SA Innovation Summit Competition Invitation

The SA Innovation Summit would like to invite innovators and entrepreneurs that might be interested to enter the 2015 SA Innovation Summit competitions. 

Finalists and winners will be chosen at this year's SA Innovation Summit's Market-on-the-Edge that takes place from 27 – 29 August 2015 at the Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town. Winners share in more than R100,000 in cash prizes. Competitions close 30 June 2015 and the results of the first round of judging will be made known by the end of July.
 

For this year's SA Innovation Summit Competitions, the best Early Stage Development Invention wins R30,000 Sponsored by The Innovation Edge. To learn more about what early learning is and what The Innovation Edge is looking for, click here.

The SAB Foundation will award R50 000 to the best Social Innovation entered into any of the Summit competitions.

The South Africa Climate Innovation Centre (SACIC) will sponsor bonus prizes of cash and grants to the value of R250,000 for the best Green Innovation at the SA Innovation Summit.

The SABS Design Foundation will sponsor the top 10 Inventor’s Garage competition entrants to attend a SABS Design Institute Go-to-Hub where young innovators will be exposed to information about turning ideas into profitable businesses.

If you are a garage or a kitchen inventor crafting up a storm, or if you have a proven concept, demo, prototype or product to showcase, you can get exposure for your product, expert advice, mentor-ship and possible deal-making. Visit the SA Innovation Summit website to enter your Innovation before the end of June.

The PwC Pitching Den Competition at the SA Innovation Summit is a platform for emerging companies to pitch their business to a well-rounded panel of judges.This year’s pitchers can enter in two categories, one for start-ups and another for the PwC Vision to Reality competition which focuses on emerging companies with tech enabled solutions.