AGENDA

• 6:00 PM : Introductions
• 6:30 PM : Let’s Talk Community by Bosibori Valeria
• 7:00 PM : Code Challenge
• 7:30 PM : Networking

Let’s Talk Community
In tech, the word ‘community’ is everywhere-meetups, hackathons, Slack groups, open source projects. But what does it actually mean?

This talk challenges the traditional, often surface-level understanding of community in tech spaces and invites a deeper, more human-centered approach. Moving beyond attendance metrics and event photos, we’ll explore how real community functions as a looped ecosystem built on psychological safety, shared growth, accountability, and reciprocity.

Drawing from lived experience building Tech Sisters Kenya, this session examines how extractive or community models can unintentionally exclude its members and how we can intentionally design collaborative learning spaces where people don’t just show up they actually grow.

Attendees will walk away with:
- A reframed understanding of what true community means
- Practical shifts every community member can make immediately
- A framework for building safer, friendly, and sustainable tech spaces

Because community isn’t an audience. It’s an ecosystem and we’re all responsible for how it functions.

About the Speaker
Speaker : Bosibori Valeria
Co-Founder & Executive Lead, Tech Sisters Kenya

Bosibori Valeria is a community strategist , leader, and tech advocate passionate about building inclusive ecosystems for women in technology. She is the Co-Founder of Tech Sisters Kenya, a growing community of 1,800+ women navigating careers in tech through mentorship, structured learning, and real-world collaboration.

Valeria has led and organized 35+ community programs and major convenings including RubyConf Africa 2024 and ethSafari2024, where she served as Project Manager and Emcee. Her work sits at the intersection of community building, Product Management, emerging technology, and accesswith a growing focus on inclusive innovation across Africa.

She is passionate about creating spaces where people feel safe enough to learn, visible enough to lead, and supported enough to grow.

What is Nairuby?

Nairuby is a chapter in Nairobi under the African Ruby Community an organization that was started in 2010. The community currently has a reach of over 4000 members spread across East Africa, made of developers (Engineers), entrepreneurs, designers, and freelancers. In terms of development and demonstrations, the community focuses on ruby technologies and frameworks, which are all open source and widely used by startups to prototype and carry out proof of concept with a go-to-market strategy.

The community hosts weekly and monthly meetups in different cities in East Africa. The community brings you Ruby Conference every year with different themes to fill the gap that exists between school and industry and in return helps spur innovation and growth in contribution to the global economy.

Nairuby brings entrepreneurs, developers, Designers, and open-source contributors. Why? We believe in a holistic approach through, entrepreneurship “Solution approach” and open source we can solve so many problems. This in return empowers everyone who attends with technology “tool” and entrepreneurship “Methodology” to reach their fullest potential and inspire the rest of the world and their communities.