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Brendan Yell

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Opening remarks with Brendan Yell

Opening remarks

Our ten group-round winners take to Centre Stage for the semi-final of PITCH.

Each of the semi-finalists has three minutes to pitch their businesses. Our judges then deliberate and choose three finalists to battle it out in the PITCH final.

Semi-finalists will be revealed following the group stages of the competition, taking place on day 1 of the event.

Meet our judges 
- Emily Fontaine from IBM
- Stephan Morais from Indico Capital Partners
- Anie Akpe from African Women In Tech (AWIT)
- Aline Oliveira Pezente from Traive
- Nicole Ingra from Ingra Labs
- Dan Gardner from Code and Theory
- Iryna Volnytska from SET University
- Brendan Yell from FusionAuth
- Tamara Steffens from Thomson Reuters Ventures
- Luis Castro Henriques from EDP
- Margot Weiss from Adobe


PITCH semi-final

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Brendan Yell

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