AFRICA'S TALKING, ATLASSIAN, ARC, MINI-SUMMIT DAR ES SALAAM

Sep 22, 2022, 5:00 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)

Africa's Talking Community

Join Africa’s Talking, Atlassian Community, and Africa Ruby Community at our first in-person mini-summit created to facilitate collaboration and innovation between our customers and industry at all levels. Learn customer engagement best practices by creating solutions that grow your business. Please RSVP if you are in/make it to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Get your ticket!

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Please RSVP if you are in or you will make it to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.


Join Africa’s Talking, Atlassian Community, and Africa Ruby Community at our first in-person mini-summit created to facilitate collaboration and innovation between our customers and industry at all levels. Learn customer engagement best practices by creating solutions that grow your business.


The mini-summit provides an intimate engagement space where businesses, developers, and AT collaborate with one another and the industry to share successes and identify capability gaps that address mission-critical communications needs.


AT is engaging her ecosystem of developers, public and private sector for the first time at a customer & developer engagement summit in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Oct 2022.


The purpose of the summit, For Developers, is:

  • Highlight AT & Elarian CDP as first in class in Customer Data Privacy and Security
  • Engage with Developer communities in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Engage with SMEs and Startup Hubs in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Engage with Public and Private Universities in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Recruit developers for Elarian Open Source
  • Run an Open Hackathon with Developers


The purpose of the summit, For Startups, is:

  • Introduce AT Dev Shop
  • Organize a hiring/talent bench
  • Showcase AT Products for Tanzania Market
  • Showcase Plug & Play Customer Engagement Solutions on AT
  • Add startups on the AT Marketplace
  • Highlight the AT platform progress across Africa
  • Highlight AT & Elarian CDP as first in class in Customer Data Privacy and Security


The purpose of the mini-summit, For AT Customers, is:

  • Celebrate Current customers
  • Get direct feedback from customers on AT platform
  • Showcase customer stories on the AT platforms
  • Provide a collision space for the AT ecosystem

Agenda

  1. Introductions
  2. Atlassian Collaboration tools
  3. Ruby
  4. Africa's Talking APIs
  5. Hands-On hackathon
    1. The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:
      1. Winner - $100
      2. 1st Runners Up - $5

      3. 2nd Runners Up - $25

    2. Introductions
      • Introductions
      • Warm-Up
      • Form teams where need be.
      • Feature requests
    3. Building/hacking: Code in GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket and deploy in Docker/Automated CI/Travis CI/Bambo
      1. Note: This section needs additional setup.
      2. Upon commit, the repository is built and deployed to an accessible web server or an S3 bucket.
    4. Demonstration and Wrap-up 
      1. Teams or individuals will demo what they have hacked for feedback or adoption

Submit your Idea: Hackathon idea submission form

Carry a Laptop


Underlying benefits of the mini-summit include:

  • Thought leadership sessions from distinguished speakers
  • Networking with the community, our customers and ATeam
  • New feature releases
  • Dedicated working groups to identify gaps and develop solutions
  • Presentations from our experts in tactical communications deployments
  • Expert presentations

Africa’s Talking API platform now serves over 115,000 developers and 6000+ businesses across Africa and beyond.

Africa's Talking community allows developers to learn skills for the modern-day African Developer. We are language and framework agnostic. All developers are welcome. This is where Africa's Talking developers community meets to build, learn and exchange knowledge.


Atlassian Community Nairobi is an award-winning community. (SET THE STANDARD 2018 - Atlassian Summit 2018, MOST ACTIVE in EMEA 2017-Atlassian Summit Europe 2017), (Global MASTERS OF CONVERSION WINNER 2017-Atlassian Summit US 2017) and (SET THE STANDARD 2022- TEAM 22). The Atlassian Community Nairobi encourages better use of Atlassian tools and shares best practices, case studies, and individual perspectives. This Community has an abundance of Atlassian Experts and customers in the area - let's take advantage of each other's expertise. If you've got a topic to present or questions you need to be answered, we're here to help. RSVP to our next meeting or join the group to be notified of upcoming events and Atlassian Community news.


Africa Ruby Community is a community organization that was started in 2010. The community currently has an overreach of over 4000 members spread across East Africa, made of developers (Engineers), entrepreneurs, designers, and freelancers. In terms of development and demonstrations, the community focuses on ruby technologies and frameworks, which are all open source and widely used by startups to prototype and carry out proof of concept with a go-to-market strategy.


