Innovation Summit
Conference in Johannesburg

This year's Innovation Summit aims to ignite Africa's and South Africa’s inventive spirit over three days of inspiration, interaction and collaboration.

The Summit was birthed out of how little was being done to commercialise technology from South Africa into new industries through start-ups, private sector involvement and enabling government absorption of new ideas. Our first Summit started with getting the roles and language between government, industry and academics aligned. The content migrated over 10 years into making the Tech Entrepreneur centre stage and the hero of taking the economy forward. Our Value Proposition is that our effort should go towards enabling the Tech Entrepreneur as she and he will be the only entity able to leapfrog systematic change to alleviate poverty, drive inclusiveness whilst meeting Industry 4.0 head-on. Provide a platform where Tech Entrepreneurs and innovators can participate, grow their know-how and connections, and make their ideas come to life. With the rapid advent of the Industrial 4.0 Tech Revolution, the flexibility to integrate, and the speed to market will be absolutely critical. Collaborate with government, academia and industry to build an African system for innovation on a practical level. Facilitate the establishing of industry-leaders by presenting new market opportunities. What this means is that we are looking beyond great ideas; we are interested in how great ideas become innovations and how these innovations can be accelerated to reach the market for social, environmental and/or financial impact. The Summit provides and revolutionises the tools, knowledge, networking, competitions, discussions and introductions necessary to help take innovations from idea to market. Africa Country Benchmark Report (ACBR) is the definitive resource for any business, government, organisation or institution with interests in Africa. Do you have a business idea that has gained some traction, but is still in an early phase? There are only a few days left to enter the 2017 Pitching Den and Inventors Garage Competitions.