After weathering the storm in the events and exhibition industry over the past eighteen months due to the global pandemic, Smarter Mobility Africa has signed a collaborative deal with Vuka Group to strengthen their industry foothold.
Smarter Mobility Africa which was envisioned to inspire and transform smarter mobility across the African continent, launched their first event in 2019 with the South African National Department of Transport and Gauteng Provincial Department for Roads and Transport as key strategic government partners. We were also fortunate to have support and advice from an organisation in the making called the African Alliance for Energy Productivity.
“We are incredibly excited to have partnered with Vuka Group, as this means that we will be able to take what we have built as a small start-up mission driven company to new levels due of the size and scale of Vuka Group,” explains Smarter Mobility Africa founder, Ben Pullen. “Over the past few years, we have been able to achieve incredible milestones with our small team, dedicated partners and limited resources. Partnering with Vuka Group will allow us to grow and achieve our mission of inspiring and transforming mobility across the continent, accelerating the transition towards smarter, accessible mobility for all.”
The 2021 Smarter Mobility Africa event which ran in Gauteng last week, saw 121 in person delegates and over 500 virtual delegates in attendance. In April 2022, they will once again run their world famous Electric Vehicle Road Trip Africa (evrt Africa) which is an on-the-road activation across the whole of South Africa, engaging with key stakeholders and media about the future of electric mobility on the continent.
“We, as Vuka Group, have decided on a collaborative approach to assist our industry to fully recover from the global pandemic,” explains Vuka Group CEO, David Ashdown. “We are very excited to add to our industry portfolios and feel this will be an exciting learning curve for the group. As Vuka Group, we can look at our organisation as a machine that other complimentary businesses will be able to partner with to grow their portfolios, whilst building shared intellectual property. We are thrilled to work with these amazing individuals.”
Vuka Group has also signed another collaborative deal with Retailed focused Kinetic Events. This brings even more diversity to the group which is traditionally famous in Africa for their Mining and Energy portfolios of media publications and events.
David Ashdown goes on to comment, “These working collaboration projects are well-aligned to complement our business model. The portfolio extensions fit our model of delivering a series of in-person and digital touch points to keep people and organisations connected to information and each other. We believe the Retail and Smart Mobility & Transport portfolios are primed to scale quickly as recognised and valued connectors within their fields of activity.”
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