Please RSVP if you are in/will make it to Juja, Kiambu County.

Join Africa's Talking at in-person mini-summit created to facilitate collaboration and innovation between our customers and industry at all levels to create, learn and develop solutions for scalability that directly impact business success.

The mini-summit provides an intimate engagement space where the dev community, businesses, developers, and Africa's Talking 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 mini-summit in Juja, Kiambu County, this March 2024.

The purpose of the mini-summit, For Developers, is:

• Engage with Developer communities in Juja, Kiambu County
• Engage with Startup Hubs in Juja, Kiambu County
• Engage with Public and Private Universities in Juja, Kiambu County
• Recruit developers for Open Source
• Run an Open Hackathon with Developers

The purpose of the mini-summit, For Startups, is:

• Introduce AT Dev Shop
• Organize a hiring/talent bench
• Showcase AT Products for Juja, Kiambu County
• Showcase Plug & Play Customer Engagement Solutions on AT
• Add startups on the AT Marketplace
• Highlight the AT platform progress across Africa
• Highlight and Atlassian tools.

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

New to Africa's Talking? Get started here.

Developer Documentation (We welcome feedback)

Agenda

1. Introductions
2. Africa's Talking APIs
3. Hands-On hackathon

The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:

• Winner - $50
• 1st Runners Up - $25
• 2nd Runners Up - $20

Agenda Breakdown

1. Introductions

• Feedback
• Warm-Up
• Form teams where need be
• Feature requests

2. 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.

3. Demonstration and Wrap-up

Teams or individuals will demo what they have hacked for feedback or adoption

Submit your Idea: 

• Hackathon idea submission form

Note: Carry a Laptop

Gigs:

We would love to reach out to you so that you can build for our customers, please fill out this form with details to ensure we have your details:

• GIG/HACK DEVELOPER PORTFOLIO FORM

Join community channels:

Slack:

• Join Africa's Talking slack community here
• Join the Elarian Slack community here

Please follow us on Twitter handles too:

@AfricasTalking

@ElarianHQ

You can get our videos, recaps, and event interviews on our youtube channels, subscribe to get updates:

• Africa's Talking Youtube Channel
• Elarian Youtube Channel

The 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

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Elarian is a customer engagement framework (Customer Data Platform) that helps you build robust applications with the customer as the unit of abstraction. Elarian features robust capability in handling end to end of customer data.

Africa’s Talking API platform now serves over 150,000 developers and over 8000+ 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.

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

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