Catch the latest Fintech and Tech news, keep up to date with all the latest happenings, upcoming conferences and educational courses related to Fintech and Technology. In this edition we look at the Fintech Conference 2023.
Check out these two upcoming Fintech Conferences:
- The Leading Summit on Financial Services Innovation and Excellence 2023
- Seamless – The Future of Payments, Fintech, Retail, and E-commerce across Africa 2023
and UCT short course:
- Fintech: Disruption in Finance
In Tech News we investigate The MultiChoice Moment – new sports betting & payment platform for South Africa and South African Department of Basic Education (DBE) introduces Robotics and Coding in 2023. Upcoming Tech Conference:The International Conference of Software Technology and Intelligent Computing (ICSTIC) and tech education: Advanced Master’s Degree: Digital Education and Gamification
Fintech Conference 2023
The Fintech Conference in June 2023 hosted 300 attendees from 54 countries and 40 speakers from high-level banks and businesses, strategists, IT tech and cryptocurrency experts to discuss ‘Humanizing banking in the digital age.’
The Agenda for the Fintech Conference asks,’ How can financial institutions retain the human element in the digital age?’ The conference agenda will address issues like AI-driven Customer Experience in Fintech and Striking the Balance: Realistic Approaches to Ideal AI in Financial Services.
Upcoming Fintech Conferences
The Leading Summit on Financial Services Innovation and Excellence 2023
Finnovex Southern Africa is hosting The Leading Summit on Financial Services Innovation and Excellence on 25 & 26 July in Johannesburg. Finnovex is presenting a fully hybrid conference bringing experts in the Banking and Financial Services ecosystems together.
Seamless – The Future of Payments, Fintech, Retail, and E-commerce across Africa 2023
Terrapinn is hosting Seamless – The Future of Payments, Fintech, Retail, and e-commerce across Africa 2023 for over 3000 delegates for 2 action-packed days. There will be over 200 speakers and over 200 exhibitions from 65 countries to investigate the impacts of disruptive change and find ways to collaborate, debate, and evaluate the industry’s future as tech-savvy transactions become part of the virtual world.
FinTech Education
Fintech: Disruption in Finance
The University of Cape Town offers Fintech: Disruption in Finance, which is an online short course convened by Allan Davids, who teaches econometrics, public economics and policy analysis at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
The Fintech course has 8 Modules that will give you an understanding of the technologies of disrupting finance, including blockchain, AI and big data, and the skills to apply them to your context. The course will give you skills to solve problems within emerging markets through the use of Fintech and how to strategize, fund and launch your start-up within the growing Fintech landscape.
Tech News
The MultiChoice Moment – new sports betting & payment platform for South Africa
MultiChoice is in the process of launching a new sports betting and payment. The group has outlined its strategy of transforming its video entertainment-based platform into a more extensive technology platform encompassing new emerging ecosystems.
MultiChoice said it is partnering with KingMakers, a sports betting & gaming company, to launch an online betting service in South Africa by the end of 2023, which will be called SuperSportBet, said KingMakers CEO Kim Reid.
Along with SuperSportBet, MultiChoice aims to bridge the digital divide in Africa with its new online payment company called Moment. Moment is a joint venture between Multichoice, Rapyd, a global payment platform, General Catalyst, fintech venture capitalists, Entrée Capital, and Raba.
South African Department of Basic Education (DBE) introduces Robotics and Coding in 2023
After piloting Coding and Robotics in 18 schools nationwide in 2022, the DBE is still finalizing curricula for new subjects for promulgation into the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS), which governs South Africa’s education system.
Coding and Robotics are the ‘next gen’ subjects being piloted for improving education in the 21st Century, which include, but are not limited to: Robotics, Coding, Machine-learning, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing, Genetics and Biotechnology. The DBE has gazetted 35 Occupational and Vocationally- orientated subjects over the past few years. DBE introduced Marine Sciences, a new FET-level subject among the occupational subjects.
Upcoming Tech Conference
The International Conference of Software Technology and Intelligent Computing (ICSTIC)
The International Conference of Software Technology and Intelligent Computing (ICSTIC) is taking place in Johannesburg on 29 June 2023, hosted by IIRTS.com. The aim of ICSTIC is to bring industry professionals, experts, academicians, and scholars together to discuss their expertise for better collaboration in the field.
Tech Education
Advanced Master’s Degree: Digital Education and Gamification
The Technological Institute of South Africa (Tech) offers an Advanced Master’s Degree: Digital Education and Gamification. This 20 Module course is designed to offer a comprehensive, detailed and updated vision of the new techniques used in Digital Education and Gamification as a critical objective of the new education. With Tech, the educator or professor experiences ways of learning that are shaking the foundations of traditional universities globally.
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Until the next Edition of Fintech and Tech news, we’ll keep our ear to the ground and bring you the latest and best happening in these ecosystems. We hope you enjoyed this month’s roundup of Fintech and Tech New.
