Africa’s annual premier tech event, TecXposition 2021 has been scheduled to hold from November 11th-12th 2021. The virtual event will serve as a chance for participants to experience technology from a global perspective, with local outcomes as well as demystifying tech to improve profitability and enhance everyday living.
The theme for this year’s edition is ‘Improving profitability: Changing everyday lives’, the virtual event will bring together over 100 speakers, 100 investors, and 5,000 guests including:
- Amy Jadesimi – CEO, LADOL
- Dr. Jacques Attali – President, Positive Planet Foundation
- George James – Founder, Be-Hookd Digital
- Hafsat Abiola – President, Women in Africa Initiative
- Neha Joshi – Global Managing Director, Accenture Security
- Michael T. Young – Director, Caterpillar Ventures
- Natalia Karayaneva – CEO, Propy
- Nanhi Singh – Chief Customer Officer, Imperva
- Ore Adeyemi, Managing Director, and Global Head, HSBC Invest
- Professor Pat Utomi – Founder, Centre for Value in Leadership
- Sidney Kombo-Kintombo – Award-winning animation supervisor
The event will cover trending matters on subjects such as Crypto, Digital, Cybersecurity, Entrepreneurship, Impact, Investment, and Sustainability across several industry verticals, including Agriculture, Sports, Real Estate, Transportation, Health, and Education.
The virtual event will also host a conference aimed at understanding the fundamentals of the key technology domains in play, how these tech domains work separately and together, as well as understanding how best they can be used to deliver tangible gains.
Interestingly, startups can also participate in a ‘Best of Africa’ startup pitch competition, as well as the TecXposition Hackathon, which aims to bring exposure to talent in Africa as they collaborate to create original technologies for solving six challenges.
For the first time, there will be an Expert Series that will see industry experts dish out training. In addition, there will be Africa’s Game Jam competition, designed to challenge participants to build and present mobile games in the space three weeks. Participants must share a playable version of the game with Be-Games in a bid to win PAID internships.
Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, Ify Nwoyeocha, Global Executive Leader says: “This is just the beginning for Africa. We expect to see monumental changes that showcase not only the enormous and resilient talent but the technological firsts across the continent.”
For more information or to speak, sponsor or register visit https://tecxposition.com/
