"Coding 101: Embark on a Coding Odyssey" with Dinah Onyino

In this session, we embark on a transformative coding adventure that challenges your intellect, ignites your creativity, and sets you on a path towards limitless possibilities. The session will equip you with knowledge, resources, and guidance to embark on your coding journey and get you ready to unlock your coding potential.

Dinah Onyino comes from Nakuru, Kenya, and has worked as a Software Engineer since 2017. She has a master’s degree in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University. She moved to Germany in 2022 and is currently working as a Developer Advocate at SAP under the Afrika Kommt Fellowship Program.

"People, Passion, Persistence!"- with La’Quita Garcia

The 3 Ps (People, Passion, Persistence) can take you from here to there, but how you get there is what sets you uniquely apart from anyone else. How do you own your uniqueness to become the authentic leader you envision? La’Quita discusses her journey to owning her uniqueness through People, Passion, and Persistence! 

La’Quita is a multi-faceted leader. She is a Director, Americas HR Advisor at SAP, and makes it a priority to dedicate time to practicing solution-focused coaching regularly. La’Quita is known for being an out-of-the-box thinker who creatively connects the dots to drive strategic initiatives forward.

"Creating Your Own Reality" with Charrele Robinson-Brown

Charrele Robinson-Brown is a passionate LinkedIn expert and Digital Selling Program Manager whose motivation comes from watching her clients evolve throughout the Digital Selling Process.

In this session, she talks about changing the perception of your own life (professionally or personally). She has an amazing and inspiring life story and she uses her life journey as an example and gives tricks on how to change your own reality in order for you to reach your goals, as well as how to not allow anything outside of what you desire to interfere with your attitude or personality.

Therefore, if you want to hear some tips and tricks on how to direct your life to where you want it to be and be the captain of your own ship, make sure to watch the session!

"A Social Innovator’s Journey" with Leyla F Karaha

Leyla is the lead organiser of the Techstars Startup Weekend Women in Dublin and the Founder of YourYNetwork, a global community of social entrepreneurs and changemakers. 

In this session, we hear about how Leyla went from attending her first Techstars Startup Weekend Dublin event in March 2019 where she ended up winning third place, to organizing networking events for Social Entrepreneurs and Changemakers, to later becoming a Techstars Community All-Star in 2022.  It’s all about finding your “Y”.

Leyla shares how she uses her journey and the Techstars platform to inspire more women to start working on their startup ideas and overcome their fear. Would you like to get some tips on how to stay resilient while pursuing your dream? Then make sure to watch this session!

"What businesses can do to bring profit and planet together for a more sustainable world" with Kwena Mabotja

SAP imagines a future that looks greener, cleaner, and more equal than the world we live in today, a world of ZERO emissions, ZERO waste, and ZERO inequality. By leveraging people, technologies, processes, and a global ecosystem of customers and partners- SAP is bringing it all together, profit and planet, to build a more sustainable world.

Therefore, Kwena Mabotja, Global Director for Purpose and Sustainability Marketing at SAP, shares with us 5 actions businesses can take to become intelligent and sustainable enterprises, real examples of how SAP has leveraged technology and a global ecosystem to enable customers and partners along their sustainability journeys, how SAP is building expertise and solutions to enable intelligent and sustainable enterprises, and how SAP is leading by example through our own programs and partnerships for sustainable business practices.

"What companies can do to support female tech talents" with Bukky M. Babajide

It is often said that if you train a woman, you are training a community. Therefore, in the current landscape, companies need to attract and retain female tech talents by creating opportunities and routes for them to thrive. WEF predicted that by 2025 there will be a tech skill shortage, similarly, BBC reported that the UK was going to face an important shortage when it comes to digital skills. We are already experiencing this globally and one of the ways to tackle this is to increase representation in tech companies and encourage more females into tech. In this session, Bukky shares some key actions that companies should start doing to not only retain female talent but also encourage more females to aspire for a career in tech.

Bukky is a business transformation consultant with an SAP HR background. She is the founder of the Female Techpreneur community, which is aimed at helping female tech startups grow. 

“Redefining Limiting Beliefs” with Marjorie Ngwenya

In this session, Marjorie talks to us about the ways in which we limit our potential with our beliefs. Through examples in her own life, she illustrates what it means to set your mind free and to walk an unconventional path. She also explores the topic of imposter syndrome and how to move beyond it to push through boundaries.

Marjorie serves as an independent non-executive director to insurance companies. She is also a Past President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and was the first person of color, and the youngest person, to hold office in the organization’s 160 years. Additionally, Marjorie was the founding Executive Director of the African Leadership University’s School of Insurance, which is an industry-driven initiative aiming to deepen insurance talent on the African continent.

 "Staying Relevant in Tech and Finding Excitement in Long-Running Projects" with Igwe Kalu

As an inquisitive software engineer at SAP, Igwe talks to us about the fast-paced industry of tech. He talks about how we can quite often feel that our skills are outdated irrespective of the fact that they still find applicability in our daily work. Such feelings or observation may be interpreted as: Not being aware of, or not growing with the evolving best practices in the industry, or becoming less attractive or competitive in the career market outside of one's currently held role.

Therefore, Igwe discusses how to stay relevant, how to self-motivate towards upskilling even when the roles we have are holding us back. In this session, we see how putting effort into self-growth can help us enjoy our current roles and provide us with continuing options for growth outside of our existing roles.

“Ask Me Anything” session with Anie Akpe- A entrepreneur, board member, and Founder of African Women In Tech

Anie Akpe is a business professional and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in the banking industry where she managed a $1.5 Billion Dollar Real Estate Portfolio which included Loss Mitigation and Mortgage Servicing. Anie is also a highly active member of the board of directors for various organizations — highlighting her advocacy for entrepreneurship, tech, culture, and community.

