SENTECH offers an array of digital infrastructure services, that enable connectivity and content delivery.
As an enabler of connectivity and content delivery, these offerings include:
Video and Audio Content
Provision of digital platforms for the delivery media services in South Africa and Africa through DTH, DTT, SENTECH Apps, AI enabled Set-Top-Boxes and 5G broadcasting.
Towers
With the wealth of strategically positioned Towers, Sentech provides broadcast coverage to more 100% of the population.
Facility leasing and co-location on its masts will provide managed
Find us:
Address: Sender Technology Park, Octave Street, Honeydew
infrastructure of both passive and active infrastructure solutions with value added services for its customers.
Broadband
Sentech connects households, healthcare centres, education facilities and communities in South Africa through Satellite (VSAT), Fixed Wireless, 5G, and Cloud services.
Data Centre Infrastructure Provider
Sentech offers cloud and data hosting services, which will provide compute power, storage and disaster recovery capabilities.
Satellite Operations
Sentech is developing a geo-spatial satellite which will enable broadband communication services in sub-Saharan Africa. @Sentech
Postal: SENTECH, Private Bag X06, Honeydew, 2040
WhatsApp: 060 062 5458
Call Centre: 0860 736 832
Email: support@sentech.co.za
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Please note that this programme is subject to change without any notice, and printed prior to the actual event. Scan the QR online Africa Tech Week Souvenir Programme.
As we gather for the Sentech Africa Tech Week Conference 2023, I am reminded of the journey that brought us here.
At Topco Media, we have spent years grappling with the challenges of digitisation, driven by curiosity and frustration with the many hurdles we encountered along the way. It was this desire for answers that led us to create Africa Tech Week.Through this event, we aim to bring together entrepreneurs, policy makers, investors, and startups to learn, inspire, and forge new partnerships.
It is a remarkable opportunity for all of us to discover what sets successful companies apart and how we can drive impact in our respective fields.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Let us come together to inspire and drive positive change in our communities, and show the world what Africa is truly capable of achieving. I am honoured to welcome you all to the ‘new frontier’- a place created in Africa, for Africans, by Africans.
Let us seize this opportunity to learn, inspire, and make a difference.
Thank you.
As my team and I have come to discover, Africa is a hotbed of potential for testing new ideas and concepts. Though we may lack in capital, we more than make up for it with ingenuity, resilience, and a ‘can do’ attitude. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a great chance to reset and level the playing field, and Sentech Africa Tech Week is a golden opportunity we cannot afford to miss. As we work towards transforming the world, we need advocates like you to give us feedback and connect with one another.
It is going to take all of us shining a light on the good and great that is happening around tech in Africa to help propel the continent’s growth and reputation. In the words of one of my favourite quotes,
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
Ralf Fletcher, CEO | Topco Media
This year’s Techweek promises to be on a higher level than what we have seen before, judging by the lineup of speakers and participants. Africa is going through is not a struggle to move to digitisation, but it is a collective and collaborative effort to reach the pinnacles we need to achieve as Africa in solving problems faced by Africa. I will keep my introduction succinct lest I delve too deep into the intricacies and technicalities of digital advancement in Africa . I am a devoted proponent of the digital economy, and get straight to the main gist of the conference and the awards ceremony for the 2023 conference.
This year , the SENTECH Africa Tech Week will most certainly deliver on its set objectives, as it has done in the previous year, to propel Africa into the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). The challenges that many Africans are faced with, because of the lack of connectivity, include; children not receiving new technological skills set from school curriculum because of the lack of advanced digital infrastructure. Also, healthcare remains an inaccessible essential service in indigent constituencies, environmental consequences, increased poverty, higher unemployment, and cybercrimes. As SENTECH we constantly seek to find permanent solutions, not respite, to Africa’s digital shortfall. No one person or community should be deprived of digital connectivity to suffer the deleterious effects of a digital divide.
As government entities, policymakers, the academia, young and old innovators, private organisations, and global leaders, we are accountable for building a sustainable and competitive Africa. It all begins at the SENTECH Africa Tech Week. This renowned conference will ensure that it lives up to its theme Unleashing Africa’s Digital Economy
As our mission statement states, “A global leader in digital infrastructure, enabling connectivity and content delivery”; we are committed and determined to put Africa on the map and contribute to technological advancements towards bridging digital divide!
CEO | SENTECH
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While he is a creative and innovative thought-leader on the topic of future entrepreneurship, Bobby started his multi-media career as an ordinary journalist, cutting his teeth with the Sunday Times, Joburg’s Star newspaper and Primedia’s 702 Eyewitness News, before moving on to television broadcasting and later entrepreneurship.
A natural storyteller, he is best remembered for his exciting and novel presentation-style on SABC2’s previous breakfast TV show AM2Day, where he held his own alongside some of the country’s most seasoned professionals - Alex Jay, Shado Twala, Martin Bailey, Nomfundo Madumo and Jeremy Maggs, among others. He has lectured in journalism, is a voice-over artist, loves to travel, consume documentaries and is an obsessive collector of all types of music.
Susan is a fractional CMO and advisor to a number of AI and blockchain based start ups, working with Menas Global in Dubai, and US-based Hangry Animals, Ngeni AI lab in Kenya. She is the former CMO of robotics company, Beyond Imagination, cofounded by Harry Kloor and Ray Kurzweil, and was a founding Board Member of Blockchain Commission For Sustainable Development, with support of the Office of Partnerships UN GA.
A journalist since age 16 (CNBC, Newsweek, EIU), Susan started writing about tech start-ups in 2012 as a business reporter, to then be asked by the companies she profiled to advise them. She began working as a founding member of AI start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York City in 2014, to then working with blockchain tools in 2017 in order to track data integrity for her training corpus in her study of NLU/NLP.
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As a people-first technology company that prides itself on delivering innovative and disruptive Fintech, Mobile and Digital solutions, IMS Global Ventures, in partnership with SANTACO, are excited to launch FairPay as part of its transport sector
digitization strategy. FairPay is a single, data rich platform that integrates into SANRAL’s Automated Fare Collection System. With SANTACO, we aim to use innovative solutions to affect positive and meaningful change across the industry, driving interoperability with other public transport operators. Not only does FairPay enable consumers to transact and travel on taxi, bus or train without
carrying cash, but consumers will be able to purchase airtime, data bundles, and electricity quickly and easily. Where consumers are without cash, but needing to travel or transact, we facilitate financial service offerings.
What’s more, in keeping with our purpose, to positively impact the lives of consumers whilst delivering real value to our partners, Fairpay with SANTACO, are setting up an agent distribution network that will be responsible for selling and topping-up of transport cards and the FairPay wallet. This initiative intends to create over 10,000 jobs within the taxi rank ecosystem.
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Meet the team responsible for Unleashing Africa’s Tech Giants at this year’s Sentech Africa Tech Week Conference. See any of us around the event? Come and say hi!
