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Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [11/06/2018]
This Saturday (16 June) marks a very important public holiday in South Africa, Youth Day. In keeping with celebrating the country’s youth, if you are in Cape Town why not head down to Philippi tomorrow (12 June) to find out how three young South African female entrepreneurs started their businesses and have managed to successfully run them.
If you’re in Ghana, one of West Africa’s biggest tech trade shows Accra Mall Mobex Tech Expo takes place this week. While in Nigeria startups will converge in Uyo for this year’s edition of the Start Conference Festival.
This article is part of a weekly series that highlights all the top startup events, competitions, networking sessions, workshops and conferences in Africa. 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.
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
Youth Day: Celebrating Youth in Entrepreneurship
In a Q&A format, a guest facilitator will be engaging with three female entrepreneurs: The Creative Corner founder Zizipho Dyubeni, South Africa Makes co-founder Cherise Dunn, and Aura Innovations co-founder Nyasha Chimhandamba.
Date: 12 June, 1pm to 2.30am
Location: Solution Space, Philippi Village, 3rd Floor, 1 Cwangco Crescent, Philippi, Cape Town
Want to grow your business, but just don’t have the funds? Then crowdfunding may just be the thing for you. Join this workshop to learn more.
Date: 12 June, 12pm to 1pm
Location: 22 Napier Street, Cape Town
Fireside chat with Steve McClelland
Rise Cape Town is hosting Steve McClelland, a Silicon Valley founder and executive in residence at Duke University. McClelland will reveal key insights into the future of careers in tech and lay out the skills necessary to make it as an entrepreneur.
Date: 12 June, 4.30pm to 6.30pm
Location: Rise Cape Town, Woodstock Exchange Building, Block B, 5th Floor, 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 June, 8.30am to 9.30am
Location: 1 Somerset Road, Green Point, Cape Town
When your website moves money, knowing the laws
Join tech law experts Eitan Stern and Thomas Reisenberger, lawyers at Legalese, as they delve into the applicable laws and insider information which will assist you to understand how your online operations’ movement of money triggers certain laws, and what to do about it.
Date: 13 June, 10am to 12pm
Location: Rise Cape Town, Woodstock Exchange Building, Block B, 5th Floor, Cape Town
MEST Africa Community Conversations: Open innovation and community building with Vuyolwethu Dubese
This month’s Community Conversations features Thomson Reuters startup partnerships lead for Africa Vuyolwethu Dubese. Dubese will chat about insights and experience on open innovation and share her top tips on community building.
Date: 13 June, 10.30am to 11.30am
Location: MEST Incubator, Woodstock Exchange, 401a, Albert Road Woodstock, Cape Town
Morning Masterclass: The mighty power of the humble email newsletter
Heavy Chef is taking a deep dive into the world of Email Marketing, with the CEO of Firing Squad, the only specialist email marketing consultancy in South Africa.
Heavy Chef has invited Jason Bagley, the CEO of Firing Squad, to run an exclusive Masterclass in order to unpack what it takes to become the world heavyweight champion of email marketing.
Date: 14 June, 9am to 1pm
Location: MEST Incubator, Woodstock Exchange, 401a, Albert Road Woodstock, Cape Town
Johannesburg
The Innovation Hub together with the Department of Science and Technology and The Embassy of Brazil will hold an innovation seminar which will gather Brazilian and South African experts as well as startups to share experiences and identify mutually beneficial opportunities for collaboration.
Date: 13 June, TBA
Location: TBA
If you’re curious about technology and have something to say, you might want to join the Free Beer Sessions.
Date: 14 June, 5pm to 9.30pm
Location: Investec, 100 Grayston Drive, Johannesburg
Join registered psychometrist Marzena Almendro as she discusses how to give your business the most competitive edge; Platinum Corporate Media and Advertising MD Kushinga Kawodza who will discuss brand worth; and Bradley Nowikow, Jacek Dybala and Angela Gulumian from DGN Associates who will discuss the legal challenges facing startups and small businesses.
Date: 14 June, 10.30am to 12.30pm
Location: Spaces Fourways, Design Quarter, Leslie Road, Johannesburg
Ghana
Accra Founder Institute graduate showcase and networking event
Accra Founder Institute’s latest cohort graduates this week. Join this event to meet the graduates and hear about their experiences of the institute’s programme.
Date: 12 June, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Location: KPMG Headquarters, Ocean House, 13 Yiyiwa Drive, Olusegun Obasanjo Way (formerly Achimota Road), Abelenkpe, Accra
Accra Mall Mobex Tech Expo 2018
Mobex Africa ICT Expo is the single largest technology trade show in the West Africa sub-region.
