The classified ads platform CoinAfrique has raised € 2.5 million euros from several investors, thereby cementing its ambition to become the mobile audience leader in francophone Africa. New shareholders include Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), an impact investment fund dedicated to SMEs in sub-Saharan Africa, and a pool of investors represented by French Partners and Mercure…
Registration is now open for the African Women Summit For Peace & Development in Africa organised by COWAP.It provides is an opportunity to network, cross fertilize ideas, meet high level officials of donor agencies, learn new and innovative ideas as regards innovation and its nexus with sustainable development, make friends and be a part of Africa’s Development….
Africa’s scientists and innovators descend on Kigali, Rwanda, for the Next Einstein Forum Global Gathering 2018 set to be held on 26 – 28 March 2018. The three-day forum brings together over 1200 leading scientists, policymakers, business leaders, civil society leaders and entrepreneurs to showcase Africa’s contributions to the global scientific endeavor and how this…
ITU Telecom World 2018, will take place in Durban, South Africa, from 10 to 13 September, at the Durban International Convention Center (ICC).Organized by ITU Telecom (part of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU),the United Nations specialized agency for ICTs), ITU Telecom World 2018 provides an international platform for government, business and tech SMEs to exhibit…
DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has announced that the company has signed on as title sponsor for the 2018 DHL eCommerce MoneyAfrica Conference & Exhibition (Confex), which will be hosted at the new East Wing of the Cape Town International Convention Center on the 14th and 15th of March 2018. The DHL eCommerce MoneyAfrica Confex has established itself…
Seedstars World (SSW), the global community and platform for entrepreneurs in technology in emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, is hosting the third annual Seedstars Africa Summitthat connects the most relevant players in innovation and technology in Africa with the world and between each other. Tickets are available now on www.seedstarsafrica.com. After hosting competitions in 20 Africa…
More than 100 senior executives, entrepreneurs and thought-leaders from media, tech, business and civil society will gather in Accra from Sunday 12 to Tuesday 14 November, for the annual Africa Business Media Innovators summit (ABMI), to discuss the changing face of media and new hybrid models. Convened by Bloomberg Philanthropies in partnership with the Ford Foundation, Africa…
Africa-ASEAN Business Expo & Forum in Johannesburg,South Africa is designed to be the strategic platform that links businesses between ASEAN and the African Union.Investors, manufacturers, importers and distributors will meet their counterparts from ten South East Asian (ASEAN) nations at the inaugural Africa-ASEAN Business Expo (AABE) and Forum. DATE: 6 to 8 November 2017 TIME: All day VENUE: Sandton Convention Centre…
The Mastercard Foundation recently announced that its fifth annual Symposium on Financial Inclusion (SoFI) will take place in Accra, Ghana, on November 7 – 9, 2017. The Symposium champions the idea that, to achieve greater financial inclusion, financial service providers in developing countries must do more to meet the needs and expectations of people living…
DFS Lab, a fintech accelerator funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, recently announced they were accepting applications for their third fintech bootcamp, which will be held Dec. 3-9,2017 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Lab seeks to identify promising entrepreneurs and invest in companies that focus specifically on consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa and…
The 2017 edition of the Nigeria Innovation Summit with the theme: ‘Transforming Nigeria’s Economy through Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship’, organized by Emerging Media, held at the Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos on September 7, 2017 was successfully concluded with the participation of over 350 delegates and stakeholders. The delegates cut across Federal and State government, International…
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The Nigeria Innovation Summit is an annual event that focuses on the need for the country,businesses,organisations,entrepreneurs in Nigeria to become more innovative and apply innovation to drive sustainable development as we work together to bridge the digital divide.This summit helps Nigeria embrace innovation and move in the direction of digital transformation through the use of…
The Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS), an international annual event that promotes innovation in Nigeria is set to once again gather stakeholders across all sectors of Nigeria’s economy to share ideas, trends, and opportunities around technology, innovation and entrepreneurship development. The Summit scheduled to hold on September 7, 2017 at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, with the…
Israel as a Startup Nation is doing well for itself in bringing out great innovations from Israel to the world.The Tel Aviv Startup ecosystem which is ranked the 3rd in the world is a major contributor to Israel being a leading innovation ecosystem. There is so much African Startups can gain from the Israel Innovation…
