JUG- Ghana Maiden Launch

The Ghana Java User Group will be holding its maiden meeting on the theme "Community Building & the Significance of Java"

Come watch our brilliant speakers and sessions and bookmark your favourite session(s)!

Session talks:

i. The First session will be on:
Writing Code is Easy, Being a Great Developer is Hard by Helen Scott
Schedule: 11:15am -11:45am GMT

About the Speaker:
Helen is a Java Developer Advocate who works with the development community to help them be awesome.

Helen believes that content creation and communication are the best ways to engage with the community and help everyone learn together.

Helen has worked at numerous software companies and has experienced the highs and lows of the software development cycle at all stages. Helen loves to learn new tools and technologies and share that journey of exploration.

Helen has a Computer Science degree from The University of Sussex and a Diploma in Technical Communications from Sheffield Hallam University.

Make the most of your experience on our virtual session, engage in our sessions, attend our keynotes, invite others and be sure to join our meet-up group for more community events.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/helenjoscott

ii. The second session:
Community Building in the African ecosystem by Badr Elhouari
Schedule: 11:48am - 12:18pm GMT

About the Speaker:
Badr is a serial Dev-preneur & creative Technologist with +15 years in designing, architecting and building efficient IT solutions. Java Champion, international speaker, CIO & Founder of xHub & Chairman of Devoxx Morocco, a happy father & Husband who enjoy coding, surfing and riding in his free time.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/badrelhouari

iii. The third session:
The Future of Java: Where the Language is Heading by Dr. Venkat Subramaniam.
Schedule: 12:20am - 1:50pm GMT

About the Speaker:
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, co-founder of the devdotnext software conference, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.

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