We are helping software developers and businesses bring their ideas to life through easy-to-use APIs.


Would you like to partner with us? Kindly contact us

Speakers

  • Douglas Mwangi

    Africa's Talking

    Software Developer

  • Michael Kimathi

    Africa's Talking

    Head of Developer Community

  • Graham Ingokho Muhanga

    Africa's Talking LLC

    SVP Marketing

  • George Machibya

    Africastalking

    Developer Relations TZ

Featured Attendees

  • Michael Kimathi

    Africa's Talking

    Dev Rel Community Lead

  • Graham Muhanga

    Africa's Talking LLC

    SVP Marketing

  • Anthony Mipawa

    Neurotech Africa

    Machine learning Engineer

  • Abok Itsegok

    Abok cereals venture

    Manager

  • Musa Adamu

    Musa agro allied

    Mr

  • Naamini Yonazi

    Vodacom Tanzania

    Software Specialist (Developer)

  • Jackson Munguti

    N/A

    N/A

  • Sylvester Chrispine Mnaku

    TPA

    ICt Officer II

  • Gabriel Rogath

    none

    Freelancer

  • Sita Ngwesa

    Work from home

    Software Developer

  • Sikjunior Mrimi

    Untamed Creatives

    CEO

  • Andason Ntunuguru

    Sontu Tech

    Beginner Developer

  • Gladson Sethiel

    trm

    developer

  • George Machibya

    AT

    Developer Relation

  • IDDI MSANGI

    L-logistics

    Front-end developer

  • Peter Daniel

    TANATEC ENGINEERING COMPANY LIMITED

    CTO

  • Kelvin Leiya

    University

    Student

  • Philipina Shine

    Phillshine

    Philipina

When

When

Thursday, September 22, 2022
5:00 AM – 3:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

5:00 AM
Introductions
Introductions
5:30 AM
Atlassian Collaboration tools
Atlassian Collaboration tools
7:30 AM
Ruby-Open Source
Ruby
8:45 AM
Break
Break
9:00 AM
Africa's Talking APIs
Africa's Talking APIs
10:30 AM
Lunch
Lunch
11:00 AM
Hands-On hackathon
Hands-On hackathon Building/hacking: Code in GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket and deploy in Docker/Automated CI/Travis CI/Bamboo Note: This section needs additional setup. Upon commit, the repository is built and deployed to an accessible web server or an S3 bucket.
2:00 PM
Demonstration and Wrap-up
Teams or individuals will demo what they have hacked for feedback or adoption
3:00 PM
Networking
Networking

Host

  • George Machibya

    Africastalking

    Developer Relations TZ

Organizers

  • Bennett Benedict

    University of Dar Es Salaam

    Community Lead, 🇹🇿 Tanzania

  • Veronica Michael

    Community Lead, 🇹🇿 Tanzania

  • Josphat Mwangi

    Community Co-Lead, 🇰🇪 Kenya

  • Sheriffo Jarju

    Community Lead, 🇬🇲 The Gambia

  • Sanusi Abdulkadir

    Community Lead, 🇳🇬 Kaduna, Nigeria

  • Josh Venceslas

    Altech Group

    Community Co-Lead, 🇷🇼 Rwanda

  • David Okwii

    Sitemonki

    Community Co-Lead, 🇺🇬 Uganda

  • Cynthia Moraa

    Africastalking LTD

    WIT Community Lead 🇰🇪 Kenya

  • Roland Ganafa

    Africa'sTalking Uganda

    Community Co-Lead, 🇺🇬 Uganda

  • Stanislaus Sakwiya

    MlimiPay Limited

    Community Lead, 🇲🇼 Malawi

  • Jackson Ngabonziza

    Community Co-Lead 🇷🇼 Rwanda

  • Muhindi Asena

    Community Co-Lead, 🇰🇪 Kenya

  • Destino Alain DELLO

    FnStack

    Community Lead, Congo

  • Isophel Natwijuka

    Community Co-Lead, 🇺🇬 Uganda

  • laurence masika

    Community Lead Goma, DRC

  • Faith Ono

    Community Lead, Abuja, Nigeria

  • Abdulsalam Muhammad Abubakar

    Community Lead, Kano, Nigeria

  • Patrick Nahayo

    Community Co-Lead Congo

  • Lens Mutombo

    Community Co-Lead Kinshasa

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