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Photos | Check out all the official photographs
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Podcast | African Tech Roundup's 7 IGNITE episodes
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Subscribe to the African Tech Roundup podcast by Andile Masuku to hear 7 exclusive episodes created during IGNITE! The first is out now: a discussion between Prof. Alexander Betts and SPARK Director, Yannick du Pont, on innovative foreign aid strategy and constructive refugee interventions.
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Film | Watch the film of IGNITE 2018
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Did you make the cut?
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Illustrations | Download and zoom in to uncover the new stories at IGNITE 2018
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Dive into the Ink Strategy illustration that was created with your stories, recommendations and the thoughts of the day.
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Startup Roadshow | The winners!
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Five finalists of the Startup Roadshow by SPARK & Jusoor pitched at IGNITE and the winners were revealed. The top prize, $8000, went to Shiffer, a peer-to-peer shipping platform. Azhar Al Madani, a Syrian entrepreneur based in Erbil, KR-Iraq, delivered the team's winning pitch.
Second place was awarded to Fadfed, a mental health tech startup that offers users mental health support via an app's chatbot. The Syrian founder, Ibrahem Ahmed, is based in Jordan and took home $4000 to get his product to market.
The IGNITE attendees awarded the €3000 Young Advisory Group's Audience Award to Sharqi Shop, an e-commerce platform for Middle Eastern crafts founded by Saleem Najjar, a Syrian entrepreneur in Jordan.
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Feedback | What did you think? Do you have suggestions? Whether you loved it or hated it, your feedback is really useful to us for organising next year's IGNITE. Please let us know!
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A huge thank you to our IGNITE 2018 partners:
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