Partners

Internet Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimension Data.  The company is Southern Africa’s most established and experienced Internet Service Provider. Since 1993 Internet Solutions has been providing end-to-end connectivity solutions and related services across the African continent. Today IS is a provider of Internet Protocol-based Connectivity, Communications, Cloud and Carrier services in the African market and for African clients into the global market. IS provides services to large public and private sector organisations, medium sized organisations, and through its value channel program to smaller organisations and consumers.

Recognised as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, smartphones and TFT-LCDs. Through its experience, Samsung has realised the importance of apps in both the global and local market. By expanding its breadth and depth of apps, Samsung is able to enhance user experience and engagement across multiple devices. Globally, mobile application store downloads are forecast to reach 17.7 billion downloads in 2011, a 117% increase from an estimated 8.2 billion downloads in 2010*. With this in mind, Samsung is committed to driving relevant content and apps specific for the African Market.For more information please go to samsungapps.com
* Forecast: Mobile Application Stores, Wordwide, 2008-2014, Gartner

Realmdigital is a South African e-business strategy and technology partner, specialising in web, mobile and social software development. The company has proven local and international success in building leading online businesses. Founded in 1999 by CEO Wesley Lynch, the company lists industry-leading clients across all industries, with a strong install base in retail, travel and publishing. Realmdigital’s e-business engagements are grounded in a strong solution portfolio that integrates with best-in-class technologies, including CMS, CRM, Mobile and Intranet platforms. In addition we offer an established lead development capability and advanced partner management and project methodology.
Find Realm Digital on Twitter @realmdigital and Facebook www.facebook.com/realmdigital

Founded in 1968, Intel Corporation has grown into the world’s largest semiconductor company. Intel’s products and technologies are at the heart of computing solutions that have become essential parts of businesses, homes and schools around the world. These technologies are being used to tackle some of the world’s most complex problems – in areas that include education, healthcare, economic development, and environmental sustainability. The company’s products include microprocessors, chipsets and other semiconductor products integral to computers, servers, note- and netbooks, as well as consumer electronics, handheld devices and connected “embedded” products becoming part of cars, shopping kiosks and ATMs. From primary schools to leading universities, Intel is committed to improving the quality of education around the world. Over the past decade alone Intel has invested over US$1 billion and Intel’s over 80 000 employees have donated over 2,5 million hours toward improving education in more than 50 countries.

Official Airline Partner
Virgin Atlantic - Safety, security and consistent delivery of the basics are the foundation of everything we do. The success of our three year strategy requires us to build on these foundations by focusing on the business and leisure markets and driving efficiency and effectiveness.

Official Media Partner
Memeburn (pronounced “meem”) is an award-winning site that tracks emerging technologies primarily in emerging markets, which include the BRICs* countries. Innovation, mobile technology, the start-up scene, and general tech culture and online business are all subjects Memeburn covers. Via sister site Gearburn, the site looks at the latest gadget reviews and news from around the world, including video reviews. Memeburn plays particular attention to the web, mobile, social media, online media and social networking fields. A mixture of the site’s own journalists, contributors, columnists and key opinion leaders world-wide write for Memeburn, providing their insights on the online world. If you’d like to submit an article for consideration or apply to be an author, then you may visit this link to apply: http://memeburn.com/contribute/.
Find Memeburn on Twitter: @memeburn and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/memeburn

Official Media Partner
VC4Africa.biz a fast growing social network for investors and entrepreneurs building businesses on the continent. We have members from 159 countries and support more than 140 ventures in 25 African countries. We connect entrepreneurs with the network, information and capital they need to grow and scale their ideas. We focus on innovation sectors and ventures that leverage technology, green entrepreneurship or a social enterprise model. VC4Africa also network offline and have hosted VC4Africa meetups in Kampala, Nairobi, Kigali, Johannesburg, Lagos, Abuja, Douala, Buea, Dakar, Tunis, Alexandria, San Francisco, Atlanta, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Richmond, Boston, London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels and Leuven.
Find VC4Africa on Twitter: @VC4Africa

