- The Africa Tech Festival 2023 is set to take place next week in Cape Town from 13th to 16th November.
- The event will feature an Awards show on the evening of the 15th, with the finalists now confirmed.
- There are 10 categories in this year’s Awards.
A fixture on the continent’s technology calendar for a number of years now, the Africa Tech Festival is once again back for 2023, and is set to take place next week in Cape Town from 13th to 16th November.
As part of the event, an Awards ceremony is scheduled once more, with it set to be held on the evening of the 15th. As we are a little over a week before the event takes place, the finalists for this year’s have been named.
Organisers explain that this year, 247 nominations were received for people, businesses, and projects across the African continent. This list of nominations were narrowed down to a shortlist of 58, who then received more than 14 000 public votes.
We now have a list of all the finalists who have been selected, with 10 different categories making up this year’s Awards.
“It is an exciting time to be in technology and telecommunications as can be seen from the multitude of entries we received for consideration on this year’s awards,” noted James Williams, senior event director, in a press release sent to Hypertext.
“These annual awards are the pinnacle of an industry that is having a profound effect on the daily lives of Africans. In publicly recognising these leaders and changemakers from the African tech ecosystem that are making the difference, they serve to encourage even more innovation and business excellence across the continent – and even beyond,” he enthused.
As for the finalists for this year’s Africa Tech Festival Awards, the following have been chosen:
Changing Lives Award
- Vodacom Foundation DRC,
- SAWA Youth Watch NGO,
- Huawei & UNESCO: Connecting Schools Initiative.
Connectivity for All Award
- Avanti Communications,
- TooMuchWifi,
- Angola Cables.
Innovation for Impact Award
- MTN Uganda,
- Orange Cameroon,
- Safaricom PLC’s ‘Hustler Fund’.
CXO of the Year Award
- Yasser Shaker, CEO, Orange Egypt,
- Ahmed Yusef, CEO, Hormuud Telecom,
- Dejan Kastelic, Group Technology officer, Vodacom Group.
Female Innovator of the Year Award
- Shalini Boodhooa, Liquid,
- Bunmi Cynthia Adeleye, Chief Strategy officer, Shoprite Nigeria,
- Nene Maiga, CEO, Orange Botswana.
Sustainability Champion of the Year Award
- Rack Centre,
- South Africa MTN & Huawei Green Site Innovation,
- Orange Middle East & Africa,
Fintech Innovation of the Year Award
- Tigo Tanzania,
- Vodacom Tanzania,
- Mukuru.
Startup of the Year Award
- Botlhale AI Solutions,
- JOBJACK,
- It’s Learnable LLC.
Healthtech Innovation of the Year Award
- HealthX Africa,
- Vodafone Egypt,
- Zendawa.
Creative Visionary Award
- Andile Ncube, Reality TV star, TV host, and radio broadcaster,
- Khutso Theledi, Radio broadcaster,
- Simone Venter, Marketing professional and TikTok influencer.
[Image – Photo by Pieter van Noorden on Unsplash]
