Last Updated 14 years ago by Kenya Engineer
Nairobi will this month be hosting the first ever Pan African technology launch pad in an event dubbed DEMO Africa. The event to run from 25th to 26th October is the flagship initiative of the Liberating Innovation in Opportunity Nations in Africa (LIONS@frica) consortium which will showcase some of Africa’s latest most innovative products. Its partners include DEMO, Microsoft, InfoDEV, Nokia and US Department of State.
The event to be held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) will be hosted by African eDevelopment Resource Centre and CIO East Africa under the auspices of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communication.
It attracts venture capitalists, angel Investors, investment fund managers, technology buyers, entrepreneurs, companies looking to buy start-ups, innovation supporters & the media.
40 demonstrators have been selected as finalists after three rigorous vetting processes with the final vetting and adjudication done by a pan-African panel of judges including entrepreneurs, academics and venture capital investors.
The 40 cover five categories – Social Media, Cloud Services, Mobile, Consumer and Enterprise Technologies. South Africa and Kenya take a big chunk of the final 40 with Ghana and Nigeria coming in a close second. Other countries represented included Cameroon, Senegal, Egypt, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
DEMO Africa Investor Round Tables are being organised to address the need for investment structures that can be tapped into by global investors. DEMO Africa and USAID had hosted the first round table in Nairobi on the 7thSeptember in an effort to understand what it’s all about at the Intercontinental hotel.
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