Sentech Africa Tech Week 2023: Unleashing Africa’s Tech Giants

Cape Town: May 2023 – The Sentech Africa Tech Week will breeze into Cape Town as soon as once more from 2nd-Fifth May, 2023. The convention is ready to be a tour de drive revolving round offering illuminating solutions to long-held native challenges. Members of private and non-private sectors, large companies and small, are invited to ebook their spot and soak up insights which can be ripe and pressing to our time. Sentech is the proud returning headline sponsor for this occasion. 

Sentech’s CEO, Mlamli Booi says “SENTECH Africa Tech Week resonates with our culture of innovative value creation and commitment to ensuring access to content and connectivity. As we evolve into A global leader in digital infrastructure, enabling connectivity and content delivery’, we want the continent to be part of and benefit from that transformation.”  Booi added “We look forward to this gathering of tech minds and showcasing Sentech’s capability in creating digitally connected communities.” 

Tom Cruise referenced Ubuntu in his newest speech at an awards present; Gary Vaynerchuk endorses the networking app that we use; and Former US President Barack Obama has spoken positively about Africa’s tech {industry} and its potential for development and improvement. For instance, in 2018, he spoke on the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, which introduced collectively entrepreneurs, buyers, and authorities officers from throughout Africa and all over the world to discover alternatives for collaboration and innovation. Overall, Obama has expressed his perception within the potential for Africa’s tech {industry} to drive financial development, create jobs, and supply new options to among the continent’s most urgent challenges.

Ralf Fletcher, CEO of Topco Media, sees the convention as a nod to the promise in an African enterprise – each large and small ones. Africa Tech Week has all the time been a bridge that connects rising firms to the learnings they’d want as a prefix for improved innovation. However, it’s now quintessential – attracting the entrepreneur eager to sneak out from worn-out programs and revolutionise their sectors.

This yr, Africa Tech Week attendees will probably be spoiled with keynote addresses and panel discussions from formidable changemakers in Africa. Spokespeople from firms like Google, TikTok and Microsoft may even be current. Tech-imagineers are set to current case research and reside demonstrations, all of which is able to flesh out a blueprint displaying how every speaker re-imagines our entry to actually renewable pure assets; how sustainability will be cultivated the place there was as soon as agricultural issues; how gamification can present an improved training expertise; and the way an power disaster could discover resolve by way of blockchain know-how.

In 2022, the convention hosted voices from firms like Google, Snapscan, Uber, and the University of Stellenbosch Business School. Conference delegates for 2023 are in for a bumper version of this similar calibre, with industry-specific breakaway periods and over 20 hours of networking alternatives.

The agenda is as follows:

Day one and two convention highlights

Tech leaders have been remodeling Africa’s challenges into alternatives – one such instance is Nigeria Google’s Head of Startup Development, Folarin Aiyegbusi, who will probably be a part of a panel dialogue alongside exceptional friends within the {industry}. Together, they’ll chart how synergy can turn into highly effective by way of partnerships cast amongst incubators, buyers and start-ups. 

The arrival of synthetic intelligence has posed many questions for the character of labor and staff: ‘How AI will transform organisations’ is a must-see to know extra; and How to Stay Relevant and Prepare for the Future of E-Commerce with panellist Alex Worz, CEO of Mr Delivery Food will clarify how one can put together for the tidal wave of traits going through e-commerce: laws, Web3, elevated competitors, and new methods of facilitating funds. Worz and panellists will educate about how one can provide stand-out buyer expertise, even within the ever-densifying on-line market. Worz will probably be joined by Shoprite X Head of Digital Technologies, Debbie Cunningham; and Visa Country Head, Lineshree Moodley.

Day two sees the thrill peaking additional: from two sisters having invented digital x-ray glasses; to delegates enjoying a enterprise match-making recreation dubbed ‘catch-match’ the place delegates can speed-meet each other and introduce themselves to the viewers utilizing a throwable wi-fi microphone. 

A fireplace chat with inventive leaders will dip into the uncapped potential of Africa’s inventive financial system. Boniswa Sidwaba from TikTok Africa, and Alex Goldberg from Ogilvy will probably be sharing how younger Africans are sharing genuine narratives to media platforms, in addition to how they work with creatives, and the way creatives will be linked to financial alternative. 

Next up, large questions round ChatGPT and different AI improvements will probably be answered: How can we domesticate a human-centric tech tradition, whereas benefiting from including AI instruments to our approach of working? Together we’ll debunk how ChatGPT’s stealth can play into an organisation’s favour. 

It could appear fin-tech holds a solution to rising meals insecurity, water shortage and lowering arable land. The creators behind innovative tech firms like Momint and Green Carbon Token will clarify how they see blockchain know-how driving sustainability and assembly what the plenty want.

Whether you’re in finance, agriculture, power, training, authorities, or in a enterprise certain to be impacted by tech, decision-makers from all fields are inspired to buy Early Bird tickets at R5,500 right here.

Sponsorship and expo showcasing alternatives can be found to companies eager to amplify their presence amongst tech giants. Canon South Africa – the imaging firm that believes in inspiring a world of change – is a proud bronze-tier sponsor for this occasion. Another bronze-tier occasion sponsor is Khonology, the African tech firm spearheading digitised options for a greater tomorrow. BrilloSys, an web options and software program improvement firm, has determined to showcase their enterprise at an expo sales space, because the South African college sneakers firm, Palm Footwear Manufacturers. Situate your organization the place it’s certain to reap the advantages of sponsorship. For this, contact Lee-Ann Bruce at lee-ann.bruce@topco.co.za or fill this way.