systems from the start.
Keynote detailsSpeaker line-up drops soon
Regulators, revenue officials, technologists and lawyers from across the continent. Names are being confirmed now.
Digital tax can’t be shaped by one industry alone
Hosted by Taxtech, with our partners
Host: Taxaide Technologies Limited (Taxtech)With: NDP Academy, AO2LAW, 21 Search, African Data Protection Authorities and industry stakeholders
