I am extremely happy to report that Mac Tech SA has officially held it’s 1st year anniversary event on the 9th of October, and to date, it has been one of our best events.
We had an amazing mix of people, a fantastic vibe and energy, and some of the best foods to fill our bellies.
- Friends of Design
- Spur Steak Ranches
- White Squirrel
- Afrihost
- Digicape
- Butler’s PIzza
- Watchman Monitoring
- Useful and Beautiful
- Purely Local
- Silicon Cape
- Sir Juice
We were able to explore some of the deeper hidden iOS 8 features with my talk, and learn about some new and updates gems for iOS 8 thanks to Lynette’s talk.
Mac Tech SA has been able to forge some great relationships which have blossomed into sponsorships. Some of our favourite sponsors were all to happy to get onboard for our big birthday, and we are ever-grateful for each and every one of them!
Some of the amazing goodies that we were able to giveaway included:
- Griffin Helo Chopper from Digicape
- Training vouchers from Digicape
- In-Store vouchers from Digicape
- iTunes voucher from Apple Domination
- Training vouchers from Friends of Design
- Hamper from Sir Juice
Our full of sponsors include:
We were very fortunate in raising some money for our very deserving beneficiary too.
R950 to be exact. Thank you so much to everybody that attended and paid your entrance fee.
This is going to help some very deserving Lion Hearts!!
Our amazing photographer, Idé, from White Squirrel has released the snaps she took of the event, and they are gorgeous!
They will be online on our Facebook page shortly, so feel free to tag yourself and share too.
- Intently watching the new features of iOS8
- Amit, from Byte Orbit, promoting Startup Knight
- Sir Juice for everyone!
- Smiles everywhere!
- Mac Tech SA Keynote
- Getting the Keynote started, finally
- Kevin from Ampertech, recovering from one lousy photo many meets ago 🙂
- Butler’s Pizza Treated us very wel
- Sir Juice Hamper up for grabs
- Darryl from FYMT and Gee Tee and Mandy from IsoFix4u.co.za
- Candice, from Tech GIrl, doing her signature hair-flip
- Our venue sponsored by the amazing Friends of Design
- Lynette’s Apps of the month
- What a cool way to end the night off. One big geeky family!!
- Candice, from Tech Girl, is miss Social Media herself
- Jacques from CPUT, Ricky from Edcon and Angelo from Digicape thought it was funny 🙂
- Thanks Butler’s
- Amit from Byte Orbit
- Abrie from Evolv Networks
- Mmmm….Spur gave us amazing burgers to Om Nom Nom
- Amit and Martin from Byte Orbit
- The Spur team, Megan and Elton, networking with Ewizz expert, Andy
- Never too much wine for Gary
- Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry
- Lynette from Useful and Beautiful, prepping before her Apps talks
- Strawbssss
- So much of Juice
- Our resident lucky man, Ricky, from Edcon
- Cheeky Lynette from Useful and Beautiful
- Butler’s delivers in style!
- So much of pizza
- Pretty sweet (no pun intended) from Purely Local
- Prepping before the Keynote begins
- Amit and Martin from Byte Orbit, and Chantelle from Shout Factory
- Soooo many goodies up for grabs!
- Angelo, Representing Digicape tonight
- Lynette from Useful and Beautiful getting her Apps of the month underway
- My lotus flower-matching jersey
- Gee Tee from IsoFix4u.co.za
- Chantelle punting the new Augmented Reality app they used in Purely Local
- Andy from eWizz was very happy to hear there were veggie pizzas for him
I will announce the winners of the app promo codes on our Facebook Page along with the photos, so watch the page for updates.
Thanks again to everyone that attended, and I look forward to seeing you all for our last event of 2014 in November/December
Watch your inbox for updates!