The City of Cape Town will be a proud host of the third Telkom Entrepreneurship Week from 12 – 18 November.
Throughout Cape Town, dozens of organisations will hold special events, workshops, competitions, information sessions and membership drives from 12 to 18 November, a period earmarked throughout the world as Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Whether you are an existing business owner, an aspiring entrepreneur or a service provider, the Telkom Cape Town Entrepreneurship Week (TCTEW) holds many opportunities for networking and business.
It works like a bonfire. It brings together a critical mass of kindling and fuel (the activities of dozens of business services and entrepreneurship development projects), provides the spark (joint publicity and coordination), and gives life to a fire that will be seen for miles.
Now in its third year, the Telkom CTEW will light the fire under an issue that is both of immediate concern and crucial to the future of entrepreneurship and prosperity of Cape Town: Youth Entrepreneurship.
In the week of 12 to 18 November, dozens of community-based business support services, local business clubs and chambers, commercial business service providers and youth organisations will workshop, discuss, debate and celebrate the many facets of Youth Entrepreneurship.
For any existing or prospective entrepreneur, the TCTEW offers a good opportunity to stand back from the day to day running of their businesses to explore the support networks available to them in the City.
Preparations for this year’s event are fast gaining momentum as organisations throughout the City sign up to hold events under the banner of the largest festival of entrepreneurship in the world.
The Telkom Cape Town Entrepreneurship Week website is now live, and organisations ranging from business chambers to churches, training institutions to clubs, are invited to post their events on the website to become part of the official Entrepreneurship Week calendar. If your event has anything to do with entrepreneurship and adds value to Cape Town’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, just post the details on the website and it will become part of the festival. No special permission or application process is required. One of the many city-wide events already posted on the calendar is the Pay, Pitch and Pocket workshop taking place at the Harare Library in Khayelitsha on 15 November. Contestants “pitch” their business idea to the audience who then decide whether or not they would invest in them as entrepreneurs. A facilitator gives tips and guidance, helped by the audience, to “polish” the pitch. Dozens of similar local events are expected to fill up the calendar in the next few weeks.
Cape Town Activa, a City programme for coordinating and enhancing the entrepreneurial support network in Cape Town, will take a leading role in creating an Expo of the entrepreneurship support network in Cape Town. A tour of the Expo this year will be like a walk through a giant, interactive and live map of business support in the City.
TCTEW is part of the City’s contribution to creating a City of Opportunity through celebrating, promoting and contributing to the development of Entrepreneurship. Go to www.ctew.co.za or email info@ctew.co.za
For CTEW Conference queries, phone Nicole Perzent at 021 460 3942 or email PerzentN@cput.ac.za
To find out more about Cape Town Activa and how this portal can assist entrepreneurs, go to www.capetownactiva.com
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