The expo hosts conferences and exhibition, demonstrations, masterclasses, product launches, robotics and future technology and innovation, creating a forum for industry stakeholders to deliberate on issues and proffer solutions and pathways informing national policy to accelerate national development.
Date: 13 to 17 June, 9am to 7.30pm
Location: Accra Mall, Accra – Ghana, Spintex Road, Accra
AfricArena Tour: Nairobi Pitch Event
African startup and international investor conference AfricArena will this week host a pitch event in Nairobi to select the startups the organisation will fly to this year’s AfricArena summit in November.
Date: 12 June, 3pm to 8pm
Location: Mettā Nairobi, Nairobi
Social Entrepreneurship Masterclass
About 90% of of all new social enterprises collapse within three years. This not only affects the founders and investors, but the entire ecosystem of beneficiaries that would have been served.
This masterclass — made up of eight workshops — will give you a critical look into the basic building blocks of a successful enterprise. The class will also explore practical ways to prevent or come back from the common pitfalls that lead to failure.
Date: 13 June to 30 May , 12am to 11.30pm
Location: The Hub East Africa, Waiyaki Way, Nairobi
She Loves Tech pitch competition workshop: How to network with investors
Investors may seem overly important and often intimidating. How do you get close to investors without seeming like a suck-up? How do you keep in touch with them over the long period of fundraising or pitching?
How does your network with partners, clients, and the ecosystem also impact the process of pitching? Join Daniel Yu of Sokowatch as he discusses how to maintain the best rapport with investors.
Date: 13 June, 6pm to 8pm
Location: Nailab, Nairobi
The role of tech in problem solving for Africa’s future
With the advent of information technology into virtually all aspects of life in the 21st century, how is Africa taking advantage of the promise and opportunity that a new age of information technology offers? How can technology be used by Africa, for Africa’s problems and is technology even necessary? Join this event to find out.
Date: 13 June, 6pm to 8pm
Location: Mettā Nairobi, 14 Riverside Drive, 6F Belgravia building, Nairobi
Nigeria
Over the course of this five-day festival, now in its fourth year, you have the opportunity to meet startups from different fields, learn new things, get certified, catch up on trends around the world, access startup opportunities and contribute to the creativity and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Date: 11 to 15 June, 9am to 10am
Location: Roothub, AKEES Plaza, opposite Ibom hall gate, IBB Avenue,Uyo, Akwa Ibom 085
Anzisha Prize Entrepreneurship Talk with Tonje Bakang
The Anzisha Prize, an initiative from Mastercard foundation and the African Leadership Academy, seeks to award young entrepreneurs who have developed and implemented innovative solutions to social challenges or started successful businesses within their communities.
Join Tonje Bakang as he shares his entrepreneurial journey as well as discusses the Anzisha prize and how to be a part of it.
Date: 11 June, 11am to 1pm
Location: Bingham University, Abuja-Keffi Road, Karu
Port Harcourt Tech Meet and Greet
Port Harcourt Tech community will this week display its innovation, achievements and available opportunities. The event is will also aim to help attendees network and get contacts as well as access information to technology that will help them improve their solutions.
Attendees can expect to have conversations around possible collaborations and synergies, tech exchanges, and access to European and Asian tech manufacturers.
Date: 13 June, 10am to 11am
Location: Rivers State ICT Center, Airforce, Aba Road, Port Harcourt
Techstars Startup Weekend Jos Plateau
Techstars Startup Weekends are a 54-hour immersion programmes designed to allow innovators to get together to share ideas, build teams with diverse or even complementary profiles and start a startup.
Date: 15 to 17 June, 8am to 2.30pm
Location: Fajib hotel, Rantya State Low Cost Housing Estate, Rantya, Jos Plateau
Anambra Startup Masterclass is a one-day free event being organised by the StartupAnambra Community geared towards equipping young people, startups, and innovators with the right steps, information, strategies and skills to kick-start and run their innovative businesses successfully.
Date: 16 June, 9am to 4pm
Location: DevAmplify Hub, ProgXap, First Floor, Grace and Faith Plaza, Beside UBA, Express Branch, Enugu-Onitsha Express Way, A232, Awka
Tunisia
GIST TechConnect: Fintech, the future of financing
Ginet Net Innovation-Hub in EL Space will be hosting a chat on fintech moderated by US State Department foreign service officer Lauren Gibson and featuring GoodWorld CEO and co-founder Dale Nirvani Pfeifer, Brandtneris Consulting Group founder Viktor Brandtneris, and Venturewell Programme Associate Samer Yousif.
Date: 12 June, 3pm to 4pm
Location: El Space, 10 Bis Rue d’Algerie, 1000 Tunis, Tunis
