Now in its Third Year, Tech4Africa Hits Johannesburg Next Month

by on September 20, 2012 at 5:29 am

Now in its third year, Tech4Africa is a premier mobile, web and emerging technology event held in Johannesburg on October 31-November 1 at The
Indaba Hotel, Gauteng.
The theme is “Unlocking the next billion consumers” and sessions will be focused around mobile
and content, the enterprise opportunity, entrepreneurship and financing, social
business and innovation.
The Developer Day and Hackathon on the kick off day includes three tracks: a day on Agile
software development, a Hackathon with sessions on Ruby on Rails, Python,
Raspberry Pi, PhP etc., as well as workshops for social media marketers on apps
ecosystem and monetization.  
Keynote speakers include IBM’s Tom Rosemalia and Ralph Simon of Mobilium,
with other speakers being Amolo Ng’weno, MD of Digital Divide Data in Kenya;
Neal Ford, Director, Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks; Vérone
Mankou, CEO of Way-C in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Emma Kaye, CEO of
Bozza, Josh Adler, social entrepreneur and others.

IBM’s Global Entrepreneurship Programme has been brought into the Tech4Africa 2012
agenda and Claudia Fan Munce, Managing Director at IBM Venture Capital Group, will introduce GEP and an
award programme. Tech4Africa 2012 will also be running Ignite again – a
start-up workshop and pitching competition, which is being run by AngelHub and
Deloitte.

A Google G+ Hangout will be held live at the conference so that tech hubs from
around Africa can be part of the conference and so that delegates can interact
with a panel, asking questions and finding out more about what is happening on
the ground in Senegal, Liberia, Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt, Kenya, Congo and other
parts of Africa.
Disclosure: we are a media partner of the event.