African Proptech Forum

The Africa Proptech Forum by API Events connects Africa’s most influential property community of 26,000 real estate professionals with its emerging technology sector.

As the leading platform in African real estate, API Events has been instrumental in driving investment and formalising Africa’s real estate industry through summits, webinars, awards, training courses and moreover the past decade.

Trusted by Africa’s largest investors, developers, banks and operators to grow their brands in Africa, our stakeholders include Africa’s largest banks, DFIS, developers, operators, startups and leading technology companies.

The Event

Our annual flagship event, The African Proptech Forum, is the only pan-Africa Proptech Summit, which gathers decision-makers from the tech and formal real estate sectors and takes place in Jo’burg, South Africa on 07 September 2021.

Taking place in a hybrid format in 2021 with both in-person and virtual attendees, the 4th annual APF is Africa’s Premier technology event and takes place alongside the API Summit, Africa’s leading real estate gathering. In 2020, the event was held virtually and was attended by more than 800 delegates.

Focus Areas

• VC Funding
• Data Digitalisation & Analytics
• Smart Real Estate
• Construction Technology
• Retail & Residential Tech
• The Sharing Economy
• Blockchain in Real Estate
• Sustainability and Energy Efficiency
• IOT and AI in Real Estate
• Marketplaces & Portals
• Real Estate Fintech
• Property and Facilities Management

2021 Speakers

James Dearsley, Co-Founder Unissu UK

John Kuruvilla, CoFounder & CRO, Kalpnik Technologies

Kim Van Rooyen, Global Head of Technology Advisory

Clive Butknow, CEO Kalon Venture Partners

Wendy Cerutti, Head of Cost Management Turner & Townsend

Kerwen Francis, Head of Valuations Property Finance Nedbank CIB, South Africa

Gil Sperling, CEO and CoFounder Flow

Steven Brown, CEO Fortres REIT