Location: Hôtel Pullman de Marrakech Palmeraie Resort and Spa Km 6 Route de Fes, Gueliz, Marrakesh 40000, Maroc
*DIGITAL TALKS AND NETWORKING SESSIONS- Small Talk : A coffee with an expert or a future partner ... - Talk’n’storm : Early in the morning... about 6 innovators & experts meet to discuss an idea or design a concept.- Talk’n’walk : Walk and talk with an expert of our community
Wednesday November 2, 2016 5:00pm - 6:30pm PDT
TBA
Opening speech by Mamoune Bouhdoud, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Industry, Trade, Investment and Digital Economy, in Charge of Small Enterprises and Informal Sector Integration (Morroco).
ALL PARTICIPANTS
Location: Hôtel Pullman de Marrakech Palmeraie Resort and Spa Km 6 Route de Fes, Gueliz, Marrakesh 40000, Maroc
Gilles Babinet is a French multi-entrepreneur, born in 1967 in Paris. He is the Digital Champion of France. Nowadays, Babinet has stepped down from the management of his other firms to concentrate on his role as executive chairman of Captain Dash. Along with this position, he is... Read More →
Mamoune Bouhdoud is the Minister Delegate to the Minister of Industry, Trade, investment and the digital economy of Morocco, responsible for Small Business and integration of the informal sector.
A former student of Celsa-Sorbonne and early advocate of African techs & Open Innovation, Stéphan-Eloïse Gras was the coordinator for digital cooperation and prospective at the Institut français (French Foreign Affairs Ministry) where she developed from 2011 to 2014 "Digital... Read More →
Wednesday November 2, 2016 6:30pm - 7:00pm PDT
TBA
Juliana Rotich is a technologist, strategic advisor, entrepreneur, futurist, and keynote speaker. Juliana is on the founding team of BRCK Inc, a hardware company that
had developed the BRCK - designed and engineered as a rugged, self-powered, mobile Wi-Fi device which connects people... Read More →
Wednesday November 2, 2016 7:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
TBA
Talk'n'Walk (with Le Fil), Talk'n'Storm +Digital Talks: x Seedstars, x Innovation Prize for Africa, x Creative Commons, x Digify, x Public Planet Partnership, x Sigfox, x Ashoka...
Location: Hôtel Pullman de Marrakech Palmeraie Resort and Spa Km 6 Route de Fes, Gueliz, Marrakesh 40000, Maroc
*DIGITAL TALKS AND NETWORKING SESSIONS - Talk’n’storm : Early in the morning... about 6 innovators & experts meet to discuss an idea or design a concept.- Talk’n’walk : Walk and talk with an expert of our community
Former Student of the Institut universitaire de technologie de Vannes and Epita, Kwame is the cofounder of the Ecole42, a private and free computer programming school co-created by Xavier Niel (Founder of Illiad) with several partners including Nicolas Sadirac and Florian Bucher... Read More →
Thursday November 3, 2016 9:30am - 10:00am PDT
TBA
Moderated by Madanmohan Rao (AfricadotEdu), with Nomvuyo Mzamane (educator, producer, Ochre Productions), Tarin Nicole To Him (Black Girls Code Joburg), Bontle Senne (Africa 4 Tech), Nadayar Enegesi (Andela), Gavin Weale (Digify), Gavin Weale.
Location: Hôtel Pullman de Marrakech Palmeraie Resort and Spa Km 6 Route de Fes, Gueliz, Marrakesh 40000, Maroc
*ROUNDTABLES : A panel composed of prestigious experts that will discuss about the impact of digital innovation on education, health, energy & fooding&making.
Madanmohan Rao is research director at YourStory Media and editor of five book series. His interests include creativity, innovation, knowledge management, and digital media. Madan is also a DJ and writer on world music and jazz.
