Looking to get into the South African startup scene or scratch up on some of your skills? Well, you’ve come to the right place. There are loads of competitions, networking sessions and workshops happening around South Africa and the rest of the continent (namely Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana) that we’ve rounded up to make your life a bit easier.
This article is part of a weekly series that highlights all the top startup competitions, networking sessions, workshops and conferences around South Africa, and the greater region. If you have any event recommendations for us to add to the list, or next week’s, please let us know in the comments below or send us an email.
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Not all of the events are free and some will require booking in advance. Please click on the event names to find out more information.
Cape Town
TenaCiTi Career Acceleration Programme
The Cape IT Initiative would like to extend an early-bird call for applications for our soon to be launched TenaCiTi Career Acceleration Programme that will benefit small businesses and their interns in the tech or tech-enabled space.
Date: 19 to 21 September
Location: CiTi
Startup Grind Hosts Evan and Marc (TaxTim)
Director and CFO, Marc Sevitz, and director and CTO, Evan Robinson, of TaxTim have a fireside chat at Startup Grind
Date: 19 September, 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Townhouse Hotel, 60 Corporation street
Rise To The Challenge: Big Data, AI and Machine Learning
Rise to the Challenge is an events series exploring the technology areas that are shaping the future of the financial industry. For this event, Rise is bringing together topic experts, startups and Barclays senior leaders to host a thought-provoking discussion around Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Date: 20 September, 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: Rise Cape Town, Woodstock Exchange, 5th Floor, Block B, 66 Albert Road, Woodstock
Pitch Your Business Idea To Our Panel of Hungry Investors
Whether you’ve been in business for one week or ten years, an infusion of funds is always the fuel to propel your business, but what type of funds are best for your business? Are you searching for guidance on how to add value to current unseen opportunities?
Date: 20 September, 5:45pm to 9:00pm
Location: The Table Bay Hotel, 6 Victoria Wharf
Social Enterprise Happy Hour Cape Town
his relaxed early evening meetup is for everyone interested or active in social enterprise in Cape Town. It is a chance to learn more about the social enterprise landscape over a drink, and meet like-minded professionals in Cape Town. Previous events have taken place in Kampala, Kigali and Nairobi. Tickets are free (reserved through Quicket) and everyone will get a free drink on arrival.
Date: 21 September, 18:00pm to 19:30pm
Location: Spin Street House, 8 Spin Street
For people working in startups, lean (startup) coffee is a weekly 1-hour coffee that runs a mash-up of leancoffee.org with theleanstartup.com.
Date: 21 September, 8:30am to 9:30am
Location: TRUTH. coffeecult, 1 Somerset Road, Green Point
This relaxed early evening meetup is for everyone interested or active in social enterprise in Cape Town. It is a chance to learn more about the social enterprise landscape over a drink, and meet like-minded professionals in Cape Town.
Date: 21 September, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: Spin Street House, 8 Spin Street
Johannesburg
The SA Innovation Summit is a platform for nurturing, developing and showcasing South African innovation. 2016 offers numerous opportunities for entrepreneurs, innovators, thought-leaders, policymakers, inventors, and investors to drive innovation in South Africa and inspire sustained economic growth. It will feature a range of events over the four days, such as a CEO panel, Hackathon, and a pitching den.
Date: 21 to 24 September
Location: Birchwood Hotel, Ekurhuleni
Join Southern Africa’s best legal innovators at the R2.5m HiiL Justice Accelerator Boostcamp
This year, the final stage in the regional of the HiiL Innovating Justice Challenge takes place on 22 September at The Awethu Project on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, South Africa. Entry to the event is free, and attendees will be able to hear from finalists in the competition as well as speakers and judges on the panel who will provide insight and inspiration on what makes a good justice innovation and where the needs are.
Date: 22 September, 5:30pm to 7:45pm
Location: Awethu Project, Constitution Hill, 11 Kotze Street
Riaz Moola (Hyperion Development – Google)
Riaz Moola is the Founder and Director of Hyperion Development – which is the largest online course platform for programmers in Africa. Moola previously worked at Google as a product manager and was on the Google Search team that created the “Ok Google” (Google Voice Search which is similar to Siri) and the team that created Android.
Date: 22 September, 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: Standard Bank Incubator, 5 Cradock Ave, Rosebank
Build A Powerful Business Network _ Business Breakfast
We all know that building a powerful network doesn’t just happen. Networking should be mutual. Never confuse networking with prospecting. Prospecting is the deliberate search for clients. It may result in short term or long term relationships. When building a network, you are striving for LONG–TERM,mutual relationships from which all draw benefit.
Date: 24 September, 8:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Plantation Cafe, 3 International Business Gateway, Corner New Road and 6th Road, Midrand
Youth Empowerment, entrepreneurship, networking, coaching and networking.
Date: 24 September, 11:00am to 14:00pm
Location: Maboneng Precinct, No 264 Fox Stree
Kenya
Pitch to The Ladykillers: test your business plan!
As an entrepreneur most of the time you spend pitching: to potential customers, partners, investors… you only get one chance to get it right. That is: up to now! Because we introduce to you The Ladykillers. The Ladykillers are experienced business women and women investors. They have experience sitting in panels and judging ideas as part of pitching competitions.
Date: 22 September, 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: The Hub East Africa, Waiyaki Way, Nairobi
Nigeria
Lagos 2016 Diet: Fundable Startups Masterclass #FSM
This strategic workshop will be highly experiential so that you get to leave the workshop with an action plan for your startup idea. The workshop will be an advanced class that takes participants from where Startup Conference Lagos 2016 #SUCLagos2016 ended.
Date: 24 September, 9:00am to 4:00pm
Location: Lagos, Abuja
Startbootcamp Shaping the future of digital commerce in Africa
The Startupbootcamp E-commerce program welcomes you at the Africa E-commerce Summit (AES) for a FastTrack day as part of its international tour to support the area’s best talents in E-commerce.
Date: 24 September, 8:30am to 11:30am
Location: Abuja, St, Mathias Guest House Utako Abuja
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