Hi!
Good day! I hope you had an awesome and restful weekend. As it is with our tradition within the AI+ Community, we have curated for you, amazing events, news, scholarships, and opportunities you can benefit from! Always remember, sharing is caring. Do well to share with someone. You never can tell which of these opportunities will make a difference in their lives.
Here are the events for this week.
Precious Kolawole Nominated For WomenTech Global Awards 2021
Precious Kolawole, an undergraduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University and member of the AI+ OAU community has been nominated for the WomenTech Global Awards. She is being nominated under three categories namely:
1. Mentor of the Year.
2. Women Tech Ambassador Award.
3. Women Tech Global Conference Speaker Award.
It will also be recalled that Precious Kolawole emerged the winner of the Mrs and Mrs Algorithm at the 2020 edition of the AI Bootcamp. To vote for her, kindly click here
You can also vote for her by clicking the share button on her nomination page. Also share on the different social media pages highlighted.
ARM Dev Summit Begins Tomorrow 19-10-2021
Join the global community of hardware designers and software developers for an immersive online program. Join Femi Idowu, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Microsoft, Ahmad Bature Manager, Google Developer’s Group and Stephen Ozoigbo Senior Director, Emerging Economies, Arm at this event and be the first to learn about the latest advancements shaping the next decade of computing. Register here: https://devsummit.arm.com
Give 24 Hours In A Year to Build Africa’s AI Talents
We seek experts in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and associated specializations to gift a minimum of 2 hours in a month over a 12 months period to support our 1 million AI talent vision by:
1. Facilitating live or pre-recorded class sessions
2. Providing hands-on project work-through
3. Supporting academic research paper writing
4. Guiding and partnering on Kaggle/Zindi projects
Experts are needed across the world to teach and mentor in any of these languages: English, French, Arabic, and Portuguese
Visit https://lnkd.in/gWw4jmuu for more details.
Make a Difference! Register to Lead A DSN AI+ Community In Your Campus/City
Are you passionate about building communities? If yes, then quickly send in your application.
We seek passionate and skilled AI+ members to lead AI+ Communities in cities and campuses across Anambra, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Katsina, Nasarawa, Somoto, Taraba, Yobe, and Zamfara states.
Sign up here https://www.datasciencenigeria.org/become-an-ai-community-champion/
Business & Technical Reads
Do you have a startup idea? Find some pitch deck templates to aid your presentation.
3 Must-Read Time Management Books That Will Change Your Life
As African Venture Capital Booms, Are Female Founders Losing Out?
How the Right Digital Tools Can Help Your Business Win Every Time
Tech News
New Seattle VC Firm Raises $10M Fund to Back Women-led Startups
See The 25 African Founders Entering The Future Is Female PR Mentorship Program
MDXi Data Center Expands Lekki Facility In Lagos
Nigerian Digital Bank Sparkle Raises $3.1m Seed Round to Help It Scale
Data Science Nigeria Featured In AI Conference - The Seven Continents-View on AI
Data Science Nigeria’s giant strides were mentioned at the recently concluded AI Conference - The Seven Continents View on AI. The event, which was held on the 7th of October 2021, highlighted the impacts of AI from the Perspective of North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The presentation at the event was delivered by Jacques Ludik, CEO of Vortex Logic who also sits on the board of Data Science Nigeria. Find presentations below.
SwissCognitive – The Global AI Hub "Seven continents view on AI" event
Democratizing AI to Benefit Everyone:
Presentation: https://lnkd.in/dvEskghD Video: https://lnkd.in/dM_f7TvJ
Eden Life Secures $1.4M Seed Funding Round
Sudanese Marketplace Platform Alsoug Secures $5M From Fawry
13 Facebook Community Leaders Selected For Accelerator Program In Africa
Scholarships Opportunities
Springfield College Trustee Scholarships 2021 at Springfield College in USA
International Merit-Based Scholarships 2021 at Montana State University in USA
International Achievement Scholarships 2021 at Northwest Missouri State University in USA
International Student Accommodation Scholarships 2021 at AUT in New Zealand
New Media Writing Prize 2021 for new-media writing ( £2,000 Prize)
Western Union Foundation Global Scholarship Program 2021
2021 MIT Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge (USD 200,000 in prizes)
Africa Entrance Scholarships 2022 at St. Lawrence College in Canada
Job opportunities
Do you use Papers with Code? Do you want to help organize the world's machine learning knowledge using cutting-edge NLP? Papers with Code is hiring an NLP engineer! For more details please see: https://lnkd.in/eRvzXMHG
Technical Product Specialist at Mono
Marketing Communications Manager at Microsoft
Start-Ups CTO / Technical Programs Manager at Microsoft
Lifestyle Hues is looking for a Content and Social Media Executive
Call For Mentors
Leap Africa is looking for professionals in the public, private, and development sectors to serve as mentors to young Nigerian graduates in the 2021 ILEAD Fellowship programme. Apply here
Call For Volunteers
Open House Lagos is looking for volunteers for the Open House Lagos architecture festival this November. They need support with communication and content creation, fundraising, and tour guiding. Apply here
International Writing Residency
Moniack Mhor Writer’s Centre is inviting established international writers (poetry, prose, non-fiction, playwriting, or songwriting) to apply for the 2022 Connect and Collaborate International Residency. The opportunity includes a month-long residency in the Scottish Highlands and participation in the next Lagos International Poetry Festival. Apply here
Download The Creative Guidebook
The creative guidebook has been released by For Creative Girls: It is a free guidebook for all creatives (irrespective of gender) to help navigate a developing career while following your passion. Click here to download
Register For the DevOps Conference
Join Demi Ajayi, Eran Kinsbruner Ulili Nhaga for the 6th annual All-Day DevOps conference scheduled to hold on October 28th, 2021. Register here
Register For WIMR
Register for the Women In Music Information Retrieval event. Register here
Do have a wonderful week.