Invitation to enter for Gartner's Aspiring Innovators Programme

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It will highlight interesting African startup technology companies who have something unique to offer enterprise organisations. The goal of this programme is to both support the African startup technology scene, and provide delegates access to innovative local technology providers.

Selected by Gartner research analysts, the startup companies have the opportunity to describe what they are doing in front of an audience who are looking for solutions and they are able to talk with senior IT decision-makers who visit their stands. At last year's event, the six selected South African companies (Build, Clevva, Encentivize, Mapzania, Nandie, and Wyzetalk) took advantage of the opportunity to build their brand and expand their early customer base.

Over 1,100 CIOs and senior IT executives, Gartner analysts and industry leaders are expected at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Africa 2016. Delegates will learn how to take advantage of digital opportunities to transform their organisations and evolve their own IT leadership to drive change and become central to the new digital business world.

Criteria required

Gartner is looking for early-stage startups that meet the following criteria:

• Your company is based in Africa.

• Your company has fewer than 50 employees and less than R20m revenue.

• Your product or solution supports B2B or corporate B2C use cases (we are not looking for purely consumer products).

• Your product or solution is in production or beta, with at least two customers.

• You were not chosen for any previous Aspiring Innovator Programmes.

If you meet these criteria, you can apply by sending your contact details, a company CV and a short description of why your product is innovative to az.oc.rentrag@srotavonnIgniripsa by 26 February 2016.

Subsidiaries of, or products developed by large companies are excluded, as are Gartner clients and prospects.