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Tech4Africa Johannesburg

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Welcome introduction: What is Tech4Africa? & What to expect? Main RoomGareth Knight

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Functional Programming for the rest of us Room 5Andreas Pauley The path to software development mastery Room 4Peter Wiles We recommend - Recommendations with Apache Mahout Room 6: Hacker roomPaul Scott Build your own drone ( Overveiw) Room 1Arnold de Bruin How to Speak to your customers, understand and other lessons of startup comms Room 3Sarah Rice 6 x Startups providing a 6 Minute pitch with 4 minutes Q&A. IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room Mobile payments in context... The intersection of mobile payments and the iBeacon Room 2Craig Leppan

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Cloud and the Democratization of Developer Platforms Microsoft Cloud RoomGareth Jane Continuos Delivery in Practice Workshop 1

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Mentor Session 1 IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room Infrastructure as code with Ansible. Room 5Guillaume Belrose Speed Up Your Database Room 6: Hacker roomAnna Filina Technical Concepts for the Business Analyst Room 4Kishan Manilal Seven Secrets to Smart Marketing without a Smartphone Room 3Candice Goodman Leveraging the WeChat platform for faster mobile communities and engagement Room 1Christoff Albertyn • Ronald Bach • Brett Loubser

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Ming & Mong build a payments company Room 2Ramsay Daly • Matt Putman

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Break IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room JIRA as an agile business operations enabler Microsoft Cloud RoomGrant Finnemore

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Mentor Session 2 IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room

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The Hacker Movement in South Africa - Has it finally arrived? Room 6: Hacker roomRobyn Farah Want SA to be a global tech leader? Reinvent tech education Room 3Bilal Kathrada The Business Side of Brilliance: Basic Start-up Skills for Talented Beginners Room 5Dana K. Dwyer Salary Survey Results - Jobsburn Room 4Michelle Atagana • Kyle-Peter Hauptfleisch

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Mentor Session 3 IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room

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Mentor Session 4 IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room Use the iVeri open source code to enable instant MPos App development Room 2Barry Coetzee

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Digital Art: Tunis to Joburg. Innovation and New Tech leading Futurist African Arts Practices. Room 1Tegan Bristow 'Got the moves like Facebook?” - Connect and search data Room 4Brendon Page Bro, do you even lift? An introduction to heavy lifting with Hadoop Room 6: Hacker roomPaul Scott Kent Beck's 4 Rules of Simple Design Explored Room 5Mark Pearl Connected commerce – The rise of the consumer seller Room 3Johan Nel Impact of the Mobile Internet Revolution: UK = Navigating & Entertaining; Africa = Life Changing Main RoomAlistair Hill

12:30 SAST

Lunch IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room

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Mentor Session 5 IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room

13:30 SAST

Mentor Session 6 IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room

14:00 SAST

Why I'm betting my brand and income on internet radio Main RoomGareth Cliff 6 x Final round of 6 minute pitches with 4 minutes Q&A from the Judges only IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room

15:00 SAST

Future of photography Workshop 1Dave Hann Judges deliberate based on mentor feed back, personal assessment and Peoples vote*. IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room User Experience - Myths, Strategy and a Practical Approach Room 5Rob Cowie Using technology effectively in disadvantaged schools Room 3Martine Schaffer Operation e-Commerce. It's a #%!@?! Room 2Zane Zietsman The African Startup Landscape. What to expect, how to navigate it and what you need to do to succeed in it Room 1Keith Jones How game development tools are years ahead. Room 6: Hacker roomTravis Bulford Original ideas from emerging markets that are transforming the world Room 4David Carew • Indran Naick Making Beautiful Apps for iOS, Android and Windows using one language Microsoft Cloud RoomJarrod Hermer

15:45 SAST

Welcome and IBM Global Entrepreneurial Program Overview, what taken place so far &Announcement of the Johannesburg SmartCamp winner Main Room

