Are you a female developer living in Nigeria? Apply to participate in the second cohort of the Microsoft Nigeria LEAP Engineering Acceleration Program.
The LEAP Engineering Acceleration Program is a Microsoft initiative that tries to increase diversity. Bringing more women into software engineering roles. By providing them with real world experience through development and project management apprenticeships with hands-on projects.
Speaking to me about the program, Princess Anya, shares that the ladies will undergo four weeks of classroom and labs training. After which they will proceed to do twelve weeks of hands-on project sessions. Where they handle projects with guidance from mentors.
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Microsoft’s open source team hosted the first open cloud summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. The summit powered by Microsoft Azure, showcased some of the most innovative open source technologies in the Azure cloud. Microsoft South Africa, Azure Business Group Lead, Johannes Kanis revealed key momentum and engagements of customers since opening of the Microsoft Africa Datacenter.
Joe noted that since the arrival of the datacenters Microsoft has seen thousands of customers using the service. “We are experiencing double digit growth month on month” he continued. “We are continuing to bring in more advanced services. Particularly at this event we talked about Openshift on Azure, which in the coming weekswill be live in the South African datacenters as well“.
He expressed excitement at seeing customers maturing their products in terms of cloud usage in the Microsoft Africa Datacenter. Using services like serverless and containers.
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Red Hat’s OpenShift will soon be live in Microsoft’s Azure datacenters located in the Africa and Middle East region. Azure customers will be able to use the container platform as a cloud service to deliver enterprise-grade hybrid cloud solutions.
Riedwaan Bassadien, Microsoft Senior Cloud Data and AI Specialist made the announcement. Speaking to developers at the Open Cloud Summit held in Johannesburg and hosted by Microsoft and Linux. He noted Openshift on Azure will be live in the South Africa datacenter.
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Microsoft Kenya and Harvard Business Review, HBR, host Kenyan CFO’s and COO’s at the Harvard Business CFOs Roundtable. The event sought to educate and highlight how these executives can improve corporate performance using advanced technologies. Conversations also included opportunities and possibilities rising in the digital transformation era for the finance department and professionals.
The round table discussion showed that top managers must leverage advanced technologies like the cloud and artificial intelligence to remain competitive. This will promote an environment that is agile to the change brought about by digital transformation. Also leading the companies to reach goals concerning growth, profitability and productivity.
“…organisations must be acutely aware of the ‘uncomfortable’ shift in roles…”
Organisations must be acutely aware of the uncomfortable shift in roles says Geoffrey Wawere Mathare, Finance Lead, Enterprise Business for Microsoft North, West, East & Southern Africa, Levant & Pakistan countries.
Speaking to business executives at the HBR CFOs Roundtable, Geoffrey noted “the role of today’s CFOs and finance executives must take into consideration a much broader scope requiring a heightened technological sophistication. The emergence of the digital age is fundamentally changing the priorities and roles of today’s finance executives, and security forms an integral part of this”, he continued.
Microsoft is fully committed to accompanying them on this journey
Geoffrey Mathare, shared; Getting rid of paper, Have one version of the truth, Forecast, Make it visual and Collaboration as steps to digitally transforming the finance department.
“By choosing to adopt innovative technologies, CFO’s and COO’s alike will strengthen organizational leadership. Cultivating company growth through more efficient and productive allocation of resources, leading to stronger compliance. Microsoft is fully committed to accompanying them on this journey.”
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Microsoft’s open-source team is organizing an Open Cloud Summit in Johannesburg. Powered by Microsoft Azure, the summit will showcase some of the most innovative open source technologies in the cloud.
The 1-day event will include a deep dive into the most trending and innovative open platforms in the cloud. There will be breakout sessions and workshops led by experts and practitioners in the open-source field.
The Summit will take place on 28 November 2019 at the Fox Junction event center, Johannesburg. Find the event announcement below. Kindly visit the event page to register and participate.
This year, we are excited to host Open Cloud Summit in Johannesburg for the first time. Powered globally by Microsoft Azure with guest speakers from leading projects such as GitHub, SUSE, Kubernetes, Spark, OpenShift, PostgreSQL and RedisLabs.
You can also check out the Middle East and Africa virtual event held earlier this year on demand. Hear Adir Ron, Open Source Lead, Middle East & Africa, Microsoft share on the company’s open-source strategy.
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