DUO Networking Breakfast

THE SUBTLETIES OF LAUNCHING AND GROWING MOBILE BUSINESSES IN AFRICA

DUO Marketing + Communications cordially invites you to join us at the Vineyard Hotel on the 28th March 2013 for a networking breakfast.

Selected guests including, Andre Vermeulen (BCX) and Bevan Ducasse (wiGroup) will share with us their innovations, strategies, hurdles and victories in conquering new territories in Africa.
Join us for a rigorous debate on what worked best for these companies as they share some of the less obvious lessons learned in building and launching connected devises and mobile applications for the continent.

SPEAKER BIOS
Andre Vermeulen
Andre Vermeulen is responsible for the Application Development Services within the Business Connexion Group. With over 15 years in this specialised field, he has delivered projects in several countries including Australia and the United Kingdom fulfilling different roles within the SDLC (System Development Life Cycle). He is responsible for 5 regional development centres comprising 400 developers nationally. According to BMI, Business Connection is South Africa's largest app developer (22%) with a proven track record in Africa for corporates, SMME's and consumers. www.bcx.co.za

Bevan Ducasse
It was at UCS that Bevan grew an interest in seeing how systems worked to make business ideas a viable reality. He went on to work in the mobile payment industry and slowly started to connect the dots between business, retail and mobile systems. His first entrepreneurial venture was wiWallet which soon evolved into the wiGroup, a platform that aggregates all the other apps and services entering the market. Rather than competing with mobile wallets apps and payment gateways, wiGroup now enables them. www.wigroup.co.za