Tech4Africa Johannesburg

8&9October2014Newtown
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75 Sessions. 80 speakers. Two days.

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Tech, Networking, Fun.
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8 + 9 October 2014, Johannesburg

28 August 2014, Cape Town

1 July 2014, Nairobi

15 July 2014, Lagos

The Vision

We think that the best tech ecosystems in the world have regular events which bring together people in tech to learn, meet new people and have lots of fun.

We don’t like suits and ties, there are no plenaries, committees and chairpeople. We focus on great content and value for all who attend, free wifi, coffee all day, fun at night, and an electric atmosphere you won’t find anywhere else.

A Manifesto Of Sorts

Great content. The kind people talk about.
Inspiring. People, products and projects.
Networks. Where substance trumps style.
Death by PowerPoint. Clowned upon.
Progress. The other side of failure.
Programming. The new literacy.
Fun. Work is meant to be fun.
Suits & ties. Frowned upon.

Learning

Our simple goal is that you walk away both informed, entertained and inspired. Placing greatest emphasis on learning, interaction, engagement and discussion, we want Tech4Africa to be a place for new ideas and to encourage people to make and change things.

Who speaks?

These are some of the folks that have submitted speaker sessions for 2014:

Developer, Project rescue expert, UX designer, CEO, Founder, Quality Analyst Consultant, , Co-Founder, Managing Director, UI Engineer, Web Developer, Business Analyst, COO, CTO, Entrepreneur, Lead architect, Mobile Evangelist and CEO, Owner, Rep Council Member, Senior dev - DStv Labs (R&D), Technical Director, Agile Coach, Chief Operating Officer, Co-founder/CEO, Consultant Developer, Creative Director, CTO Middle East Africa IBM Ecosystem Development, Designer, Developer Coach, Ecosystem Development Senior Certified Architect & IBM Master Inventor, Founder and CEO, Freelance Android Developer, Mozilla Representative, Student, Support Manager, Tech Lead, Technical Evangelist, Consultant, Mozilla Rep, Acting CEO, Ambassador - Government Affairs, Application Developer, artist, lecturer and researcher, Associate, Beginner Black Hat Hacker (can clean browser's cookies only), Brand Activation Strategist, Business Coach, Business Development, Business Solutions Manager, CEO & Digital consultant, CEO and Co-Founder, CEO and Founder, ceo and software developer, CEO West & Central Africa, Chairperson, Channel Sales Manager, Chief Operating Officer - Africa, Chief Success Ensurance Officer, Chief Technical., Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Services Product Manager, CMO Ole! Media Group (TEAMtalk media, MobiMedia, AddSwitch, HoneyKome), Co-founder and CEO, Co-founder and Technical Director, Co-Managing Director, Commonwealth eBanking Advisor, Consultant, Consultant, Developer, Technologist, Contributor, Founder/Organizer, Copywriter, Creative Technologist, Data Intelligence & Onboarding, Data Journalism Advocate, Design Practice Lead, Developer, Evangelist, Community builder, Developer, Trainer, Editor in Chief, Electronics Specialist Patent Attorney, Entrepreneur, Author, Philantrophist, EVANGELIST, Executive Creative Director, Founder & CEO, Founder and Chief Glow Officer, Founder and Entrepreneur, Founder and Lead Developer, Founder and President, Founder, Designer and Hacker, General Manager, GM: Business Development at Entelect Software, Google Student Ambassador and Google AdWords Certified Individual, Grand Vizier, Green technology entrepeneur & creative director, Hacker, Head of Analytics, Head of Business Intelligence, Head of Content, Head of Emerging Payments for MasterCard, Head of Innovation Labs at Quirk, Head of Inventions, Head of Operations (Firefighter), Head of Products & Services, Head of Strategic Planning, Head of Strategy, HR Manager, Innovation Lab Director, Interactive Digital Artists, Researcher, Lecturer of the Post Grad Program in Interactive Digital Art., Intern, IT Security / Developer, Lecturer in Game Design, Localizer, translator, facilitator, community engagement, Manager User Experience, Design & Standards, Manager, MDN Content & Community, Managing Director & Marketing Director (co-founders), Managing Member, MD, Operations Designer, Operations Director, Outreach Fellow, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Specialist, Program Designer, Project Lead, Public Lead, Publisher, Researcher & Lecturer at Wits University, Digital Arts Division, Scala Developer at Jemstep (most recently). Also Erlang, Smalltalk and Python., Senior Analytic Catalyst, Senior Backend Engineer, Quirk, Senior Developer, Senior Lecturer, Senior Manager, Global Corporate Communications Digital Engagement, Senior software engineer, Senior System Center Engineer, Service Design Lead, Simplifier-in-chief, Social Media Mouthpiece, strategic director, Summer Fellow & Current Graduate Student at The Fletcher School, Supreme coffee drinker and programmer., Systems Architect, Technologist, TechOps Lead [Africa Region], UX Intern, Web alchemist.