Nadayar’s life and work are guided by his belief that human potential is limitless. As a founding team member and Director of Learning & Development at Andela, he has devoted his time to building learning operations under which the brightest technologists in Africa can actualize... Read More →
BioSketch of Ms. L. N. Mzamane Lerato Nomvuyo Mzamane is a mother and a teacher. She is also a scholar, writer, consultant, teacher trainer, educational leader, public speaker, educational entrepreneur, language and culture activist, curriculum specialist, multimedia professional... Read More →
Bontle Senne is a South African writer, literacy and literary advocate. As a writer of fiction for children and teenagers, she was the shortlisted for the 2014 Golden Baobab Children's Literature Prize – Africa’s largest children’s literature award. Bontle is currently a Board... Read More →
Thursday November 3, 2016 10:00am - 11:30am PDT
TBA
CLEAN ENERGY: Team 1 "Generating clean energy with low-techs", Team 2"Energy mix & smart grids", Team 3 "Off-grid distribution & Governance"E-HEALTH: Team 1"Education & Training", Team 2 "Low-techs & preventive medicine", Team 3 "Big Data & Epidemiology"
EDTECH: Team 1 "Open EdTech", Team 2 "The entrepreneurial secondary school", Team 3 "Low-cost quality educational contents "
AGROTECH: Team 1 "Water management & soil analysis", Team 2 "Reforestation & Drones", "Local food distribution"
+ Enablers: Workshop • Michelin Open Lab Challenge • FinTechs & Training (Société Générale)
Location: Hôtel Pullman de Marrakech Palmeraie Resort and Spa Km 6 Route de Fes, Gueliz, Marrakesh 40000, Maroc
*WORKSHOPS :- Customed Workshop sessions: They represent an incredible opportunity to collaborate further with one of our partners and work with them on a specific challenge.- Sci & Tech + PoCs Workshops :Several teams made of innovators, tech experts, researchers & entrepreneurs will brainstorm together to help solvetechnological & scientific challenges identified by our consultants in each field : education, health, fooding&making& energy. During the workshops, prototypes will be designed using low cost & open tech materials.- POCS Showroom :During the last evening of the bootcamp, a showroom will be put together, revealing to the community the prototypes/projects designed and developed. Apart from prior participant agreement, these results will be protected under“creative commons” licences, in order to foster collective intelligence.
Thursday November 3, 2016 10:30am - 6:00pm PDT
TBA
A former student of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Computer Engineering), Karim SY soon released his innovative entrepreneurial talent since university. Pioneer in various digital projects, Karim is an entrepreneur and digital activist around innovation. He is the founder and... Read More →
Thursday November 3, 2016 12:00pm - 12:30pm PDT
TBA
A lateral thinker and successful serial entrepreneur, Claude is the founder of TRACE. He is also the founder of TRUE Africa, a media tech platform. In February 2003, Grunitzky and two business partners completed a multimillion-dollar financing deal led by Goldman Sachs Group. TRACE... Read More →
Moderated by (Le Monde Afrique), with Rachid Yazami (researcher, Draper Prize), Paul-François Cattier (Schneider Electrics), John Lilic (TransactiveGrid), Xavier Helgesen (OGE- TBC), Demba Diallo
Location: Hôtel Pullman de Marrakech Palmeraie Resort and Spa Km 6 Route de Fes, Gueliz, Marrakesh 40000, Maroc
*ROUNDTABLES : A panel composed of prestigious experts that will discuss about the impact of digital innovation on education, health, energy & fooding&making.
