Tech4Africa Johannesburg 2015: Full Schedule

Tech4Africa is the largest tech innovation, startup and entrepreneur platform in Africa. 12 tracks, 4 event days including a Hackathon and a Startup Day, with over 55 excellent speakers and just 600 available seats.

9:30am SAST

Keynote - From Technology to Socks. What it's like to sell a mobile startup and then build an ecommerce company.

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From Technology to Socks. What it's like to sell a mobile startup and then build an ecommerce company.
Startups are intense rides that often end in failure. I'll talk through the intense ups and downs of building and selling Motribe to Mxit and then moving to a men's fashion ecommerce startup selling socks.

Speakers

Nic Haralambous

Founder, Nic Harry

Nicholas Haralambous is the founder of the online style company, NicHarry.com. Nic was the CEO and co-founder of Motribe, the mobile community platform, before the company was successfully acquired by Mxit in October, 2012. He also founded ForeFront Africa consulting firm before... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2015 9:30am - 10:20am SAST
Keynotes/Social/Misc Track

Startup, Entrepreneurialism and Business

Session Purpose Tell a story
Session Type Solo
Who should attend employees, entrepreneurs, founders
Session DNA Engaging
Tags #startup #nicharrystyle

2:00pm SAST

Idea, to Innovation, to Investment: challenges and insights for international, African growth

Born in a garage in Cape Town, WhereIsMyTransport has just completed a major move abroad and closed an international round of funding. CEO and Co-founder Devin de Vries shares some of the insights, challenges, and lessons learned from taking an honours project dream to an international reality, especially the additional considerations, advantages, and disadvantages faced by entrepreneurs based in Africa. Come learn how we are redefining public transport in Africa and abroad, and use our insights to take your own idea to the next level.

Speakers

Devin de Vries

Co-Founder, WhereIsMyTransport

WhereIsMyTransport builds integrated platform-based solutions to public transport systems in emerging cities. Talk to me about Smart Cities, Big Data, transport and infrastructure, technologies for extensible, sustainable urban development, and entrepreneurship and innovation.

Wednesday October 7, 2015 2:00pm - 2:30pm SAST
Startup Track

Startup, Entrepreneurialism and Business

Session Purpose Tell a story
Session Type Success story or case study
Who should attend entrepreneurs, founders, Investors
Session DNA Inspiring
Tags #publictransport, #smartcities, #whereismytransport

2:00pm SAST

How to make it and not to make it in Africa

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Personal learnings, failures and some success stories from almost a decade in tech on the big African continent presented by a Germany boy who shaped the African eCommerce landscape (a little).

Speakers

Nils Körber

CIO, One Africa Media

Thursday October 8, 2015 2:00pm - 2:30pm SAST
eCommerce/Marketing/Mobile Track

eCommerce, Learning from Developed Markets

Session Purpose Tell a story
Session Type Solo
Who should attend entrepreneurs, founders, Project managers
Session DNA Inspiring
Tags #africa, #business, #ecommerce, #expat, #growth, #learnings, #marketplaces

Tech4Africa Johannesburg 2015

9:30am SAST

Nic Haralambous

2:00pm SAST

Devin de Vries

2:00pm SAST

Nils Körber

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