Sponsor Women in Tech Africa Kenya Chapter Launch

After a successful diaspora launch in London ,women in tech Africa  is launching in Kenya on the 10th of September at iHub with strong impressive line up of Speakers including.

Wambui Kinya – Managing Director – Africa at ThoughtWorks

Amrote Abdella -Director, Venture Capital & Start-ups, Microsoft Africa Initiatives

Linet Kwamboka CEO at DataScience LTD (Nairobi)

Amanda Gicharu Kemoli Co-Founder & Program Director Tech Republic Africa

Angela Oduor Lungati Director of Community at Ushahidi

KenyaSpeaker

Over the years Women in Tech Africa has grown to include Women in the technology sector in over 30 countries across Africa supporting networking, opportunity creation and entrepreneurs. As such Women in Tech Africa (Kenya Chapter) would like to invite you to consider becoming one of our 2015/2016 Corporate Sponsor.

Email us at ethel.cofie@womenintechafrica.com if you want to be part of this historic launch

WHY SPONSOR

Business sponsorship is a major source of funding for many events as more and more companies have discovered this to be a powerful marketing tool. Building and strengthening your company brand through effective visibility is one of the key essentials in business strategy. To be effective, sponsorship of any event must serve the interest of four constituent groups: · It must serve the business interest of the sponsoring company · It must serve the best interests of the event and its participants · It must have a positive impact upon the sponsor’s direct consumers · It must benefit the consumers who use the products or services Keeping in mind the above points we have laid down our efforts towards achieving the same

 

Sponsoring the Women in Tech Africa event in Kenya will mean you organization will be publicly recognized for supporting the cause of diversity in the technology sector in Africa and support for Women in Leadership

This includes the following:

  • Promotional opportunities to build brand awareness and loyalty through presence on
  1. Banners
  2. Invitations
  3. Paragraph on Company profile on the event sub-site in the Sponsor section
  • The Opportunity for 5 min Speaker Spot at the event
  • Services promoted at event.

 

Kenya is Ready to go live

On the 10th of September the Women in Tech Africa Kenya group will be launched at iHub in Nairobi

Congratulations to Sylvia Mukasa( Chapter Lead) and Charlene  Nyambura Migwe for putting this amazing event together .

The free tickets for the event  launch will be available from  Friday 12pm East Africa time zone.  please check back here for the link 

Details

Date: September 10th 2015

Theme: Women Leadership and the African Technology Dialogue

Target Audience: Women working in the technology sector and  technology thought leaders across Africa

Location: iHub Nairobi,4th Floor, Bishop Magua Centre, Ngong Rd, Nairobi, Kenya

Speakers

Wambui Kinya – Managing Director – Africa at ThoughtWorks

Amrote Abdella -Director, Venture Capital & Start-ups, Microsoft Africa Initiatives

Linet Kwamboka CEO at DataScience LTD (Nairobi)

Amanda Gicharu Kemoli Co-Founder & Program Director Tech Republic Africa

 

Member Spotlight-Sylvia Mukasa from Kenya

Member SpotLight(Sylvia Mukasa)

Sylvia is a professional with considerable hands-on experience in Strategy Planning and business development, Balanced Scorecard & Performance Management, Market Research & Analysis,Tactical Marketing, Business Process Improvement/Excellence (Six Sigma), commercial operations, program management and accounting with exposure in working in extremely competitive markets in Sub Saharan Africa and the United Kingdom.

She has experience in various sectors including Oil & Energy,Healthcare, ICT and Telecommunications.

Sylvia has been Ericsson Innovation Coach nominee to help coach and support employees with innovative ideas in Sub Saharan Africa to boost creation of New Business Development and Innovation from within.

Sylvia was selected as a TechWomen Emerging leader from Africa,an Initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs from 1400 applications from Africa & the Middle East in 2014.

She founded GlobalX Investments Ltd in 2014 due to her passion to use technology in solving business issues as well as provide solutions with a social impact using ICT & Telecommunications.