Kumasi North Startup Pitch Summit
Women’s Haven Africa in partnership with Ghana Tech Lab under the Pathways to Sustainable Employment Program is organizing a Local Startup Summit on the theme: Digital Media for business and job creation in this era.
Women’s Haven Africa over the period of 6 weeks have trained 30 young women in Digital Media where participants were exposed to Graphic Design, Photography, Videography, Sound Design, Digital Marketing, Creative Writing and Blogging and seeks to crown the training with a Local Startup Pitch Summit which will be held on Saturday, July 3, 2021 at Women’s Haven Africa in Kumasi.
About Women’s Haven Africa
Women’s Haven Africa is an innovative entrepreneurial female hub creating a friendly and productive environment for the growth and development of women led businesses, projects, and initiatives. Women’s Haven Africa provides business support services, connects innovative young women, startups, women-led organizations and women leaders with the business support, tools, and resources to thrive. Women’s Haven Africa seeks to produce an empowered and influential community of female innovators who provide viable and sustainable solutions for various challenges faced in the world and is focused on increasing the participation of women in Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Technology.
About Ghana Tech Lab
Ghana Tech Lab is an open collaborative tech space for competent Digital skills training, seeding innovations and growing Startups established under the Ministry of Communications’ e-Transform project with funding from the World Bank and a product of the Pathways to Sustainable Employment (PaSE) project.
General Overview of Digital Media
Digital media has revolutionized and reshaped traditional media in terms of how brands are communicating value to their customers and stakeholders. Digital media as a key digital skill has expanded revenue and reach of organizations, startups, and companies in the last two decades, by leveraging the internet as its main vehicle for this expansion.
In Ghana, for instance, there has been increasing growth in the number of businesses that require online visibility to propel customer acquisition and reach. The COVID -19 pandemic has limited businesses from conducting business physically, to virtual means of doing business and engaging with customers. This and many other factors, have increased demand for digital media skills
Description of the Local Startup Summit
The Local Startup Summit (subsequently identified as Kumasi North Startup Summit) is an excellent opportunity for startups from the digital media training to be propelled to the next level, through constructive business development and investor-readiness feedback to engender possible funding from the community of local investors.
The Local Startup Summit is a day event which comes off after the six (6) weeks digital media training executed by Women’s Haven Africa in collaboration with Ghana Tech Lab during which, trainees form teams and are guided to prepare their respective pitch decks.
The teams will pitch their solutions to a panel of judges and to the community of local investors during the summit. The summit will consist of a list of 3 judges who will assess and score performances of teams during their pitch, a keynote speaker and a 3 member panel which consist of members from Women’s Haven Africa Local Investor Network will be present at the event to hold discussions about Digital Media and its relevance for business and job creation in this era of pandemic.
The 1st and 2nd place startups of the Local Startup Summit will progress to the Incubation track of the Base Innovation Program whiles the rest of the trainees progresses to the Employability track respectively.
Objectives of the Local Startup Summit
The Local Startup Summit has 4 objectives it aims to achieve which are to:
- Promote and celebrate the startup culture within the local ecosystem and also to encourage entrepreneurship among the youth.
- Create an easy access to funding and business support for the early-stage startups.
- Create a conducive platform for investors, innovators and entrepreneurs to converge at one place to share ideas, experiences and explore areas of mutual interest and collaboration for a thriving digital economy, and,
- Enable startup founders to pitch their innovative ideas to local investors, business leaders and to the local community.
Registration for the Local Startup Summit is currently open to the general public. Kindly register to attend the summit to confirm your participation
Women’s Haven Africa is committed to increasing the participation of young women in digital skills, reducing the gender gap in tech and raising female tech giants in Africa through its programs and innitiatives.
