#SCTechTalks: Silicon Valley to Silicon Cape
Mon Mar 7, 13:00 - Mon Mar 7, 15:00
Workshop17
ABOUT
Date: Monday, 7th March 2016
Time: 13h00 - 15h00
Venue: Workshop 17, The Watershed, Waterfront, Dock Road, Waterfront
Agenda
12:45 – 13:00 – Weclome and Registration
13:00 – 13:05 - Introduction
13:05 - 13:15 - Journey of a tech startup - Nick Wallander from SAFlorist
13:15 - 14:15 - Fireside chat with Vinny Lingham and Matthew Buckland
14:15 - 14:30 - Q & A from the audience
14:30 - 15:00 - Close and networking
The first 50 ticket's are allocated on a first come, first serve basis and are free to the community.
We have student sponsored tickets, please get in touch with us to find out more. We will need your student number. Mail [email protected]
We have some in-kind corporate sponsors that have donated limited tickets to us for this event, if you would like to find out if you are eligible, please mail [email protected]
If you would like to volunteer at The Silicon Cape Initiatve (ie: mentorship, internships, eventing or sponsorships) please mail [email protected]
Vinny Lingham is a South African Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder & CEO of Gyft - a mobile gift card company, backed by Google Ventures. He was also previously the founder and CEO of Yola, Inc. (formerly known as SynthaSite), a San Francisco-based Web 2.0 start-up that provides free website building, publishing and hosting services. He is also the co-founder of SiliconCape.com, an NGO based in South Africa that aims to turn Cape Towninto a technology hub.[1] Lingham was previously the founder and CEO of the global search marketing firm incuBeta and its subsidiary Clicks2Customers.[2]
Linghman serves on the boards of ChessCube, SkyRove, and Personera and previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq-listed companies ValueClick and Yahoo.
Matthew Buckland is a South African Internet entrepreneur and businessman who is the founder of Creative Spark - a digital agency and publisher which was acquired in 2015 by UK firm M&C Saatchi PLC (LSE: SAA), the holding group of M&C Saatchi.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Buckland is also the founder of Burn Media, a suite of technology publishing brands which includes Memeburn, Ventureburn.com, Gearburn.com and others.
Buckland previously headed the online division of the Mail & Guardian, thereafter he started 20fourlabs at news24.com,[8][9][10] the largest South African online news publisher, owned by Naspers.[11] While at the Mail & Guardian Buckland founded Thought Leader.
In 2015 he was selected as a "Master of Digital", sitting down with actor Idris Elba for a "Q&A Session".[12][13]