The Vertical Ed-Tech Summit
February 16, 2023 at 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Mövenpick Hotel & Residences, Nairobi
Sponsored by
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Reinforce Education With Digital Transformation
The Vertical is a series of events that showcase industry-specific digital solutions. This particular event is designed to bring your solutions to the right people within the right organizations in the Ed-tech industry.
Speaker List
The Challenges
New solutions tend to face resistance from the market. Selling into industry takes up a lot of time and effort. We find that the three main challenges faced by organisations in the Ed-tech space revolve around standing out to attract the attention of prospective customers, getting the message to a broad enough range of target customers and influencing decision makers in client organisations without prior referrals who they trust.
What the Vertical Can Help You Achieve
The Vertical, by design, is a series of industry-specific events that bring innovative solutions using cutting-edge technology to the decision-makers of businesses. It targets Tech vendors, ISVs, start-ups and, specifically, C-suite and decision makers who represent organisations of industry vertical.
Be in the Room Where it Happens!
Engage with the key decision makers of organizations in the specific industry. The Vertical is a strictly invitation-only event composed of handpicked attendees and highly influential stakeholders.
Pitch, Connect and Close Deals!
Cut through the noise and get in front of the right customers. Take full advantage of an opportunity to pitch your company's business solution, make lasting and meaningful connections with key decision makers and close deals in the shortest time possible.
Benefits
Benefits
As earlier stated, The Vertical is designed to bring your solutions to the right people within the right organizations. Here are some of the benefits you can expect to get from the event.
Get personalized feedback
Validate the market
New go-to market strategy
Viable market strategy
Deeper support ecosystem
Control your message
Get positioned as an expert
Engage your peers
Speakers
Speakers
Eliud Owalo
Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communications and The Digital Economy
Eliud Owalo
Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communications and The Digital Economy
Eliud Owalo is a well-known, vastly-experienced and respected Economist, Management Consultant and Strategy Expert who is currently practising as the Managing Consultant of Eliud & Associates (E&A) Management Consultants, an International Management Consultancy and Training firm. He holds a BA Degree in Economics and Business Studies from Kenyatta University and an MBA Degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Nairobi.
Daniel Ndirangu
Lead Solutions Engineer, VMware
Daniel has been working at VMware since December, 2014, taking care of customers across East Africa. He has special focus on business-critical applications as SMEs. Daniel has worked with several vendors in the industry and partners with key focus on customer solutions and undertaken several IT projects in the market.
Herve Marchet
Head of Education - MEA, AWS.
As Head of Education in the Middle East and Africa region at AWS, I am focused on improving education service and delivery by increasing adoption of Amazon Web Services in the MEA region. Before and for the last 9 years, I have co-founded and developed a few startups in the Tech, EdTech and AI sector and have done great exits.
Snehar Shah
CEO, Moringa School
Snehar brings over 25 years of diverse experience in multiple industries, and geographies building and running businesses to Moringa School to scale it to the next level. He holds a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College, London and Financial Qualifications in Chartered Accountancy from PwC and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) while doing Equity Research at HSBC.
Sharon Cheramboss
Director, Policy & Partnerships, Bridge
Sharon is the Policy and Partnerships Director at Bridge Kenya and Bridge Uganda,an education organisation that works to provide quality education to children in underserved communities. She has over ten years of experience in policy design and partnership building with governments, NGOs and other private sector players.
Felix Malombe
Executive Director, STEAMLabs Africa
Felix is the Executive Director of STEAMLabs Africa, an organization that seeks ignite young minds, transform educational practice and empower generations through STEAM Education and EdTech. He is An EdTech and Innovation Coach supporting various schools in Kenya on the implementation of technology in schools and supports EdTech and Innovation events around the world.
