A discussion about women in technology in Africa and around the world. They cover issues of representation, data, mentorship and much more.

Africa is the mobile-first continent and has paved the way when it comes to mobility in the enterprise. According to Gartner, "Giving workers, partners and other stakeholders seamless mobile…

Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) provides flexible, comprehensive mobility and security solutions that enable your transition to mobility and the cloud. Organizations in the mobile-first,…

Temi Moju-Igbene speaks about what to expect from NexTech Africa 2017.

Dona Sarkar speaks about what to expect from NexTech Africa 2017.

T.K. "Ranga" Rengarajan speaks about what to expect from NexTech Africa 2017

The Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative focuses on three critical areas of development for the continent: World-class skills, Access and Innovation. Each of these focuses on different aspects that will help…

Microservices or Services Oriented Architecture is a modular way of building application software application. This concept of breaking down applications into modular component was popularised by…

The African continent is set for significant cloud adoption. Africa is seeing an emerging Information Technology industry which is looking to serve its customers and businesses through cloud based…

With the unprecedented amount of data being generated and archived, data is the new oil and the economy around data is the new industrial revolution. The value of data being stored by various…

Bots or conversation agents are rapidly becoming an integral part of users' digital experience. They are as vital a way for users to interact with a service or application as is a website or a mobile…

Staying up to date on Windows as a Service should be painless. We have tools and techniques that you can use to assess compatibility and easily perform Windows 10 deployments in your enterprise. Many…

We hear a lot of about the skills required to be a developer, and we endlessly tweak our linked in profiles, but what about soft skills? What does it take to be a Social Developer? Are you visible…

Machine Learning helps solve real-world data science problems, With Azure ML a powerful cloud-based service you have the ability to build intelligence into your applications and services, to enable…

The convergence of several technology trends, such as Big Data, Cloud Computing and commoditization of powerful algorithms, is now bringing Machine Learning into the mainstream. Thus, mainstream…

It’s finally happened. .NET Core and ASP.NET Core are open source and run nearly everywhere. Microsoft developers work in the open on GitHub and iterate quickly. How did this happen” Join Scott…

I tend to focus more holistically on how we can apply Agility thinking to our life, work and communities. We can grow exponentially by developing the Agility of people and organisations by first…

Building solutions that scale reliably to deliver value to millions, and increasingly billions, of people presents an intricate web of engineering challenges, many of which are unknown. Mobile,…

In this segment, Seth and Sonia will provide a recap of the day's events

In this session, Microsoft Country Manager, Kunle Awosika, wraps up the NexTech Africa 2017 event

In this segment, Sonia meets with Miriam Berhane Russom.

Education as we know it is evolving. Two powerful tides we see are technology education that empowers creators to build locally-aware, but globally applicable solutions to their challenges, and…

In this session, Seth interviews Yassine Serhane about his presentaion discussing Machine Learning and Azure Services, and about his work in Morocco

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In this session, Seth interviews Regina Honu from Soronko Solutions

Innovation is the engine of economic prosperity. Across the ecosystem, individuals and organizations are playing their part to disrupt the status quo. It is a critical time for the industry to…

In this session, Seth interviews Val Fontama and Shawndra Hill about their presentaion around creating Business Value with Machine Learning

In this session, Seth interviews Dona and Jeremiah about the latest Windows Insider Program updates

In this session, Seth interviews Scott Hanselman about his presentation on JavaScript, the Cloud, and The Rise of The New Virtual Machine

From art to agriculture, fashion to finance, technology is changing our world. This evolution is not limited to the tech industry but is spreading across all sectors of the economy. Panelists will…

Interconnectivity has increased with Mobile penetration across various markets. Especially in emerging markets digital boundaries have been disrupted by mobile as the only digital device with most…

We are living in an extraordinary time where every person and every organization on the planet can achieve more through the power of cloud computing, AI and data. Learn about the vision, and the new…

In this segment, Seth and Dunni will provide a recap of the day's events

One day we woke up and things were different. Maybe it happened overnight, maybe it took many years. Suddenly we are scripting against thousands of Virtual Machines from the command line while…

In this segment, Sonia interviews Tabitha about her work with technology in the agricultural sector

Microsoft Azure is one of the largest public cloud platforms in the world. It's a growing collection of integrated cloud services—analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web.…

In this segment, Sonia interviews Kate Kiguru, the Founder and CEO of Ukall, about her experience with Microsoft 4Africa

In this session, Seth and Hande interview Conrad Akunga, an MVP from Kenya around his 11 years in the program focusing on Visual Studio and Development Technologies

In this session, Seth interviews Hoop Somuah on his role at Microsoft and on his important work in Africa

In this session, Seth interviews Yousef Khalidi about his role at Microsoft as a CVP in the Azure business

We have a fundamental belief that mobility and the cloud are going to drive the 4th Industrial revolution - digitally transforming the way we work. From small businesses to the public sector;…

M-KOPA is upgrading lives through access to affordable energy, productive assets and transformational services. The talk is an overview of how the company is harnessing machine to machine technology…

In this segment, Seth interviews Sonia Dara about her involvment working with Microsoft Africa

NexTech Africa opening keynote