AfricaBeta Chat 3.0: TechCabal announces host, speakers
Award winning journalist and television personality Lamide Akintobi will host the premier edition of AfricaBeta, organiser TechCabal says.
AfricaBeta will on Saturday showcase the companies and individuals pushing the frontier, influencing how Africans experience a life in which technology has become essential, TechCabal said in a statement on Tuesday.
TechCabal, a Lagos-based pan-African technology news and analysis website, is organising the event in conjunction with fast growing mobile communication app WeChat.
The organisers, in the statement made available to Newsroom, named those who will speak at the event.
Etop Ikpe, the co-CEO of discounted deal website Dealdey; Adia Sowho, Director, Digital Business at Etisalat Nigeria; and Amber Fowler, a Partner and Chief of Staff (overseeing fund operations and portfolio development) at EchoVC, will speak at AfricaBeta the statement says.
The event, which has been tagged “Chat 3.0,” will be hosted by award winning journalist and television personality, Lamide Akintobi.
The statement reads in part:
“As part of AfricaBeta, three startups will demo on the AfricaBeta stage. The startups are the top seed from the Africabeta ideathon that ended last week. The startups will be announced on Wednesday, 30th September 2015.
“The ideathon is a parallel experience within AfricaBeta and the winning startup stands to gain an early deployment access to the WeChat platform and also a go-to-market support for their product or service.
“All participating startups will also be able to leverage WeChat’s built-in functionalities and get exposure to an audience of industry experts, technology and internet investors and savvy technology enthusiasts that can help turbocharge their ideas.”
