The 2022 BigFive Summit returns for yet another series of interactive dialogue with Africa’s esteemed thought leaders expected to dissect pain points that exist between small businesses and technology.
2022 BigFive Summit: The perfect networking event for small businesses
The summit is all about bridging the technological divide in Africa’s SMME ecosystem with innovative and forward-thinking solutions brought by startups.
This event is the perfect opportunity for budding entrepreneurs to rub shoulders with the continent’s leading investors and digital industry mavericks, and perhaps, most important, to gain insight into topics such as financial inclusion solutions and the growth opportunities that exist for small businesses in blockchain.
The two-day event takes place on 12 and 13 May 2022, at Workshop 17 in V&A Waterfront, Cape Town. If you own a startup business and intend on making it to the 2022 BigFive Summit, then expect to network with fellow small business owners, investors and corporates from telecoms, finance and banking industries.
“We’ve built this event as a place to learn about how Africa’s small businesses are rapidly migrating to using digital tools to run their businesses,” BigFive Digital Co-founder Thabo Seopa said in a statement to Swisher Post.
Who are the speakers?
Billed as Africa’s leading small business technology event, the 2022 BigFive Summit will host a slew of highly esteemed leaders in telecoms, banking and eCommerce industries.
These include:
- Yolanda Cuba, VP, Southern and East Africa, MTN Group;
- Lunga Siyo, CEO, Telkom Consumer;
- Khomotso Molabe; Chief Engineering Officer, Standard Bank;
- Colin Timmis, Country Manager, South Africa, Xero;
- Simon Ellis, CEO, SmartWage;
- Jason Sive, CEO, Mobicred; and
- many others.
“We’ve assembled the players who seek to partner to further advance the interests of Africa’s small businesses. These include those with a large number of SMME customers, like banks and telecoms, and the developers building cutting-edge solutions to solve small business pain points,” Seopa added.
2022 BigFive Summit: How to buy tickets
Not only is this a fitting networking event for small businesses, but the 2022 BigFive Summit will present original research findings from Africa 118 and GeoPoll’s study on how the continent’s SMMEs “are faring in the wake of the pandemic.”
Tickets to the two-day auspicious occasion can be purchased here. Standard rates start from R1 750, which grants attendees admission to all BigFive Summit events, “including the conference and all related networking events.”
Since Swisher Post is the summit’s first media partner, we have a promotion available for a 25% discount on tickets. Smiley use SWISHERPOST as the promo code at checkout.