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Who goes?

This is the company you will keep when you grab a ticket:

CEO, Developer, Director, Founder, Owner, Managing Director, Student, Co-founder, Software Developer, CTO, MD, Consultant, Intern, Project Manager, Account Manager, Postgraduate Student, Software Engineer, Business Development Manager, Operations Manager, Partner, CIO, Country Manager, Manager, Mid Developer, Not applicable, Technical Director, Web Developer, Business Analyst, C.E.O, CEO and Founder, CMO, Commercial Manager, Community Manager, COO, Digital Marketer, IP Attorney, journalist, Marketing, n/a, Network Administrator, Principal, Sales, Team Lead, Writer, AG CEO, Associate, B2B Manager, Business Development, Business Development director, Business Development Executive, Business Development Leader, Chief Design Realist, Chief Software Architect, Chief Technical, Chief Technical Realist, Co-founder & CEO, Content Specialist, database administrator, software developer, Designer, Dev Team Lead, Digital Marketing. Manager, Director/owner, Executive, Forensic Scientist, Founder & CEO, General Manager, GM, Head of Business Development, Head of Marketing, Head of Operations, hkj, Infra Team Lead, investor, IT, IT Consultant, IT Manager, Knowledge officer, Marketing Manager, Private, Product Development Manager, Product Manager, Product Owner, Product Specialist, Reporter, Research Analyst, Second Line Support, Seller Support Team Lead, Senior Clinical Research Associate, Snr. Server Manager, Startup Lover @ INSEAD, Strategist, Videographer, Volunteer, Account Executive, Acquiring Sales Consultant, Admin, Advisor, Advisory IT Specialist, Advocate, Africa correspondent, AGENCY MANAGER, Analytics Consultant, Applications Engineer, Art Director, Assistant Director:ICT schools, Assistant Professor, BDM, Blogger, BPMI Consultant, Business Services, Branch Head, Brand Strategy, Bus Dev Manager, Business Analyst & Head of UX, Business Coach, Business Consultant, Business dev, Business Manager, Business Operations Consultant, Business Support, Business Unit Manager - BI, C.E.O., C.T.O, CENTER MANAGER, CEO & Founder, CEO/Co-Founder, CEO/Founder, CFO, Chief Development Officer, Chief Mentor, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Technical Officer, Cinematographer, CLERICAL OFFICER 1, co-founder/executive member, Co-Owner, Commercial Director, Communications Expert, Community Associate, Community Coordinator for Africa, Community Support Intern, Computer Technician, Content Developer, Content Manager, Correspondent, Country Manager, Nigeria, Creative, Creative manager, CSO, Data Manager, Database administrator, Dev Manager, Developer Outreach Business Development Manager, developer/business analysts, developer/designer, dgfs, Digital Applications & eLearning Officer, Digital Manager, Digital Media Campaign Strategist, Digital Platform Manager, Dirctor, Director Operations, Director, Acceptance Development East Africa, Directorate Head, Technology & Service Delivery, eBanking Advisor, eCommerce, editor, Employee, Engineer, Eurokesia, Executive Consultant, Executive Director, Finance Controlling Manager, Finance Manager, Founder / Chairperson, Founder / CTO, Founder and Executive Director, Founder CEO, Founder, CEO, Founder, Software Developer, Free