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Top startup events in South Africa, Africa you should know about this week [8/10/2018]
This coming week, Johannesburg will host the 12J Indaba which takes place on Wednesday (10 October). Investment professionals will discuss best practice and key challenges that the sector currently faces.
In Cape Town, Startupbootcamp Afritech programme manager Nsovo Nkatingi will share her insights on how to put together a winning pitch deck, at an event at UCT’s Solution Space on Thursday (11 October).
In East Africa, the third edition of the AfriLabs Annual Gathering, themed “Innovation in the data age” will take place from Thursday to Saturday (11 to 13 October) at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
In West Africa, the African Development Bank will on Tuesday (9 October) host a session on the role of incubators and venture capital in supporting female entrepreneurs, at the Africa Women in Technology Summit in Accra, Ghana.
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
Join LinkedIn global channel development manager Anthony Risicato for a talk on how collaboration and networks are the key to success and how buying committees are key to marketing, particularly B2B marketing. Risicato will be joined by agency and sales house training lead Lara Julio who will discuss LinkedIn’s product roadmap.
Date: 9 October, 8am to 12.30am
Location: Workshop17 Watershed, 17 Dock Road, 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: 10 October, 8.30am to 9.30am
Location: 1 Somerset Road, Green Point, Cape Town
Thundafund Entrepreneur Session
Join this event to learn more about crowdfunding. If you want to grow your business, but don’t have the funds then crowdfunding may be just the thing for you.
Date: 11 October, 12pm to 1pm
Location: Green Point Co-Working Space- Foyer A, 34 Somerset Road, Green Point, Cape Town
Startup consultant and Startupbootcamp Afritech programme manager Nsovo Nkatingi will share her insights on putting together a winning pitch deck.
Date: 11 October, 12pm to 1pm
Location: UCT Graduate School of Business, Solution Space, 9 Portswood Road, Cape Town
Johannesburg
The annual EduTech Conference is Africa’s largest edtech exhibition, and a space to see all the latest edtech offerings as well as hear thought leaders share their opinions and experiences.
Date: 9 to 10 October, 10am to 5pm
Location: Level 0, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg
This full day immersive masterclass will build on from last year’s content addressing in-depth the financial, marketing, research and development, governance and innovation needs and development of the Sections 12J environment over the next five years.
Date: 10 October, 8am to 5pm
Location: JSE, 2 Gwen Ln, Sandown, Johannesburg
TADHack is a hackathon that helps people learn about the latest internet, IT, and telecoms technologies as well as how to use those technologies to solve problems that are important to you.
Date: 13 to 14 October, 7am to 6pm
Location: MTN Innovation Centre, 216 14th Avenue, Randburg
Join LinkedIn global channel development manager Anthony Risicato for a talk on how collaboration and networks are the key to success and how buying committees are key to marketing, particularly B2B marketing. Risicato will be joined by agency and sales house training lead Lara Julio who will discuss LinkedIn’s product roadmap.
Date: 11 October, 8am to 12.30am
Location: Workshop17, 138 West Street, Sandton
Angola
The 10 best startups from Luanda will be invited to pitch in front of an investment panel and compete to be crowned the most promising seed-stage startup of Seedstars Luanda 2018.
Date: 11 October, 4pm to 9pm
Location: ISPTEC – Instituto Superior Politécnico de Tecnologias e Ciências, Av. Luanda Sul, Luanda
Egypt
Join Simon-Kucher and Partners managing director Martin Janzen and Startupbootcamp MENA region CEO Todd OBrien as they discuss how to build a smart fintech business model.
Date: 9 October, 5.30pm to 7pm
Location: Greek Campus, 28 Al Falki, Room 109, Ad Dawawin, Cairo
Ghana
AFDB panel discussion at Africa Women in Technology Summit
What’s the role of incubators and venture capital in supporting female entrepreneurs? Join this discussion to find out.
Date: 9 October, 9pm
Location: Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra, Ghana
Kenya
Women Entrepreneurship and Innovation Summit 2018
This summit aims to connect women entrepreneurs with investors, corporates and policy makers.
Date: 10 to 11 October, 8am to 5pm
Location: The Boma Hotel Nairobi, South C Nairobi, Next to Red Cross, Popo Road, Nairobi
From ideas to execution conference
This conference is aimed at educating entrepreneurs, business owners, government workers and people in the creative industry how to properly execute their vision and move their ideas forward.
Date: 13 October, 11am to 5pm
Location: SixEighty Hotel, Rehema House, Nairobi
Tanzania
Sahara Sparks Afrilabs Annual Gathering 2018
This three-day gathering will feature panel discussions, an investor pitch, multiple parallel workshops and a local ecosystem tour.
The topics will be centred on data driven innovation, the digital economy, Internet of Things (IoT), innovation ecosystems and trending technologies.
Date: 11 to 13 October
Location: Golden Tulip Hotel, Dar es Salaam
Zimbabwe
Join Lionesses of Africa founder and CEO Melanie Hawken and Nedbank Zimbabwe Limited managing director Charity Jinya at Harare’s first Lioness Lean In Breakfast event for women entrepreneurs. Lionesses of Africa is the fastest growing network of women entrepreneurs in Africa.
Date: 9 October, 8am to 11.30am
Location: Venue TBD, Harare
Featured image: Attendants at a Startup Grind Cape Town event in Cape Town on 4 October (Startup Grind Cape Town via Facebook)
