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.
- Sir Juice
- Afrihost
- White Squirrel
- Butler’s PIzza
- Digicape
- Watchman Monitoring
- Silicon Cape
- Spur Steak Ranches
- Useful and Beautiful
- Friends of Design
- Purely Local
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.
- Prepping before the Keynote begins
- So much of pizza
- Intently watching the new features of iOS8
- Sir Juice for everyone!
- Lynette from Useful and Beautiful getting her Apps of the month underway
- Mmmm….Spur gave us amazing burgers to Om Nom Nom
- Our resident lucky man, Ricky, from Edcon
- Pretty sweet (no pun intended) from Purely Local
- Candice, from Tech GIrl, doing her signature hair-flip
- What a cool way to end the night off. One big geeky family!!
- So much of Juice
- Getting the Keynote started, finally
- Darryl from FYMT and Gee Tee and Mandy from IsoFix4u.co.za
- Never too much wine for Gary
- Sir Juice Hamper up for grabs
- Amit, from Byte Orbit, promoting Startup Knight
- Our venue sponsored by the amazing Friends of Design
- Candice, from Tech Girl, is miss Social Media herself
- Jacques from CPUT, Ricky from Edcon and Angelo from Digicape thought it was funny 🙂
- Smiles everywhere!
- Amit and Martin from Byte Orbit, and Chantelle from Shout Factory
- Strawbssss
- Chantelle punting the new Augmented Reality app they used in Purely Local
- Kevin from Ampertech, recovering from one lousy photo many meets ago 🙂
- Butler’s delivers in style!
- Lynette’s Apps of the month
- Thanks Butler’s
- Mac Tech SA Keynote
- Gee Tee from IsoFix4u.co.za
- Cheeky Lynette from Useful and Beautiful
- Lynette from Useful and Beautiful, prepping before her Apps talks
- Amit from Byte Orbit
- Soooo many goodies up for grabs!
- My lotus flower-matching jersey
- Angelo, Representing Digicape tonight
- Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry
- Abrie from Evolv Networks
- Butler’s Pizza Treated us very wel
- Amit and Martin from Byte Orbit
- The Spur team, Megan and Elton, networking with Ewizz expert, Andy
- 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!