#DEWAHacks: Developer Bootcamp

Join us at AstroLabs for a free full day event organized by IBM!

This event is a pre-hackathon bootcamp for developers attending or interested in the #DEWAHacks - DEWA Student Hackathon 2016 (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dewahacks-dewa-student-hackathon-2016-tickets-28953154665?aff=es2)

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Agenda

Please bring your laptop along if you'd like to participate in the hands-on workshops.

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Speakers

Christian Bselliss

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Chris is an Electronics and Telecommunication engineer, currently works as prototype Developer - IoT innovative Education consultant at Edutech MEA. His graduation project was about creating IoT fussball table that talks to the internet and tweets game photos. He used to run multiple workshops covering technology related projects using Arduino, raspberryPI, and SBCs. He contributed as an IBM Champion at IBM's Global City Teams Challenge Kick-off, presented IBM Bluemix and demonstrated IoT Applications.

Ayush Chordia

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Ayush is a Co-Founder of Wrappup, a smart voice recorder for meetings. He is an entrepreneur at heart, founding a company while still in college called Fuse which won the TiE Business Plan competition for Middle East. He is a cloud and machine learning enthusiast who is always looking to dabble with new and upcoming technologies.

Fahd Zahid

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Fahd is the Continuous Engineering Practice Lead in Middle East, Pakistan & Saudi Arabia for IBM Watson Internet of Things. He specializes in building cognitive applications for IoT, and has a unique perspective on the digital revolution and its impact on the business world.

IBM Cloud EcoD Team

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Jen, Amal, Monica and Naiyarah run the cloud ecosystem engagement mission for startups and developers in the region along with the IBM innovation space in Astrolabs. We build partnerships and relationships with startups, developers, accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces to drive the usage of Bluemix in the region.