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Welcome to this week’s edition of our community update. True to the subject of this newsletter, we do have an opportunity for you! Guess what? DataCamp has gifted our AI Community some subscriptions. This means you can access the ample learning materials available on their platform! Amazing isn’t it? Register here to receive yours.
We recently concluded the 2021 edition of the AI Bootcamp and weekly, and we will be bringing you interesting details about the event. Today, we shall be talking about the Ladies In AI Session.
The Ladies In AI Session was the third event hosted on the second day of the AI Bootcamp. It was co-hosted by Research and Innovation Lead, Data Science Nigeria Wuraola Oyewusi, and Research Analyst, Amina Rufai.
The event was focused on "Identifying and Maximizing Opportunities for Ladies in AI" Dr. Natalie R of Robots Can Think delivered the keynote address while the panel session comprised of Diane Igoche, Associate Professor of Data Analytics, Robert Morris University, United States, Aishatu Gwadabe, From GmBH, and Dr. Ibukun Afolabi of the Department of Computer & Information Sciences, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.
Here are some lessons from the event.
“Partnership & networking among women is a bigger step than funding”-Prof Diane Igoche
“Negotiate for your worth. Be factual, know your worth” - Dr. Natalie R.
“We are all traveling in a non-linear fashion” - Aishatu Gwadabe
“Mastery is key to increasing one's value” - Afolabi Ibukun
Interesting Read
2021 State of Entrepreneurship in Nigeria Report
3 Effective Ways To Improve AI Ethics Discussions
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
To Retain Your Employees, You Must Embrace A More Human And Caring Workplace
The Confusion Between Coaching and Mentoring: Which Is Which?
Scholarship Opportunities
Holland Scholarship for Non-EEA International Students
Maastricht University Holland High Potential Scholarships for International Students
Radboud Scholarship Programme for International Students
Lund University Global Scholarship Programme
University of Oulu International Scholarships
Jobs
Full Stack Engineer (Remote) Stack: Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, ECS, Postgres, Redis
Software Engineer – Windows, Developers & Experiences (WDX) at Microsoft Nigeria
Principal Engineering Manager – Business Applications at Microsoft Nigeria
Global Expansion Incubator Manager, Africa at Microsoft Nigeria
Front-End developers needed: Applicants should have knowledge of Javascript, Redux, and React frameworks. Send resumes to hr@wazobia.tech
OPSL is recruiting for several tech roles - Visit https://form.jotform.com/OPSL/Careers to apply
2-5 years experience. Send cv to amosuibk@gmail.com
Senior Program Manager – Microsoft Garage
Policy & Society Editor at Amaka Studio
Head of Community at GE 10x Labs
Opportunities & Events
DataCamp has gifted our AI Community some subscriptions. With this subscription, you have access to premium data & analytics learning content on www. datacamp.com If you are interested, click the registration link below. Limited slots are available.
Data Science Nigeria NeurIPS 2021 Meetup
The Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to foster the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects. We would be hosting local meetups to stream live and watch recorded videos from NeurIPS 2021 Conference.
Join Dr. Iwashokun and Tebogo Bokaba (MCOM) at the NEMISA pre-training hackathon on WEKA, 16th November - 18th November at 3 pm - 6 pm WAT each day. Feel free to participate by filling in the form - https://tinyurl.com/ffjw3w
Attend the Women In Tech Global Nigeria Chapter Launch on Wednesday, November 24, 2021, at The WheatBaker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos Please RSVP here
https://womenintechnigeria.rsvpify.com/
News
Nigeria's Helium Health Acquires Qatar's Meddy
Google Brain founder Andrew Ng raises $57 million for his A.I. start-up, Landing AI
Verdant Capital closes $30M in Debt Financing
E-commerce Startup Chooya secures $950K
Ingressive Capital invests in Early Stage Startup Aboki Africa
Healthtech Startup DrugStoc raises $4.4M in Series A Funding
NVIDIA Announces Platform for Creating AI Avatars
Crowdera invests $300,000 in AI tech company, Monkwish
OPay Appoints Ex-FCMB Director, Olu Akanmu as co-CEO
Ai-Driven Background Check Startup Intelligo Raises $22m
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