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TechInAfrica – The annual event of 2019 AfricaCom Awards will kick off in Cape Town, South Africa from November 12 – 14, 2019. Meanwhile, the top honors of the Awards will be revealed on the second day, at The Lookout in the V&A Waterfront. The AfricaCom Awards is one of the world’s biggest and most respected awards in the industry of technology, telecommunications, and media.
The full list of the shortlisted finalists for each category of the 2019 AfricaCom Awards is:
- Best Connected Consumer Device
- Huawei Technologies
- Orange (Smart Wifi)
- Orange (SANZA)
- Best Innovation for Enterprise
- Comviva Technologies Ltd
- LMT
- MTN South Africa & Huawei
- MTN Uganda & Huawei
- SqwidNet
- Best Digital Entertainment Innovation
- Orange
- Telecoming
- Best Network Management Software
- Ericsson
- Mavenir
- MTN & Huawei
- Orange – Huawei
- PCCW Global
- Changing Lives Award
- Erissson South Africa in partnership with Wot-If? Trust
- iShamba Limited
- ISOCEL Telecom
- KaiOS Technologies
- Liquid Telecom
- Orange
- Connecting the Continent Award
- Angola Cables
- Cambridge Broadband Networks (CNBL)
- Liquid Telecom
- Orange
- Parallel Wireless
- PCCW Global
- Upstream Systems
- CXO of the Year
- Anthoinet Ohene-Amoah, CEO, GetHer In Digital
- Antonio Nunes, CEO, Angola Cables
- Charles Molapisi, CTO, MTN Group
- Gerard Lokossou, CEO, Orange DRC
- Richmond Nagbe Tobii, Managing Director, LIBTELCO
- Stephane Duproz, CEO, Africa Data Centres
- Yonny Firedman, co-Founder and CEO, Menta Music
- Delivering Excellence in Customer Experience
- Alepo Technologies Inc.
- Ericsson & MTN Group
- MTN & Huawei
- MTN South Africa & Huawei
- Orange
- Enterprise CXO of the Year
- Ainojie (Alex) Irune, COO, Oando Energy Resources
- Busiswa Lutshaba, Director, Blu Space Communications SA
- Irene Kiwia, Founder and CEO, Twaa
- Kasango Dickens, CEO, Pison Public Relations
- Niklas Ekdahl, CEO, Connected Video at Multichoice
- Rebatho Madiba, Acting CIO, Transnet
- Tijan Chorr, Founder and CEO, LagaAfrik
- Warren Hero, CDO, Webber Wentzel
- Everything as a Service – Best Cloud or Application Solution
- Mavenir
- PCCW Global
- Orange
- Verimatrix
- Most Innovative Service – The Business of Tomorrow
- BRCK
- Cassava Smartech and Comviva Technologies Ltd
- KaiOS Technologies
- Safaricom & Huawei
- Tramigo
- World Telecom Labs and iPlans
- Security Product or Service of the Year
- Orange
- Upstream Systems
The 2019 AfricaCom Awards is sponsored by PCCW Global and expecting about 15,000 attendees, 450 speakers, and 500 exhibitors demonstrating technologies and solutions that cover 5G, AI, IoT, FinTech, Blockchain, amongst others. This year’s event will be run under the theme Secret Garden in which marking the juxtaposition between the natural and digital worlds.
Source: techtrendske.co.ke
