[kictanet] Panel Session: Software Development and Innovation in Kenya

[John Matogo]

Dear colleagues.
The message below may be of interest to you.

Kindly share it widely in your networks.

Regards.

John Matogo

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From: Bernard Chiira <chiira1st at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:33 AM
Subject: [Skunkworks] Panel Session: Software Development and Innovation in
Kenya
To: Skunkworks Mailing List <skunkworks at lists.my.co.ke>


Greetings,
Please share widely within your networks and feel free to join us:

Strathmore University's @iLabAfrica, @iBizAfrica and IBM have organized a
panel discussion on Software Development and Innovation in Kenya. The panel
discussion is the grand finale of a two weeks developer work­shop on Cloud,
Mobile, Web, Social and the Inter­net of Things.

The panel session will examine the current state of soft­ware devel­op­ment
in Kenya, the future of soft­ware devel­op­ment, as well as provide an
oppor­tun­ity for the Next Gen­er­a­tion Applic­a­tion Devel­op­ment
work­shop train­ees to show­case apps developed using the IBM Blue­Mix
plat­form, over the period of the two weeks train­ing program.

The panel ses­sion will be atten­ded by highly influ­en­tial tech­no­logy
and ICT stake­hold­ers in Kenya from the private sec­tor, gov­ern­ment and
the Kenya soft­ware devel­op­ment com­munity at large.

Confirmed panelists include:

   1. Dr. Joseph Sevilla– Dir­ector @iLabAfrica, Strath­more University
   2. Veron­ica Ogeto Tchoketch– Head of Innov­a­tion at Safar­icom L
   ​td

   3.  Rachel Reinitz-​Distinguished Engin­eer and CTO of Soft­ware
   Ser­vices for Web­sphere, IBM Soft­ware Group
   4. Con­rad Akunga– Co-​Founder & Dir­ector of Product Devel­op­ment and
   Research, Innova Ltd
   5. ICT Author­ity Kenya
   6. Kenya Edu­ca­tion Network (KENET)

This event is FREE and open to the pub­lic, espe­cially people in the
soft­ware devel­op­ment field, stu­dents, edu­cat­ors and all tech­no­logy
enthu­si­asts in the country.

*Date*: 22nd May 2014
*Venue*: Strath­more Uni­ver­sity Auditorium
*Time*: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Let us know if you are coming by signing up
here<http://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-discussion-software-development-and-innovation-in-kenya-tickets-11615589541>!
We look forward to seeing you.

There will also be two meetups as follows:

   1. Next Generation Application Development Meetup
   2. Big Data Analytics Meetups


*Both meetups are free to attend!*

Let us know if you will be joining us by signing up
here<http://www.ilabafrica.ac.ke/index.php/media-news/news/391-catch-the-biggest-developer-meetups-on-mobile-and-big-data-at-ilabafrica-strathmore-university-with-ibm>
!

Best Regards,

-- 
Bernard Chiira

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Skype: bchiira

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​
Regards,

John Matogo
Manager
Incubation Centre, @iBizAfrica
Strathmore University
P.O. Box 59857-00200 Nairobi, KENYA
Tel: +254 070 303 4280 (direct line)
Personal Mobile:+254 722 813 533
Skype: jmatogo
Twitter: @jmatogo
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Web: www.strathmore.edu and http://www.ibizafrica.co.ke/
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