Pivot East: Mobile Apps and Developers Conference

PIVOT East is the annual mobile start-ups pitching competition and conference in East Africa. It is organized by m:lab East Africa with the support of iHub and other partners. The event was held in 2011 as PIVOT 25, 2012 and 2013 as PIVOT East. PIVOT East 2014 will be held in June 24th -25th in Nairobi, Kenya. The competition has five categories, each with five finalists pitching to a rich audience of investors. The objectives of Pivot East are;

• To consolidate recent gains of the regional mobile ecosystem and help direct the thinking from mobile applications to mobile entrepreneurship.
• To facilitate discovery of the next wave of high potential mobile startups
• To sustain the push towards having mobile innovations high in the agenda of regional governments, corporates and development agencies.
• To raise the quality of mobile startups in the region and their investability