Gartner is looking for aspiring innovator start-ups to showcase at this year's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo.
This year's global gathering of senior IT executives will introduce a new concept for the Cape Town leg of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Africa 2015, taking place at the International Convention Centre from 28 to 30 September.
"This year, we're calling on African tech start-up companies that have something unique to offer our enterprise clients, to enter the Aspiring Innovators programme," explains Jeffrey Mann, Gartner Research VP and chairman of the event.
The aim of the programme, says Rene Jacobs, MD of Gartner Africa, 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," says Jacobs.
Over the three-day conference, 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 (it is not looking for purely consumer products).
- * The product or solution is in production or beta, with at least two customers.
- * The company has fewer than 50 employees.
- * The firm is based in Africa.
If companies meet these criteria, they can apply before 24 March by sending contact details, a company CV and a short description of why the product is innovative via e-mail.
Gartner research analysts will select the successful applicants who will then 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.
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