NetProphet an outstanding success
Feedback from the NetProphet conference has exceeded all our expectations. Originally planned as a 100 delegate conference, then 200, it quickly expanded to 450 registered users, so much so that registration had to be closed! On the day an extra row of chairs had to be put out to accomodate all the delegates.
The speakers were fantastic, they also managed to keep the topics less technical and more informative so it wasnt just another geek event. The appeal was across industries, not just IT. They shared insights into what they do with real world examples of their experiences and advice on how to build your own web-enabled business. The content from the event will be posted with video and slides on the Netprophet website to allow more people access to the excellent content.
Some comments: Arthur Goldstuck said “I have never seen so many people at an Internet Conference before”, Peter Flynn said “All software will ultimately be web-based” and Mike Stopforth – “How conferences in SA should be run”
RSAWEB was one of the headline sponsors to make NetProphet possible, along with sister company WhiteWallWeb and the Innovation Fund. There is talk that Cape Town has become the “Silicon Cape” – the Silicon Valley of Africa and NetProphet has helped enable that!
Twitter was also a major success factor in the conference, with a twitter fountain pulling up all the #Netprophet tags. We managed to ‘trend’ into the Top 10 and got to be the 2nd most talked about topic on twitter in the world for over 2 hours.
NetProphet was conceived by the Directors of the RAMP Foundation and is a new initiative created to inspire creativity and the flow of ideas among entrepreneurs and stake-holders who operate in the internet-tech space in Africa & South Africa.
If you missed the event this year, go and register now on the Netprophet website for updates around the next event.
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Thank you all for a very well organized event! Definitely motivated to attend next year!
Would’ve loved to see a more advanced level of talks as well, maybe parallell tracks with different focus would solve that?
This was an event worth paying for, so kudos for creating a free event of this kaliber! Well done! 🙂
Thanks Tess
I guess it is always difficult to know what the make up of the audience is going to be at the first event. We have got such awesome feedback from the community, loads to process and think about to improve next years event.
Thanks for the positive feedback!
Tess, we still havent met you! The whole setup is to help entrepreneurs and non-IT people “Make Business sense of the internet” – parallel tracks may be the answer in different halls.
We have had several comments that the quality was so good that people would have been willing to pay big money!
We are really excited by Netprophet and will continue it in future.
A great event. Every speaker had something to offer. Well done to the sponsors. It is not everyday one has a “free” event with so much to offer. I hope it happens again. It is something not to be missed.
very informative
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It was very informative and very inspiring. It’s given me a new outlook on the IT world and created new ideas that I didn’t realize was there. It was amazing to see that some of the most obvious opportunities were actually right in front of us, but yet we sometimes manage to miss them. Good job to the organizers. I look forward to attending Net Prophet 2010!!
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