04/10/2012

Kenya To Host Inaugural DEMO Africa Technology Summit



The inaugural DEMO Africa technology summit will hold at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC), Nairobi, Kenya, from 24-26 October.

The DEMO conferences have been around for 22 years, mainly in United States, China and Brazil. Now it is Africa’s turn to host its first ever DEMO Africa conference. The event will provide 40 of the continent’s most innovative technological start-up firms with a platform to present their products to a global audience of investors, corporate companies and the media.

The 40 exhibiting firms were originally among 500 companies who battled it out to be selected by a pan-African panel of judges including entrepreneurs, investors and academics.

The 40 companies cover five categories: social media, cloud services, mobile, and consumer and enterprise technologies. The countries best represented are South Africa, Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria, while other nations include Cameroon, Senegal, Egypt, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

The conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies and DEMO Africa is poised to do just that. The event is supported by Kenya’s ministry of information and communication as well as major technological companies Nokia and Microsoft.


Source: CPAfrica

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