IWD Lafia 2018

GDG Lafia

We are proud to be hosting the 2018 International Women's Day Celebration, a women's tech conference. This event will highlight the stories of our growing female community of designers, developers, and technology entrepreneurs. At IWD '18 Lafia we will be sharing our stories and other women who have been making waves in technology, thereby trying to build a new horizon, this way we can encourage

Apr 11, 2018, 9:00 – 11:00 AM (UTC)

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About this event

We are proud to be hosting the 2018 International Women's Day Celebration, a women's tech conference. This event will highlight the stories of our growing female community of designers, developers, and technology entrepreneurs.

At IWD '18 Lafia we will be sharing our stories and other women who have been making waves in technology, thereby trying to build a new horizon, this way we can encourage other ladies to join the STEM field From Ada Lovelace to Grace Hopper among others. We will also be having a codelab session where participants will get their hands dirty with codelab prepared by the Google Cloud team, so get prepared.

Our schedule is as thus:

09:00 - 09:30am
Registration and Tag Collection
09:30 - 09:45am
Introducing IWD/ WTM/Lesson Learnt from WTM Summit Lagos
09:45 - 10:30am
Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00am
Being a Developer: My Story
11:00 - 11:30am
Women and STEM: Improving Our Numbers
11:30-12:00am
Video Clip from an Inspirational Women in Tech
11:30 - 12:00am
Exploring Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
12:00 - 12:30
Lunch/Networking
12:30 - 2:50pm
GCP Codelabs
2:50-3:00pm
Group picture

Organizers

  • Ruthy Samuel

    Google Developers Group

    Co-organizer GDG Lafia, WTM Lead

  • Tasiu Kwaplong Saeed

    02 INNOVATIONS LAB

    Lead Organizer - GDG Lafia

  • Auwal MS

    Community Mentor

  • abdulrazaq Muhammad ziqrullah Armzod

    Armzod Creative Media

    Design Lead

  • Hauwa`u Abdullahi Akyo

    Medical Lab Science Council of Nigeria

    Communications Lead

  • Danson Peace Kpaba

    AKCONNECTHUB

    Community Engagement

  • adamu mustapha

    Partnership

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