Monday 8 August 2016

Youthpreneur Business Summit + Business Plan Competition



The annual Youthpreneur Business Summit is a platform for innovative and young Nigerian entrepreneurs between the ages of 18-35 aimed at sharing ideas, networking and mentoring in order to finding lasting solutions to the challenges ravaging the nation’s economy.
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Location: National Theatre Complex, Iganmu, Lagos.

SEEDSTAR Lagos. Funding for Startups & Entreprenureship




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Entries are now being accepted for Seedstars Lagos as the Seedstars World returns to Nigeria’s tech nerve center. According to the organizers, applications can be submitted from now till July 29 for the Lagos final event that would be held on August 11.
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Diaspora Demo Day + An Opportunity to pitch a Startup Idea





Diaspora Demo Day applications are open to all persons who are 18 years or older with a technology enabled company based in, focused on or with one or more founders from the continent of Africa, the African Diaspora or of African descent. Applicants may only submit one application per year and must adhere to the following criteria:
  • The Startup must have been launched within the last 2 years
  • If the Startup has received external funding, it can only be up to USD 0.5m
  • The Startup must have a demonstrable product or service (Minimum Viable Product, MVP)
  • The founders of the Startup must be prepared to talk about it in public
  • Startups from the following sectors are strongly encouraged to apply however all sectors will be considered: Health, Education/Job Preparedness, Smart Energy, Logistics, Fintech, Agritech or enabling more efficient commerce for SMEs.
“Diaspora Demo Day is a bold demonstration of both collaboration and innovation in Africa and the African Diaspora,” says tiphub Executive Director Chinedu Enekwe. “Diaspora Demo have proven itself to be the springboard and connection point for many fast growing and high impact startups, a track record tiphub intends to build upon.”
With a mission of aiding the launch of the next generation of African startups, Tiphub Africa is an investment manager built upon a community of entrepreneurs.Drawing on their extensive network of mentors and  industry experts, the organization provides a pipeline to ecosystem mapping, specialized startup support and curated business development resources. Tiphub is committed to pursuing strategic initiatives that empower entrepreneurs, support impact and frontier investors and stimulate economic, civic and social growth for their community.
Startups and social enterprises interested in participating can learn more and apply atwww.DiasporaDemo.com. The deadline to apply for this year’s pitch competition is August 31st. Interested entrepreneurs can direct questions or inquiries to Operations Director Chika Umeadi atChika@tiphub.org
To learn more about tiphub or tiphub’s Diaspora Demo Day, please visit tiphub.org andDiasporaDemo.com respectively.
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Facebook Partner Workshop Developer Event


Wednesday

August

31

You are invited to attend an invite only full-day workshop from Facebook, designed for our priority partners.
During the workshop, you'll hear from Facebook Product, Partnerships, and Engineering teams, who will be providing exclusive, hands-on instruction via code-labs, tech-talks, and updates on the latest Facebook Platform products designed
to help you build and grow a successful business.

You'll be joining other software engineers and product managers across industries, and you'll have the option to
attend 3 workshop streams including:

• Reaching your audience with Bots on Messenger 
• Building fast and reliable login flows withAccount Kit 
• Making your apps globally accessible with React Native 

Ime Archibong , Facebook's Director of Global Product Partnerships will share Facebook's Ten Year Roadmap and the important role of Africa in achieving the mission. The talk will conclude with an open Q&A on all things Facebook.

Registration is free, attendance is by INVITATION ONLY, and limited to 60 participants.

Please RSVP to apply for an invite

Application Deadline is 11th of August 2016


Ime Archibong

Ime Archibong is the Director of Global Product Partnerships at Facebook. His team drives Facebook's strategy through global programs and strategic product integrations with partner companies. As a long time Facebook employee, his teams have led a number of key initiatives and partnerships for Facebook including Music & Video, Messenger, Internet.org, Education, and Platform. Prior to joining Facebook, Ime was an Advanced Technology Business Development Professional at IBM. He started his career at IBM as a software engineer in the Systems and Technology Group, before doing a stint on the Corporate Strategy team, and eventually settling in business development. Ime holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Yale University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business


Christine Abernathy

Christine is a Developer Advocate on the Open Source team at Facebook, with previous Developer Advocacy roles with Parse and Facebook Platform.  Christine has a passion for developers and mobile technologies, especially iOS and Android. Prior to Facebook, Christine headed up engineering at Mshift, a mobile banking software provider, delivering iOS apps and mobile browser-based products.









Emeka Afigbo

Emeka leads Facebook’s Product Partnership efforts in the Middle East and Africa focused on driving Facebook strategy through global programs and strategic product integrations with partners. Prior to Facebook, Emeka led Google developer community initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa as part of the Africa and Middle East Developer Relations team. He started his career as a software engineer at Socketworks and also spearheaded strategic initiatives at Parkway Projects both in Nigeria.








Jon Heaton


Jon is a Partner Engineer on the Facebook Messenger team.  Based out of London, he’s most recently been working with developers across EMEA to help them be successful on the Messenger platform, he  also has extensive experience on both Instagram and Facebook platforms.   Prior to Facebook, Jon was a serial entrepreneur leading engineering teams at Finance and E-commerce startups.






Wayne Lu

Wayne is a Partner Engineer on the Partner Engineering team at Facebook, managing platform product launches and at Facebook F8 conference, driving relationships with top-tier platform partners in games and app space such as King, Ubisoft, Plarium, Flipboard, Pinterest and Skyscanner.  Wayne has a passion for software engineering and mobile technologies, especially iOS and Android. Prior to Facebook, Wayne led Android development at Supercell, a AAA mobile games software company, porting Hay Day from iOS, and implemented many game features at Supercell, Nubee and Nexon Corp.






Ziad Traboulsi

Ziad Traboulsi is an Engineering Lead at Facebook, where he’s been employed for the past 6 years. He had previously founded his start-up at an early age with a successful exit. He now develops software to bring access to the Internet in the developing world as part of Internet.org. Internet.org is a Facebook-led global partnership dedicated to making affordable internet access available to the two thirds of the world not yet connected. Ziad holds a bachelor's degree from the American University Beirut and a master's degree from the London School of Economics and has filed one U.S. patent.




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