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TechInAfrica – BigFive Summit will be held at V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, on May 13 to 15, 2019. The Summit will be featured with a series of workshops and headline talks to induce ideas. Moreover, the attendees will share their insights and practical advice, creating digital solutions for SMEs across Africa and the Middle East.
The attendees will include entrepreneurs, startups, tech companies, digital agencies, as well as thought leaders in the Africa Middle East (AME) digital tech ecosystem. The main agenda of the BigFive Summit aligns with the cornerstone pillars that support the local digital commerce ecosystem, including Search, Social, Mobile, Location, and Payments.
The event encourages attendees who want to play an active role in advancing the SME sector through digital marketing, transactional e-commerce, productivity improvement, and back-office efficiency.
Thabo Seopa, Co-Founder of BigFive Digital, commented: “In recent years, as a direct consequence of the explosive growth in smartphone adoption, literally millions of African & Middle Eastern consumers are experiencing the online world for the first time.”
He added, “We created BigFive Digital to serve and support the growing community of media, mobile, technology and software companies who are providing the infrastructure that allows local SMEs to participate in this digital revolution.”
The BigFive Summit aims at promoting and sustaining the local commerce ecosystem through best-practice and knowledge sharing across many topics of mutual interest in order to generate advantageous partnerships and business development opportunities.
“It is very much our intention to provide a platform for market-leading African & Middle Eastern media, marketing and technology vendors to learn, share and collaborate with their regional and global peers,” Paul Plant, Digital’s Director of Operations at BigFive, said.
“It is very much our intention to provide a platform for market-leading African & Middle Eastern media, marketing and technology vendors to learn, share and collaborate with their regional and global peers,” he added.
For further information about the BigFive Summit, visit www.bigfivedigital.org/summit.
