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Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [21/7/2019]
In Johannesburg this week, join serial entrepreneur Warrick Kernes as he outlines the steps you need to take to set up an online store.
Elsewhere on the continent, an event hosted by the Mauritius Africa Fintech Hub, crowdfunding platforms Fundkiss and Olive Crowd, and the Africa Crowdfunding Association aims to increase awareness about crowdfunding platforms.
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
Imbizo Events hosts the Second Annual Internet Summit, an annual multi-stakeholder ICT conference gathering the ICT business and technical community together to discuss challenges that the sector faces.
The summit will look at issues such as mutual support for strengthening infrastructure throughout the region, create awareness on cybersecurity and will also see the unveiling of corporate internet migration.
Date: 25 July, 8am to 3.30pm
Location: Southern Sun, Cape Sun Hotel, 23 Strand St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town
Stellenbosch
Building a Blockchain Startup: The Custos Story
While at Stellenbosch University’s MIH Media Lab, Fred Lutz, Gert-Jan van Rooyen and Herman Engelbrecht developed an innovative way to embed blockchain code in digital media, in a bid to help curb piracy.
Listen to Custos Media Technologies Van Rooyen as he details how it all got going.
Date: 25 July, 4.30pm to 6pm
Location: LaunchLab, Hammanshand Road, Stellenbosch
Johannesburg
How to launch your online store
Join this workshop as Warrick Kernes, a serial entrepreneur with 11 years ecommerce experience in South Africa and Europe and the winner of London’s 2009 Young Businessman of the Year Award outlines the steps you need to take to set up an online store.
Date: 23 July
Location: Workshop17, 138 West Street, Sandton, Johannesburg
Following the successful Finnovex Middle East, Exibex will present Finnovex Southern Africa which will feature more than 30 thought leaders, fintech pioneers, bankers and investors.
The summit will focus on the developments in the financial services industry, with an emphasis on the impact of technology and innovation in this sector.
Date: 24 and 25 July
Location: Montecasino Ballroom, Fourways, Johannesburg
How to Avoid Digital Disruption
Join John Deighton, a Harold M Brierley Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School as he looks at how incumbent banks, insurers, pharma companies and even universities have to look to their architectures to survive in the face of voracious scope expansion by upstarts.
Date: 25 July, 5.30pm to 8pm,
Location: Future Space 1st Floor, 61 Katherine Street, Sandton, Johannesburg
Durban
Silicon Durbs’s Lindani Mkhize will outline some practical tech ideas that entrepreneurs can start a business with.
Date: 23 July, 9am to 10am
Location: 115 Musgrave Road, 10th floor Musgrave Towers, Berea, Durban
Bloemfontein
How I became a millionaire at 22
Albert van Wyk will be in conversation at Startup Grind Bloemfontein. Van Wyk is a 26 year-old self-made millionaire at 22, qualified industrial engineer and entrepreneur. His main ventures includes his business Gazzaroo as well as property investing (see this story from Ventureburn).
Date: 24 July, 6pm
Location: TBD
Mauritius
African Crowdfunding Platform Event
In Mauritius, crowdfunding will soon become a new licensable activity, as announced in the recent National Budget.
The event — hosted by the Mauritius Africa Fintech Hub, crowdfunding platforms Fundkiss and Olive Crowd, and the Africa Crowdfunding Association — aims to increase awareness about crowdfunding platforms
Date: 22 July, 8.30am to 1pm
Location: Hennessy Park Hotel, Ebène, Mauritius
Nigeria
This summit promises to be one of the largest gatherings of digital transformation experts, business leaders and global disruptors.
The summit include case study presentations, breakout sessions, panel discussion and technical workshops focused on key strategies, technology and solutions for developing and reaching targeted digital transformation goals.
Date: 26 July, 8am to 5pm
Location: Lagos Oriental Hotel, 3 Lekki – Epe Expressway, Lagos
Kenya
This conference will offer a single-track event with roots in the Ruby community, featuring expert speakers and workshops on a range of topics.
Date: 25 to 27 July, 8am to 5pm
Location: iHub, 6th Floor, Senteu Plaza, Galana/Lenana Road Junction, Nairobi
Ivory Coast
Managing your expenses via your smartphone
Keiwa’s Fabrice Koffi will share how his application aimed at African SMEs became successful in French-speaking Africa.
Date: 25 July
Location: Plateau, Centre Andrew Young Pour La Promotion de L’Entrepreneuriat – Derriere L’École de la Chambre de Commerce Abidjan, 588
Gambia
Emerging Digital trends for Job Creations
StartUp Grind Banjul in partnership with the West African Internet Governance Forum will host a panel to discuss leveraging on the importance tech in creating jobs in the society.
Startup Grind Banjul’s Modou Njie will be in discussion with Innovate Gambia CEO AwaMary Lowe Khan, US Technology CEO Fatou Jabbie and Internet Governance Forum chair Beran Dondeh Gillen.
Date: 23 July, 6pm
Location: Senegambia Beach Hotel, 2207 Serrekunda
Egypt
How to Start a Global Startup in Cairo
Join this event by The Founders Institute to hear the experiences of people with deep startup experience. Hear candid talks by successful entrepreneurs, sharing best practices, strategies and mistakes to avoid from those who have done it before.
Date: 24 July 24, 6.30pm to 9pm
Location: AUC New Campus – Alfi Hall, AUC Ave, New Cairo, Cairo
Featured image: Delegates pictured at a Startup Grind Lagos event at Seedspace Lagos in May (Facebook)
