Female tech entrepreneurs to be honoured

Johannesburg - The sixth annual Innovator Trust Women in Tech (Wit) Appreciation Experience aims to honour female tech entrepreneurs for achievements in their businesses.

The awards, to take place on 16 November, are hosted by the Innovator Trust, a small-business training incubation facilitator established in 2014.

Its mission is to support development of sustainable information and communications technology SMMEs.

Now in its sixth year, the Wit Appreciation Experience event was initially conceptualised primarily to recognise female beneficiaries from the enterprise development, supplier development and young entrepreneur programmes that are facilitated by the Innovator Trust.

Since its inception, the Innovator Trust has incubated more than 190 black-owned ICT small businesses, some of which have been able to grow from the start-up phase to medium and large-scale enterprises.

For the last two years, the event was virtual and offered a line-up of keynote addresses and panel discussions featuring women in leadership such as Small Business Development Minister Stella NdabeniAbrahams; former public protector Professor Thuli Madonsela; Nelson Mandela Bay University chancellor Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and Vodacom director for external Affairs, Takalani Netshitenzhe.

This year’s event will be hosted as a one-day event to include those unable to attend in person. Leading women of industry, innovators, government, academia, media and