IT Professional since 1999. (Primarily linux administration, more recently AWS DevOps)Designed a game that’s playable on blockchains before bitcoin paper was published.Granted a patent on Provably Fair Gaming in 2011. (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7962751B2)Started playing... Read More →
Demba Diallo is a founding partner of Innhotep, a fast growing consulting firm dedicated to accelerating growth for companies through technological innovation and innovation management.For many years, he advised managers in large corporations and start-ups in France and abroad... Read More →
Dr. Rachid Yazami, a native of Fez, Morocco, received his MS in electrochemistry and PhD in graphite intercalation compounds for lithium batteries at France’s Grenoble Institute of Technology, and then began his career at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS... Read More →
Primavera de Filippi is a researcher at the CERSA as well as an associate researcher of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society ( Harvard University) where she analyses the legal implications of shared architecture. Her research focuses on legal challenges brought up by “blockchain... Read More →
Navi is Indian-born French national, he is an innovation and leadership strategist based in Silicon Valley. A Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Navi has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Design Innovation and contributes to Harvard... Read More →
Talk'n'walk with Le Fil or Talk'n'Storm Digital Talks with Seedstars, Innovation Prize for Africa, Creative Commons, Digify, Public Planet Partnership, Sigfox...
Location: Hôtel Pullman de Marrakech Palmeraie Resort and Spa Km 6 Route de Fes, Gueliz, Marrakesh 40000, Maroc
*DIGITAL TALKS AND NETWORKING SESSIONS- Small Talk : A coffee with an expert or a future partner ... - Talk’n’storm : Early in the morning... about 6 innovators & experts meet to discuss an idea or design a concept.- Talk’n’walk : Walk and talk with an expert of our community
Chairman Emeritus and Founder of Mobile Entertainment Forum; Co-founder of Zomba Music Group (London)
Ralph Simon is regarded as one of the founders of the modern mobile entertainment industry. Over the last decade he has been a global trailblazer and innovator, playing a central... Read More →
Location: Hôtel Pullman de Marrakech Palmeraie Resort and Spa Km 6 Route de Fes, Gueliz, Marrakesh 40000, Maroc
*ROUNDTABLES : A panel composed of prestigious experts that will discuss about the impact of digital innovation on education, health, energy & fooding&making.
Mehdi Benchoufi is the President of Club Jade, a think tank that works to research and development of innovative ideas across all the themes of public action. Mehdi Benchoufi is also President of the Association EchOpen, an open and collaborative project and community, led by a multidisciplinary... Read More →
Dr. Jordi Serrano Pons is a General Practitioner and the founder and CEO of UniversalDoctor, a social enterprise developing award-winning applications to facilitate multilingual communication between health care professionals and patients that don’t share a common language. Most... Read More →
HEC graduate, Beatrice Garrette led part of her career in the media industry and publishing, exercising management functions and corporate direction. From 1986 to 2002 she worked as an editor in the Bayard Group and developed the educational press youth abroad, as well as several... Read More →
Dr Ousmane Ly is the General Director of National Agency of TeleHealth and Medical Informatics at Mali’s Ministry of Health. A inexhaustible passion for eHealth is a quality that make him an effective eHealth leader. Ousmane is both a clinician and an informatics expert. His medical... Read More →
CLEAN ENERGY: Team 1 "Generating clean energy with low-techs", Team 2"Energy mix & smart grids", Team 3 "Off-grid distribution & Governance"E-HEALTH: Team 1"Education & Training", Team 2 "Low-techs & preventive medicine", Team 3 "Big Data & Epidemiology"
EDTECH: Team 1 "Open EdTech", Team 2 "The entrepreneurial secondary school", Team 3 "Low-cost quality educational contents "
AGROTECH: Team 1 "Water management & soil analysis", Team 2 "Reforestation & Drones", "Local food distribution"
+ Enablers: Workshop • Michelin Open Lab Challenge • FinTechs & Training (Société Générale)
Location: Hôtel Pullman de Marrakech Palmeraie Resort and Spa Km 6 Route de Fes, Gueliz, Marrakesh 40000, Maroc
*WORKSHOPS :- Customed Workshop sessions: They represent an incredible opportunity to collaborate further with one of our partners and work with them on a specific challenge.- Sci & Tech + PoCs Workshops :Several teams made of innovators, tech experts, researchers & entrepreneurs will brainstorm together to help solvetechnological & scientific challenges identified by our consultants in each field : education, health, fooding&making& energy. During the workshops, prototypes will be designed using low cost & open tech materials.- POCS Showroom :During the last evening of the bootcamp, a showroom will be put together, revealing to the community the prototypes/projects designed and developed. Apart from prior participant agreement, these results will be protected under“creative commons” licences, in order to foster collective intelligence.
