Are you a Tech Startup in South Africa and looking for help to grow? Do you need the right doors opened throughout your journey? Then this is your opportunity to take the first step. Introducing Head Start a Microsoft initiative to provide support for startups in South Africa announced last year.
The Microsoft event for startups is themed “Opening tomorrow’s door for today’s startups“. Microsoft’s Head Start programme will help tech startups by giving them access to a variety of skills development resources, coaches and mentors, Microsoft’s customer network and the platform on which to build their products and services.
Registerand begin the journey to get ahead of the pack and stay there.
Venue : The River Club, Liesbeek Avenue, Observatory, Cape Town
According to Microsoft, the event will see startups exposed to it’s: Technology, Business development and Compliance, regulation and legal doors.
Technology: Microsoft’s experts and architects will help tech startups to build the right solutions. Business development: experts will help the startups grow their customer base by introducing them to Microsoft’s extensive worldwide network of enterprises, governments, and startups from around the world. Compliance, regulation and legal: will see Microsoft’s legal and corporate affairs team on standby to assist startups where needed.
Selected startups will learn topics such as Taking your business to the clouds. Building low cost, scalable applications on Azure, Doing ethical business, Market Acquisition for Startups and more.
If this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for, register to participate.
Visual Studio 2019 general availability is 2nd April 2019. Microsoft is hosting a virtual launch event with global local meetups.
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Visual Studio 2019 will become generally available on 2nd April 2019 and Microsoft is hosting a virtual launch event. The event will stream live with local launch meetups across the globe between April 2nd and June 30th. A virtual attendee party called #CodeParty will also take place after the launch event with prizes up for grabs.
Microsoft’s launch event invitation reads:
“The Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event is Coming April 2nd, 9:00am PT(4pm GMT). Whether you’re a C#, C++ or Python dev & target the web, desktop or cloud, we’ll have demos & sessions for all the new goodies coming to Visual Studio 2019. Join us on April 2 at 4 PM PT (11pm GMT) for the virtual attendee party after #VS2019 launch and win prizes like a Surface Go, an Xbox, and gift cards from MobilizeNet, Telerik, Docker, & more! #CodeParty“.
Microsoft Partner Program Manager Scott Hanselman will be leading the Keynote session and promises “it’s something really special“.
“The #VS2019 launch is coming up next Tues April 2nd, and I’m deeply proud of the keynote. I hope it’s not like ANYTHING you’ve seen before. I’ve worked with @ch9 for weeks & while it’s just an hour, it’s something really special.” – Scott Hanselman
How can you join the Visual Studio 2019 Launch event?
You can watch the live events on Visual Studio’s Twitch, YouTube, or Channel 9 pages. (You can bookmark this page and refer to the launch date for links, we might just embed it here.)
We are sharing 2019 Global Azure Bootcamp local meet-ups across the Middle East region.
The developer and IT community run Global Azure Bootcamp is here again. In it’s 7th year the global user group and community meet-up event is set to take place in various locations on the 27th April.
Global Azure bootcamp is a one day free local event organized by local developer community leaders and Microsoft Azure enthusiasts. They teach on essential Microsoft Azure skills and try to build enthusiasm and knowledge about Microsoft’s Azure Platform.
We have tried to put together all of where we know an event will take place in Africa. Help us update this if you see, hear or know of any that isn’t in this list. Thank you in advance.
Global Azure Bootcamp 2019 Middle East event locations.
We are sharing where we know 2019 Gobal Azure Bootcamps will take place across the continent.
The developer and IT community run Global Azure Bootcamp is here again. Set to take place on the 27th of April 2019 in various locations world wide. The global user group and community meet-up event is in its 7th year.
Global Azure bootcamp is a one day free local event organized by local developer community leaders and Microsoft Azure enthusiasts. They teach on essential Microsoft Azure skills and try to build enthusiasm and knowledge about Microsoft’s Azure Platform.
We have tried to put together all of where we know an event will take place in Africa. Help us update this if you see, hear or know of any that isn’t in this list. Thank you in advance.
Global Azure Bootcamp 2019 Africa event locations.
Kindly click on event link to register to participate and for location details.
Microsoft has announced dates for its premier event for developers. Build 2019 event will take place May 6th to 8th at the Washington State Convention center, Seattle Washington. Microsoft will open registration starting tomorrow 27th February 2019.
With an invitation that reads “Come experience the latest technologies and imagine new ways to create solutions“. The developer focused event highlights new tools and technologies the software giants are developing. As well as changes and improvements coming in softwares. Developers also get to connect their various communities, get hands on and deep dive trainings. Consumers will get an overview or the roadmap Microsoft has for most of its tools.
Microsoft Build 2019 Invitation
” Join us in Seattle for Microsoft’s premier event for developers. Come and experience the latest developer tools and technologies. Imagine new ways to create software by getting industry insights into the future of software development. Connect with your community to understand new development trends and innovative ways to code. “
I believe as usual the conference fee will be about $2500. Microsoft opens Build 2019 event up with a call for speakers submission, a move which is new.
I’m personally not sure what big announcements to expect but looking forward to this. The theme this year reads out “Imagine, Create, Code”. We’ll keep you updated and have the live stream and updates here. Bookmark and check this out later in May.
The Azure Student Dev Day is a learning event to skill up in Microsoft’s Technologies
Microsoft’s Azure Student Dev Days are free interactive workshops hosted by Microsoft student partners for students. It brings the Microsoft Tech community, Microsoft MVPs and experts to the developer day event to skill students in Microsoft technologies. Are you passionate about or want to learn more about Microsoft tech? This is a must attend event.
The event is designed to engage stdents in Azure developer services and latest industry trends. Through sessions and hands-on labs.
The Azure Student Dev Day JKUAT Nairobi event invitiation says;
This one day workshop is meant to introduce students to Cloud Computing Azure.
The agenda for the day will revolve around:
Azure for students Introduction to cloud computing Azure IoT Hub Azure Machine learning studio Serverless Computing (Functions & Logic Apps)
The event is scheduled to take place Saturday February 2nd 2019 at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) Juja, Kiambu County.
