iROKO CEO to open DISCOP AFRICA
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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