TECH4AFRICA is a web & emerging technology conference, bringing global perspective to the African context.

Keynote Speakers for 2010

For the first time in Africa, TECH4AFRICA is proud to congregate the most respected people in technology to share, teach and interact.

Enjoy the videos from our keynote speakers below, we hope you join us to see them live!

Clay Shirky

Leila Chirayath Janah

Find out more about our great speakers.

Early Bird ticket are sold out!

With space limited to 640 people, and with Early Bird tickets sold out, register now to make sure you and your organisation are at the technology event of the year.

** Please note that if you purchase a conference and workshop ticket together, there is a R500 discount. Just because we love you!

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Learn from the best at our Workshops

Learn from the best in the industry at the TECH4AFRICA workshops.

Our workshops are on the two days before the main conference, and are intense, full day sessions aimed giving knowledge, imparting experience, and helping with problems.

A Masterclass in Usability and Accessibility, with Andy Budd (Clearleft)
Google University, with Sarah Blake (Quirk)
A Masterclass in Architecting applications and Advanced Javascript, with Jonathan Snook (Yahoo!), John Resig (Mozilla & jQuery), and Dustin Diaz (Twitter)
Successful digital projects, with Erin Caton (Apple)

Find out more about our workshops.

Apply for a developer sponsorship

To apply for a developer sponsorship, you must be a developer in the IT, web, tech or digital space. Please send applications to with the following information:

Your full name.
E-mail address and contact number.
A 200 word motivation on why you think you should be awarded the sponsorship.

Applications close on 28th July and the winning candidates will be contacted shortly thereafter.

Please note that sponsorships consist of conference tickets only - winners will be responsible for their own travel & transport arrangements to attend the conference.

Our Foundation Partners

TECH4AFRICA is proud to bring together some of the most respected people in technology to share, teach and interact with Africans, in Africa. It's an exciting time for African technology and it wouldn't be possible without the vision and commitment of our partners.

Find out more about our partners.

Scholarship Applications closed

Old Mutual has partnered with Tech4Africa to provide scholarships to deserving individuals, in the interests of making Tech4Africa as accessible as possible to everyone.

Applications closed on 16th July, and Scholarship recipients will be announced soon.

Find out more on the Register page.

Apply to SeedCamp

Seedcamp is a programme created to jumpstart the entrepreneurial community in Europe, and now Africa, by connecting next generation developers and entrepreneurs with over 400 mentors from a top-tier network of company builders; including seed investors, serial entrepreneurs, product experts, HR and PR specialists, marketers, lawyers, recruiters, journalists and venture capitalists.

Seedcamp acts as a micro seed fund to invest in startup companies, mainly through our flagship event Seedcamp Week which takes place in September every year. To make sure we are honing in on all the new startup talent, we also run Mini Seedcamp programmes throughout several startup hubs around Europe, and now Africa, from January-June. Seedcamp’s standard investment is €30-50k. Following Seedcamp Week, the companies who receive investment stay in London for 3 months to grow and develop their company, building key and lasting business relationships along the way to help them sustain a viable business.

The intention of this mini-SeedCamp at TECH4AFRICA is to offer the opportunity, if the winner is good enough, to attend SeedCamp week in London.

Applications open on the 5th July, and close on the 23rd July. Judging will then take place, with teams notified in the following days. Places are limited to 10 startups.

Find out more on the SeedCamp page.

iPad competition winner

Congratulations to the winner of the iPad competition, Simeon Oriko ;-)

Simeon Oriko is a senior student at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, and is set to graduate in 2011 with a Bachelor of Business Information Technology. He has served as a chairperson of the Baraton Information Technology Students Association (BITSA) focusing on creating partnerships between BITSA and major tech industry players from Microsoft to SEACOM.

Simeon has contributed to the African tech scene in a number of ways. He spoke at Africa Gathering Nairobi in 2009 about the concept of mobile cloud computing and its potential impact on millions of Africans. He is currently developing a platform based on the same concept. He is also the founder and director of The Kuyu Project which is a digital literacy initiative aimed at teaching African high school students how to use social media to make a positive impact in their communities.

You can connect with Simeon through his blog, Twitter, or Facebook.

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Who should attend?

Business people wanting to understand how Web 2.0, mobile, and emerging technology and mobile is relevant to the enterprise
Technologists, geeks, bloggers, social media hipsters, hackers, journos, ponytails, propellorheads, and of course suits, who want to learn from the best in tech
Everyone working in a tech startup
Entrepreneurs interested in learning more about venture funding
Companies wanting to expose their product or service to a focussed audience
People looking to recruit technology people