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4 x Smartcamp winners providing a 6 Minute pitch with 4 minutes Q&A Main Room

16:30 SAST

Worldwide Tech Trends Main Room

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The future of Mobile: what does 750m mobile SIM cards really mean for Africa? Main RoomAki Anastasiou • Gareth Cliff • Erik Hersman • Toby Shapshak

17:45 SAST

Announcement of the regional SmartCamp Winner, interviews, photos etc Main Room

18:00 SAST

Networking Function - Rooftop Party Main Room

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Welcome introduction: What is Tech4Africa? & Where to from here? Main RoomGareth Knight

09:15 SAST

GO BIG & GO HOME Main RoomAaron Marshall

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Sci Bono Clubhouse Room 1Anele Davids Moving through the crowd Main RoomAndrew Hugo MongoDB Sharding - go big with NOSQL Room 6: Hacker roomPaul Scott Entrepreneurship & Brand Building IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer RoomAlex Fourie A local solution for a global problem Room 3Alon Lits Mobile is the most formidable Media platform in Africa Room 4Yaron Assabi Upgrade yourself: Wearable Technology for knowledge worker Room 5Brett Powell Utilizing cloud computing for risk batch processing. Microsoft Cloud RoomAxl Mattheus An Android Masterclass Workshop 1Toby Kurien Speed & Scalability with Amazon AWS, S3, Route 53, Elasticache, Fastly, RDS, Magento and more! Room 2Florian Aschenbrenner

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The story of bookly. Creating a feature-phone friendly writing and reading platform to improve literacy in South Africa Room 3Levon Rivers See how cloud was always meant to be: IBM's Bluemix, your enterprise grade cloud sandbox Room 6: Hacker roomIndran Naick Walking the tightrope of success: what it takes to get a tech start-up off the ground in South Africa IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer RoomGreg Cress Ecommerce Warehousing & Fulfilment Microsoft Cloud RoomJustin Drennan Anatomy of an African Tech Startup Room 5Dennis Wevell The Future of Online Gaming (Local and Abroad) Room 1Lourie Campher The power of simplicity in Technology Room 4Felix Erken

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Women in Tech: Yes, there are women in tech! Main RoomMichelle Atagana • Ellie Hagopian • Shana Kay • Lisa Lyhne • Samantha Perry

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Abandon the app server Microsoft Cloud RoomJustin Wyer Big Love meets Big Data Room 4Shaune Jordaan Unit Testing by Example Room 6: Hacker roomAnna Filina Power of open source technologies Room 1Mitch Dart Entrepreneurship: Women in Digital in Africa IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer RoomTim Legg Office Optional : Delivering projects successfully using a distributed team Room 3Hendrik Schalekamp Growing an African technology start up into 15 countries in one year: Working with local partners to deliver to underserved emerging consumers in Africa Room 5Vahid Monadjem

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Lessons in failure from the trenches of a mobile startup in South Africa. Main RoomAndy Hadfield

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Building a community of tech savvy women - the Girl Geek Dinners JHB story Room 3Leigh-Ann Fowle • Kirsty Sharman Discover and share in Africa's creative community. Room 1Nicole Klassen Everything we need to know about product innovation, we can learn from toys. Room 5Alia Vahed FirefoxOS App Development Room 6: Hacker roomSchalk Neethling Building the BRCK for Africa Main RoomErik Hersman Tech Enterpreneurship in Africa IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer RoomTania van Wyk de Vries Online advertising: stand up comedy's second cousin Room 2Mike Sharman The Team Contract: From Personal Values to Team Statements Room 4Danie Roux Pitfalls of Mobile Workshop 1Craig Terblanche Real-world Azure Services in an agile start-up environment Microsoft Cloud RoomNicholas Botes

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How I grew Sleekgeek from 10 to 25,000 members in 24 months with no marketing budget Main RoomElan Lohman

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Networking Drinks Main Room