How Liners lists tech events

What an event listing is

An event listing is a record of one tech event in Africa. It shows the dates, the location or the join method, the format, the ticket price, the organizer, and the official links.

Liners lists conferences, summits, meetups, hackathons, demo days, product launches, workshops, and webinars. An event can be in person, virtual, or hybrid, and free or paid.

Where events come from

Events reach Liners in three ways:

• Organizer and community submissions. Anyone with an account can submit an event. You do not have to be the organizer. The event name and the start date are the only required fields; more detail makes a better listing.
• Curated public listings. The Liners team adds notable events from public sources.
• Automated monitoring. Liners watches public sources and creates draft listings from them.

How review works

The Liners team checks each event before it is published. The check covers:

• The event is real, and the dates and the location agree with the official source.
• The event fits, i.e it is a technology event in Africa, or a virtual event for an African audience.
• The links point at the official site, registration page, or ticket page.

Review usually takes 24 hours. If you submitted the event, Liners emails you the result, and you can follow the status under My Events in your dashboard.

Liners blocks a second entry that has the same name and the same start date, so a duplicate submission does not create a duplicate listing.

Listing an event is free

It costs nothing to submit or to list an event. Liners does not sell placement in the events directory, and it does not order events by payment. Read how advertising works for the places where paid promotion does exist, and how Liners labels it.

What each event page shows

• Dates. The start date, the end date for a multi-day event, and the event time zone.
• Format. In person, virtual, or hybrid.
• Location. The venue, address, city, and country as the organizer listed them. The map pin uses the coordinates on the listing. A virtual or hybrid event shows the join link instead.
• Tickets. Free, Paid, or Free + Paid. For a paid event, the price is the amount the listing gives for the lowest paid tier, in the currency the organizer set. It is not a quote: check the official page for current prices.
• Type and organizer. The event type, the organizer name, and the organizer link.
• Products at this event. Products already published on Liners that the event connects to, as an exhibitor, speaker, or sponsor. A product does not gain rank or a badge from an event.
• Sponsors and partners. The sponsors the organizer listed, grouped by the tier the organizer gave.
• Similar events. Upcoming events of the same type, or in the same country, or close to the same dates.
• FAQs. Answers built from the event listing itself, so they change when the listing changes.

Links to the organizer

Register, ticket, and website links go to the organizer, not to Liners. Liners takes no fee and receives no commission from a ticket sale.

When a link you expect is missing, use the official event website on the page.

After an event ends

A past event stays published. The page marks it as ended, the countdown comes down, and the registration and ticket buttons are hidden, because they no longer help. The record stays readable so the event history of the ecosystem stays available.

An event that is cancelled or postponed is corrected or unpublished when Liners learns about the change.

Corrections

Event details move: dates change, venues change, and prices change. Liners does not always hear about it first.

If a listing is wrong, use Suggest an edit on the event page, or email hello@liners.com. Read how community corrections are reviewed for what happens next.

Limits

A listing is a pointer to the event, not a substitute for it. Liners does not run these events, does not sell their tickets, and cannot promise that an event happens as listed.

Always open the official event site before you buy a ticket, book travel, or plan your day around an event.