The 2021 Tekedia Mini-MBA Innovation Week has been scheduled for Nov 22-27, 2021. The sub-theme is Growth Makers, and it is packaged within the Tekedia Mini-MBA theme of Innovation, Growth and Business Execution. All participants of Tekedia programs (mini-MBA, CollegeBoost, advanced diploma, etc) in 2021 qualify to attend free.
Meanwhile, we have opened registration for the next edition of Tekedia Mini-MBA (Sept 13- Dec 6, 2021). Register now to join the edition which will begin on Sept 13, and get many early benefits including attending Tekedia Career Week and Tekedia Innovation Week at no extra cost.
It is always a privilege when your professors call you. The biggest one was when Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) asked me to deliver the University Public Lecture, the zenith of any academic gathering. So, it was another moment when Nigeria Computer Society sent an invitation for me to deliver this year’s keynote speech. The theme is “Innovative Systems for Digital Economy”.
I plan to go very technical to inspire our young people. There is a project we are working on here in Silicon Valley in a startup I am serving as a technical design mentor. The young people are building systems that use less power, hoping to make “electronics” that last longer on a single charge.
To do that, they are building a new computational paradigm, mimicking human biology and synaptic plasticity in the construct of the event-driven asynchronous parallelism in the human central nervous system. If that happens, electronics like phones will run longer and we will use less energy: that is innovation for the future.
So, mark the date: Aug 3-5 2021. It would be a great talk.
My keynote at 2021 Digital Africa Conference and Exhibition this week. I spoke on the theme – “Building a New Africa with AI & Blockchain”. I spoke on June 22, 2021.
Digital Africa Conference and Exhibition is Africa’s premier consumer technology show which holds annually. It provides the perfect platform to showcase your brand and enhance your reputation. It presents to its participants a major opportunity for unrivalled networking and privileged access to strategic partners, investors and potential buyers.
The 2021 Tekedia Mini-MBA Career Week has been scheduled for Oct 25-30, 2021. This career week is not designed for finding jobs. Rather, it is structured to TRANSFORM workers, founders & entrepreneurs into business leaders and champions of innovation in their companies. Yet, if you have no job, by the time you are done with the series, you will have a path to one!
The sub-theme is Nurturing Innovators, and it is packaged within the Tekedia Mini-MBA theme of Innovation, Growth and Business Execution. All participants of Tekedia programs (mini-MBA, CollegeBoost, advanced diploma, etc) in 2021 qualify to attend free.
Our knowledge experts for the Week include human resources experts and leaders from MNCs and startups, across industries and global regions.
Meanwhile, we haveopened registration for the next edition of Tekedia Mini-MBA (Sept 13- Dec 6, 2021). Register now to join the edition which will begin on Sept 13, and get many early benefits including attending our Career Week and Innovation Week at no extra cost.
If you have a car with manually operated windows, they can easily make them electric-operated in selected mechanic shops in Nigeria. For years, these mechanics have been converting petrol cars to go with gas. The latest one is more advanced: the vice president of the nation, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, drove an electric vehicle. Before that, in April, the federal government commissioned an EV charging station in Sokoto. That Sokoto location makes sense for many of us who have spent time in Usman Danfodio University and the energy center in the university. I also note that GIG Logistics is going all electric.
The question is this: what is going on in the nation’s automotive sector? Dr Jelani Aliyu, DG of Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), has noted that “No doubt Electric Vehicles are the future, maybe in the next five years.” Certainly, this sector can outperform except that we do not have electricity to massively scale adoption.
We have no EV national policy but most people are indeed open to disconnect from the mess of petrol, to the extent that we can start importing generators for the EVs. Yes, one generator for the house, and another for the car except that you need petrol to power the generator!
So, if you use a generator to charge your EV – what has changed? Simply, EV or petrol, Nigeria needs to fix the electricity paralysis in the nation. Any ascension to preach EV for the environment is muted until we wean the nation of generators.
