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Overview:

Join Africa's Talking Women in Tech Nairobi for an exciting hackathon focused on Event Management, where technology meets creativity to transform how events are planned, organized, managed, and experienced.

Events bring people together for learning, networking, entertainment, business, celebrations, and community building. However, organizing a successful event involves much more than choosing a venue and inviting guests. Event organizers have to manage registrations, communication, budgets, schedules, vendors, teams, logistics, attendees, and unexpected challenges, often across multiple platforms.

This hackathon challenges participants to explore how technology can simplify and improve the event management process.

Whether it is helping organizers manage attendees, automating event communication, tracking budgets, coordinating teams, managing vendors, improving check-in, or creating better experiences for attendees, participants will have the opportunity to build practical technology solutions for real-world event management challenges.

Using Africa’s Talking APIs (SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime and Data, Insights, Chat and more), participants will develop solutions that make events more efficient, accessible, engaging, and easier to manage.

Whether you are a developer, student, entrepreneur, designer, event professional, creative, or technology enthusiast, this hackathon is an opportunity to collaborate, innovate, and build solutions that can transform the events industry.

Why Attend?

• Solve Real Event Management Challenges.

• Make Event Communication Easier.

• Improve Event Budgeting and Payments.

• Improve Team and Vendor Coordination.

• Create Better Attendee Experiences.

Key Focus Areas:

Registration & RSVP:

• Let attendees register and confirm from any phone. 

• API Link: USSD API

Reminders & schedule updates:

• Send agenda changes and venue details automatically. 

• API Link: SMS API

VIP & keynote alerts:

• Voice broadcasts for priority announcements. 

• API Link: Voice API

Participation rewards:

• Reward feedback and attendance with airtime. 

• API Link: Airtime API

Live polling & feedback:

• Capture real-time attendee sentiment. 

• API Link: USSD API

Vendor & exhibitor coordination:

• Notify and align vendors and staff. 

• API Link: SMS API

Target Attendees:

This hackathon is open to:

• Software Developers and Engineers

• Data Scientists and AI Enthusiasts

• Students and Technology Enthusiasts

• Event Planners and Event Managers

• Entrepreneurs and Startup Founders

• Marketing and Communications Professionals

• Anyone interested in using technology to improve events

What to Expect:

🚀 Hands-on Building: Work on innovative ideas and create working solutions.

🤝 Networking: As a member of our community, you'll have the opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals, potential collaborators, and industry professionals. Build valuable relationships that can propel your career or projects to new heights.

💡 Learning Opportunities: Explore Africa’s Talking APIs and discover how they can power your solutions.

🎤 Mentorship: Get guidance and feedback from experienced technology professionals.

🏆 Recognition and Rewards: Showcase your project and stand a chance to win exciting prizes and recognition.

Solution Criteria:

• Use of Africa's Talking APIs: How effectively the project utilizes one or more of the Africa's Talking APIs i.e. SMS, USSD, Airtime, Voice, Insights, Chat.

• Innovation: The originality and creativity of the project idea and implementation.

• User Experience: How well the project meets user needs and provides an intuitive and seamless experience.

• Functionality: How well the project performs the intended functionality and handles errors and edge cases.

• Presentation: The clarity and effectiveness of the project demonstration and pitch.

New to Africa's Talking? Get started here.

Publish on Africa's Talking Marketplace

Marketplace : Publish your plugin/app for our customer and Call Back as a Service

Learn more about the Marketplace and connect with other builders in the community forum: https://community.africastalking.com/forum/marketplace-18239/

Developer Documentation (We welcome feedback)

THEME: Event Management

The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:

• Winner - $100

• 1st Runners Up - $50

• 2nd Runners Up - $25

Social Media give-aways too!

More exclusive prizes and giveaways to attendees.

Contribute to open-source.

Agenda:

1. Introductions

2. Overview

• Technical hands-on session

3. Ideation

• Form teams where need be.

• Feedback

4. Building/hacking: Code in GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket and deploy in Docker/Automated CI/Travis CI/Bamboo

5. Demonstration and Wrap-up

• Teams or individuals will demonstrate what they have hacked for feedback or adoption.

Note: Carry a laptop

Opportunities:

• Network

• Innovate

• Access to our Talent bench (You can get a job or a gig on the spot)

Submit your Idea:

• Hackathon idea submission form

Join our community channels:

• Community Page:

  • Join Africa's Talking Women In Tech Community here

• Twitter (X):

  • Follow Our Page on X here

Africa's Talking powers communications solutions across Africa with simplified access to telco infrastructure, developers use our powerful SMS, USSD, Voice, Airtime and Data, Insights, and Chat APIs to bring their ideas to life, as they build and sustain scalable businesses.

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 to bring their ideas to life through easy-to-use APIs quickly.

Would you like to partner with us? Kindly contact the Women in Technology Team. 

Everyone is welcome!

Transport:

• Those who register by Monday 28th September 2026, will receive a transport code to redeem for transport to and from the hackathon venue.