Our Events
SAIS offers its portfolio start-ups access to a couple of selected events. The purpose of these events is to enable interactions amongst start-ups as well as meetings with business partners and investors. Overall, our events should help to improve exposure, networking and visibility for the start-ups in our portfolio. SAIS is covering the main costs for event participation.
SAIStival
The “SAIStival” is our biggest annual event held in an African country. It brings together start-ups from two SAIS cohorts – the ones beginning the SAIS journey and the ones ending it – as well as alumni start-ups, partners and investors. The SAIStival offers opportunities for peer-learning and exchange as well as pitch-training and investor interactions. It usually happens back2back with another industry event, like the “Africa Tech Summit”.
Key Events
Moreover, SAIS is partnering with additional industry events in Africa and beyond. These include at the moment AESIS, AfricArena, GITEX as well as Emerging Valleys and VivaTech, both in France. If attendance at a key event would help a start-up in its growth journey, it can attend at least one of the key events while participating in a SAIS-IRP.