Nairobi County Chief Officer In charge of Digital Economy and Startup, Victor Agolla today held the first Nairobi Tech weekly planning group meeting at Gearbox Offices in preparation for Nairobi Countys’ inaugural Innovate Nairobi Technology week to be held in August.
In his remarks, County Chief Victor said that after interactions with various ecosystem stakeholder start ups, he saw the need to have a consolidated working group that is able to come up with an innovation week that will ensure inclusion of Startups, corporates, incubators, academia, CSOs and Government stakeholders among others.
The Innovate Nairobi Technology week will be held in August, 2023 and its objective is to provide a platform for startup investor pitch, Startup linkage to global startup cities, career opportunities for youth, patnership opportunities for international startups and businesses among others.
Present was Executive Director Gearbox, Kamau Gachigi, Senior Manager, Content and Business Development World Reader, Joan Mwachi, Managing Director, Kenya and East Africa Management and Services Company, Hezron Gikanga, Co-Founder BuuPass Inc., Wyclife Omondi, and joined on line by Safaricom Director Information Technology, George Njuguna, Chairperson of Safaricom Women in Technology, Donna Rege and other representatives from Safaricom PLC.
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