Nigeria Innovation Summit 2017 will focus on Technology,Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Nigeria.The summit will hold on September 7-8,2017 at Sheraton Hotels,Ikeja lagos. The Nigeria Innovation Summit is an annual event that focuses on the need for the country,businesses,organisations,entrepreneurs in Nigeria to become more innovative and apply innovation to drive sustainable development as we work together to…
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in partnership with Robert Bosch Stiftung, today announces the launch of NEF Africa Science Week in 13 African countries throughout June 2017. NEF Ambassadors, local science and technology champions, together with support of local academic, public and private sector stakeholders…
Johannesburg will once again host the world’s largest and most important Sub-Saharan African entertainment content market, DISCOP Johannesburg. This year DISCOP Johannesburg has created a program specifically aimed to support and develop independent producers from across Africa. The 6th edition of DISCOP Johannesburg will take place from October 25th to 27th at the Sandton Convention Centre, specifically scheduled so…
Photo shows: (L-r): Reginald Osuji, project executive; Loveth Igbo, project executive; Tony Ajah, director, all from Nigeria Innovation Summit;Rosemary Agu, direct sales manager, DigitalPR-Wire; Olajide Ojeniyi,Western Regional Coordinator, Nigeria Innovation Summit and SamuelSalami, director, Operations, DigitalPR-Wire, during a press conference to announce preparations of the Summit, held in Lagos on Wednesday DigitalPR-Wire’s innovative approach to…
Africa’s premier infrastructure summit, AFC Live, has welcomed more than 600 leading thinkers from government, academia, business and finance and fuelled ground breaking debate on both the opportunities and the challenges of investing in infrastructure in Africa. Keynote speakers including HE Yemi Osinbajo, Acting President of Nigeria, and Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the former Governor of…
Pics:African Innovation Foundation Founder, Mr Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais meeting with H.E. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, the President of Ghana to discuss investment opportunities and hosting IPA 2017 in Ghana. The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) in collaboration with the Government of Ghana, represented by the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Ghana…
The World Economic Forum in Partnership with the Government of the Republic of South Africa will hold the World Economic Forum on Africa in Durban,South Africa between 3-5 May 2017.The forum will convene regional and global leaders from business, government and civil society to agree priorities that will help Africa achieve inclusive growth. Africa is facing…
The recent N756.3m grant to 81 young Nigerian innovators as part of the Federal Government’s Economic Empowerment initiatives is a welcomed development as it is focused on increasing digital innovation and entrepreneurship in Nigeria. As an organisation that promotes technology,innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa we are offering this opportunity to our followers on the social media…
No other organisation covers or really supports Emerging Markets like the SeedStars. In 2014,I witnessed this in one of their events around the world. SeedStars is a leading global movement that supports and creates opportunities for Emerging Markets around the world.They have seen the opportunities in these markets as 57% of world GDP comes from emerging markets….
African Regional Internet and Development Dialogue Enhancing Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Education in Africa through the Internet When: 08-09 May 2017 Where: Kigali Marriott Hotel, Kigali, Rwanda The Internet Society recently announced that it will hold the first ever Africa Regional Internet and Development Dialogue from 8-9 May 2017 in Kigali,Rwanda, in partnership with UNESCO and…
Africa Tech Summit holds in London in April 20th.Africa Tech Summit London (ATSLDN) is the leading African tech event in Europe providing unrivaled insight and networking with the African tech ecosystem.The summit brings together 200+ tech leaders, international investors, entrepreneurs, African governments, trade bodies, media and leading ventures to drive investment and business between Africa and Europe….
Leading digital payment solutions provider,Mastercard, has been unveiled as the headline sponsor of the 6th Edition of the CashlessAfrica Conference and Expo.The event is organised by Mobile Money Africa and is scheduled for 22 to 23 March, at the Oriental Hotel,Lekki in Lagos, Nigeria. The CashlessAfrica Conference and Expo is a platform for technology companies,FinTech’s…
SIMA, the Paris International Agri-Business Show, will take place from 26 February to 2 March 2017 at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre (France). This major international trade show will take a look at what farming professions will be like in 10 years’ time through the eyes of manufacturers and start-up companies – and their innovations…
The 1st International Summit of the Triple Helix Association (THA) will be held on 4th-6th April, 2017 at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. The theme of this THA international conference is “Accelerating the Attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Through ICT and Data”. The Triple Helix Summit will seek to catalyze the overall attainment of…
Connect with Global Opportunity at BLAST in Rome.Blast is the brand new international event that gathers and connects professionals, enterprises, technology leaders, investors and startups from all over the world to boost and spread new business and effective actions. According to the BLAST “Connections are vital for the Blast Team and we do believe that…