Badr is the president and co-founder of Devoxx Morocco, the Devoxx chapter in Africa and MENA region. Badr is coder, entrepreneur and international speaker with more than 10 years of experience in design, architecture, and in building efficient IT solutions for big international IT... Read More →
Madanmohan Rao is research director at YourStory Media and editor of five book series. His interests include creativity, innovation, knowledge management, and digital media. Madan is also a DJ and writer on world music and jazz.
with Nadia Mrabit (Elephant Vert), Rose Funja (Director ICT at University of Bagamoyo), Djamila Abass (M-Farm), Adnane Remmal (University of Fez), OCP.
Location: Hôtel Pullman de Marrakech Palmeraie Resort and Spa Km 6 Route de Fes, Gueliz, Marrakesh 40000, Maroc
*ROUNDTABLES : A panel composed of prestigious experts that will discuss about the impact of digital innovation on education, health, energy & fooding&making.
Adnane Remmal is Research Director in Biotechnology at the University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah of Fès, Morocco.
Adnane is the winner of the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2015 Grand Prize. His innovation, a patented alternative to livestock anti-biotics, is set to transform... Read More →
Rose Funja is passionate about ICT for Development. She is the founder and Managing Director of Agrinfo, a social enterprise that focuses on documenting farm land ownership for smallholders and forming linkages within the agriculture value chain. Ms Funja is a trained engineer for... Read More →
Naziha Mestaoui, artist and architect, lives and works in Paris. Her unique approach merges space, imagery and technological innovations of the digital era to create innovative immersive and sensory experiences.
She is member of the Electronic Shadow duo, founded in 2000, now hailed... Read More →
Chairman Emeritus and Founder of Mobile Entertainment Forum; Co-founder of Zomba Music Group (London)
Ralph Simon is regarded as one of the founders of the modern mobile entertainment industry. Over the last decade he has been a global trailblazer and innovator, playing a central... Read More →
A lateral thinker and successful serial entrepreneur, Claude is the founder of TRACE. He is also the founder of TRUE Africa, a media tech platform. In February 2003, Grunitzky and two business partners completed a multimillion-dollar financing deal led by Goldman Sachs Group. TRACE... Read More →
Adnane Remmal is Research Director in Biotechnology at the University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah of Fès, Morocco.
Adnane is the winner of the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2015 Grand Prize. His innovation, a patented alternative to livestock anti-biotics, is set to transform... Read More →
Badr is the president and co-founder of Devoxx Morocco, the Devoxx chapter in Africa and MENA region. Badr is coder, entrepreneur and international speaker with more than 10 years of experience in design, architecture, and in building efficient IT solutions for big international IT... Read More →
Pauline Mujawamariya Koelbl joined the African Innovation Foundation in July 2011 as the IPA Program Director. Pauline focuses on cultivating market-orientated solutions for African-led development across the continent, building an innovation ecosystem that will invigorate economic... Read More →
A former student of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Computer Engineering), Karim SY soon released his innovative entrepreneurial talent since university. Pioneer in various digital projects, Karim is an entrepreneur and digital activist around innovation. He is the founder and... Read More →
Dr. Rachid Yazami, a native of Fez, Morocco, received his MS in electrochemistry and PhD in graphite intercalation compounds for lithium batteries at France’s Grenoble Institute of Technology, and then began his career at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS... Read More →
Friday November 4, 2016 6:00pm - Saturday November 5, 2016 2:00am PDT
TBA
*ROUNDTABLES : A panel composed of prestigious experts that will discuss about the impact of digital innovation on education, health, energy & fooding&making.
