May 2012

May 12th 2012: Trans-Century Power & Infrastructure Expo
Venue: Nairobi Club, Nairobi

For details send e-mail to events(at)quantumleap.co.ke

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May 14th – 15th 2012: Mobile VAS Africa 2012
Venue: Johannesburg, South Africa

Mobile VAS Africa 2012 will bring together industry experts and representatives from leading financial institutions, mobile operators and solutions providers to provide a strategic insight into mobile VAS

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May 15th 2012: Essential Negotiation Skills Training UK
Venue: London Victoria

This workshop will aim to ensure all delegates have a comprehensive understanding of successful negotiating and be able to usefully apply the skills learnt through regular practice and coaching, post-programme.

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May 16th 2012: VC4Africa Meetup Kigali
Venue: Kigali, Rwanda

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May 16th 2012: Essential Negotiation Skills Training UK
Venue: Birmingham City Centre

This workshop will aim to ensure all delegates have a comprehensive understanding of successful negotiating and be able to usefully apply the skills learnt through regular practice and coaching, post-programme.

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May 16th – 17th 2011: Roaming & Interconnect 2012
Venue: Johannesburg, South Africa

RIC Africa 2012 will uncover new strategies to boost roaming traffic and retain existing roamers. During the conference we will look at the innovative roaming solutions and pricing, supplementing roaming with alternative revenue streams, the latest EU regulations and their impact on operations in Africa, as well as the importance of hubbing and convergence.

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May 17th 2012: Essential Negotiation Skills Training UK
Venue: Manchester City Centre

This workshop will aim to ensure all delegates have a comprehensive understanding of successful negotiating and be able to usefully apply the skills learnt through regular practice and coaching, post-programme.

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May 17th – 18th 2012: Growing SMEs event
Venue: Kigali, Rwanda

Growing SMEs is a premium international conference geared towards SME growth. The conference brings together high growth entrepreneurs and experts in the topics of developing, growing and financing SMEs. It’s aim is to facilitate knowledge exchange, networking and learning, hence further paving the way for advanced SME development and therefore economic growth.

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May 19th 2012: Mobile Garage Students Exhibition
Venue: iHub, Nairobi
Time: 9:00 a.m - 3:00 p.m

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May 20th – 24th 2012: Innovation Policy for Inclusive Growth and Employment Creation in MENA

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May 21st – 22nd 2012: Investing in African Youth: Making Financial Services and Training Work 2012
Venue: Senegal

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May 21st – 24th 2012: Basic Compliance & Ethics meeting
Venue: Brussels, Belgium

New regulations, increased governmental scrutiny, and a spotlight on business are raising the stakes for compliance programs. Compliance professionals, no matter where they work, need to understand the basic elements and global best practices for compliance and ethics program management.

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May 21st – 25th 2012: Start Your Business (SYB) Training
Venue: Westlands, Nairobi

A 5 days programme targeting potential and existing entrepreneurs who have a business idea, which needs to be developed in terms of covering key elements of the business such as costing, marketing, staffing and research among others.Entrepreneurs will be equipped to develop a Business Plan for that particular idea. Materials are facilitated by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Contact Tel: +254 20 231 4 030, +254 731 339 389, +254 727 422 377 or Email: info @ andekenya.co.ke

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May 22nd – 23rd 2012: 'Broadband as a Video Platform - Strategies for Africa'
Venue: Lusaka

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May 22nd – 25th 2012: 8th INSME Annual Meeting
Venue: Daejeon

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May 23rd 2012: Improving Presentation Skills Training
Venue: London Victoria

This workshop will aim to enable all-levels of delegates to leave the programme knowing how to successfully create a presentation and present it so they will feel confident enough to generate positive reaction and interaction from their audiences.

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May 24th 2012: Improving Presentation Skills Training
Venue: Birmingham City Centre

This workshop will aim to enable all-levels of delegates to leave the programme knowing how to successfully create a presentation and present it so they will feel confident enough to generate positive reaction and interaction from their audiences.

