Anti-harassment policy
Women in Tech Africa is dedicated to providing a harassment-free event experience for everyone regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks. Event participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event [without a refund] at the discretion of the event organizers.
Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, [your specific concern here]], sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.
Participants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately. [Exhibitors in the expo hall, sponsor or vendor booths, or similar activities are also subject to the anti-harassment policy. In particular, exhibitors should not use sexualized images, activities, or other material. Booth staff (including volunteers) should not use sexualized clothing/uniforms/costumes, or otherwise create a sexualized environment.]
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the event organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event [with no refund]. If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a member of event staff immediately.
Event staff will be happy to help participants contact security or local law enforcement, provide escorts, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the event. We value your attendance.
Vine Creatives is Sponsoring the Women in Tech Africa London end of year event tomorrow 2nd December. Please Don't forget to grab the last of the tickets before the run out on eventbrite
VINE Creatives is a London based but Africa focused specialist creative design house. We cater specially to creative entrepreneurs from the BAME, Africa and Diaspora market.
Using high quality branding, creative growth strategies, our network of investors and business growth support, we aim to get entrepreneurs investment ready as funding is what they often need in order to launch and scale their businesses. We focus on creative tech, luxury fashion and food as our niche as these businesses have the potential to solve some of the challenges currently faced by brands and businesses on the continent.
The team has worked numerous large brands with previous clientele including PayPal, Channel 4, Visa, Pepsi, Warner Bros, Jaguar, Accenture, Lloyds and L’Oreal to name a few.
Vine Creatives is very proud to be supporting Women in Tech Africa as its founder Nene Parsotam has worked in the advertising sector for over 11 years and is passionate about supporting female entrepreneurs especially within the Diaspora. VINE Creatives recognizes the talent within this market and sees the major changes female entrepreneurs and leaders can effect when said talent and businesses are represented to same world class standard as any major brand.
Web: www.vinecreatives.com
Twitter: @VINE_Creatives
Instagram: @vinecreatives
Email: hello@vinecreatives.com
Women in Tech Africa invites you ..
Ladies in Kenya! .Get the tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-tech-africakenya-entrepreneur-show-case-event-tickets-19421615575
Women in Tech Africa invites you ..
Topic
Taking Opportunities
Details
Time : 11th November 2015
Time: 6pm-9pm
Venue:Caramel Restaurant & Lounge,ABC Place,Waiyaki Way,Westlands,Nairobi
Speakers
Vera Rosauer IBM External Relations Leader (will introduce IBM and give an overall overview of what it is they do do in Africa)
Jean Wanjiku Munyaka IT Architect
Perrin Clark Co-Founder & CEO |The Dev School
Dr Shikoh Gitau Technology Innovations for Inclusive Growth Lead Africa Development Bank (AfDB)
SHOWCASERS
1. IBM showcase their Bluemix capabilities. Bluemix is a platform for developers.
2. The Dev School Nairobi. Kenya's first coding school with a mission of providing educational equality for all Africans through the power of learning to code.
3. Farm Drive: a tech-driven social enterprise committed to unlocking access to credit to underserved smallholder farmers (company info and bio of founders and photos attached).
See you there!
We Are Showcasing Women Soon!
Women in Tech Africa is out on a mission to show what a strong African woman is capable of. In light of this, we are about to embark on a journey of telling our stories. We want to bring to surface incredibly inspiring women with diverse backgrounds, thoughts and actions. Women who have powerful stories to tell. Women who have defied odds to be who they are today. We want to celebrate these women and to encourage others too.
We will be doing this exercise in two different ways. Let’s face it with Chapters in Ghana, Kenya, London and membership of women from over 30 countries, we are the largest women in tech group in Africa! And we want to show you the amazing women we know on our website,
http://www.womenintechafrica.com/amazing-women-in-tech/. On that note, we highly encourage Women in Tech Africa members to update their records in the membership database.
Also, we will be embarking on the #womentechAfricaRock campaign. This will be in an effort to showcase the amazing Women in Tech Africa and their elements through photos, videos and blog articles.
