Speakers

• 

  J. Mughdiba

  Lead

  GenAI Research, Nigeria

• 

  J. Mughdiba

  Lead

  GenAI Research, Nigeria

Agenda

• TBD

Goal

• Expose the students to opportunities in Google Africa and the African tech industry, including Google tools and services such as Google Students Developer Club, Google Design Thinking and Google Africa Research.
• Provide the students with hands-on training on on-demand technical and soft skills required to thrive as professionals, innovators and entrepreneurs in the 21st century tech world.
• Create a pipeline for connecting the best talents in African universities with tech employers on the African continent with the aim of fostering economic opportunity and a strong workforce for Africa.

Participation

• 34 students attended in-person, and over 100 students participated virtually from over 15 universities across 4 African countries.
• Over 8 university faculties, including the VC of SDD-UBIDS, Ghana, 5 thought leaders and startup founders from Africa
• Over 12 tech professionals from Google, Meta and Africa-based startups delivered talks and trainings

Impact

• 2 students secured internship jobs at tech startups
• 1 student launched a startup focusing on design and filming
• 1 student secured a national award
• More than half of the students completed different certification courses in Al and software development and joined the Google Developer Students Club

Highlights

• Watch the video highlights of the summit on YouTube
• Watch selected talks
• Read the Summit Report
• Read comments/feedback from the participating students on LinkedIn

Pictures