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May 29th – 30th 2012: 15th Annual Microfinance Centre Conference "Business or Development? Time to Choose"
Venue: Georgia

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May 29th – June 1st 2012: 2nd GSMA-mHealth Alliance Mobile Health Summit
Venue: Cape Town, South Africa

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May 31st 2012: VC4Africa Nairobi
Venue: Nairobi

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May 31st – June 2nd 2012: Business Sense: Ghana SME Expo 2012
Venue: Accra

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June 2012

June 5th – 6th 2012: Pivot East Mobile Startup Pitching Competition
Venue: Ole Sereni hotel, Nairobi

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June 6th 2012: AITEC Banking & Mobile Money West Africa
Venue: Accra International Conference Centre

Now in its fifth year, the conference will cover a wide range of strategic and technology topics to empower West Africa's banking, microfinance and insurance professionals with the knowledge they need to lead their organisation effectively through the turbulent market and regulatory conditions they face.

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June 15th 2012: Africa Gathering Annual London Event
Venue: Thomson Reuters Foundation Buildings, 30 S Colonnade, E14 London

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June 15th – 17th 2012: Cape Town Book Fair
Venue: South Africa

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June 18th – 29th 2012: Academy on Sustainable Enterprise Development
Venue: International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy

The goal of the ILO’s enterprise development programme is the large scale creation of decent work in sustainable enterprises of all sizes and types, for women and men, and with a focus on the poor. Read More »»

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June 21st 2012: SEED Forum East Africa
Venue: Nairobi, Kenya

The mission of Seed Forum is to create a global investor matchmaking market place for seed and venture capital without national or regional borders. The Seed Forum concept has grown rapidly since it was founded in Norway in 2002. The process has the objective of providing competence within investor readiness and investor matchmaking opportunities within seed and venture capital to born global companies.

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June 28th – 29th 2012: Responsible Business Summit USA
Venue: New York

The Responsible Business Summit USA will bring together thought leaders, corporates, NGO's and civil society to address the latest sustainability challenges

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June 28th – 29th 2012: We Own It Summit
Venue: Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City

In its third successful year, The We Own It Summit will expose the myths and explore the realities of women's entrepreneurship and move forward to a decade that will include many more women as founders and CEOs of high growth firms. The summit's overarching ten year goal includes increasing the number of women investors, high growth entrepreneurs, women on private and public boards and the likelihood of success of businesses during the growth stage.

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June 28th – 30th 2012: Masinde Muliro University of Science And Technology (MMUST) Annual Conference

Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) Annual Conference for 2012 will be hosted by the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences (FESS) on the theme 'Action Research in Higher Education and Development in Africa'. The Conference seeks deeper understanding of people, places and processes in action research and their impact on development in Africa.

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July 2012

July 7th – 13th 2012: East Africa Youth Forum 2012
Venue: Asmara, Eritrea
Theme: Active Youth Participation in Conflict Transformation and Regional Integration

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September 2012

September 11th – 13th 2012: Making Cents International Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference
Venue: Washington, DC

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September 18th – 22nd 2012: Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo
Venue: Zimbabwe

Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo, one of the biggest arts gatherings in Zimbabwe will run under the theme ‘Blooming’. The festival will host about 50 events that will include performances, skills sharing workshops, exhibitions, competitions and seminars. The festival focuses on the following arts genres: theatre, dance, music, visual arts, film, spoken word, literary arts and fashion. Local and international artists interested in taking part can download application forms from www.intwasa,org. The deadline for application is 30th April 2012.

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October 2012

October 13th – 15th 2012: Africa Social Enterprise & Innovation Expo (ASE&I Expo 2012)
Venue: KICC, Nairobi, Kenya

Visit www.aseiexpo.com to register

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October 15th – 17th 2012: The Blue Economy World Summit 2012
Venue: Berlin

This is a unique opportunity to experience Blue Economy live and in action.

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December 2012

December 1st – 4th 2012: Agro Tech 2012
Venue: Parade Ground, Chandigarh, India

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December 17th – 21st 2012: "Performing Arts Management Today" Conference
Venue: Retzhof Castle - Retzhof Educational Institute in Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria

This professional conference open to arts managers, arts entrepreneurs, fundraisers, producers, arts agents and talent managers working in various artistic disciplines from all over the world interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts administration and training.

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