World’s largest tech and start-up event spearheads global tech takeover at Dubai World Trade Centre and Dubai Harbour Blockbuster duo to accelerate the epic race for AI dominance in the year to imagine AI in everything
Construction ramps up of purpose-built super venue in Marrakech, Morocco for historic debut of GITEX Africa, now the largest and most influential tech and start-up event in the African continent.
International powerhouse brands turn to inaugural GITEX Africa 2023 as launchpad
to sc sale operations in the world’s next biggest digital economy.
Marrakech, Morocco: Global tech pioneers and innovators are preparing to supercharge
double-digit business growth across Africa, as they eagerly anticipate the debut of the
continent’s largest and most inclusive tech and start-up event in Marrakech, Morocco.
ONE Africa Digital Summit will spearhead a power-packed programme of mind-stretching conference content at the inaugural GITEX AFRICA 2023 in Morocco, unifying government and private sector leaders, policy makers, investors and academics, to steer Africa’s transformation into a single digital marke.
GITEX GLOBAL hosts the tech world from over 170 countries in Dubai, in a bid to empower the tech and progress agendas of the region and the world. A trusted event for the past 42 years, GITEX GLOBAL is the most complete and comprehensive innovation event, uniting seven tech communities in one GITEX ecosystem: Global Tech, Governments, Coders & Developers, Startups, Investors, Youth and Academia.
Breaking into the Dubai market is great for startups, yet there’s a bigger picture to behold. Dubai is undeniably one of the best locations to scale up globally, and we’ve tallied up the numbers to share why.
Avetol, a local firm, has launched on Friday a video-on-demand streaming service, first of its kind in Ethiopia. The platform allows users easily access Ethiopian contents curated for each person directly to ones preferred devices, anywhere and everywhere.
It allows users to access to top selected movies, documentaries and more from its mass library, with multiple language support, said Avetol, via multiple devices including phone. The introduction of the new platform is expected to be welcomed by the growing number of internet users in the country.
It’s no news that startups have to go through a lot before succeeding in becoming a benchmark company in their own sector. From convincing family and friends from assuming they are not insane or reckless, to being responsible for almost every stakeholder in their new business, to surviving the tax burden from the revenue authority (Gebiyoch, or Ministry of Revenues), there is a lot riding on the various ventures of entrepreneurs.
How We Made It In Africa, published a story about Addis Alemayehou. Partner, managing partner, board member, senior advisor … the list of positions Addis holds concurrently is impressive. Many of these roles are at his own companies, which include one of Ethiopia’s biggest advertising agencies, a popular television channel and a telecommunications start-up in South Africa. Yet Addis comes across as pretty calm and collected. He admits that on the inside, though, the pressure often gets to him. Excerpts.
Most successful Africans entrepreneur always have a background story to tell of when they were of little age and how they started as an entrepreneur at a very young age. Addis Alemayehou, the CEO of 212 communications, a top PR and communications firm based in Ethiopia and with several media and production stations. Addis Alemayehou is very dogged with a strong drive for success in his business venture started making money at a very young age from veggies at the back of his family house.
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