International Women's Day 2018 Wrap Up Event Report


The 2018 Women TechMakers IWD held at Ekiti State University to celebrate and encourage women in technology was loaded with fantastic memories to last a lifetime. The event which was packaged together with efforts of the amazing organizers in the community was held at a beautiful atmosphere with best desserts, attractive swag and special kind of menu of menus to give lovely memories. Lest I forget, turn up was awesome, we had over 100 attendees.



 




 Apart from all the goodies the event came with, The event also brought together speakers across different technology niche and as a result included talks on numerous topics which had compelling impact to everyone present.


From the left, Yemisi Obielodan software developer and technical support lead at Formplus, Adeyinka Adegbenro  full stack developer at Formplus, Enwongo C. Cleopas Head, Legal, Policy and Advocacy at ALERT Nigeria & Associate at Law Incorporated Chambers (James Essien & Co), Ized Uanikhehi Former Social Producer at CNN Africa, currently works  at DigiClan, Tiqeta, Service Swap Nigeria.

In case you missed this core part, this is wrapped up just for you!


Ized Uanikhehi’s topic “Bridging the digital divide with UBUNTU” explain how the digital divide that exit in the world can be bridged by applying African Philosophy of Ubuntu in Building Community. She explain that the quality of being human manifests itself through various human helping each
other. Communities is closer to the people and networking people to join, which she called tech evangelism
can helps to connect people together, change there initiatives and views about certain things and help
the world see through new lenses.





Enwongo C. Cleopas in her talk highlighted the blessings we have to live and exit in the 21th century with the topic “The World At Your Fingertips (Technologies and Possibilities)”. According to her Technology is moving past physical efforts and anyone who do not keep up with it, will be left out because technology is here to stay. She emphases that women should launch themselves into greater things the world never imagine and also keep updated of the rapid changing world. The perspectives of how you see things determines what you get from it, therefore, use every tool for your advantage.


Yinka Adegbenro clearified how barriers on our way  to building a new horizon can be broken in her topic “Building A New Horizon (Breaking the barriers)”. she highlighted some things that can stand as a barriers to women in tech, one of which is imposter syndrome and societal bias. The most important thing to note as you take steps to breaking these barrier is that excellence has no gender, focus therefore on the value you can offer. Pick that part of technology that interest you the most and go deep into learning it.



Yemisi Obielodan also gave a talk about “Getting Started with Development Skill as a student”.
In her talk, she highlighted that having technical skill is an added advantage and that
application of technology to whatever you do will get you up in the chosen niche quickly.
She advised to be proactive with whatever goal you set to achieve,discover the best
way to learn and apply what you learn.


The event was wrapped up with lot of networking, photo shoot, selfies and sharing of experience





Women Tech Makers Ekiti State University are set to make use of these experiences immensely, take that bold steps and start Building A New Horizon. We are never relenting.


Big Thank You to the organizers team. The amazing feedback were all due to your joint efforts.
Our event venue wouldn’t have turned out so beautiful if not for the effort of the decorating team.
Welfare team, we appreciate you for the attractive desserts. Seriki Esther, you made our pictures
awesome, thank you. Adeola, thanks for taking care of our speakers, and to Odun, we say thanks for being our host for the day.
Special mention: Olayinka Peter, thanks for your unrelenting efforts towards the event's success.



Women TechMakers Lead EKSU.

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