Official Media Partner
TechCentral, founded in 2009, is South Africa’s leading quality technology news and analysis website. With a fast-growing audience of IT professionals, the website has quickly established itself as the go-to destination for breaking news and in-depth opinion on a range of subjects in IT and telecommunications. Founded and edited by former Financial Mail technology editor Duncan McLeod, TechCentral covers everything from the latest developments in broadband to what’s happening among the country’s technology start-ups.
Find TechCentral on Twitter @TechCentral

Official Media Partner
Since 2008, The Digital Edge Podcast has been the official voice of the Digital Marketing Space. It covers news, trends and technology that help marketers reach their customers and potential customers. The podcast is independently produced by Erich Viedge and sponsored by prominent South African digital agency Native. The Digital Edge Podcast is proud once again to be an official media partner for Tech4Africa.
Find Digital Edge on Twitter @digitedge

Official Media Partner
Silicon Cape is a non-profit organisation aimed at encouraging IT and Technology entrepreneurship in the Western Cape with the aim of helping build the greater Cape Town area into the "Silicon Valley of Africa." It was founded in 2008 by a couple of successful entrepreneurs who brought various entrepreneurs, investors and service providers in the industry together. The formed an online community on www.siliconcape.com, currently with over 3200 members, where members could network, join in forums and collaborate on ideas. This has lead to a couple of large networking events where members from within the industry can meet and greet.
Find Silicon Cape on Twitter: @siliconcape

Official Media Partner
The Daily Maverick is South Africa's premier source of online news and analysis. With 140,000 of the most influential decision makers in South Africa as its readers, the Daily Maverick has gained a reputation for journalism of the highest degree, winning the industry award for the best online editorial team in South Africa. Publishing 100% original produced content, the Daily Maverick team of journalists have grown to become the leading voice for independent commentary on political and current affairs in South Africa. iMaverick is the continent's first dedicated iPad daily newspaper, compiled by the same award-winning Daily Maverick team.
Find Silicon Cape on Twitter: @dailymaverick

Experience Design Partner
Origin Interactive is a digital media agency specialising in User Experience (UX), User Experience Design (UXD), visual design, interaction design andinformation architecture for any digital solution (Online solutions/websites,Corporate Intranets, LOB applications, Multi-touch applications, Mobile sitesand more). Taught andtrained at a top UK digital agency, we offer over 10 years of internationalexperience to the emerging South African digital market place. We are committedto advancing the User Experience Design (UXD) field in South Africa and arepassionate about strengthening the relationshipsbetween our clients and their users through our user-centered design approach. We dream,design and build solutions, knowing that users react emotionally, instinctivelyand individually to digital media. In everything we create, we pride ourselvesin delivering great digital experiences for people.

Official Search Partner
The-Media-Image is a leading integrated digital marketing agency specialising in Search Engine Marketing. We focus on delivering a maximum return on investment for our clients through a range of Digital Marketing Services including, Paid Search, SEO, Display, analytics , mobile search and display, social media, affiliate, and training and consultancy. We service global clients and agencies around the world and have offices in Cape Town and London.

Official Technology Partner
Mozilla's mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web. We do this by creating great software, like the Firefox browser, and building movements, like Drumbeat, that give people tools to take control of their online lives. As a non-profit organization, we define success in terms of building communities and enriching people’s lives instead of benefiting shareholders. We believe in the power and potential of the Internet and want to see it thrive for everyone, everywhere.

Official Technology Partner
pMailer is South Africa’s leading bulk email and SMS communication platform. Every day hundreds of top brands use pMailer to send millions of messages to customers and subscribers. pMailer was originally built for publishers that need time sensitive breaking news to be delivered to large subscriber databases. Emails are the paperboys of the digital world, delivering news headlines, enticing traffic to websites and growing subscriber numbers. In 2007, pMailer was launched as a general email marketing delivery platform and in 2010 SMS was added to make it the only truly integrated email and mobile communication tool in the country.

Official Technology Partner
Metalayer aims to contextualize the mobile and social web. metaLayer make data analysis software for processing excessive streams of real-time content.

Official Technology Partner
Founded in 2006, GoSquared enables over 12,000 business and individuals to monitor their sites in real-time. GoSquared's real-time web analytics platform enables people to improve their sites faster based on powerful, easy to understand data centred around people, not pageviews. GoSquared is ideal for companies of all sizes, and can especially benefit ecommerce sites by giving you the metrics you need on time, and presented so that the whole team can make quick decisions - not just the tech team.