Africa Tech Festival, an event placing African tech front and center since 1997, will reconvene this year November 12 – 14, in Cape Town, South Africa.

Unified Streaming is sending two of its emissaries to the show in Cape Town: SJ4NB (Streaming Jester for New Business) Pepijn Tijhuis and Senior Account Manager Mikolaj Salanski.

The two will attend AfricaCom, which is Africa Tech Festival’s longest-running event. Tijhuis and Salanski will also visit Unified Streaming customers based in the driveable area.

One such customer is MultiChoice. 

MultiChoice Group, Africa’s leading entertainment company, serves millions of customers across 50 markets in sub-Saharan Africa with products and services including DStv, GOtv, SuperSport, Irdeto, KingMakers and Showmax. The multinational is headquartered in Randburg, Johannesburg.

Unified Streaming provides the broadcaster with several solutions to suit their live and VOD programming workflows.

This is the first year Unified Streaming will be attending AfricaCom, part of Africa Tech Festival. The streaming software company enjoys long-standing connections to the continent through customers, and is ready to forge new relationships in the region.

“Africa is a rapidly growing market that is less weighed down by technical debt owed to legacy systems including multicast or cable, unlike the EU and the U.S. markets,” said Tijhuis. ​“Therefore I see the region as the next tech hotspot. Hoping to learn from and contribute to the process. Having a few customers in Africa already, I hope to build on that and discover names I’ve never heard of.”

​“Delivering high-quality, tailored solutions for diverse needs of customers like MultiChoice is most effective when grounded in strong business relationships. Core values like loyalty, transparency, and dedication are essential, and they’ll be foremost on our mind as we visit the companies we team up with in South Africa,” said Salanski. ​“At AfricaCom, let’s collaborate and create an innovative business and technology ecosystem together!”

To meet with Salanski and Tijhuis at AfricaCom, just DM them on LinkedIn, or email them at sales@​unified-​streaming.​com.