A list of annual developer conferences in Africa.
- Silicon Mountain Conference
- OpenMRS Implementers Meeting
- ConcantenateConf
- DevConf South Africa
- PHP South Africa
- ScaleConf
- Pixel Up
- Source Up
- SATRDAY
The Buea Techosystem starting from 2015 organizes the annual Silicon Mountain conference popularly referred to as #smconfb which brings together over 500+ like-minded creatives and hackers from the Mountain Area and around Africa for two days of sessions, labs, speakers. It features tech talks, design and code labs.
In 2016 OpenMRS decided to merge their annual developer summit and their implementers meeting into one event under the name OpenMRS Implementers Meeting. OpenMRS is the community behind the open source medical records system called OpenMRS. They have an annual conference were developers and implementers of OpenMRS come together to share their experiences.
The conference aims to bring health care professionals and OpenMRS implementers together to collaborate, share implementation experiences and discover new ways to improve OpenMRS.
The audience is usually a mix of programmers, community members, doctors, nurses, ministry of health, universities, etc.
OpenMRS has a travel grant program for community members that would otherwise not be able to attend the conference for financial reasons.
https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/RES/2018+Implementers%27+Conference
A free conference for Nigerian developers with topics ranging from frameworks to design systems, performance to animation.
DevConf is a community-driven, developer focused, one-day conference hosted annually. The aim of the conference is to provide software developers with a buffet of tools, practices and principles applicable to tackling current and future challenges in the South African software development environment. It's an event where attendees can learn, network and be inspired regardless of their specific technology stack and programming language of choice.
DevConf serves to inspire software developers. A range of topics applicable to software development will be presented. From keeping up to date with the latest technologies and trends to tackling the challenges of working in large enterprise systems – it's a buffet of experiences, ideas and pragmatic advice as well as an opportunity to connect with peers across the industry.
An annual PHP conference in South Africa
Each year ScaleConf brings international and local experts together to share their experience scaling websites and services using modern technologies and philosophies.
3 days of UX, design, content, and research in Cape Town
2 days, 8 in-depth talks and 2 full-day, hands-on workshops with authors, front-end consultants, and experts who've worked with Etsy, Google, Microsoft, Slack, and more
The R community and some of South Africa's most forward thinking companies have come together to bring satRday back for its third edition. This conference provides an opportunity to hear from and network with top Researchers, Data Scientists and Developers from the R community in South Africa and beyond.