Lancer, Freelance Social Media Manager, Graduate Intern, Graphic/Web Designer, Group Chief Executive Officer, Group ICT Manager, Head Business Development, Head Honcho, Head Managed Services, Head of Creative, Head of digital, Head of e-Commerce Consulting, Head of Inbound, Head of IT, Head Of IT, MEA, Head of Operations and Logistics, Head Sales & Marketing, Head Strategic Business Development, Head, Business Development, Head, Content Development, Head, Customer Care, Head, eChannels, Head, System Integration, Head: Business Solutions, Head: Donor Relations & Marketing, Honours, HR, ict, ICT Innovation Specialist, ICT4D Business Development Consultant, infrastructure, Innovation Specialist, Insights and Innovations Director, International Attachment, Investment Analyst, Investment Director, Investment Executive, IT Deputy Director, IT Director, IT Programmer, IT Student, IT Supervisor, Jnr consultant, Junior Developer, Junior Software Developer, Junior Systems Engineer, Kiva Fellow, Lead, Lead Developer, Lead Software Developer/System Engineer, Manager Business Solutions, Manager IT, Manager, Sales & Support, Manager: Corporate Acquiring Sales, Managing Editor, Managing Member, Managing Partner, Marketing Associate, Marketing Director, Marketing Manager -CA, Markets % Livelihoods Specializt, MasterCard Worldwide Research Fellow, MBA/ UCT GSB, MD / CEO, mdg, Media, Medical Director, Member, Menager, Mobile & dev manager, Mobile / Web Developer, Mobile Lead, Mobile Monetization, Mobile Monetization Manager, NA, Nairobi Chapter Director, National Corporate Sales Manager, Network Consultant, New Business Developer, Office Manager, Online Business Solution Manager, Open Innovation & Development Consultant, Operations Director, Outreach Fellow, Owner CEO, owner, software engineer, Patent Attorney, PhD Student, Photographer, President, COO and Co-Founder, Principal Technology Advisor, Procurement and Logistics Manager, Product Development, Product director, Program Coordinator, Programmer, Project Administrator, Project Associate, PROTOCOL OFFICER, Publisher, Regional Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Research, Research and Partnerships, Research Associate, Research Fellow, sa, safety coordinator, Sales & Marketing Manager, sales and marketing, Sales and Marketing Manager, Sales Director, Senior Consultant, Senior Developer, Senior Digital Manager, Senior Graphics Designer/Web Developer, Senior Marketing Lecturer, SENIOR PHOTOJOURNALIST, Senior PR Account Aexecutive, Senior PR Account Executive, Senior Programme Manager, Innovations for MNCH, Senior Reporter, Senior Technical Achitect, Sexy Tea Lady, SNR ANALYST, Snr Developer, Social Media Specialist, Social Media Superhero, Software Developer / Sales, Solutions Dev. Tech Consultant, Staff Writer, Strategy & Architecture manager, Student Partner, Summer Fellow, Support Technitian, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, systems support, Team Leader, Tech, tech artist, Tech Correspondent, Tech Lead, Technical Business Analyst, Technical Lead, TECHNICAL OFFICER, Technical Solution Designer, Technology Consultant, ThreeZee - Dev Head, Trader, Trainee Business Analyst, UX Design, UX Developer, UX Research Intern, UX/Developer, WebDev Manager, Website Administrator, Youth champion on post 2015 development Agenda

