4 – 5 March 2019
Century City, Cape Town, South Africa
Africa | Transforming the World!
4 – 5 March 2019
Century City, Cape Town, South Africa
Africa | Transforming the World!
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Vision
Our Vision
Africa Tech Week is built on a massive purpose: Africa | Transforming the World!
Exponential technologies and business practices are rapidly altering the business landscape. Through the Topco Network, we strive to help businesses both large and small survive and thrive in the fourth industrial revolution.
At Africa Tech Week, we will show you how technology can be leveraged to make more money, save more money and become fully
You will be joining a host of disruptors, thought leaders, award-winners and investor darlings, who will relate how they have transformed the companies, industries and societies around themselves.
If you are serious about thriving in 2019 and beyond, and see yourself as a catalyst for powerful change, reserve your place at the main table.
IMPORTANT
Why It’s important to attend
The main sessions will feature addresses from world authorities on aspects of the 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). They will outline the challenges and different scenarios as well as the
The breakaways and focus sessions will include panels of world-leading authorities on the 4th Industrial Revolution’s effects on individual industry sectors, specific fields of production and different areas of commerce.
The expert panels will cover public and private policy aspects and their implications advantages and opportunities. It will also include industry’s leaders from the private sector, civil society, investors, partners, experts, academics all with their expert insight into the different ways artificial intelligence,cryptocurrency,IoT, will affect the future of African Development.
Sectors will include Building construction, Transport, Engineering, Automotive, Maritime, Agriculture, Security, Aquaculture, Energy generation, Water storage and delivery, Chemical industry and many others.These industries and their supporting suppliers and service providers will radically change the way they plan and function as the 4th Industrial Revolution takes hold.
SAVCA is proud to be a partner of Africa Tech Week where the focus is not only on preparing Africa for the 4th Industrial Revolution, but also exploring the insurmountable opportunities this wave of change offers. SAVCA and its members are excited to explore the
Tanya van Lill
CEO, Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
News
In the news
Keynote Speaker – Salim Ismail
Salim is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations, a sought-after business strategist, and a serial entrepreneur, having founded technology companies including Confabb, PubSub Concepts, and Ångströ, which was acquired by Google in 2010. He led Brickhouse, Yahoo!’s internal incubator, and was recently named an XPRIZE Foundation Board member. Salim is also Founding Executive Director of Singularity University; Chairman of ExO Works; Founder of The
Exponential Organizations reached No. 1 on Amazon’s “Best-Sellers in Business Management,” and was named Frost & Sullivan’s “Growth, Innovation and Leadership Book of the Year.” ExO Works and its corresponding Network were founded to transform global business by catapulting organizations into the world of exponential thinking.
Works counts numerous global, Fortune 1000 companies as clients, with more coming
Recently, Ismail founded The
Salim is a prolific speaker, having given more than 100 talks in 2017 to audiences of all sizes in 12 different countries. He has been profiled across a vast array of media outlets, including The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, WIRED, Vogue, and the BBC.
kickstart
KICKSTART YOUR TRANSFORMATION
What can you achieve in just 10 weeks?
Africa Tech Week
WHAT #ATW IS ALL ABOUT
Africa Tech Week is a technology conference, an exhibition and a Technology Awards Ceremony. It focuses on educating South Africa and other African countries on the challenges and opportunities to be gained by their drafting appropriate plans and policies for the 4th Industrial revolution. The African Tech Week will also recognize and reward companies on the continent that have demonstrated excellence in the area of innovative product development. The speed of current breakthroughs has no historical precedent.
When compared with previous industrial revolutions, the fourth is evolving at an exponential rather than a linear pace. Moreover, it is disrupting almost every industry in every country. The
The possibilities of billions of people connected by mobile devices, with unprecedented processing power, storage capacity, and access to knowledge, are unlimited. These possibilities will be multiplied by emerging technology breakthroughs in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things, autonomous vehicles, 3-d printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science,
PARTNERS
Partners already on-board
Those that know what opportunity Africa yields
