iROKO CEO to open DISCOP AFRICA
Wednesday, October 17, 2012Omoba
Basic Lead, the Los Angeles based organisers of DISCOP AFRICA, the premier digital content market and co-production forum targeting Africa, today announced Jason Njoku, CEO and co-founder of iROKO, as opening keynote speaker of the 2012 edition, which runs at Johannesburg’s Sandton Convention Centre from 31 October to 2 November.
Head
of the world’s largest digital distributor of Nollywood movies and YouTube’s
biggest partner in Africa, Njoku will present the unmissable opening morning
keynote event on 31 October which will focus on the benefits of digital
migration.
With
digital switchover deadlines fast approaching throughout many African
territories, this new, relevant and insightful addition to DISCOP AFRICA’s
conference schedule will kick off three days of powerful sessions
simultaneously translated in French and English. Alongside the topical
conference programme, the market will also host numerous networking
opportunities as well as hundreds of meetings between digital buyers, sellers
and producers at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg, South Africa,
from 31 October to 2 November .
iROKO
Partners is the world’s largest online distributor of African movies and music,
streaming 193,000,000 minutes of content across its platforms every month. In
2012, the company completed a two-part funding round of $8m with US-based hedge
fund, Tiger Global, early investors in Facebook. The investment was used to
purchase content as well as move into the US market, with a New York business
development team now in place.
DISCOP
AFRICA 2012 is expecting a record number of exhibiting and non-exhibiting
delegates, including 200+ international suppliers of film, TV programs and
formats, live events and thematic channels and all of the major broadcasters,
Pay-TV platforms, mobile operators, broadband-based TV services, closed-circuit
networks and territorial distributors operating across the continent’s 54
countries.
DISCOP
AFRICA 2012 will also feature the largest contingent of prominent producers and
distributors, ever available, to sell content created in Africa under the same
roof.
For
more information visit www.discopafrica.com
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