The Central Africa Peering Forum returns on 30 September and 1 October 2026 in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The two-day meeting is organised by the Internet Society, and registration is open on the organiser’s site.
Known by both its French and English acronyms, FPAC and CAPF, the forum is the sub-regional counterpart to the peering meetings that already run in West Africa and at the continent-wide level. It exists because Central Africa remains the part of the continent where the least traffic stays local.
Programme
The Internet Society lists the agenda as covering peering and interconnection, infrastructure development, routing security including internet routing registries and RPKI, the economics of peering, and the value of internet exchange points. Network resilience and digital sovereignty sit alongside them.
Routing security is the thread worth watching. RPKI adoption is what stops a misconfigured or hijacked announcement propagating, and take-up across African networks has been uneven. A regional forum that puts it alongside the economics of peering addresses both halves of the same problem: whether networks interconnect locally at all, and whether the routes they exchange can be trusted.
Who it is for
The organiser is aiming at operators, internet service providers, IXPs, data centre operators, regulators and public institutions, the technical community, universities, content providers and international partners.
That mix matters more in Central Africa than the guest list at a larger event might suggest. Where an exchange point has few members, the decision to join is often as much regulatory and commercial as technical, so having regulators in the room with the networks is part of the point.
The regional peering calendar
CAPF is one of three peering meetings on the African calendar this year. The West Africa Peering Forum met in Cotonou, Benin in June, and the continent-wide African Peering and Interconnection Forum opened in Kigali on 18 August. Yaoundé closes the sequence at the end of September.
Central Africa Peering Forum (CAPF) 2026
The Central Africa Peering Forum (CAPF/FPAC) 2026 runs 30 September to 1 October 2026 in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Organised by the Internet Society, it gathers operators, ISPs, IXPs, data centres, regulators and the technical community around peering, interconnection, routing security, RPKI and the economics of internet exchange points in Central Africa.
Event Type: Event
Event Attendance Mode: OfflineEventAttendanceMode
Event Status: EventScheduled
Performer: Organization
Performer Name: Internet Society
Performer URL: https://www.internetsociety.org/
Start Date: 2026-09-30 09:00
End Date: 2026-10-01 17:00
Ticket URL: https://www.internetsociety.org/events/central-africa-peering-forum/capf-2026/registration/
Currency: USD
Availability: InStock
Availability Starts: 2026-09-30T09:00:00
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