Preparations for the GSMA’s Mobile 360 Series-Africa conference, which will take place 5-7 November in Cape Town South Africa, are in high gear. Organisers have also announced they will be holding a Connected Women Africa Conference as well.
The conference website says “The Connected Women initiative is an opportunity for some of the industry’s most successful women and men to champion the need to attract more female talent to the mobile industry and communicate the challenges and rewards, barriers, best practices, pitfalls and pinnacles.”
“At Mobile 360-Africa we will see players from across the mobile ecosystem and adjacent industries converging to discuss the unprecedented opportunity that mobile provides to improve and enhance social and economic development in the region,” said Michael O’Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA. “Additionally the GSMA’s Connected Women Africa Conference will provide an important platform to highlight the socio-economic benefits of greater inclusion of women in the mobile industry.”
At Mobile 360-Africa, CEOs and senior executives from leading mobile companies and players throughout the digital ecosystem will address the most pressing trends and issues in mobile through a series of keynote presentations, thought-provoking interviews and interactive panel sessions.
First Connected Women Event in Africa Co-located alongside Mobile 360-Africa, the GSMA’s Connected Women Africa Conference will explore how the industry can accelerate the female digital economy. Discussions will draw upon the initiatives undertaken through the GSMA’s Connected Women programme and will examine how to bring significant socio-economic opportunities and benefits enabled by the mobile ecosystem to all women globally. Bringing in high-level speakers from across the global mobile ecosystem, the event will showcase industry leadership, facilitate further discussion and build networks for future development.
The GSMA recently announced that the Connected Women programme has been accepted as a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action and the GSMA and its partners are working together to accelerate growth of the female digital economy, having already reached 10 million women through existing initiatives. The Connected Women programme aims to deliver research, technical assistance, advocacy case studies, best practices and toolkits to further address the digital skills and connectivity gender gaps to enable women to meet their full potential as consumers and employees.
While all organisations with mobile business in Sub-Saharan Africa are welcome to the event, organisers are specifically encouraging the following to attend and become part of this incredible opportunity for change:
●Senior-level mobile network operators
●NGOs
●Government and regulatory agency representatives
●Representatives of Associations and Foundations
●Infrastructure vendors
●Handset and device manufacturers
●Consultants
●Industry Analysts
