Featured Speaker.
David Hurley is the founder of Mautic. Mautic is the world’s largest open source marketing automation platform. Over 80,000+ organizations use Mautic. Over 300+ new download it each day. David has grown up developing and growing businesses within the open source space. He truly believe that open source is taking over the world and is the future of software. He has been the Community Manager for the Joomla! global community as well as serving on the Production Leadership Team working with the software releases for the CMS. He lives in Boston Massachussetts.
Jonathan Bossenger
Expert @ Codeable
Capetonian Jonathan Bossenger is an open source advocate who believes in sustainable business building.
Alessandro Germano
Coder @ Multi Media Hermes
Germano is the promoter of contents through both traditional and web marketing channels.
KUBA ZWOLINSKI
CEO Snowdog
Kuba is a Magento master, owner and CEO of Snowdog. Father, kayaker & trail runner.
Job Thomas
Education
job Thomas is a Belgian who lives in Cape Town, and works as education and training manager at WooCommerce.
Gareth Allison
Engineer SA
Gareth is a designer at WooCommerce (Automattic) and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
Oduor Jagero
Founder CMS Africa
Oduor Jagero is the founder and Lead at CMS AFRICA and CMS AFRICA SUMMIT. He is the CEO of koamedia.co.ke.
Solomon Kitumba
CEO YOZA
Solomon is a serial entrepreneur, founder of Yoza and founder of swipe2pay which democratizes payments for SMEs.
David Aswani
CMS Africa
I am an enterprise consultant, a creative and a tech enthusiast. Am also undertaking my certification in network security at the Cisco Academy.
Prosper Otemuyiwa
Google Expert
Prosper Otemuyiwa is an avid Open Source Advocate, Performance Expert, Trainer.
Fleur van Dissel
Leadership Expert
Fleur has worked for over a decade as consultant, creative producer and filmmaker on people driven leadership issues in Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda.
Elsie Birech
Google Expert
Elsie Birech is a Business Development Manager at Eskimi DSP; a mobile programmatic advertising platform that focusses on emerging markets
Kwezi Tabaro
ASS. DIRECTOR Leo Africa
Kwezi is deputy director of the LéO Africa Institute, a Kampala-based leadership development and training organization.
Bruce Luniss
Global Community Manager - Startup Grind
I'm a 20-something community manager & self-made IT entrepreneur who lives, works, & plays in Cape Town, South Africa.
Marc Dechèvre
Team Leader Woluweb
Marc Dechèvre makes his very first website in 1994, when the web was still quite confidential.
Shadrack Serem
CO-Founder Netrix Business Solution
ShadrackSerem is a co-founder and senior developer with Netrix Business Systems (www.netrixbiz.com), a software firm based in Nairobi Kenya.
BECOME A SPEAKER
CMS Africa is welcoming speakers for the summit. Something you need to understand is that CMS Africa relies on funds to make the event happen. We therefore may have difficulties catering for airfare and accomodation. It is therefore important to understand that we only guarantee (1)event ticket for the speakers and (2) food during the three days.
TOPICS THAT INTERESTS US
Leading Open Source Softwares
WordPress
Come Learn WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Simplenote, Longreads, VaultPress, Akismet, Gravatar, Polldaddy, Cloudup, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.
Joomla! in the real world!
Joomla! is used all over the world to power millions of websites of all shapes and sizes.
Discover examples of companies using Joomla! in the official Joomla! Showcase Directory.
Joomla! can be used for:
- Corporate websites or portals, intranets and extranets
- Small business websites
- Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
- E-commerce and online reservations
- Government, non-profit and organisational websites
- Community-based, school and church websites or portals
- Personal or family homepages ...
PHP & More
Learn PHP, Javascript, App Design. and much more.
PHP & More
Learn PHP, Javascript, App Design. and much more.
New Technologies
Big Data
Today, big data has become capital. Think of some of the world’s biggest tech companies. A large part of the value they offer comes from their data, which they’re constantly analyzing to produce more efficiency and develop new products.
Fintech
Mobile money has transformed the financial landscape in sub-Saharan Africa. According to the 2017 GSMA Mobile Economy Report, forty-three percent of the population in sub-Saharan Africa has access to mobile phones. Financial technology (fintech) services like peer-to-peer mobile payments have made financial services much more accessible
Cloud Computing
With cloud computing, you eliminate those headaches that come with storing your own data, because you’re not managing hardware and software — that becomes the responsibility of an experienced vendor like Salesforce. The shared infrastructure means it works like a utility: You only pay for what you need, upgrades are automatic, and scaling up or down is easy.
Social Media
It’s easy to see that social media marketing is a key element for success in marketing and many marketers realize the potential for business growth using the platform. However, some of these professionals are unsure of which tactics to apply and if they are effective.
Business & Strategies
Marketing & Communication
Your small business is chugging right along and your marketing efforts have done pretty well, but you’re ready to take things to the next level. You wonder, what do marketing professionals do that I could implement in my company?
Startups
Startups are the lifeblood of our economy and innovation across the globe. They create jobs, new products, dreams, and disruption. They are led by entrepreneurs who work hard to bring their ideas to life. Often overshadowed by failure, they persist and can change the world.
Branding & Design
As a business, you may be competing against big brands with devoted customers and unlimited marketing budgets. That’s why you have to find ways to differentiate–with a solid brand building process of your own.
Financial Success
A general rule in your financial success in business is that you cannot increase profits directly, only indirectly. You cannot just say that you are going to increase profits of your business without some specific strategy.