Looking to get into the South African startup scene or catch 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
For those working in startups, lean (startup) coffee is a weekly one-hour coffee meetup that runs a mashup of leancoffee.org with theleanstartup.com.
Date: 13 December, 8.30am to 9.30am
Location: 1 Somerset Road, Green Point, Cape Town
Join edtech incubator Injini at this mini demo-day on 13 December. This will be a unique occasion for the entrepreneurs in Injini’s first cohort to share with you their progress and demonstrate their product as well as explain where they will be taking their company in 2018. RSVP to Cindy if you’d like to attend.
Date: 13 December, 2.30pm to 5.30pm
Location: Bandwidth Barn, Woodstock Exchange
Heavy Chef Year End Celebration
Heavy Chef and Huawei are hosting the leaders of the top five most exciting startups in South Africa, as voted by members of Heavy Chef’s community, each startup leader will present a 10-minute presentation on how they’re changing the world.
The keynote for the evening will be presented by Silicon Valley angel investor Zach Coelius who sold his previous startup to LinkedIn in 2015 and recently led the angel round in Cruise Automation that led to a $1-billion sale to General Motors last year.
Date: 14 December, 6pm to 11.55pm
Location: Workshop 17, 36 Dock Road, Cape Town
Angola
African Youth Leadership and Entrepreneurship Summit 2017
With an expected 1000 delegates, 100 exhibitors and 10 speakers, the African Youth Leadership and Entreprneurship Summit will be the one of the biggest entrepreneurship events to ever be hosted in Angola.
The summit will feature mentorship, conference, summit, business funding, networking opportunities, exhibition, and town hall meetings.
Date: 15 to 20 December, 8am to 2pm
Location: Hotel Candamba, Luena Moxico Angola, Luena
Egypt
AUC Venture Lab Fintech Accelerator Demo Day
The AUC Venture Lab in collaboration is holding a demo day of five startups at different stages. The startups will showcase their development through the cycle as well as share plans on how they expect to take their businesses to the next level.
Date: 14 December, 5.30pm to 8.30pm
Location: AUC New Cairo Campus , Moataz Al Alfi Hall, New Cairo City
Ivory Coast
Join the Africa Fintech Forum for two days of debates, round tables, interviews and conferences that will bring together presidents and key leaders of the international financial ecosystem, as well as the leaders of the main fintech of Ivory Coast and the sub-region.
Date: 18 to 19 December,
Location: Radisson Blu, Abidjan Airport, Ivory Coast
This hackathon has been organised by the Africa Fintech Forum to focus on three categories, namely: financial and social inclusion, modernising and upgrading African banking insurance and security controls around money laundering, and terrorist financing.
Date: 15 to 17 December, 8am to 2pm
Location: Radisson Blu, Abidjan Airport, Ivory Coast
Mozambique
Seedstars Africa Regional Summit
After visiting more than 20 different countries in Africa between May to November, Seedstars is bringing together the best entrepreneurs from across the continent for a regional conference and bootcamp.
The summit will end with a regional conference, an event open to public and filled with disruptive gatherings. Planned events include networking sessions, inspirational talks and workshops about how to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through entrepreneurship and technology.
Date: 12 to 14 December, 8am to 8pm
Location: Maputo
Nigeria
ThinkAfrica Startup Nigeria: Innovation, collaboration and creation
Come join ThinkAfrica’s first annual startup roundtable. This is a new initiative that will consist of a panel of six to seven entrepreneurs that have created their own successful startups in Nigeria.
The event will feature speakers from various industries addressing challenges relevant to starting businesses in their respective industries and how they were able to overcome them.
Date: 16 December, 2pm to 6pm
Location: Workstation, 7 Ibiyinka Olorunbe, Victoria Island, Lagos
Tech Enterprise Africa Summit (TEA Summit)
Tech Enterprise Africa Summit (TEA Summit) is a capacity building platform designed to equip and provide support for entrepreneurs to innovate, sell, grow and scale up with the use of technology.
Date: 12 December, 10am to 4pm
Location: Ibadan Business School, Ibadan
Zambia
BongoHive Launch Accelerator Demo Night
Join seven graduates of the BongoHive Launch Accelerator programme as they pitch their startups to a select group of investors and BongoHive partners and supporters.
Date: 14 December, 6pm to 8.30pm
Location: Radisson Blu Hotel, Lusaka, 19029 Great East, Lusaka
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