Most Influential Women In Tech Africa Returns
The Most Influential Women In Tech Africa 2025 is back! Featuring women who have made all the right moves in the tech space over the past year, MIWIT recognises innovators, IT leaders, and thought leaders in Africa. Growing from an East African showcase to a pan-African celebration, it has illuminated women in AI, cybersecurity, cloud, to IoT across sectors such as fintech, all the way to manufacturing and e-commerce. That means this could very easily be your year.
Now in its 6th year, The MIWIT has witnessed alumni ranging from all over the continent – as far flung as North Africa, as relatable as East Africa, roping in leaders from the land of many unicorns in West Africa to the suburbs and streets of South Africa. Spotlighting accomplished women such as Odunayo Eweniyi, Co-Founder, PiggyVest, dxNova Woman of the Year winners Georgina Mukami-Odhiambo and Deborah Mutungi, Group IT Manager, Sarova Hotels & Resorts, to Funke Opeke, Founder, Main Street Technologies. MIWIT alumni are bold women who have made remarkable strides in the tech space, touching innumerable lives as they have gone about their business.
As always, here is our criteria:
- A leader who directly contributes to the growth and strategic direction of their organisation. A decision maker who shapes and influences the business’s trajectory.
- A woman with a strong digital footprint who uses her platform(s) to connect and engage with the African tech community. She engages with peers, mentees and thought leaders alike, lending her voice to issues of the day and the industry.
- A woman who had continually driven innovation, the kind that inspires the wider tech community in the continent with her ideas, insights, perspectives and actions.
- A role model who inspires a new generation of African women in technology, impacting young and upcoming tech talent.
- A woman who has contributed to the general development of the ICT sector in Africa for her work in digital transformation, engagement with emerging technologies, shaping policy, strategy or influencing the industry over the past year.
- A woman who has had doors opened for her over the past year, thanks to her contribution to the tech community and industry from September 2024 to September 2025. She could have been awarded, promoted, rewarded, launched a successful technology project or just had a really good year as a leader.
Nominate your woman of choice or yourself, tell us how they, or you, meet the 2025 criteria and email us at editorial@cioafrica.co. The deadline for submissions is 2 October 2025.
We can’t wait to meet you!
