Smit & Van Wyk is a specialist Intellectual Property (IP) law firm that deals exclusively with IP law in South Africa and across Africa as a whole. The qualified attorneys have the knowledge, experience and resources to give expert legal advice regarding IP portfolio’s and can assist with the filing, registration, prosecution and enforcement thereof.

The firm serves as a portal to the African continent for many foreign associates and multinational corporations. We file patent, trade mark, and registered design applications for our South African clients into foreign markets, while also

Dot Com Infoway (DCI) is a premier IT company located in India providing offshore IT outsourcing solutions to businesses across the globe. DCI provides enterprise solutions that include software solutions, web solutions, mobile application solutions, Internet marketing and a whole gamut of IT solutions and products to clients. Leveraging the innate offshore value advantage of our development centers in India, we provide customized, scalable and cost effective solutions to businesses.

Sevices;

  • Mobile App Development 
  • Digital Marketing 
  • Web Design and Developmet

The SA Innovation Summit as an annual flagship event on the South African Innovation Calendar, is a platform for nurturing, developing, and showcasing African innovation, as well as facilitating innovation thought-leadership. Created to support and promote innovation and facilitate collaboration within its own eco-system, the initiative brings together corporates, thought leaders, inventors, entrepreneurs, academia, and policymakers to amplify South Africa’s renowned competitive edge and inspire sustained economic growth across the continent of Africa. The outcomes achieved by the Summit: it is

We assist companies to access loans and grants by drafting professional business plans, recommend the best fund and help with the full application process. We not only draft the business document for you, but we also advise you on how to develop your business idea. We help you find the relevant funding agencies; we coach you through each step and help you ensure a profitable business idea.

Southern Africa Innovation Support Programme (SAIS) 2 is a regional initiative that supports the growth of new businesses through strengthening innovation ecosystems and the promotion of cross-border collaboration between innovation role-players in Southern Africa. The Programme focuses on strengthening early-stage enterprises and young entrepreneurs, connecting innovation ecosystems, and promoting innovations serving socially or economically disadvantaged populations. The overall objective of SAIS 2 is enhanced regional innovation cooperation and national innovation systems contributing to

Founded in 2008, The Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) is a non-profit program established by Meltwater with the goal of equipping high potential young Africans with the skills required to launch globally successful software companies, enabling them to create jobs and wealth locally to stimulate economic growth across the African economy. Every year, aspiring entrepreneurs with a strong interest in technology & entrepreneurship from Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and recently Cote d'Ivoire, apply and compete for 60 open spots in the program. MEST entrepreneurs have

Artificial Intelligence as a Service

An engineer at Nelson Mandela University has developed a secure storage trolley for tablet computers.  The storage also has a charging component which allows for them to be charged while safely stored. 

Umuzi works with top employers to support young people to access high-value tech and creative careers.

Young people can discover high-value tech and creative careers through our community content platform, Ez’Ntswembu. Anyone interested can start learning immediately through our online learning application process. The most successful candidates from our online learning are interviewed and assessed in-person. If selected, these young people enter our full-time, paid, on-the-job training programme where they learn human-centred design, Agile, and specialise in a scarce tech and creative skill

Our platform can connect to any device with an electronic heartbeat, to be utilized to trigger an alert.  The SaaS has various alert types namely:Rapid Emergency Response,  Rapid Tourist Response (Dept of Tourism), Rapid Woman 911 (Domestic Violence alert), Rapid Asset Protection and more.The technology has three unique characteristics:-    it tracks and trace the victim/asset crime/injured and can determine its location a eight-meter radius every 15 seconds;-    It provides essential information to security and medical personnel detailed information about you e.g. age, allergies, medical aid