{"id":8367,"date":"2022-09-07T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T08:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/?p=8367"},"modified":"2022-09-07T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T09:00:19","slug":"win-an-invitation-to-the-2022-africa-tech-festival-and-travel-to-cape-town-to-cover-a-series-of-world-class-tech-events-that-includes-africacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/2022\/09\/07\/win-an-invitation-to-the-2022-africa-tech-festival-and-travel-to-cape-town-to-cover-a-series-of-world-class-tech-events-that-includes-africacom\/","title":{"rendered":"WIN an Invitation to the 2022 Africa Tech Festival and Travel to Cape Town to Cover a Series of World-Class Tech Events that Includes AfricaCom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APO Group (<a href=\"https:\/\/apo-group.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/countlinks\/215291\/http:%7D%7Dwww.apo-opa.com%7D\/website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.APO-opa.com<\/a>), the leading Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, will award one African journalist transport, accommodation and daily allowance to attend the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town, South Africa from 7<sup>th<\/sup> to 11<sup>th<\/sup> November.<\/p>\n<div id=\"multimedia-videos\" class=\"pull-right col-sm-6\">\n<div class=\"multimedia-video\">\n<figure class=\"video-item\">\n<div class=\"play-video\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"video-popup view-count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SVMwgcoeU3U\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mediaid=\"83721\" data-pressid=\"215291\" data-fancybox-type=\"iframe\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_63185d8e6a0e7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<ul class=\"multimedia-icon q-links clearfix\">\n<li class=\"video-embed social-share last\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Africa Tech Festival (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/355VqMo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/355VqMo<\/a>) is a series of world-class tech events that includes AfricaCom, AfricaTech, the AHUB, the AFest and the AfricaCom Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 24 years, Africa Tech Festival has become the biggest telecoms and technology event on the continent. The anchor event of Africa Tech Festival 2022 is AfricaCom, the largest live tech event in Africa with more than 300 visionary speakers and 16 premium conference tracks. In total, Africa Tech Festival 2022 will host 10.000+ attendees, and 300+ sponsors and exhibitors over a week of strategic events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>APPLY<\/strong> to win the invitation: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/ATFen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/ATFen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The deadline for entry is midnight on 2 October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced on 5 October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be chosen by random draw performed by a computer process.<\/p>\n<div class=\"press-quote-block col-sm-6\">\n<blockquote id=\"press-quote\"><p>APO Group is the Official Newswire of The Africa Tech Festival and will provide distribution and monitoring of all press releases, images, video and soundbite content<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Each year APO Group offers journalists the opportunity to attend major events as a part of its commitment to supporting journalism in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video \u201cAPO Group | Recognizing African Journalists Since 2007\u201d: (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3RAJ8Ow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3RAJ8Ow<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The three previous recipients of the AfricaCom invitation were science journalist Aimable Twahirwa from Rwanda (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3RzcnBa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3RzcnBa<\/a>), journalist John Churu from Botswana (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/2NVy4PP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.bit.ly\/2NVy4PP<\/a>), and journalist Lilian Murugi Mutegi from Kenya (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3RiyagQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3RiyagQ<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In September 2016, reporter Aggrey Mutambo from Kenya (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/2RdhgSe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.bit.ly\/2RdhgSe<\/a>) won APO Group\u2019s invitation to attend the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF). In October 2018, Online News Editor Frank Eleanya from Nigeria (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2YBnTBI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2YBnTBI<\/a>) won APO Group\u2019s invitation to attend the Web Summit, the Largest Tech Conference in the World. In 2019, Mrs Oluseyi Awojulugbe from Nigeria won APO Group\u2019s invitation to attend the African Development Bank\u2019s Annual Meetings (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2QdLwfO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2QdLwfO<\/a>), Monica Nkodo from Cameroon won APO Group\u2019s invitation to attend the 2019 EurAfrican Forum (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2WMyGYg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2WMyGYg<\/a>), and Isaac Khisa from Uganda won APO Group\u2019s invitation to attend the 2019 Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF).<\/p>\n<p>APO Group also sponsors the African Woman in Media Award (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Bhxfrs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Bhxfrs<\/a>), the Rugby Africa Media and Photography Awards (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3qejy6h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3qejy6h<\/a>), the APO Energy Media Award (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/2NSbJ5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.bit.ly\/2NSbJ5D<\/a>) and the APO Media Award (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/2DNPDfU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.bit.ly\/2DNPDfU<\/a>), where a journalist wins $500 a month for one year, a laptop and one intercontinental flight ticket to a destination of his or her choice as well as one year of access to over 600 airport VIP lounges.<\/p>\n<p>APO Group is the Official Newswire (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Qs7BVu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3Qs7BVu<\/a>) of The Africa Tech Festival and will provide distribution and monitoring of all press releases, images, video and soundbite content issued by the Africa Tech Festival.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the Africa Tech Festival: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/355VqMo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/355VqMo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), the leading Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, will award one African journalist transport, accommodation and daily allowance to attend the Africa Tech Festival in Cape Town, South Africa from 7th to 11th November. &nbsp; The Africa Tech Festival (https:\/\/bit.ly\/355VqMo) is a series of world-class tech events that includes AfricaCom, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,64,83,309,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-fashion","category-technology-trends","category-tourism","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}