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    Tech Events in Africa this Week: 20th CFA’s Startups Hangout, Kokútana 2019 and More

    Oluwadamilare AkinpeluOluwadamilare Akinpelu
    August 12, 2019
    Tech Events in Africa this Week: 20th CFA’s Startups Hangout, Kokútana 2019 and More

    Hi everyone. I trust we all had a great weekend. Well, it is that time of the week when we at Technext bring you a curated list of tech events happening around you this week. This includes events coming up between August 12 and August 17, 2019.

    Kokútana 2019

    Kokutana means “to meet” in Lingala, one of the Congo’s popular languages. And this annual event by Dakar based digital business school Volkeno is geared at discussing Senegal’s technological environment.

    PLUS QUE SIX (6) jours avant le grand rendez-vous à l'UCAD II
    Si vous n'avez pas encore réservez vos tickets, c'est le moment https://t.co/jHIVrQdADF
    Entrée gratuite, inscrivez-vous https://t.co/92CLW0IUbd

    — FarafinVox (@farafinVox) August 11, 2019

    The event will bring together Senegal’s tech industry stakeholders and help to showcase innovations by various young techies while allowing investors to participate.

    Venue: UCAD II, Dakar, Senegal

    Date: Monday, August 12, 2019.

    Time: 9 am

    Oracode 3.0

    A two week project-based learning on application development in Java, Oracle Database, Data Science, the Oracode 3.0 is for undergraduates who are technology enthusiast in Nigeria.

    Check out "#Oracode 3.0", It's free; designed for undergraduates and power by @OracleAcademy in conjunction with @twyi_ng https://t.co/IJdBsI4nzf @Eventbrite

    — Isaiah Etuk (@ziyaetuk) August 2, 2019

    Powered by Oracle Academy, attendees will be taught how to build solutions for real-life scenarios.

    Venue: The Workplace Centre, Awolowo Way, Ikoyi, Lagos.

    Date: Wednesday, August 14 – Sunday, August 25, 2019.

    Time: 9 am.

    You can click here to be a part of it.

    20th CFA’s Startups Hangout

    Currently in its 19th edition, CFA’s Startups Hangout will focus on how to reposition startups to succeed. The event organised by media platform, CFAtech, is a monthly ecosystem for startups and entrepreneurs to come together, network, and learn.

    Pleased to be hosting @olufemiadeoti CEO @inlaksng at the 20th CFA's Startups Hangout where he will be sharing lessons from his journey & how you can better prepare for the disruption ahead.
    Grab a seat @ https://t.co/FPXOvzYzj0 & prepare to learn from… https://t.co/o2phUilip1 pic.twitter.com/OhShBF17It

    — Chukwuemeka F Agbata (@cfagbata) August 9, 2019

    This edition would be featuring Femi Adeoti, CEO, Inlaks.

    Venue: GoDo.ng, 53 Oladipo Bateye Road, Ikeja, Lagos.

    Date: Thursday, August 15, 2019.

    Time: 5 pm.

    Limited slots are available so you can click here to attend.

    Digital Entrepreneurs and SMEs Conference

    Digital Technology is reshaping social behaviours and business models globally. Digital Entrepreneurs and SMEs Conference 2019 is aimed at helping to enlighten entrepreneurs and small business owners on how to ease the traditional model of business processes into digital processes.

    "DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURS AND SMEs CONFERENCE 2019" https://t.co/RE1bvIVjM5 @Eventbrite

    — Blessed OLA Saint (@blessed_ola) August 2, 2019

    This year’s conference is themed, “Balancing Entrepreneurship from Traditional Business Processes into today’s Digital Business Processes”, and will be featuring major stakeholders in the industry.

    Venue: NG Hub From Facebook, Lagos.

    Date: Friday, August 16, 2019.

    Time: 9 am

    You can click here to be a part of it.

    Women in Business Conference

    UCT’s Graduate School of Business will be hosting the 20th annual Women in Business Conference. The event which is themed – Disrupt Industry 4.0, will help to unpack innovative ideas and solutions that female disruptors have created.

    Venue: UCT GSB Academic Conference Centre, Green Point, South Africa.

    Date: Friday, August 16, 2019.

    Time: 8 am.

    ://Localhost meetup by Terragon

    The LocalHost Meetup wants to bring industry experts to discuss how they’ve been able to successfully build enterprise applications and solutions to scale.

    Sign up here: https://t.co/DcfGzPobpv. Thanks

    — Alexander🏂 (@alex_nnakwue) August 7, 2019

    This edition of the event is themed “Data Driven Engineering”, and will be focused on improving software engineering processes. This event is open to Data Scientists, Software engineers, Product Managers, Machine Learning engineers and technology enthusiasts.

    Venue: 2 Ahmed Onibudo Street, Lagos.

    Date: Saturday, August 17, 2019.

    Time: 10 am.

    If you would like to have your event featured on Technext, kindly reach out to us with details via our email: [email protected]


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