Imran Chaudhery
Country Manager - East Africa, Fortinet
Imran Chaudhrey is the Country Manager Fortinet and is responsible for driving the Fortinet Security Business across East Africa. Imran has a wealth of experience of the East African markets and has worked in the region for various companies during the last 10 years. He wields a strong knowledge of Data Center Enterprise Technologies and Architecture, Network as well as IT and Network security
John Gichohi
Systems Engineer - East Africa, Fortinet
With an experience spanning over 13 years in network and security, John Gichohi is well versed in architecting solutions for the modern digital security challenges that customers face today. John has worked closely with leading organizations in accelerating their digital transformation journeys by architecting end to end security solutions.
Everline Wangu Kamau
Senior Territory Manager, VMware East Africa
Everline Wangu Kamau is the Senior Territory Manager for VMware East Africa. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, she works with customers and partners in the region to help them explore the effective use of VMware’s technologies to drive their digital transformation and cloud acceleration efforts.
Dr Edward Ombui
Dean - School of Science and Technology, Africa Nazarene University
Dr. Edward Ombui is the Dean of the school of Science and Technology at Africa Nazarene University. He is an accomplished educator with over 15 years of teaching in institutions of higher education, having earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nairobi. He is an ardent researcher with multiple papers in peer-reviewed journals in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine translation, machine learning, and natural language processing of African languages.
agenda
Agenda
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Day 01
February 16, 2023
08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
Arrival - Breakfast and Networking
Attendees will check in and go to breakfast
09:30 AM - 09:50 AM
Booth Engagement
This will mark the beginning of the plenary session
10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
‘The Vertical At A Glance’
Opening remarks from Redington Group
Zahid Sumar
General Manager - East and Southern Africa, Redington Value Division
speaker
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Keynote Speech
Keynote speech by the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Ministry of Information, Communications, and The Digital Economy
Eliud Owalo
Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communications and The Digital Economy
speaker
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
Cloud Computing for Education by Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Herve Marchet
Head of Education - MEA, AWS.
speaker
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Refreshment Break
11:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Easier Access to Education Through VMware Solutions
Daniel Ndirangu
Lead Solutions Engineer, VMware
speaker
12:20 PM - 01:00 PM
Lenovo Education Solutions
Raneem Mahfoud
Commercial Technical Presale - MEA, Lenovo
speaker
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Lunch
02:00 PM - 02:40 PM
Higher Education Cybersecurity Solutions by Fortinet
Imran Chaudhery
Country Manager - East Africa, Fortinet
speaker
John Gichohi
Systems Engineer - East Africa, Fortinet
speaker
02:40 PM - 03:20 PM
Enabling Smart Education Through Technology
Stephen Ng'etich
Lead Software Engineer, iLABAfrica
speaker
03:20 PM - 03:40 PM
Refreshment Break
03:40 PM - 04:20 PM
Panel Discussion: Reinforce Education with Digital Transformation
Snehar Shah
CEO, Moringa School
panelist
Sharon Cheramboss
Director, Policy & Partnerships, Bridge
panelist
Felix Malombe
Executive Director, STEAMLabs Africa
panelist
Dr Edward Ombui
Dean - School of Science and Technology, Africa Nazarene University
panelist
04:20 PM - 04:30 PM
Closing Remarks by Redington Group
Vipul Rathod
Deputy General Manager, Redington Gulf
speaker
04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Cocktails and Networking
Attendees will be invited to cocktails paired with small bites and a chance to network.
sponsors
Sponsors
AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
VMware
VMware software powers the world’s complex digital infrastructure. The company’s cloud, app modernization, networking, security, and digital workspace offerings help customers deliver any application on any cloud across any device. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to being a force for good, from its breakthrough technology innovations to its global impact.
Fortinet
Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.
media
Media Partners
dx⁵Group
Digital transformation (DX) is a strategic approach to enterprise innovation built around integrating digital technologies into businesses processes, products and solutions and stakeholder engagement. dx⁵ was built on a passion for transformative technology and authentic community connection. We create, support and activate digital transformation across the African continent through multiple C-Suite connections, driving change and growth in a variety of industries.