Cape Town, 28 January 2019. AFRICA TECH WEEK, speaking to all start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises, business organisations, national and regional entities focused on digital disruption, is set to become the largest annual tech conference in Africa. The...

The preceding industrial revolutions instigated progression: Mechanisation. Production. Technology. Each revolution lasted for almost 100 years and each one gravitated towards greatness and towards greed. At the root of each revolution was technology and people....

Over the past few years, technology and communication tools have fuelled the gig economy worldwide, enabling employees to work on their own terms and increasing the size of the pool of employees organisations can choose from.   The gig economy is the labour market in...

Exponential growth comes to business Africa. Cape Town, South Africa, 21 November 2018 – Host Topco Media is pleased to announce Salim Ismail as Keynote Speaker for the inaugural Africa Tech Week (4-6 March 2019, Century City). Ismail is the founder of tech companies...

Bridging the SA talent divide with AI By Frans Cronje, Managing Director: DataProphet South Africa is open to business and looking to reignite its struggling economy under the rule of newly-appointed President Cyril Ramaphosa. However, without urgent action on South...

By Simon Carpenter, Chief Technology Advisor, SAP Africa In a recent meeting, I was asked to extemporise on the topic of “Human-less Operations” with the underlying theme being how various subsets of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will enable us to hyper-automate...