Now in its third year, Tech4Africa attracts over 600 delegates from across Africa, including developers, project managers, company executives, digital marketers and the media. Tech4Africa aims to put Africa in a global context and incorporate international lessons into African opportunities.
"MTN identifies with Tech4Africa's vision that 'technology can be a catalyst to economic and social change in Africa'. Through its various products and service offerings, MTN has been a catalyst for social and economic development on the continent," said Rich Mkhondo, executive from corporate affairs of the MTN Group.
Mkhondo said: "MTN stands for innovation and customer experience, and we see a strong alignment with Tech4Africa, which is bringing new ideas to the technology ecosystem".
Delegates can look forward to insights from speakers from across Africa, who will discuss, among other topics: enterprise opportunity, entrepreneurship, financing, social business and innovation.
The agenda for the conference is:
• Agile workshop - demonstrations, pair programming, continuous integration, test-driven development, problem solving, illustration of real projects, facilitation
• Ignite start-up pitching competition. Go to www.tech4africa.com to apply
• Social media marketing workshops - monetisation, social, building on Mxit
• Hackathon - Windows 8, Js/JQuery/Node,js, Hacking Android, PHP/Python/LAMP, Virtualisation/EC2/Scala/Hadoop
Opening with MTN
• Tom Rosamilia, vice-president of corporate strategy and GM of enterprise initiatives of IBM
• Ralph Simon, founder and CEO of Mobilium
Mobile device and content development
• Alan Knott Craig Jnr, CEO of MXit
• Emma Kaye, founder and CEO of Bozza
• Verone Mankou, CEO of VMK, Congo
Around Africa
• G+ Hangout with tech hubs around Africa
• Desigan Chinniah, firestarter of Mozilla
• Neal Ford, director and meme wrangler of Thoughtworks
Enterprise opportunity across Africa
• Amolo Ng'wena, MD of Digital Divide Data, Kenya
• Sim Shagaya, CEO of DealDey Nigeria
• Jon Hoehler of Deloitte Digital
Entrepreneurship and financing
• Mbwana Alliy, Savannah Fund, CEO I/O Ventures
• Nadav Ossendryver, founder of Latest Sightings
• Ignite - Brett Commaille, CEO of AngelHub
Social business and innovation
• Josh Adler
• Kim Pilaelo, CEO of DiepTweets
• Brett Loubser, mobile strategy director ofBlazingchilli
• Claudia Fan Munce, MD of IBM Venture Capital Group
For more information, go to www.tech4africa.com.
