Monday, December 7, 2015

DEVFEST WESTERN KENYA(WTM)

On 28th November 2015 GDG Kisumu hosted Devfest western Kenya.This is an event that took about two months to put together.
I'm particular impressed with this event not only because it was a great success but because ladies were at the fore front in making it a success.

From the organizing team which was lead by your truly(me) ;-). To the break out sessions that were all lead by ladies.

We had four main speakers,  two of these speakers were ladies.
Mercy Orangi gave a keynote on Launchpad and start ups, and how techies, can use launchpad to scale their start-ups.

Roina Acheing of GDG strathmore gave an amazing talk titled "Women Teversation" she talked about the evolution of women in tech and how far we as women have come.

We had four break out sessions Polymer,Android,Fire-base and Techprenuership and start ups.
Polymer,Android,Fire-base sessions, were hands on code labs and the ladies did a good job at it at guided people through it.


The panel discussion included four ladies and two gentlemen, several issues were discussed including how women can run successful tech start ups.


The event had 250 attendees of which women were slightly above 100,this has great fully improved compared to our last devfest.

I'm was glad because women did not take a back sit this time.I also learnt that when we let women get actively participate in an event you increase chances of more women attending the event.


Roina talk on evolution of women in tech



Percila leading the fire-base session

Speakers with their Gifts bags

Mercy -The second Keynote

Esther(the lady with the blue dress),lead the tech-preuership and startsups