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Tech for the hacker generation

This is not a lowest common denominator event.
This is an assertive event.
We don't care if the fishbowl doesn't like it.
We do not merely aspire to the heady heights of conformity through neutrality, blandness and crass marketing.
You probably don't even care that this rebellious little event contains no agenda or bullshit and looks only for the finest content we can find.
Just go back to schmoozing at your mass marketed, bland, cheaply run watered down "networking functions", and close the browser behind you.
Tech4Africa is about breaking rules, upsetting trends and unsettling institutions but first and foremost, great content.
The kind of content people talk about.
If you've read this far, you should view the source. You little beauty.

It's Kick Ass ;-)

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<3, passion, Skype, coffee, (mt), Bootstrap, php, phpStorm, jQuery, MySQL, optimism, persistence: bucketloads of, an army of hamsters.

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Some of our 2014 speakers

Gareth Cliff

CliffCentral

CliffCentral.com – launched on 1st May 2014 – having taken the leap from traditional terrestrial radio to the future of internet and mobile, Gareth Cliff and team aim to create the pre-eminent “infotainment” online content hub. It’s about sharing in real conversations – everything that happens in our world – everything we all experience every day – makes us think… makes us laugh… makes us cry….. makes us angry…. inspires us… what makes us human. CliffCentral.com is home and you can join us wherever you are in the world.
CliffCentral.com starts the day every weekday morning with “The Gareth Cliff Show” and his trusted team – Mabale Moloi. Leigh-Ann Mol, Damon Kalvari and Siya Sangweni-Fynn – uncensored, real conversation about everything in the news, everything that happens in your life and everything we all experienceevery day, along with first-class guests, edgy material and a healthy dose of humour, intelligence and inspiration….and lots of phone calls!
Alistair Hill

Co-founder of On Device Research

Alistair Hill is the co-founder of On Device Research, a global mobile panel and research company. On Device Research uses the mobile internet to access consumer opinions and has successfully conducted over 19 million mobile surveys in 72 countries. Previously Alistair was lead mobile analyst at comScore and one of the first employees of M:Metrics (prior to its $50m sale to comScore). Alistair has held a variety of roles including business development, client services and product management and is a regularly speaker on mobile consumer behaviour and mobile research. Prior to comScore, he worked at IHS Global Insight’s emerging markets mobile practice and at the Financial Times.
Erik Hersman

CEO, BRCK

We’re a team of software developers, engineers and technologists who are from Africa and live here. We have a long history of building things, such as Ushahidi, Crowdmap and the iHub. Our expertise runs from cloud software to fingerprint scanners for mobile devices to high-level medical device prototyping and manufacturing.
The BRCK was designed and prototyped in Nairobi, Kenya. We wanted a connectivity device that fit our needs, where electricity and internet connections are problematic both in urban and rural areas.
As we laid out what such a device would look like – physically robust, able to connect to multiple networks, a hub for all local devices, enough backup power to survive a blackout – we realized that the way the entire world is connecting to the web is changing. We no longer only get online via desktops in our office with an ethernet connection, we have multiple devices, and mobile connectivity is crucial.
Aaron Marshall

CEO / Designer, Over

We build mobile apps for creativity. Our app Over is used by millions and our user base is highly creative and very mobile. This year we are significantly expanding the team and the products. This includes building a marketplace for distributing artwork, Android versions of our apps, and a few secret projects that take mobile creativity to a whole new level. We are headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa and will have a blend of centralized offices and remote workers. We are profitable and have been for more than a year. We see some really big and exciting opportunities that we want to aggressively pursue.
Aki Anastasiou

94.7 Highveld Stereo

As Talk Radio 702’s award winning trafficologist, Aki has endeared himself to generations of Joburgers by guiding them through the city’s gridlocked streets each morning and evening. This fulfils one of his life mantras, which is to help those in need, and his community service - both on-air and in his personal capacity – has earned him two Paul Harris Awards from Rotary.
In 2011, he also earned the title of Best Traffic Presenter in the MTN Radio Awards.
Aki’s other great passion is technology and he presents technology and gadget driven features on David O’Sullivan, Redi Tlhabi and Jenny Crwys-Williams’; shows on 702. He also co-hosts the weekly Tech on Tap show on Summit TV.
He was one of the first South African personalities to use Twitter and continues to lead in this field. He consistently ranks as one of the most influential Twitter users in various polls and publications including mainstream magazine, Cosmopolitan, which named him one of their Twitter Kings. Aki also consults and engages corporates and individuals on social media strategies.
Toby Shapshak

TED Speaker

Toby Shapshak writes and speaks about innovation, and how it differs in Africa. He is the editor and publisher of Stuff magazine. He co-hosts a TV show on CNBC Africa; and writes a weekly column for the Financial Mail. He writes regularly for City Press, and is a contributing editor for Business Day's Wanted magazine.
He spoke at TED Global in June 2013 about how Africa is solving real problems for the rest of the world.
He has also spoke at the South by South West (SxSW) conference in Austin, Texas, on how mobile is being used in Africa.
He believes Africa is a mobile-driven continent, about which he has written for CNN and The Guardian in London.
Elan Lohmaan

Marketing and Social Media Manager

Elan is the founder of Sleekgeek South Africa which is a social health and fitness support community which aims to help South Africans achieve healthy lifestyle goals. Leaving a career as a corporate executive which included being General Manager of News24 and Group Head of Digital at Avusa which own brands like Sunday Times, Exclusive Books and Inet Bridge, he decided to pursue his purpose to empower others. After losing 17kgs, quitting chain-smoking and finding a healthy lifestyle for the first time he decided to give up the boardroom to help people full-time to discover theirs. Elan is sponsored by Reebok and is a Wellness Warehouse Ambassador. Follow him @elanlohmann or @SleekgeekSA on Twitter.
Andy Hadfield

Digital native - a marketer, product guy and proud corporate disruptor.

