Regular Events
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Silicon Cape Thirsty Thursdays (View the blog post)
One thing that has become very evident at previous Silicon Cape events is that there is nowhere that you can go to meet and interact with entrepreneurs and others working in the Silicon Cape community on a regular basis. We are hoping to change this with Silicon Cape Thirsty Thursdays.The idea is to have one set venue where you can go to every week to meet other people in the Silicon Cape, be they entrepreneurs, investors, developers, or anyone else who's interested in this space.
Thirsty Thursdays happen every Thursday with half price drinks at Alba lounge from 18:00 - 19:00.
Silicon Cape Academy (Silicon Cape)
This is an exciting new initiative launched by the Silicon Cape: a monthly educational event covering important topics for tech start-ups. For every different topic we have partnered with industry experts to provide you with practical advice on how to better start and grow your own company. Our aim is to assist you to become better, more successful entrepreneurs. We plan on presenting this on the second-last Thursday of the month.
The Geek Dinner event is a networking event for people who are passionate about technology, entrepreneurs, geeks and bloggers, though the angle is more technical - certainly a must for coders and programmers. It happens about once every two months and has a variety of speakers and demos.
27dinners seek to serve as a movement bringing together informed, networked individuals with a common passion for technology, media and business. Covering any hot topic, and with a slant towards Social Media, the informal real world space tends to meet the needs of entrepreneurs in the tech start-up sector. It usually happens on 27th of each month in one of South Africa’s main cities but seats go quickly so you have to be fast! @27dinner
Silicon Cape Networking Events (www.siliconcape.com)
Aiming at an providing an
offline platform for the Silicon Cape community to interact,
networking events bring together venture capitalists,
entrepreneurs, programmers and often a crowd of interested
individuals outside the sector. Needless to say, many sucked in by
the energy convert to becoming active Silicon Cape faithful. The
events have been gaining size and momentum and they normally prove
to be some of the largest of their kind in Cape Town.
Managed by World Wide Creative, The Heavy Chef Sessions have become a popular monthly event for designers, programmers, entrepreneurs and marketing professionals. Begun in Feb 2007, the sessions have been focused on building up knowledge around creating and sustaining profitable websites. Each month, The Heavy Chef Session revolves around a single topic that makes up one part of the process of digital marketing strategy. They are normally held on the last Wednesday of every month.
It started as a meeting place for anyone in the digital marketing space, marketers and developers alike. This regular gathering (normally the first Wednesday of every month) always has free beer and friendly people. Run by Ad Dynamo, it is a great way to take the last hour off work> and mingle with the diversity of mobile and web type people.
GGDCT is the newest addition to the event line-up and provides a platform for girls in tech to come together to share ideas and network. Although guys are allowed at the events, they have to be invited by one of the girls attending. Running every 2 months for the next year, this event has all the ingredients to become one of the regular meet-ups in Cape Town.
@GGDCT
Avatar Thursdays are about connecting people: students, entrepreneurs and anybody with an interest in Technology. Specifically the goal of the event is for students to meet prospective employers and given the diverse crowd we attract weekly this could be in a number of sectors that comprises anything from Academia to Renewable Energy. The weekly nature of the event has attracted quite a loyal crowd of people who pop in for an hour or so every Thursday morning at 10 to listen to a speaker or simply have a chat around an impromptu table over a cup of coffee.
Tech Events:
CLUG (http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/Main_Page)
The Cape Linux User Group
aims to promote Linux; Open
Source and Free Software
and to create opportunities for interested individuals to
share their knowledge with one another via meetings, social events and
mailing
lists. Membership is open to all and is best followed by their
mailing list. (http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/CLUG_Mailing_lists)
This is the one of the best channels to interact with the local
open source community. They also send out notifications about the
Ruby Brigade and Ruby on Rails
The Cape Town Software Process Improvement Network gathers monthly to share their experiences in initiating and sustaining software process improvement programs. The SPIN concept was initiated by the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Meeting on the third Wednesday of every month at the Bandwidth Barn form 6:15pm - 8:15pm, the best way to stay informed is through their mailing list.
@ct_SPIN
To stay informed about what other events are happening sign up to The Startup Digest, Cape Town edition. It is a weekly mailer about what events are coming up that are relevant to the start-up community.
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