Tech4Africa will focus on the role mobile, emerging and web technologies have to play in Africa. Speakers will look at the funding landscape in Africa and what cloud computing, Web 2.0, the mobile internet, and other emerging technologies mean for businesses and society.
The keynote speaker, Clay Shirky, is an experienced speaker on topics related to the web, social media and the internet. Shirky has spoken at events such as TED Global, SXSW, the Web 2.0 expo in New York and San Francisco, SES San Jose, the Adobe Learning Summit, New York Tech Meetup and the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Other top technologists at the conference include Dustin Diaz, a user interface engineer at Twitter and author of JavaScript Design Patterns; Joe Stump, the former lead architect of social news Web site Digg and co-founder of SimpleGeo; Matthew Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress; and John Resig, creator of the popular Javascript library jQuery, and a Javascript tool developer for Mozilla.
Other African technologists in attendance include Steve Vosloo, the 21st century learning fellow for the Shuttleworth Foundation; Barbara Mallinson, founder of educational collaboration platform Obami; Agosta Liko, founder of mobile payment service PesaPal, and Erik Hersman, the co-founder of open source crisis information site Ushahidi.
View the current lineup of speakers.
The focus for the event is on interaction, discussion and sharing with attendees the future of the web and emerging technology in Africa, and the role Africans can and are playing globally.
Tech4Africa includes two days of workshops and a day for SeedCamp before the main event. View the schedule.
To register for the event, go to http://tech4africa.com/register/
For more information, go to http://tech4africa.com or follow @tech4africa on Twitter.
