The Power of Community is Coming to a City Near You!

Element8 is the sole Sub-Saharan Africa distributor of the Ignition Industrial Automation Platform, Sepasoft MES and Canary Data Historian.

Why We Exist

To ensure a flourishing future for Industry

Guiding Principles

Humbly serve our community and industry. Learn from others and share what we’ve learned.

What We Prove

Intuitive and scalable technologies. That breaks down barriers of cost and complexity.

2020

5 years of local distribution

55%

CAGR

500+

Active Ignition Licenses

Some of our customers

The Way We Work

Humbly Serve

our community and the Industry.

Learn

from others.

Share

what we’ve learnt.

Provide

intuitive solutions that scale.

Help

ensure a data-driven and flourishing future for all.

Meet the team

Jaco Markwat

Team Lead

Gary Lowenstein

Sales Engineer

Clarise Rautenbach

Channel Partner Lead

Laura Strydom

Customer Success Lead

Rene Wijgergangs

Sales Operations Lead

Michel Bangajena

Office Administrator

Luan Taute

Marketing Lead

Markus Oosthuizen

Technical Lead

Katlego Gagoopane

Customer Success Engineer

Jaco Sadler

Customer Success Engineer

Become a partner

Becoming a partner is simple. Just fill in the form to let us know you’re interested, and we’ll get in touch with you.

become a partner

Becoming a partner is simple. Just fill in the form to let us know you’re interested, and we’ll get in touch with you.