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On the heels of the Africa Tech Week Summit 2020, after engaging with the brightest business minds and tech innovators across Africa, we’re celebrating some of South Africa’s Top Leading Women Innovators in the Tech sphere.
By Charndré Emma Kippie
TOP TECH TIPS
AFRICA TECH WEEK VIRTUAL SUMMIT 2020
• We need to instate a wider
range of decision-makers in
organisations – this is the only
way portfolios can be diversified in the future.
• Women need to be more
assertive in the Tech space rather than shy away from challenges.
• Aspiring Tech entrepreneurs
Topco Media hosted the Africa Tech
Executive Talent, Brand and
Ceremony, in November 2020. The
acted as a beacon for illuminating
Week Virtual Summit and Awards much-anticipated event allowed
attendees the opportunity to interact with business leaders who are
actively shaping the future of Tech
and all its intersections. The event
brought together more than 300 key
should not feel intimidated by
decision makers, and provided a
practical experience is favoured
in the tech industry, as well as the
formal tertiary qualifications as
space to network with global peers
in this field especially.
opportunity to learn from thought
• Women who have achieved
success, and take up leadership positions in organisations, need to pay it forward, and assist other women in the Tech
space with getting a foot in the door.
leaders charting the path which is
accelerating Africa across the digital landscape.
Included in this year’s event, was an all-female round table panel
discussion, moderated by Zanele Morrison who is a distinguished
54 S TANDARD BANK TO P W O M EN LEADERS
Marketing Entrepreneur. The panel diversity and gender parity in the
African Tech space. The all-female
assembly of empowered Top Women in Tech got together this year to
celebrate women’s contribution to the field, specifically, and outline
strategies for getting more and more women into leadership positions in
Tech and IT. Four panellists headed
this discussion: Yandisa Sokhanyile, Chief Digital Officer of Konecta Pty Ltd., Alexandria Claire Procter, the
CEO & Co-Founder of DigsConnect, Caitlin F Dolkart, who is the Co-
Founder of Flare in Kenya, and Dr. Diana Wangari Gitau who is the
Principal & Founding Member of Lens Africa, based in Kenya.
