ORGANISE YOUR EVENT – WOMEN IN TECH WEEK

The internationally recognized largest women’s group in Africa, Women in Tech Africa (WITA) is organizing its annual Women in Tech Week event, this September, from 26th – 30th September. The week-long event is simultaneously taking place in 40 countries with 400 event tracks with over 40,000 participants and over 400,000 social media impressions. Sponsors include  SAP, EDEL Technology Consulting,WeCreate Kenya, ISpace Foundation, Kawa Moka

The Women in Tech Week, is a great opportunity to put your organization at the epicenter of innovators in all industries in your community and country as a whole.
The 5-day event is bringing together women all over the world to discuss and share ideas on 5 thematic areas;

• Theme:  Technology Day – DAY 1
• Theme:  Leadership Day – DAY 2
• Theme:   Entrepreneur Day – DAY 3
• Theme: Work – Life Day – DAY 4
• Theme: Talent Day – DAY 5

This year, we are giving individuals and organizations across Africa unique opportunities to promote their brands and works through our numerous international platforms with the aims of them

• Becoming visible for growth or connect with ecosystems for your company.
• Getting in front of potential new hires.
• Getting in front of potential new leads.
• Supporting the Women in Tech ecosystem.
• Positioning their organization as supporting female leadership in Africa

WHY YOU SHOULD ORGANIZE AN EVENT
• Your city and logo listed on the Women In Tech Week directory on the landing page; www.womenintechafrica.com/events)
• Women in Tech Week logos and brand guidelines
• A digital toolkit with helpful hints and best practices on how to best organize your event.
• Your event will be promoted to our global community including email subscribers.

As an organizer, you are at will to have your own theme which will have to be defended or chose a theme around any of our thematic list above. You are also at liberty to organize more than one event.
Kindly note that, all themes and events should have a strategic bearing on women or children advocacy in all fields of endeavor especially, technology.

Please find below instructions on how to create the event, once you are done, we will publish it to help boost attendance during the day.

EVENT CREATION GUIDELINES
• All events must be created and managed via the women in tech Africa website:
• Go to http://www.techweek.womenintechafrica.com/wp-login.php?action=register to Register for an account,
• You will be approved in 24 hrs. and receive an email with login details.
• Login with the password and email go to http://www.techweek.womenintechafrica.com/wp-login.php
• Once logged in you will find on the dashboard, with the ability to add events. ( http://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/getting-started-guide/)
• All the events once created will go into pending approval.
• Someone from my team will approve within 5 days and people can book to attend events from the site

After you are approved and logged on:
1. Click on the events button under the dashboard
2. Click add new event
3. Fill the fields provided for the event details
4. Save for approval and publication
In case of any difficulties please send an email to gloria.dogbey@edelitconsult.com or partnership@womenintechafrica.com

Thank you