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tech event for AfricaWho speaks? Who goes?
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No seatbelts required.About
Tech, Networking, Fun.
Quoi?August 2014, Cape Town
+ October 2014, Johannesburg
July 2014, Nairobi
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, Quality Analyst Consultant, , Co-Founder, Founder, Managing Director, UI Engineer, Web Developer, Business Analyst, COO, Entrepreneur, 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, CTO Middle East Africa IBM Ecosystem Development, Designer, Developer Coach, Ecosystem Development Senior Certified Architect & IBM Master Inventor, 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 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, EVANGELIST, Executive Creative Director, Founder & CEO, Founder and CEO, Founder and Chief Glow Officer, Founder and Entrepreneur, Founder and Lead Developer, Founder and President, Founder, Designer and Hacker, General Manager, 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, Managing Director & Marketing Director (co-founders), Managing Member, 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 software engineer, Senior System Center Engineer, 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.
Who goes?
This is the company you will keep when you grab a ticket:
CEO, Developer, Student, Co-founder, Director, Founder, Intern, Consultant, CTO, Software Developer, Managing Director, Owner, Software Engineer, Mid Developer, Partner, Business Analyst, Business Development Manager, C.E.O, CIO, Community Manager, Operations Manager, Team Lead, Web Developer, AG CEO, B2B Manager, Business Development director, Business Development Executive, Business Development Leader, CEO and Founder, Chief Software Architect, Chief Technical, Co-founder & CEO, Content Specialist, COO, Country Manager, database administrator, software developer, Dev Team Lead, Digital Marketing. Manager, Director/owner, Executive, Infra Team Lead, IT, IT Manager, journalist, Manager, n/a, Project Manager, Reporter, Second Line Support, Snr. Server Manager, Startup Lover @ INSEAD, Videographer, Volunteer, Writer, Account Executive, Admin, Advisor, Advisory IT Specialist, AGENCY MANAGER, Applications Engineer, Assistant Director:ICT schools, Assistant Professor, Associate, BDM, Blogger, BPMI Consultant, Business Services, Branch Head, Bus Dev Manager, Business Analyst & Head of UX, Business Coach, Business Consultant, Business dev, Business Development, Business Manager, Business Operations Consultant, Business Support, C.E.O., C.T.O, CENTER MANAGER, CEO/Co-Founder, CEO/Founder, CFO, Chief Mentor, Chief Operations Officer, Cinematographer, CLERICAL OFFICER 1, CMO, co-founder/executive member, Communications Expert, Community Associate, Community Coordinator for Africa, Community Support Intern, Computer Technician, Correspondent, Country Manager, Nigeria, Creative, Creative manager, CSO, Database administrator, Designer, Developer Outreach Business Development Manager, developer/business analysts, developer/designer, Digital Applications & eLearning Officer, Digital Marketer, Digital Media Campaign Strategist, Dirctor, Director Operations, Director, Acceptance Development East Africa, Directorate Head, Technology & Service Delivery, eBanking Advisor, editor, Employee, Engineer, Eurokesia, Executive Consultant, Finance Manager, Founder & CEO, Founder and Executive Director, Founder CEO, Founder, Software Developer, Free Lancer, General Manager, Graduate Intern, Group Chief Executive Officer, Head Business Development, Head Managed Services, Head of Creative, Head of IT, Head of Operations and Logistics, Head Sales & Marketing, Head, Business Development, Head, Content Development, Head, Customer Care, Head, eChannels, Head, System Integration, ict, ICT Innovation Specialist, ICT4D Business Development Consultant, infrastructure, Innovation Specialist, Investment Director, IT Consultant, IT Programmer, IT Student, IT Supervisor, Jnr consultant, Kiva Fellow, Lead, Lead Developer, Lead Software Developer/System Engineer, Manager, Sales & Support, Managing Editor, Managing Member, Marketing, Marketing Associate, Marketing Manager, Marketing Manager -CA, Markets % Livelihoods Specializt, MasterCard Worldwide Research Fellow, MD, MD / CEO, mdg, Medical Director, Member, Menager, Mobile / Web Developer, NA, Nairobi Chapter Director, New Business Developer, Open Innovation & Development Consultant, Operations Director, Outreach Fellow, PhD Student, Photographer, President, COO and Co-Founder, Principal, Procurement and Logistics Manager, Product Specialist, Program Coordinator, Programmer, Project Associate, PROTOCOL OFFICER, Research, Research Analyst, Research and Partnerships, Research Associate, Research Fellow, sa, safety coordinator, Sales, Sales & Marketing Manager, sales and marketing, Senior Consultant, Senior Developer, Senior Digital Manager, SENIOR PHOTOJOURNALIST, Senior Programme Manager, Innovations for MNCH, SNR ANALYST, Software Developer / Sales, Solutions Dev. Tech Consultant, Staff Writer, Strategist, Student Partner, Summer Fellow, Support Technitian, Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer, systems support, Team Leader, Tech, tech artist, Tech Lead, Technical Lead, TECHNICAL OFFICER, Technology Consultant, ThreeZee - Dev Head, UX Design, UX Developer, UX Research Intern, UX/Developer, Youth champion on post 2015 development Agenda.
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 ;-)
Made with
<3, passion, Skype, coffee, (mt), Bootstrap, php, phpStorm, jQuery, MySQL, optimism, persistence: bucketloads of, hamsters.
