Positioned as the premier mobile, web and emerging technology event on the continent, Tech4Africa will be held on Wednesday, 31 October and Thursday 1 November at The Indaba Hotel, Gauteng, with the theme, “Unlocking the next billion consumers’.
Sessions will be focused around mobile and content, the enterprise opportunity, entrepreneurship and financing, social business and innovation. Delegates are expected from the entire tech ecosystem of developers, social media marketers, technologists, corporates, students, investors and media.
The Developer Day and Hackathon on Wednesday, 31 October includes three tracks – a day on Agile software development, a Hackathon with sessions on Ruby on Rails, Python, Raspberry Pi, PhP etc., as well as workshops for social media marketers on apps ecosystem, monetisation etc.
The conference on Thursday1 November, includes keynote speakers Tom Rosemalia, vice president of Corporate Strategy and GM of Enterprise Initiatives at IBM and Ralph Simon, founder and CEO of Mobilium. Other speakers include Amolo Ng’weno, MD of Digital Divide Data in Kenya; Neal Ford, director, software architect and Meme wrangler at ThoughtWorks; Verone Mankou, CEO of Way-C in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Emma Kaye, CEO of Bozza, and social entrepreneur Josh Adler.
IBM’s Global Entrepreneurship Programme has been brought into the Tech4Africa 2012 agenda and Claudia Fan Munce, managing director at IBM Venture Capital Group, will introduce GEP and an award programme. Tech4Africa 2012 will also be running Ignite again – a start-up workshop and pitching competition, which is being run by AngelHub and Deloitte.
A Google G+ Hangout will be held live at the conference so that tech hubs from around Africa can be part of the conference and so that delegates can interact with a panel, asking questions and finding out more about what is happening on the ground in Senegal, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt, Kenya, Congo and other parts of Africa.
On Wednesday night, 31 October, there will be a CEO dinner to bring together senior business leaders to network, share ideas and discuss key tech issues with like-minded people, as well as the conference’s international speakers and expert guests. There will also be the Tech4Africa after-party.
For more information visit http://tech4africa.com/about-tech4africa/
