Riaz Moola (Hyperion Development - Google)
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Riaz Moola (Hyperion Development - Google)
Riaz Moola is the Founder and Director of Hyperion Development - which is the largest online course platform for programmers in Africa. Moola previously worked at Google as a product manager and was on the Google Search team that created the “Ok Google” (Google Voice Search which is similar to Siri) and the team that created Android.
The Sunday Times has recently labelled him the Steve Jobs of South Africa (http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/stnews/2016/03/13/Is-23-year-Riaz-Moola-South-Africas-Steve-Jobs)
Moola became a Gates Cambridge scholar in 2014, and holds a MPhil in Advanced Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and also a MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge Business School.
Riaz Moola’s love for computer science led him to create Hyperion Development in 2012 while he was an undergraduate at the University of Kwazulu Natal. His goal was to invent an online course where people could still take courses with limited internet access
Since it has launched it has helped over 8500 people from six Southern African countries in software development training.
The startup also recently partnered with international tech company Google for R1.3-million to help further computing-related fields in South Africa that are matched by international standards.
Agenda
6:00 pm Networking (Food & Drinks)
7:00 pm Fireside Chat with Riaz
7:45 pm Q&A
8:00 pm Networking
Hosted By Guillaume De Smedt, Johannesburg Co-Director
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Twitter: @gdesmedt1 (http://twitter.com/gdesmedt1) Hosted By Mohamed Chohan, Johannesburg Co-Director
Mohamed Chohan is the Managing Director at Startup Grind Durban. Previously he has worked as a Business Development Manager at RSAWEB and has completed a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from UKZN. He has also worked at Smartrac which is a Management Consultancy, Black Ticket Creative Bureau which is a Brand Consultancy and KPMG.
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Twitter: @mohamedchohan (http://twitter.com/mohamedchohan) Hosted By Louise De Smedt, Johannesburg Co-Director
Louise is G's right-hand lady and has been helping make Startup Grind Cape Town a success since August 2013. She loves entrepreneurship and thinks that running her startup is way more fun than the corporate rat-race.
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Riaz Moola (Hyperion Development - Google)