Tech Events

• Virtual and in Johannesburg
• Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:11PM
• Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:11PM

Startup Business Hackathon

Startup Business Hackathon 2021, hosted as part of the Startup Business Festival in collaboration with Geekulcha, will bring together innovators, entrepreneurs and coders from 26 to 28 November 202. Under the he theme “Building a living entrepreneurial ecosystem”, they will focus on finding technology-based solutions to address entrepreneurial barriers.

Startup Business Festival is a premier Startup Business Ecosystem event brings together enablers and entrepreneur and is committed to making entrepreneurship fashionable and attainable. 

In celebration of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, Startup Business Festival launched a month-long hybrid festival programme from 1st to 30th November 2021. The festival’s programme of activities has fetured keynote addresses, masterclasses, panel discussions, pitches, awards and innovators bioscope.

• Online
• Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:02PM
• Sat, 20 Nov 2021 12:11PM

VacWork

Geekulcha is extending its VacWork programme into a 5th province - KwaZulu-Natal.

The KZN Youth ICT and Business VacWork Programme will be hosted in Howick from 9 to 13 December, according to Geekulcha COO Tiyani Nghonyama.

Geekulcha VacWork (#gkVacWork) is an annual vacation skills development programme that brings together about 50 high school pupils to learn about IT, with a specific focus on mobile app development, Web development, and entrepreneurship skills. It aims to encourage youth to venture into the ICT field to increase work opportunities within the industry.

• Online
• Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:12PM
• Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:12PM

Summer Dev Days 2021

Summer Dev Days is a practical developer skills capacity build festival where developers get to build and enhance skills with tools available to them. Dev Lab workshops sessions will be hosted for enlightenment and walkthrough of the tools.

• Virtual and in Johannesburg
• Sat, 27 Nov 2021 12:11PM
• Sat, 27 Nov 2021 13:11PM

Azure Dev Lab #1

Build without boundaries across on-premises, multicloud, and the edge—using an Azure free account and the newest technologies announced at Microsoft Ignite. Sign up and get 12 months of popular services free, and a $200 credit.

Azure App Service enables you to build and host web applications in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure. Learn how to create a website through the hosted web app platform in Azure App Service.

• Virtual and in Johannesburg
• Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:11PM
• Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:11PM

Startup Business Hackathon

Startup Business Hackathon 2021, hosted as part of the Startup Business Festival in collaboration with Geekulcha, will bring together innovators, entrepreneurs and coders from 26 to 28 November 202. Under the he theme “Building a living entrepreneurial ecosystem”, they will focus on finding technology-based solutions to address entrepreneurial barriers.

Startup Business Festival is a premier Startup Business Ecosystem event brings together enablers and entrepreneur and is committed to making entrepreneurship fashionable and attainable. 

In celebration of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, Startup Business Festival launched a month-long hybrid festival programme from 1st to 30th November 2021. The festival’s programme of activities has fetured keynote addresses, masterclasses, panel discussions, pitches, awards and innovators bioscope.

• Virtual
• Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:01PM
• Thu, 13 Jan 2022 19:01PM

Azure Dev Lab - A DevOps Journey

This edition of the Azure Dev Lab will take focus on introducing developers on how they can develop software with DevOps through Micrososoft Azure.

The development phase of DevOps is where all the core software development work happens. It takes in plans for the current iteration, usually in the form of task assignments, and produces software artifacts that express the updated functionality. This requires not only the tools used to write code, such as Visual Studio, but also supporting services like version control, issue management, and automated testing.

• Virtual
• Sat, 05 Feb 2022 09:02AM
• Sat, 05 Feb 2022 16:02PM

GKSS Leaders Summit

The Geekulcha Student Society (GKSS) is aimed at getting students into Tech and Innovation Leadership for students on campus in generating an understanding of the digital environment, becoming inspired, and enabling life-changing innovation.

The country need a next generation of problem solvers, captains of industries and leaders of society at large, the GKSS initiative was create to help build and prepare leaders of tomorrow in the ICT sector.

• mpumalanga, Siyabuswa
• Sat, 19 Mar 2022 09:03AM
• Sat, 19 Mar 2022 16:03PM

VacWork

strengthening research, green economy, and manufacturing, the one-day VacWork edition will produce prototypes that will be incubated at the Vulingqondo Digital Innovation Lab.

