Gartner is looking for Africa’s top innovative start-ups to enter the Aspiring Innovators programme being run as part of the Cape Town leg of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Africa 2015, taking place from 28 to 30 September 2015.
“This year we’re calling on African tech start-up companies who have something unique to offer our enterprise clients, to enter the Aspiring Innovators programme,” explains Jeffrey Mann, Gartner Research vice-president and chair of the event.
The aim of the programme, says Gartner Africa MD Rene Jacobs, is to support African start-up technology while giving Gartner’s clients access to innovative local technology solutions. “Gartner analysts follow technology and help customers find and apply it, no matter where it comes from,” she says.
Over three days, more than 1 000 CIOs and senior IT executives will engage with peers, Gartner analysts and industry leaders on how to seize digital opportunities, take them from theory to practice and become indispensable IT leaders in the new, digital world of business.
Gartner is looking for early-stage start-ups that meet the following criteria:
* The product or solution supports B2B or corporate B2C use cases;
* The product or solution is in production or beta, with at least two customers;
* The company has fewer than 50 employees; and
* The company is based in Africa.
Companies meeting these criteria should apply before March 24 by sending your contact details, a ‘company CV’ and a short description of why your product is innovative to AspiringInnovators@gartner.co.za.
Gartner research analysts will select the successful applicants who will get the opportunity to showcase their business and its solutions in front of an engaged audience of senior IT decision-makers. They will also receive space in a shared sponsored ITxpo stand where delegates can come and meet them.