Let us know what you think: hello@tech4africa.com.
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Some of our 2014 speakers
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Alpesh Patel
CEO Mi-Fone
Alpesh Patel is the Founder and Group CEO of Mi-Group International Ltd. Mi-Group consists of Mi-Fone ( BVI ) Ltd and Mi-Card MCS Ltd. With the Brands vision of providing “Aspiration..within Reach “ to mass market African consumers Alpesh launched Mi-Fone, the first African Mobile Devices Brand in April 2008. With this he created Africa’s very own range of affordable yet quality Mobile Devices specifically aimed at the Emerging mass market African consumer.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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!
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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
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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.
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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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This Could Be You
Backend Developer
You work on the backend, you've built some neat code to do some cool shit. Period.
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This Could Be You
Hacker / Painter
You're a computer scientist, using whatever tool suits the job. In fact, you're writing C++ to replace PHP stuff. You're looking for Hackers like you.
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This Could Be You
UX Expert
Every pixel matters. The user journey matters. Your boss doesn't think so, but you've got case studies to prove it.
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This Could Be You
Javascript Ninja
You're so into the MEAN stack, you've abstracted the browser out. You've built apps that do neat things. Bazinga!
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This Could Be You
Android / Mobile App Developer
You understand that Android is about to become the most important OS in the world. You build apps for any phone in any market. You despise the iPhone!
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This Could Be You
Python Wrangler
You've been working on Python since before Django was in Chains. In fact, anyone who uses PHP is a luddite n00b.
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This Could Be You
Social Media Master
Who says social media matters? You do! You can show why the big banks need to pay attention, why James Blunt did to social media what Android did to phones, and why Lady Gaga is probably more influential than the President. You take showers tho'.
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This Could Be You
DevOps / Sysadmin
You orchestrate servers like a Puppet master. You keep the infrastructure humming. You HATE dedicated servers because you know what "The Cloud" really means. And you can deploy 1 bazillion lines of code with the click of a button.
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This Could Be You
Wordpress Developer
You've been working in wp since before it was wp. You can make it sing, dance and play clients tunes. Voila!
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This Could Be You
Drupal devloper
You think wp is for monkeys, so you love Drupal. You've got 10k pages all in a nice corporate information architecture. Long live Drupal!
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This Could Be You
Entrepreneur
You've got a problem that needs a technical solution. The market is big, the competition is slow, so you're moving fast. Always Be Closing.
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This Could Be You
Designer
You called gradients back in 2003 and flat design in 2012. Typography tells you all you need to know.
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This Could Be You
Project manager
You're melding a raging 400 page Waterfall into a weekly sprint without anyone knowing it. Kanban brings tears of joyous rapture to your eyes. You're the modern Renaissance man.
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This Could Be You
Product manager
The Boss wants the product to get to market NOW. You're balancing 6 teams, a wife and kid, and betting your career on 1 million downloads in a month. 800 Pound Gorilla?
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This Could Be You
Growth Hacker
Whilst everyone is talking SEO and Social Media while sipping their Latte's, you're in the trenches using every trick in the Black Hat book to get that growth curve up and to the right. And they don't even know it.
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This Could Be You
CTO
You're looking after XYZ systems, over PQR teams and 6 locations. There's a little silver bullet you're not telling your boss about. You'll do anything to go back to your hacking days...
Speak At Tech4Africa
In 2013 we opened up our speaker submission process to anyone. We received over 100 speaker submissions from people in 15 countries, which then received over 3500 votes from the tech community.
Since we've started, we've looked for speakers from both genders and all ethnic backgrounds. So we're going to say it a little louder this year ;-)
We're looking for women (and men), from all backgrounds.
By telling your story, you grow your network and increase your domain authority, leveraging a platform focused on authentic content.
It doesn't matter whether you're at a large corporate, a small agency, a freelancer, or a student.
Tell your story, share your code, showcase your product or solution, or illustrate how you've solved a problem.Vote
Vote for the talks you want to listen to at Tech4Africa.
Schedule
Cape Town
Tech4Africa picks up again on August 28th, in Pinelands.
Be prepared for a day jam packed full of tech and inspiration.
Speakers
The schedule and speaker lineup is now complete.
Join us in Cape Town
Don't miss out. This ain't Kansas baby! And it's not our first rodeo...
Johannesburg
Tech4Africa ends the year in the City of Gold on Oct 8th & 9th in Newtown, for two full days of Tech over 8 rooms.
As we have 8-10 rooms this year, 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.
Schedule
The schedule will start being updated from the 15th August.
Speakers
Join us in Jozi
Don't miss out. This ain't Kansas baby! And it's not our first rodeo...
Partners
Partners play a significant role in the success of our event and the growth of tech in Africa.
We think the partners below are awesome, and you should checkout all they have to offer!
Event Partners
Collaborators
Media Partners
Demo your product, showcase your company, find new clients
Get in touch to book yourself a space at Tech4Africa, so that you can demo your product, showcase your company, or simply network smack bang in the middle of everything and meet new people. Simple!
Johannesburg Venue
Tech4Africa Will Be Held At
SciBono Discovery Center
Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg
Contact
Get in touch
Feel free to get in touch with any questions you may have.
Contact info
Enquiries: Zinnia on +27 (0) 83 457 6935
Press and Media: Zinnia on +27 (0) 83 457 6935
Email: hello@tech4africa.com