AfricaCom is getting even bigger and better in 2014 – alongside it’s usual 3 days of strategic conference content (delivered by 300+ business supremos and digital gurus), specialist events, workshops and networking, this year’s AfricaCom has a record-breaking 375+ exhibitors (see the full listing here) showcasing their solutions and services. Plus the exhibition incorporates a host of new features from the Africa Com Village to the Google Big Data & Cloud Developer Zone to the Mobile Marketing Zone to the Entrepreneur Incubator Hub and of course the highly-popular Africa Com Masterclass Theatre…
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Africa Com this year also brings you a host of new topics including : SDN and network Virtualisation, the Internet of Things, Video-on-Demand, a big focus on Multi-platform OTT Innovation, VoLTE, agile business, VSAT and more.
Headlining speakers include:
Christian de Faria, CEO, Airtel Africa
Chris Daniels, VP or product of Internet.org, Facebook
Marc Rennard, EVP, Africa, Middle East & Asia, Orange
Zunaid Bulbulia, Chief executive Officer, MTN SA
Arthur Bastings, EVP Africa, Millicom
January Makamba, MP, Minister of Communications, Tanzania
With momentum behind LTE in Africa increasing significantly over the past 12 months, the 2nd Annual LTE Africa event will take place at an extremely exciting yet crucial time for the industry. Topics covered include: Successful deploment of LTE, LTE roaming, Opportunities for TDE-LTE, LTE standardisation and spectrum management.
The Africacom 100 is a brand new feature for this year that brings together the 100 most influential names in Africa’s telecoms, media and ICT industry. A recent survey of these influencers has already been conducted and you can see the published results here
Africa Cast returns for a 4th year with a brand new Multi Platform Focus Day. It continues to develop as the major broadcast show in Sub-Saharan Africa. This year the two overarching themes will be OTT Video and the DTT project with key representatives from Multichoice, iROKOtv, BuniTV and Zuku confirmed to speak.
VSAT Africa 2014 will be the only focused show to take place on the African continent, bringing together an audience of senior decision making leaders in the VSAT community to debate and discuss the commercial and technical challenges of operating a VSAT network in Africa.
Africa is not giving up its crown of leader of mobile financial services anytime soon! Returning for a 2nd year the Mobile Money event showcases the revenue-generating innovations for operators and other stakeholders.
Following a successful launch in 2013, Digital Music Africa will debate how the market in shaping in Africa and discuss business models and partnerships to ensure services are monetised and revenues are shared equitably.
TM Forum Live! at AfricaCom, is focusing on how to transform to a digital business by tapping into the wisdom of our 1000 high tech member companies with a specific focus on advances such as data analytics, virtualization and the impact of the ‘internet of things’ to help you reduce cost and risk, increase agility and customer satisfaction and ultimately drive better profits in the digital world.
The acclaimed Africa Com Masterclasses provide a highly interactive line-up of demos; mini-training; hosted debates and analytic interviews all without leaving the beating heart of where business is done at Africa Com. This year’s bite-sized delights include: digital market trends and forecasts, broadband strategies, Value-Added Services, Customer Experience Management, innovation, and a session dedicated to tech start-ups.
African developers are looking to take advantage of the digital enterprise and develop for local needs, local cultures and for local economic boost. Furthermore, cloud based technologies are becoming central to the way African developers seek to monetize their apps. If you are currently reaching out to African developers, leading telcos, mobile marketing agencies and enterprises focused on monetising the mobile experience.
The AfricaCom Awards are open to any Operator, Vendor and Regulator, of any size, and any location who offers solutions or products anywhere within Africa. Find out more about the entry criteria, and make sure you apply by Friday 5th September 2014 through our easy-to use online entry system.
