Events

Title: Harvesting African Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Promotion of Trade and Commerce between the USA and Africa

Date: Saturday, December 10, 2011

Venue:Fairmont Hotel San Jose, 170 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA

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Title: Astia 2011 Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Program

Date:Monday, October 10 - Saturday, October 15, 2011

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Title: Investing in the African Agricultural Sector

Date:Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Time:5:30PM to 8:30PM

Venue:
Fenwick & West LLP 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA

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Title: Africa Green Economy: Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Date:Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Time:5:30PM to 8:30PM

Venue:
Fenwick & West LLP 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA

Fee:
Members: $5
Non-members: $10

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Title: ASTIA, Much More Than Incubator.

Date:Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Time:6:00PM to 8:30PM

Venue:
Fenwick & West LLP 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA

Fee:
Members: $5
Non-members: $10

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Title: Showcasing 3 Ghanaian Software Startups.

Date:Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Time:6:00PM to 8:30PM

Venue:
Plug and Play Tech Center 440 N. Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94085

Fee:
Members: FREE
Non-members: FREE

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Title: What Silicon Valley Companies are Doing in Africa.

Date:Thursday, September 23, 2010

Time:5:30PM

Venue:
Fenwick & West LLP 801 California Street, Mountain View, CA

Fee:
Members: $5
Non-members: $10

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Title: Incubating Future Entrepreneurs and Seed Funding

Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010

Time:
5:30PM

Venue:
Fenwick & West LLP 801 California St Mountain View, CA 94041 US

Fee:
Members: $5
Non-members: $10

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Title: The World Affairs Council and its Young Professionals International Forum (IF)

Date: Friday, June 4th, 2010

Time:
Check-in: 5:30 PM
Program: 6:00 PM
Reception: 7:00 PM

Venue:
World Affairs Council Auditorium
312 Sutter Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108 Council

Fee:
Members: $10
Non-members: $15

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Title: TAN President/CEO to Speak at MPI/USAID Diaspora Entrepreneurship Round-Table

Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Time: 9:30 am-12 noon. (A light breakfast will be available at 9:00.)

Venue:
MPI’s offices at 1400 16th Street NW, Suite 300 (third floor) in Washington, DC

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What is The African Network?

he African Network, TAN, is a global non-profit organization with the sole mandate of fostering entrepreneurship and technology among people of African descent. TAN was founded in Silicon Valley, California in 2004 to provide a support structure and network for entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, and community leaders worldwide. The objective of TAN is to leverage all available resources through networking, education, training, and mentoring to develop entrepreneurship and enable community development among all people of African descent.

TAN accomplishes these aspects of fostering entrepreneurship and community development through two of its programs: TAN Conference (TANCon) and TAN Empowerment program (TEP). TANCon is now organized annually on two continents - Africa and the United States of America (USA). Its main purpose is to create an ecosystem where entrepreneurs, would-be entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, business leaders, community leaders and policy makers network and discuss investments, business opportunities and other issues of relevance to all people of African Descent on a global level.

With this purpose of fostering entrepreneurship comes the giving-back to the community aspect of the organization known as the TAN Empowerment Program (TEP). The main aim of the TEP program is to mentor, train, educate and equip future entrepreneurs, especially the youth, with resources needed to take that leap of faith. In addition, TEP tends to focus on low-income, needy, under-served and less privileged communities with a view to mobilizing resources that could be used to uplift them. These resources could come in the form of mentoring, training, coaching and affordable physical resources that can make a difference in their lives.

Featured Event

TANCon USA
When:
May 18-19, 2012

Where:
The Hilton Hotel, San Jose, California

Chair, TANCon USA
Paschal Iwuh

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Photos from TANCon USA 2010

When:
October 30th, 2010
8:00 am - 7:00pm

Where:
Hyatt Regency Santa Clara California

Chair, TANCon 2010
Biniam Woldemariam

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