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Join Africa’s Talking 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 Kampala, Uganda.
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About this event
Join Africa's Talking at our first 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 public and private sector developers for the first time at a customer & developer engagement mini-summit in Kampala, Uganda, in March 2023.
The purpose of the mini-summit, For Developers, is:
Engage with Developer communities in Kampala, Uganda
Engage with Startup Hubs in Kampala, Uganda
Engage with Public and Private Universities in Kampala, Uganda
Recruit developers for Open Source
Share team and collaboration best practices
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 Uganda Market
Showcase Plug & Play Customer Engagement Solutions on AT
Add startups on the AT Marketplace
Highlight the AT platform progress across Africa
Highlight ruby as an open source language, 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
Agenda
Introductions
Africa's Talking APIs
Hands-On hackathon
The winning solution will receive cash prizes as follows:
1. Winner - $100
2. 1st Runners Up - $50
3. 2nd Runners Up - $25
Introductions
Feedback
Warm-Up
Form teams where need be.
Feature requests
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.
Demonstration and Wrap-up
Teams or individuals will demo what they have hacked for feedback or adoption
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
Africa’s TalkingAPI 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.
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.
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.
Demonstration and Wrap-up
Teams or individuals will demo what they have hacked for feedback or adoption
