UDG and Era Join AEW 2026 AI Data Center Track

African Energy Chamber has confirmed Unified Digital Group (UDG) and Era as featured speakers for AEW 2026’s inaugural AI and Data Center Track.

• Main announcement:UDG (Leo LaBranche) and Era (Geoffrey Levene) will be featured speakers on the inaugural AI & Data Center Track titled “NexaGrid: Create. Enable. Build Africa’s Finest Data Centers for the Future” at AEW 2026, scheduled October 12–16, 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa. The track will examine the convergence of energy systems, compute infrastructure, sovereign cloud frameworks, intelligent grids, and AI integration into national energy planning.
• Background and details: UDG is presented as focusing on end-to-end AI infrastructure development including gigawatt-scale energy planning, hyperscale data center deployment, satellite-enabled connectivity, agentic AI systems, private network infrastructure and robotics for frontier markets including Africa; Era is described as an AI-focused investment firm linking global family capital to the physical infrastructure layer of AI (data centers, energy systems, compute supply chains) and supporting ventures in defense tech and climate systems. No funding amounts or contracts were announced in this article.