• Johannesburg, Gauteng
• Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:03AM
• Sat, 26 Mar 2022 16:03PM

VacWork

With focus on AquaTech and a proportion of learners from Alexandra, the programme challenges learners to build solutions in the energy, water and food nexus.

• East London
• Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:03AM
• Sat, 26 Mar 2022 16:03PM

VacWork

Hosted at the St. John’s Road Junior Secondary School with focus on hardware, geodata / mapping intelligence, business and web development.

All these programmes will include Data Literacy as Geekulcha prepares to activate civic digital labs to enhance localised public sector innovation and participation.

The programme is set against the Skills Redistribution pillar of Geekulcha by inviting university students to mentor the school learners during the period.

• Siyabuswa
• Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:06AM
• Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:07PM

June 2022 VacWork: Mpumalanga

The Youth ICT and Business Vacation Work Programme (gkVacWork) is an annual vacation skills development programme that brings together up to 50 high school pupils per edition to learn about ICT, with a specific focus on mobile app development, Web development, and entrepreneurship skills. Learners will take part in a multi-day programme in which they will work in teams to set up a mock start-up, conduct user research in their communities, ideate, wireframe and pitch a mobile or web application.

• Ga-Mphahlele
• Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:06AM
• Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:07PM

June 2020 VacWork: Limpopo

The Youth ICT and Business Vacation Work Programme (gkVacWork) is an annual vacation skills development programme that brings together up to 50 high school pupils per edition to learn about ICT, with a specific focus on mobile app development, Web development, and entrepreneurship skills. Learners will take part in a multi-day programme in which they will work in teams to set up a mock start-up, conduct user research in their communities, ideate, wireframe and pitch a mobile or web application.

• Kuruman
• Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:06AM
• Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:07PM

June 2022 VacWork: Northern Cape

The Youth ICT and Business Vacation Work Programme (gkVacWork) is an annual vacation skills development programme that brings together up to 50 high school pupils per edition to learn about ICT, with a specific focus on mobile app development, Web development, and entrepreneurship skills. Learners will take part in a multi-day programme in which they will work in teams to set up a mock start-up, conduct user research in their communities, ideate, wireframe and pitch a mobile or web application.

• Virtual (with physical Dev Labs in your province)
• Tue, 26 Apr 2022 10:04AM
• Fri, 03 Jun 2022 16:06PM

MTN Business App Academy (Beginners Cohort)

The MTN Business App Academy is a SETA accredited online app development programme, where you will be mentored and tutored by experts in the field, ensuring that you are up-skilled for a future career in app development. Classes take place on the zero-rated App of the Year website and offers learners an opportunity to obtain a SETA accredited NQF Level 5 certificate. There are three different cohorts each lasting six weeks: Beginners (starting 26 April), Intermediate (starting 07 June) and Advanced (starting 26 July).

• Sandton Convention Centre
• Tue, 31 May 2022 09:05AM
• Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:06PM

Security Summit Hackathon 2022

The Security Summit 2022 Hackathon, hosted on the sidelines of the ITWeb Security Summit 2022, will challenge local geeks/techies to build high-end solutions with security at the heart of the solution. Over the years, this hackathon has played a pivotal role in improving cyber security skills, tools and capabilities of ICT students, young techpreneurs and cyber security aficionados. 

• Virtual
• Tue, 07 Jun 2022 10:06AM
• Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:07PM

MTN Business App Academy (Intermediate Cohort)

The MTN Business App Academy is a SETA accredited online app development programme, where you will be mentored and tutored by experts in the field, ensuring that you are up-skilled for a future career in app development. Classes take place on the zero-rated App of the Year website and offers learners an opportunity to obtain a SETA accredited NQF Level 5 certificate. There are three different cohorts each lasting six weeks: Beginners (starting 26 April), Intermediate (starting 07 June) and Advanced (starting 26 July).

• Maphotla (near Siyabuswa), Mpumalanga
• Sat, 02 Jul 2022 09:07AM
• Sun, 03 Jul 2022 17:07PM

MPAgriHack

The Mpumalanga Agritech Hackthon (#MPAgriHack)will take place on Saturday 02 to Sunday 03 July at the Vulingondo Digital Lab in Maphotla, close to Siyabuswa, Mpumalanaga. The hackathon theme is "Achieving rural food security and poverty alleviation through innovation" and participants can take part either physically or virtually.