Anie is the Founder of African Women In Tech (AWIT), an Africa-based organization helping girls and women with education and mentorship within technology, as well as UX Diaspora, a unique community of people of color in UX who are digitally migrating to educate, connect and inspire one another all over the world.

"Studying computers without computers, a rural kid's perspective on the tech industry" with Anita Twumasi Ankrah

Anita is a Software Tester with an electrical engineering background and was open-minded enough to have changed her career trajectory from engineering to the tech industry.

We have arrived at the point where knowledge in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a necessity and not a luxury that can be overlooked. As the world moves in this new direction, we all are compelled to follow, but one individual is left behind: the rural kid living in a small village in Ghana. This session is aimed at discussing the perspective of the child who studies ICT merely because it is part of their curriculum. There are a lot of children who find themselves in this situation, and some of them are introduced to the tech industry without having seen a computer.

“What it means to be a quality assurance engineer and how learnings from your journey are tools to inspire and uplift others” with Nicaise Ishimwe from Amazon

In this Tech Talk, our guest speaker Nicaise shares with us her story about growing up in post-genocide Rwanda, with limited resources and infrastructure, she found the motivation and aspiration to get into a career that would help her tackle some of the issues she experienced growing up in her community.

Nicaise has lived and worked in Europe for the past 10+ years. She works as a Software QA engineer at Amazon, working on voice technology in the Alexa internationalisation team. Nicaise talks to us about what a quality assurance engineer is and what it means to be one. She also talks to us about how through the skills and confidence she has gained in her career, she saw a chance to inspire minorities. 

“Losing is not an option- The mindset of an IT consultant | How to prepare yourself for a career in IT consulting" with Khadija Johnson

In this session, Khadija reveals some of the key principles that have helped her continuously develop in her career, despite all the obstacles she has had to face. She provides a brief overview of the essential aspects that can turn the tables in your favor. From education to building a career with SAP, down to what she finds to be the most important part - the winning attitude.

Khadija Johnson is a Program Test Manager of the SAP Enterprise Cloud Services Programs. In her role, she is responsible for the testing tools training and the creation of testing standards and test plans, mentoring junior testers, auditing testing results, implementing automated testing strategies, and managing test teams within the SAP Global testing team.

“What It Takes To Be A Woman In Tech In Africa” with Esther Wambugu

In this session, Esther shares a snippet of what it takes to be a woman in tech in Africa and why we need more STEM girls as the answer to most challenges Africa is facing, such as food security, insecurity, and economic growth.

Esther Wambugu is helping brands across Africa thrive through technology inclusion. She is an experienced and recognized technology leader with more than 13 years of experience in the industry. Currently, she is the lead for SAP S/4Hana at SAP Africa with a focus to help organizations digitize their business operations in the cloud.  Her expertise span across digital transformation, Business operation modernization, Cloud architecture, and data management. 

"Why tech companies need employees who don't have a tech degree & how the tech industry is empowering Africans"

In this podcast, I am joined by Lwam Leber, Anita Kisilu & Leonie Wendler, we are all young African women whose educational background and degrees are not tech, but we all work in a tech company!

We focus on the topic of why tech companies need employees without a tech degree, how you can easily make it in a tech company without a tech background, how the tech industry is aiding in young Africans embracing themselves and their cultures, and even their natural hair! Last but not least, we all talk about the importance of confidence, learning from failure, growing your interests, and how interests are more important than skills. 

Our main message to you is to remember who you are is special, embrace it, stay willing to learn, and never let anything get in the way of you concurring the world!

"Personal Tips to Branding Yourself at SAP!" with Carlene Battle

In this session, Carlene talks to us about personal branding, which is the combination of your skills and experience that makes up who you are and how others perceive you to be as a professional. Creating a personal brand can forge the way for new opportunities like moving upwards in your career, building recognition in your industry, and improving your professional network. 

As a Customer Success Manager, Carlene partners with customers to help them achieve their business objectives. Serving as a trusted advisor, advocate and catalyst for action, CSM’s are accountable for customer satisfaction, and success planning.

with Mariatheresa, founder of Mobile afya- a female-founded, female-funded, and female-led tech startup

Mariatheresa Samson Kadushi talks to me about her company, Mobile afya, the first USSD application in Africa using internet-free mobile technology to provide basic health information in local and native languages starting with Swahili in Tanzania, East Africa. She gives us insights into her experiences as a founder, her achievements, vision, and passion, along with the struggles she has faced as an African woman in tech.

with Erefa Coker (Part 1)

This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation. In part 1, we get to know Erefa and talk about her career in outsourcing and how she is closing the unemployment gap  in Nigeria. Erefa is an amazing Nigerian woman who is changing lives, she is the co-founder of kidatcode, which focuses on providing kids in lower-income areas of Nigeria with the facilities and knowledge to learn to code. Additionally in her career, Erefa has been outsourcing tech talents from Nigeria to all over the world and is a true believer in Africans supporting Africans.

with Erefa Coker (Part 2)

This is part 2 of a 2 part conversation. In part 2 we are getting into kidatcode, a tech start-up that teaches children in low-income areas of Nigeria how to code from as young as 8 years old. Erefa explains to us how the idea came to life, how she is planning on executing it, and her future plans to take this program beyond Nigeria. Her aim for this program is to give children with fewer opportunities and resources a chance to start thinking in an innovative manner from a young age, she plans to felicitate them with everything they need to one day be the tech masterminds in their countries.