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Hi there clever and beautiful people of the Silicon Cape.You are called upon to attend the second Silicon Cape Networking Event.We have an extremely exciting line-up of informative entertainment planned for the evening.* To keep things light hearted and hilarious, we have roped in one of South Africa's Most Amazing entertainers, Rob van Vuuren (from Corne and Twakkie fame), as the MC;* Justin Stanford will give us a short and sweet update on what's been happening in the Silicon Cape;* One of…See More

Whether you’re looking to disrupt a market or engineer social change, it pays to spend some time thinking like a designer.Ask Procter and Gamble or GE or OXO or Volkswagen. They’re all using “design thinking” to solve problems and innovate more effectively. Business schools world wide are transforming to teach their graduates to think and act more like designers.Prof Uli Weinberg is director of the HPI School of Design Thinking in Potsdam, Germany. His talk at the SA UX forum will introduce…See More

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Entre-prendre : to undertake. Entrepreneurs : Those who are willing to undertake.

Come and join fellow Silicon Cape community members for the first regular networking evening, aimed at promoting interaction between all participants, from entrepreneurs and service providers through to investors.The keynote speaker for the evening will be Mark Levitt, CEO of Chesscube, who recently raised R10m from local venture capital firm InVenFin. Mark will be talking about how he built a global-facing online company from Cape Town, with a worldwide revenue and user base.Comedian Mark…See More

For the inaugural event, nearly 500 IP entrepreneurs, investors, local government, media and other community participants are to join us for a morning where they can be a part of the conversations to make it all happen.We extend an invitation to involve everyone on the day via live blogging on this website and Twitter - follow us via @SiliconCape and tag your tweets using #SiliconCape. All talks and interviews will also be filmed and placed online after the event.FINAL PROGRAMME07h30 – 08h00…See More