Infobip Connect - Accra Tech Meetup

Dear devs, startups, and tech enthusiasts,

After a very successful meetup that happened last October, we are happy to be back in Accra, so join us on Monday, February 6, 2023, from 6:00 - 9:00 pm!

This event is a part of our February Meetup Tour in Africa along with meetups in Nairobi (Kenya), Cairo (Egypt), and Casablanca (Morocco). The mission of these meetups is to present local tech initiatives and to introduce Infobip Developer Community tools and solutions, which are increasingly popular among developers and Infobip Startup Tribe that help startups from all over the globe achieve their goals.

🏫 Location: Impact Hub Accra, 5AAP F175/4 Oshie Street, Ako-Adjei, Accra, Ghana

🎙 Speakers:

• Shadrack Inusah, Software Engineer & Community builder at GDG Accra
• Ophelia Boamah Ampoh, Frontend Developer & Technical Writer
• Julia Biro, Head of Developer Relations at Infobip
• Nikola Pavesic, Director of Startup Ecosystem at Infobip

We are looking forward to meeting you and exchanging experiences about dev, web development, and startup ecosystem in Ghana. Connecting is easier with some refreshments, so pizza and beverages are on us ;)

🎫 Entrance: free with RSVP

🕰 Agenda:

• 6:00 – 6:05 pm – Welcome and overview from the Infobip team
• 6:05 – 6:25 pm – Keynote: Shadrack Inusah, Community Lead at GDG Accra
• 6:25 – 6:45 pm – Keynote: Ophelia Boamah Ampoh, Frontend Developer & Technical Writer
• 6:45 – 7:00 pm – Keynote: Julia Biro, Head of Developer Relations at Infobip
• 7:00 – 7:15 pm – Keynote: Nikola Pavesic, Director of Startup Ecosystem at Infobip
• 7:15 – 9:00 pm – Networking – Food and beverages sponsored by Infobip

⏳ About speakers:

Shadrack Inusah
Shadrack is a software engineer and community leader who is involved with Google Developer Groups Accra (GDG Accra) and works at Fidelity Bank Ghana. He is also a recipient of the Microsoft Business Apps MVP award and has experience in tech community building and management. He is interested in helping others learn and working together to solve technical problems in the world.

Ophelia Boamah Ampoh
Ophelia is a front-end developer at Ejara, where she works at the intersection of web 2 and 3. She enjoys building beautiful, functional, and scalable frontend applications that interact with Blockchain technologies. Coming from a non-tech background, she's passionate about helping others get started and fall in love with the web in its entirety.

Julia Biro
Head of Developer Relations at Infobip by day, half of Developer Avocados Weekly by night. Julia deeply cares about developer communities and building a great developer experience from the ground up. She is passionate about creating a DevRel team and strategy that best serves their developer communities.

Nikola Pavesic
Born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, with tenure in Tanzania and Japan. Nikola has worked in the public sector for the UN which is how he originally arrived in Japan in 2011. He has worked in tech for a long time - he ran startups and worked with Nikkei in Tokyo. Nikola is currently leading the Startup Ecosystem department at Infobip and supporting tech ecosystems around the world.

📩 Event questions?
Reach out to Marijan Cipcic, Tech Community Manager at Infobip: marijan.cipcic@infobip.com

Who should attend?
Devs, startups, and all tech enthusiasts are more than welcome to attend.

Team Infobip commits to organizing the event with high health safety and safety standards.