2020 Microsoft Events: Middle East and Africa Calendar

2020 Microsoft Events: Middle East and Africa Calendar

Microsoft events in the Middle East and Africa

Happy new year guys! Let’s start off the year by telling you about events to look forward to in 2020. We are putting together conferences and trade shows Microsoft will host or participate in across the Middle East and Africa. The 2020 Microsoft events in the Middle East and Africa target students, developers, IT pros, partners and customers.

We are sharing details of events we have confirmed. However don’t hesitate to share with us events we haven’t included; info@microsoftcaregh.com so we can add them. We will also have a separate post that will focus mainly on the various Microsoft meetup communities and their events across the MEA region.

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DATEEVENTLOCATION
January 11, 2020 Power Platform Ghana 2020 Accra, Ghana
January
30-31, 2020
Microsoft Ignite The TourJohannesburg,
South Africa
February 3,
2020
CyberGirlz annual Conference Microsoft Reactor –
Tel Aviv, Israel
February
4-6, 2020
Africa Tech Summit Kigali, Rwanda
February
10-11, 2020
Microsoft Ignite The Tour Dubai,
United Arab Emirates
February 29-2
March, 2020
Dynamics 365 Dubai Summit 2020 Dubai,
United Arab Emirates
March 9, 2020 IoT in Action Dubai, UAE
March 18-19, 2020Women in Tech AfricaCape Town, South Africa
March 19, 2020 Microsoft Envision Forum Lagos, Nigeria
March 31 and
April 2, 2020
DevConf Cape Town and Johannesburg,
South Africa
April
22-23, 2020
Microsoft Ignite The Tour Tel Aviv, Israel
May 7, 2020 SQL Saturday Israel Petah Tikva, Israel
May 19-21, 2020 MICROSOFT BUILD Seattle, Washington
July 18,
April 10-11, 2020
Power Platform Africa – 365 Saturday Lagos Lagos, Nigeria
July 20-24, 2020Microsoft Inspire Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
August 15, 2020 Power Platform South Africa 2020 Johannesburg, South Africa
September 27 – 1 October, 2020 GITEX GLOBAL Dubai, UAE

Learn about how you can win a Microsoft sponsored trip to DevConf 2019 in South Africa.

This Microsoft events in the Middle East and Africa list will be updated from time to time. As new events come up. Bookmark this page and check it often. Share your thoughts with us.

Join the Global AI Bootcamp meetups in Nigeria

Join the Global AI Bootcamp meetups in Nigeria

Global AI Bootcamp is here again. Interested in learning about artificial intelligence(AI) and Microsoft Azure? Then the Global AI Bootcamp presents you with that opportunity. Join others learners worldwide in the one day, free event at a local meetup near you.

The Global AI Bootcamp is a free one-day event. Organized by local communities all over the world that are passionate about Artificial Intelligence on the Microsoft stack. The next event takes place on the 14th of December 2019 on venues all over the world, supported by Microsoft.

There are Global AI Bootcamp meetups taking place all over Nigeria. Know of other Global AI Bootcamp meetups in Nigeria we haven’t included? Share them with us.

Meetup at University of Lagos, Lagos.

Meetup at LASU CBT CENTER (EIGHTEEN IT), Lagos.

Meetup at Umuahia, Abia State

Meetup at Nccf family house, Bauchi, Abia State

Don’t forget to join the communities for updates on future events.

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Learn about Artificial Intelligence, join the Global AI Bootcamp meetups in Ghana

Learn about Artificial Intelligence, join the Global AI Bootcamp meetups in Ghana

Global AI Bootcamp is here in Ghana. Interested in learning about artificial intelligence(AI), and Microsoft Azure? Then the Global AI Bootcamp presents that opportunity. Join others learners worldwide in the one day, free event at a local meetup near you.

The Global AI Bootcamp is a free one-day event. Organized by local communities all over the world that are passionate about Artificial Intelligence on the Microsoft stack. The next event takes place on the 14th of December 2019 on venues all over the world, supported by Microsoft.

There are three meetups taking place in Accra. Know of others we haven’t included? Share them with us.

Meetup at NIIT, Nkrumah Circle, Accra.

https://www.meetup.com/Accra-NET-User-Group/events/266469731/

Meetup at Microsoft Office, Accra.

https://www.meetup.com/Microsoft-User-Group-Ghana/events/265822954/

Meetup at Zongovation Hub, 37, Accra.

https://www.meetup.com/mspinspire/events/265937845/

Don’t forget to join the communities for updates on future events.

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Microsoft Open Cloud Summit, Johannesburg

Microsoft Open Cloud Summit, Johannesburg

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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Watch Microsoft Ignite 2019 livestream #MSIgnite

Watch Microsoft Ignite 2019 livestream #MSIgnite

Microsoft Ignite 2019 is here. The largest Microsoft annual event will host about twenty six thousand IT implementers, developers, partners, students and more. Taking place November 4th to 7th in Orlando Florida.

Join us follow the online viewing of Microsoft’s Ignite 2019 conference. Event starts at these times worldwide 9am ET, 2PM GMT, 5PM EAT and 4PM SAT. Check back for more details and announcements from the event as well.

Watch vision Keynote with Satya Nadella

There will be several breakout sessions and technical keynotes. Some streamed, others not, but will be available on demand after the event. Logging in to the tech community gives you access to all the session Visit the conference page to for more details.

Join the Ignite conversation online using the hashtag #MSIgnite. Also the Ignite conference will be going on the road again this year. Check out events planned for the Middle East Africa region here. With events in scheduled to take place in Johannesburg, Dubai and Tel Aviv.

Learn C#, .net core 3.0 and build great stuffs at ZongoVation Hub

Learn C#, .net core 3.0 and build great stuffs at ZongoVation Hub

ZongoVation Hub teams up with Microsoft Students Partners Ghana to bring you a .Net Conf meet up. Come and learn about C# and the latest updates to .Net Core platform.

The meet up will take place on the 10th of October 2019 at the ZongoVation Hub, Kawokodi Community Youth Cultural Center, Kanda, Accra.

It is a free event, click to register to show your interest in participating and for related event details. Don’t forget to share this with a friend or someone interested in learning about open source developer tools.

Ahead of the event check out .Net, C#, Xamarin, Docker, ML.NET With Free Videos From Microsoft.