We encourage women who want to be part of Women in Tech Africa hashtag #womentechAfricaRock to either record
a 5-minute video of themselves answering these questions then email us the youtube link at partnerships@womenintechafrica.com
Or fill this online form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12xh0J1NXO-hAWa-SEe_FdZe887WhtKg4Rtt2M6Re6t0/viewform?c=0&w=1.The women can also post a photo of themselves in action on twitter or facebook, then tag Women in Tech Africa along with the hashtag #womenintechAfricaRock.
We believe this exercise will help bring to light amazing women in the tech sector. We also believe it will give recruiters and event organizers visual examples of very capable women. No more concluding that you can’t find women to hire, or speak in events, or invite to boards. Women are here!
Our hashtag is #womentechAfricaRock. Stay tuned!
Press Release
Women in Tech Africa fix a problem!
In many organizations, the excuse for not having women in senior management teams or women in the pipeline of people they interview for available positions is that cannot find qualified women for these positions.
A large number of technology events usually have very few women speakers and the explanation is the same, we cannot find women in the area to invite to speak.
Women in Tech Africa is solving this problem: since we are the largest group of capable women in the technology industry, we are in a position to show case capable women in the industry who might not necessarily be visible.
Our solution is simple, making the invisible visible; we have created a database of a cross section of our members and links to their LinkedIn profiles and tags of their specialties to help women in tech be found.
The Database is searchable by skill set, country and other details. So today Women in Tech Africa happily invites recruiters, chief executive officers, event organizers in Africa to come and find their next hire, next speaker or even their next board member at www.womenintechafrica.com
The Front facing cross section member’s page can be found at thttp://www.womenintechafrica.com/amazing-women-in-tech/
There are over 250 women highlighted on the page based on their preference to be highlighted and we work steadily to grow the database to over 5000 women across all of Africa.
Women in Tech Africa is the largest Women in Tech group on the continent with membership of women in over 30 countries across Africa
Why do we need diversity in technology?
Increased innovation
A diverse workforce gives organizations a broader range of ideas and insights to draw on, in decision making and policy development. Diversity makes good business sense.
Improved service to clients
A workplace that reflects the population will understand its clients better, which will lead to improved service. A diverse workplace will have good communication with its clients based on a deep understanding of the needs across the province.
Competitive management practices
Organizations that value and capitalize on employee diversity have productive and fulfilling workplaces which help them attract and retain employees. This leads to savings in recruitment and training costs, as well as maintaining corporate knowledge and expertise.
More Money
Companies that embrace diversity gain higher market share and a competitive edge in accessing new markets – a ‘diversity dividend’ first quantified in a recent study by the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI). Business leaders increasingly recognize this.
About Women in Tech Africa
Women in Tech Africa focused on two main goals encouraging women and girls into Science, Technology, careers and preventing women dropping out of technology roles and careers through education, providing opportunities and by sharing experiences and supporting the corporations that hire them.
We have membership of women in 30 countries across Africa, with physical chapters in Ghana, United Kingdom and Kenya and looking to launch in Nigeria and South Africa by the end of 2015.
Women in Tech Africa was founded by Ethel Cofie from Ghana, joined by cofounders Charlene Migwe from Kenya and Josiah Eyison from Ghana.
Learn more about us on YouTube https://youtu.be/N1CAC6btNyc or on our website www.womenintechafrica.com
To Find out more or support the initiative email the team partnerships@womenintechafrica.com
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If you are interested in connecting with any of these ladies for press/recruitment etc please email us at partnerships@womenintechafrica.com and we will connect you with them via email.(please state why you would like to be connected to them in the email)
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We are launching 1 on 1 learning dinners.( This opportunity it is open to all women not just women in tech members)
This is event will be highly curated [This is specifically designed for ladies who will receive the greatest impact( High performing entrepreneurs and C level aspirants) ].
This is a paid event and will have 10 ppl per event and will include a 3 course dinner.At the event you will spend 3 hours listening to and asking one on one career and entrepreneurial question of extremely successful women such as Lucy Quist(First Black Ghanaian CEO of a telecoms operator), Abena Osei-Poku Executive Director, Barclays Bank Ghana Ltd , Cecilia Dei-Anang Chairperson of Ringier Ghana and CEO of Imago and many other successful enterprises and Entrepreneurs like Constance Elizabeth Swaniker( Regional and Country Winner, Africa’s Most Influential Women In Business and Government 2014 and CEO of Accents & Arts Ltd
To show your interest to attend please fill out your details
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
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
- Banners
- Invitations
- 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.