While looking for investment, entrepreneurs are advised to get someone in their own space. Such advice is only but a reflection of the diversity of opportunities and mentorship that emerge from tech events. Here’s everything you need to know about upcoming technology events in Kenya and South Africa in a week.
- Kenya
The East Africa Outsourcing Summit
When: 5th-6th June
Where: Crowne Plaza, Kenya Road, Nairobi
East Africa Outsourcing is a platform for both existing and potential players in the outsourcing space in East Africa to network and gain insight from the major outsourcing regions.
Charges: $500 (USD) per person
Registration ends: 04.06.2012
Sponsors: Techno Brain, Spanco BPO, Zensar Technologies, Cisco Systems, Dimension Data Holdings plc
Pivot East
When: 5th-6th June
Where: Ole Sereni Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
Pivot East is this year’s edition of the region’s premier mobile apps / developer competition held successfully in 2011 under the name Pivot 25. It will culminate in a pitching conference on 5th and 6th June 2012. The competition has five categories, each with five finalists pitching to a rich audience of investors, development partners, telecoms operators and other industry players from East Africa and across the globe. The online registration process for developers and mobile entrepreneurs who would wish to take part as contestants is now open.
Charges: Ksh.7,300/=
Registration ends: 4.06.2012
Sponsors: Samsung, infodev, omidyar, Nokia, mercycorps, Facebook, inmobi, Google, Safaricom, CapitalFM, Zuku
- South Africa
Silicon Cape VC Office Hours
When: 1st June
Where: Bandwidth Barn’s Offices, Cape Town
VC Office Hours is a new monthly initiative by Silicon Cape where startups get a chance to ask an investor specific questions regarding the funding processes and aspects different of your entrepreneurship. The format of the sessions will be that six start-up teams and will get a 30-minute question slot on the first Friday of each month with a funder.
Charges: Free
Registration ends: 28.05.2012
Host: Invenfin
Node.js Cape Town
When: 7th June
Where: CodeBridge, Claremont, Cape Town
Node.js Cape Town is a meetup focused on Server Side Javascript, and in particular Node.js. The Meetup Cape Town based Node.js and JS enthusiasts who get together every so often to discuss technology and interesting projects centred on scripting language Node.js.
Charges: Free
Registration ends: 06.06.2012
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