Andy is an experienced and charismatic public speaker who can cover almost anything in the digital space. His style is humorous and practical - offering trends, insight and advice to audiences of any level. Andy is part of the internationally acclaimed FutureWorld group.
Schalk Heunis

A founder of the largest Hackerspace in South Africa House4Hack

A founder of the largest Hackerspace in South Africa House4Hack. What I love about the current state of RC dev is that all the tools, techniques and hacks we have been applying to home automation, internet of things and 3d printers are helping to grow this sport. It is really getting to the point where "if you can think it, you can build it". My background is in electrical engineering, software development and data analytics. It really irritates me that we are importing expensive equipment, when all the skills, knowledge and experience to compete is locally available
Mark Herson

COO of 2go

Marc is the COO of 2go, a mobile social network with over 10 million monthly active users across Africa. Marc was previously a partner at Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa, a venture capital fund in Cape Town, and before that an executive at Softbank Capital in Boston, a $250 million technology venture capital fund.
Sam Kitonyi

Co-founder of Weza Tele

Sam Kitonyi is a software developer and co-founder of Weza Tele, a technology startup in Kenya. He has implemented USSD applications to provide access to everything from clean water to short-term loans. When he's not cranking out Python code he enjoys reading poetry, writing personal bios, and playing the odd game of 5-dimensional XO.
Toby Kurien

Android Guru

Toby is an electronics engineer who specializes in software engineering. Over the last 20 years, he has programmed everything from assembly language for embedded micro-controllers, to enterprise content management systems in Java. He has been developing Android apps since 2010, and has experience with many platforms, such as Django, Ruby on Rails, BlackBerry 10 Cascades, and Arduino. He also dabbles in hardware hacking at the House4Hack hackerspace
Candice Goodman

Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association of South Africa.

Candice Goodman was the first Certified Mobile Marketer in SA and is the current Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association of South Africa.

Her mobile marketing consultancy, Mobitainment, was the first African company to win a Mobile Marketing Association Award back in 2009, and has become one of the longest and most consistently international mobile marketing award winner in Africa with wins for the last 6 years!
Ramsay Daly

Marketing Director Emerge Mobile

Daly is responsible for managing operations within Emerge Mobile, including the creation of business development, marketing, and digital strategies for the company and for its direct-to-market product, iKhokha.Emerge Mobile has recently achieved Payments Council International Payment Terminal Security (PCI-PTS), and Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) Level 1 and 2 certifications for its MPOS payment card acceptance solution. This is the first time a fully South African designed, engineered and manufactured end-to-end MPOS solution has attained this level of international security certification
Matt Putman

Managing Director and Co-Founder Emerge Mobile

Matt Putman is the managing director and co-founder of Emerge Mobile, a South African based technology company specialising in the mobile point of sale (MPOS) payments space. Putman is responsible for positioning Emerge Mobile to play a significant role in extending effective MPOS solutions to SMEs across Africa and other emerging markets worldwide. This includes developing the growth strategy, international business development, company culture and commercial structures of the business.
Ben Myers

Social Media Mouthpiece for Make Games South Africa

Ben is a writer of much, a game designer of never enough, and one day wants figure out what the hell bitcoins are. He's the social media mouthpiece for Make Games South Africa, a journalist for NAG Online, and an obsessively frequent game jammer. He also sucks at writing in the third person, but don't tell him that to his face.

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Schedule

Oct 8^th & 9^th JHB

Johannesburg

Tech4Africa ends the year in the City of Gold on Oct 8th & 9th in Newtown, for two full days of Tech in 10 rooms.

Sessions will be every 90 minutes so there is more space in-between.

Be prepared for two days jam packed full of tech and inspiration!

The full schedule is available for print, download, scheduling and browsing.

Full Schedule

Partners

Partners play a significant role in the success of our event and the growth of tech in Africa.

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