List of hackathons in Nairobi, Kenya in 2017

GDG DevFest 2017 is our annual all-day developer conference that offers speaker sessions across multiple product areas, codelabs, hackathon and more! Joining thousands all over the world for the greatest series of DevFest events DevFest Nairobi and Central Google Developer Groups are coming together to have the biggest developer event of the year! aimed at familiarizing attendees (who are members of a variety of developer communities) with groundbreaking technology advancements. We will be working closely with Women Techmakers in this devfest season, to continue improving the diversity in our ecosystem.   

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Esri Eastern Africa is hosting the GeoDev Meet up on August 24th, 2017; This is a “technical social" where developers can meet and discuss all things geospatial, geolocation, spatial analysis, and GIS. Developers of all levels of expertise are welcome. This is the 4th of a series of workshops to get hands on experience with in advanced mapping technologies as a pre-requisite to the Esri Education User Conference hackathon. The session will be a follow-up of our previous session which saw participants creating a web map service and a mobile app that uses that map service. August’s session will cover the following topics: An in-depth look at the workings of a web mapping service and how to manipulate it Creation of web applications that utilise web mapping services Working with ArcGIS for Developers and getting started with GeoDev Lab packs. Interactive Q & A session Whether you are build mapping applications for the desktop, for the web, or for mobile devices, stop by and show us what you are doing. We welcome presentations and conversations around Esri's APIs, SDKs and tools. Here is our developer website where you can learn more, download and code against our APIs for free, check out apps and code samples, and use cloud-based storage and web services to support all kinds of mapping capabilities. Also, find us on Github! We have food, drinks and a bunch of Esri Eastern Africa swag. See you there!

ESRI EA is hosting the first GeoDev Meet, a “technical social" where developers can meet and discuss all things geospatial, geolocation, spatial analysis, and GIS. Developers of all levels of expertise are welcome. This is the first of a series of workshops to get hands on experience within advanced mapping technologies as a pre-requisite to the ESRI Education User Conference hackathon. The session will focus on: Overview of the possibilities and applications currently being used worldwide. Industry expectations of location-based apps in Kenya. Getting started with ArcGIS for Developers and downloading GeoDev Lab packs. Access to ESRI Developer Network. Lightning talks from users. Whether you are build mapping applications for the desktop, for the web, or for mobile devices, stop by and show us what you're doing. We welcome presentations and conversations around Esri's APIs, SDKs and tools. Sign up to present a 5-minute Lightning Talk and show us what you have been working on. Here is our developer website where you can learn more, download and code against our APIs for free, check out apps and code samples, and use cloud-based storage and web services to support all kinds of mapping capabilities. Also, find us on Github! We’ve got food, drinks and a bunch of ESRI swag. See you there!

Using Beyonic APIs(http://apidocs.beyonic.com) to develop applications as new projects or extending your business solutions to go cashless. The hackathon will include a 1 week virtual session that will culminate with an in-person demo. Participants can create teams of up to 5 people or work on their projects individually. The submission deadline is Feb 22nd but you can continue to work on your project until the demo day. Click here to join our slack channel for updates and inquiries..  To learn more and submit your project go here http://www.hackathon.io/events/3586

Amref Health Africa invites innovative healthcare professionals to participate in the Innovate4Life MeetUp. The purpose of this meetup is to prepare for the upcoming two-day hackathon, where participants will be asked to develop solutions that help reduce the high rates of maternal and newborn deaths, and other significant challenges faced by mothers and infants across Africa.

Kenyan developers! Did you know that five million underprivileged Kenyan children are taught by untrained and unqualified informal school teachers? Are you interested in how mobile tech solutions can help improve education for these kids? Ideation Social Innovation Lab invites you to sign up and to participate in the Hack to Teach 2017 hackathon. You'll collaborate and network with like-minded African techies to design and prototype an ed-tech mobile platform for use by the informal education sector in Kenya.

Healthcare professionals and other interested parties in Kenya and East Africa. Amref Health Africa invites you to participate in Innovate4Life Meet Up 1 as a precursor to the upcoming hackathon to be held in Nairobi. You'll be challenged to create innovative solutions that will help reduce the high rates of maternal and newborn deaths in Africa.