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Wednesday
, October 8
IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room
09:15 •
6 x Startups providing a 6 Minute pitch with 4 minutes Q&A.
10:15 •
Mentor Session 1
10:45 •
Break
11:00 •
Mentor Session 2
11:30 •
Mentor Session 3
12:00 •
Mentor Session 4
12:30 •
Lunch
13:00 •
Mentor Session 5
13:30 •
Mentor Session 6
14:00 •
6 x Final round of 6 minute pitches with 4 minutes Q&A from the Judges only
15:00 •
Judges deliberate based on mentor feed back, personal assessment and Peoples vote*.
Main Room
09:00 •
Welcome introduction: What is Tech4Africa? & What to expect?
12:15 •
Impact of the Mobile Internet Revolution: UK = Navigating & Entertaining; Africa = Life Changing
14:00 •
Why I'm betting my brand and income on internet radio
15:45 •
Welcome and IBM Global Entrepreneurial Program Overview, what taken place so far &Announcement of the Johannesburg SmartCamp winner
16:00 •
4 x Smartcamp winners providing a 6 Minute pitch with 4 minutes Q&A
16:30 •
Worldwide Tech Trends
17:00 •
The future of Mobile: what does 750m mobile SIM cards really mean for Africa?
17:45 •
Announcement of the regional SmartCamp Winner, interviews, photos etc
18:00 •
Networking Function - Rooftop Party
Microsoft Cloud Room
09:30 •
Cloud and the Democratization of Developer Platforms
10:45 •
JIRA as an agile business operations enabler
15:00 •
Making Beautiful Apps for iOS, Android and Windows using one language
Room 1
09:15 •
Build your own drone ( Overveiw)
10:15 •
Leveraging the WeChat platform for faster mobile communities and engagement
12:15 •
Digital Art: Tunis to Joburg. Innovation and New Tech leading Futurist African Arts Practices.
15:00 •
The African Startup Landscape. What to expect, how to navigate it and what you need to do to succeed in it
Room 2
09:15 •
Mobile payments in context... The intersection of mobile payments and the iBeacon
10:30 •
Ming & Mong build a payments company
12:00 •
Use the iVeri open source code to enable instant MPos App development
15:00 •
Operation e-Commerce. It's a #%!@?!
Room 3
09:15 •
How to Speak to your customers, understand and other lessons of startup comms
10:15 •
Seven Secrets to Smart Marketing without a Smartphone
11:15 •
Want SA to be a global tech leader? Reinvent tech education
12:15 •
Connected commerce – The rise of the consumer seller
15:00 •
Using technology effectively in disadvantaged schools
Room 4
09:15 •
The path to software development mastery
10:15 •
Technical Concepts for the Business Analyst
11:15 •
Salary Survey Results - Jobsburn
12:15 •
'Got the moves like Facebook?” - Connect and search data
15:00 •
Original ideas from emerging markets that are transforming the world
Room 5
09:15 •
Functional Programming for the rest of us
10:15 •
Infrastructure as code with Ansible.
11:15 •
The Business Side of Brilliance: Basic Start-up Skills for Talented Beginners
12:15 •
Kent Beck's 4 Rules of Simple Design Explored
15:00 •
User Experience - Myths, Strategy and a Practical Approach
Room 6: Hacker room
09:15 •
We recommend - Recommendations with Apache Mahout
10:15 •
Speed Up Your Database
11:15 •
The Hacker Movement in South Africa - Has it finally arrived?
12:15 •
Bro, do you even lift? An introduction to heavy lifting with Hadoop
15:00 •
How game development tools are years ahead.
Workshop 1
09:30 •
Continuos Delivery in Practice
15:00 •
Future of photography
Thursday
, October 9
IBM SmartCamp & Entrepenuer Room
10:15 •
Entrepreneurship & Brand Building
11:15 •
Walking the tightrope of success: what it takes to get a tech start-up off the ground in South Africa
12:15 •
Entrepreneurship: Women in Digital in Africa
15:00 •
Tech Enterpreneurship in Africa
Main Room
09:00 •
Welcome introduction: What is Tech4Africa? & Where to from here?
09:15 •
GO BIG & GO HOME
10:15 •
Moving through the crowd
12:00 •
Women in Tech: Yes, there are women in tech!
14:00 •
Lessons in failure from the trenches of a mobile startup in South Africa.
15:00 •
Building the BRCK for Africa
16:00 •
How I grew Sleekgeek from 10 to 25,000 members in 24 months with no marketing budget
17:00 •
Networking Drinks
Microsoft Cloud Room
10:15 •
Utilizing cloud computing for risk batch processing.
11:15 •
Ecommerce Warehousing & Fulfilment
12:15 •
Abandon the app server
15:00 •
Real-world Azure Services in an agile start-up environment
Room 1
10:15 •
Sci Bono Clubhouse
11:15 •
The Future of Online Gaming (Local and Abroad)
12:15 •
Power of open source technologies
15:00 •
Discover and share in Africa's creative community.
Room 2
10:15 •
Speed & Scalability with Amazon AWS, S3, Route 53, Elasticache, Fastly, RDS, Magento and more!
15:00 •
Online advertising: stand up comedy's second cousin
Room 3
10:15 •
A local solution for a global problem
11:15 •
The story of bookly. Creating a feature-phone friendly writing and reading platform to improve literacy in South Africa
12:15 •
Office Optional : Delivering projects successfully using a distributed team
15:00 •
Building a community of tech savvy women - the Girl Geek Dinners JHB story
Room 4
10:15 •
Mobile is the most formidable Media platform in Africa
11:15 •
The power of simplicity in Technology
12:15 •
Big Love meets Big Data
15:00 •
The Team Contract: From Personal Values to Team Statements
Room 5
10:15 •
Upgrade yourself: Wearable Technology for knowledge worker
11:15 •
Anatomy of an African Tech Startup
12:15 •
Growing an African technology start up into 15 countries in one year: Working with local partners to deliver to underserved emerging consumers in Africa
15:00 •
Everything we need to know about product innovation, we can learn from toys.
Room 6: Hacker room
10:15 •
MongoDB Sharding - go big with NOSQL
11:15 •
See how cloud was always meant to be: IBM's Bluemix, your enterprise grade cloud sandbox
12:15 •
Unit Testing by Example
15:00 •
FirefoxOS App Development
Workshop 1
10:15 •
An Android Masterclass
15:00 •
Pitfalls of Mobile
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IBM SmartCamp
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