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
Silicon Cape Women in Technology Unconference – Bringing together Women in Technology
Add your voice to the conversation about the challenges and opportunities that face Women in Technology. Silicon Cape Women is hosting a dynamic “Unconference” to bring together diverse groups and individuals to talk, explore, understand and determine how we can improve how women experience working in and with technology. The day will contain a series of intimate and group conversations around agenda topics that will be determined and selected on the day.
Date: 7 November, 3:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: The Open, Workshop 17, 17 Dock Road, VA Waterfront
At this meetup we’ll explore how great tech products are made? The meetup follows the Lean Coffee technique, making it a structured, but agenda-less meeting. We will meet at a coffee shop, create an agenda together and start talking.
Date: 8 November, 8:00am to 9:00am
Location: Truth Coffee, 1 Somerset road, Green Point
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. Unlike other startup meetups, lean (startup) coffee is agendaless, speakerless and talks about what you care about. We each propose topics, vote on them and talk about the most popular ones for a few minutes. Come visit to see how it works.
Date: 9 November, 8:30am to 9:30am
Location: TRUTH. coffeecult, 1 Somerset road, Green Point
Shift ONE, a top digital marketing agency in Cape Town, in partnership with a number of leading and experienced business gurus, will be hosting the highly anticipated Grow Your Business workshop this November.
Date: 9 November, 9:00am to 3:00pm
Location: Alan Gray Orbis Foundation, 46 Hof Street, Gardens
All early stage investors and those looking to make their first investment are invited to attend the Cape Town launch of the South African Business Angel Network (SABAN). Hear the latest about SA’s early stage investing scene, discuss pertinent investor issues and network.
Date: 10 November, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Cape Town Club, Street: 18 Queen Victoria Street
#CapeMarketing Workshops for Small Businesses in Woodstock
Are you a start-up, entrepreneur or small business owner? Perhaps you just have an inkling of an idea and need some advice or inspiration. We offer a relaxed and safe space for you to discuss any issues, ideas or success stories. If you have any marketing problems you need help with, you can bring them all to the table and tap into the wealth of experience and knowledge from the group. This week our mini masterclass will be with Cathy Haumann of Virtually Admin on Blog Writing.
Date: 9 November, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: The Cape Town Garage, The Woodstock Exchange, Block A / 4th Floor, 66 Albert Road, Woodstock
#CapeMarketing Workshops for Small Businesses in Diep River
Are you a start-up, entrepreneur or small business owner? Perhaps you just have an inkling of an idea and need some advice or inspiration. We offer a relaxed and safe space for you to discuss any issues, ideas or success stories. If you have any marketing problems you need help with, you can bring them all to the table and tap into the wealth of experience and knowledge from the group. This week our mini masterclass will be with Cathy Haumann of Virtually Admin on Blog Writing.
Date: 10 November, 9:00am
Location: this location is shown only to members
Future event: Are you VC ready?
Join us as we host Llew Claasen (Managing Partner – Newtown Partners), Zach George (Founder & CEO – Cactus Advisors) and Jason Basel (Founder & CEO – EduOne) and take a look into what VC is all about and what to expect.
Date: 17 November, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 17 Shelley Road, Salt River
Johannesburg
The Purpose of this Business Networking meeting is to offer you the business owner a networking platform to promote your business/service. To meet new like minded business owners.
Date: 9 November, 8:30am
Location: Piza e Vino Eagles Landing, Corner of Scott and Christiaan de Wet Rd, Randpark Ridge
Kick off a new company (concept and design)
For those who’ve never given a shot at creating a business plan, you’ll find this session a valuable insight into perfecting your own. We’ll be merging this meetup with the Masterminds meetup, so there will be a few additional people at the same event.
Date: 11 November, 6:30pm
Location: Mug and Bean, Greenstone Shopping Center, Greenstone, Moddefontein
Future event: FundEX 2016 – Funding event for entrepreneurs
Riversands Incubation Hub in partnership with the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) is set to host its inaugural FundEX event. The one-day conference and expo will showcase a wide spectrum of funders and investment providers with the aim of exposing entrepreneurs to the many funding and personal wealth creation opportunities available.
Date: 16 November, 8:30am to 7:00pm
Location: Riversands Incubation Hub, 8 Incubation Drive, Riverside View Ext 15, Fourways, Midrand
Kenya
Intellectual Property Training
iHub has partnered with uWakili an online legal services platform to provide specific pro bono legal services to the iHub and m:lab startups. uWakili is an online legal services platform that provides Kenyan businesses and individuals access to cost-effective and easy-to-use online legal services
Date: 9 November, 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: iHub, Ngong Road, Nairobi
Black & White Debate: Do we need more managers or entrepreneurs?
Black & White are lively debates held every week with the aim to show that there is not a single truth on how to start or grow a successful business. This inspirational session is open for everybody with an entrepreneurial spirit.
Date: 8 November, 10:00am to 11:30am
Location: The Hub East Africa, Waiyaki Way, Nairobi
How To Build a Solid Tech Team
Come and find out more on How To Build a Solid Tech team as we host our Business Member, Gebeya Limited.
Date: 10 November, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Mettā Nairobi, 14 Riverside Drive, Nairobi
Nigeria
Skill Gap Nigeria Volunteers Meetup
Successful businesses and enterprises are constantly in search of skilled software developers. Not to talk of ‘startups’. While it may seem expert-level developers are in short supply, there also is a huge demand for well-trained, teachable, entry-level developers who have the right mindset.
Date: 7 November, 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: IDEA Hub Lagos, 296 Herbert Macaulay Road, Yaba, Lagos
Digital Media Weekend Workshop
The Digital Media Weekend Workshop is the place to learn something new that could change your life. For 2 hours on the 12th Nov.2016 we would drop the keys that 100’s of Agencies and Digital StartUps use.
Date: 12 November, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Surulere, Lagos
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