BTNG Hackathon 2019 Mentors, Judges, and Sponsors
The Power behind the Throne
BTNG Hackathon 2019 has been made possible by the contribution and efforts of a wide range of people and organisations joined by the singular vision that together we can make a difference to mitigate the impact of brain-drain.
The two days hackathon kicks off tomorrow August 3rd at the Microsoft Reactor and we’re grateful for the following Mentors, Judges, and Sponsors:
Mentors
Any hackathon aficionado would tell you that the quality of the hacks can be directly linked to the quality of mentor-ship available during the event. We agree. And we’re super excited and optimistic that the hackathon will be a resounding success, as we’ve got a bunch of talented people as mentors.
The following folks have graciously agreed to provide their expertise and time:
- Akin Ogundimu- Information Security Consultant
- Alecia Esson- Startup Founder & Product Designer
- Allen Akinkunle- Machine Learning Engineer
- Amina Ibrahim- VP- Investment Management
- Andrew Empson- Public Policy Expert
- Anibe Agamah- Senior Front-end Developer
- Bunmi Aworanti- Software Developer
- Chong Yee Gan- Analyst, Innovation Labs
- Dirichi Ike-Njoku- Web Solutions Engineer
- Freddie Odukomaiya- Data Scientist
- Jennifer Udeh- Innovation Manager
- Mustapha Ahmed- Software Engineer
- Ndifreke Ekott- Senior Software Developer
- Nyasha Gazi- Media Manager K.U.K Alliance
- Olawunmi Brigue- Creative Copywriter, Editor & Entrepreneur
- Rufaro Chiriseri- Co-Chair K.U.K Alliance
- Samuel Dare- Blockchain Engineer
- Sani Yusuf- Entrepreneur & Speaker
Judges
The enviable (or unenviable — depending on how you look at it) task of deciding the winners and runner-up’s of the BTNG Hackathon 2019 falls on the following:
Nzube Ufodike: Nzube is an entrepreneur and adviser to early and growth stage businesses, primarily in the FinTech sector, in the UK and emerging markets. Currently, he is a director at Aurora Equity Partners, and an investment manager for a corporate accelerator. Previously, he led Strategic Partnerships and was a Digital Product Owner for an award winning technology vendor to the wealth management industry. Before that, he was part of a team at UBS SmartWealth that built and launched the UK’s first FCA regulated robo-advisor, focused on the mass affluent wealth segment.
Gideonwa Nwawudu: Gide is an experienced developer having over fifteen years’ experience in finance and IT. As a Software engineer, he previously worked at Reuters, a FTSE 100 company, developing monitoring systems for real-time data delivery. Also worked at one of the worlds largest hedge funds (Millennium Capital) as the VP EMEA Trading. Gide holds a MSc in Advanced Information Systems from Birkbeck, and a BSc in Computer Science from Aston University.
Frédéric Nze: Frédéric is the CEO and Co-founder of Oakam and has played as the architect for the product design, the risk/data science approach and the service model. He has spent all his career in data science (defence & consumer lending) working for American Express, GE Capital and Barclays Bank. He set up a Risk/Data Analytics boutique — Euristix — which was sold to Capita. Frédéric holds an MSc in Mathematics and Econometrics from ENSAE Paris-Tech and an Exec MBA from INSEAD
Aminata Ba: Aminata is a French qualified lawyer, Member of the Paris Bar. Practicing in-house or in private practice, she has been advising national and international companies on commercial issues and corporate matters. Beside negotiating contracts, she has a built a solid experience on dispute resolution, by working on various litigation and arbitration cases. Aminata has been volunteering by providing legal support to a French association helping discriminated binational couples. She is now coordinating and legally supporting the social business Project Embrace, promoting diversity representation in the media.
Cyprian Njamma: Cyprian serves as a Director for the Institutional Advisory Team at SEI, where he is responsible for formulating and delivering strategic investment advice to pension schemes and charities throughout the UK and Europe. Prior to SEI, Cyprian spent three years as an Investment Analyst at Mercer, where he was responsible for the delivery of investment advice to trustees of UK pension schemes. He holds a Master of Physics, with Honours from University of Oxford and a Master of Science in Actuarial Finance from Imperial College London.
The judges have clear and simple guidelines which can be found here. We also have a People’s Choice category which will be determined by peer voting. Exciting.
Sponsors
We are pleased to have returning sponsors Microsoft Reactor, CcHUB and Bethnal Green Ventures. Thank you for your continued support. We are also thrilled to welcome on-board new sponsors in Novo Gifts, K.U.K Alliance and Accenture. More sponsor information below:
CChub: CcHUB is Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space designed to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose space where work to catalyze creative social tech ventures take place. The HUB is a place for technologists, social entrepreneurs, government, tech companies, impact investors and hackers in and around Lagos to co-create new solutions to the many social problems in Nigeria. Link
Bethnal Green Ventures: BGV helps talented teams launch and scale tech for good ventures that will significantly improve millions of lives. Link
Novo Gifts: Novo Gifts is a gift packaging company that seeks to fill the needs of individual and corporates in diaspora who send gifts to friends, family and clients across Nigeria. Novo Gifts specialises in curating beautiful, specially, hand-picked gift baskets for all kinds of occasions, enabling individuals and companies who have difficulties handling the logistics of selecting and sending gift items to their family, friends and clients based in Nigeria.
K.U.K Alliance: K.U.K Alliance is a registered charity that was formed by 7 passionate young Zimbabweans that are determined to change the narrative through education, health and empowerment in Africa with a special focus on Zimbabwe. Link
Accenture Recruitment (UK): With 400,000+ employees operating in 200 cities in more than 120 countries working with over 4,000 dynamic companies We (Accenture) take the NEW, and APPLY it NOW. Disrupting every industry in every country. Reinventing the way every job is done. We work together to solve industries’ and organizations’ most challenging problems with leading-edge technologies. Link
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Don’t forget to share your experience with us using #btnghackathon2019 on social. You can find up-to-date information during the event on our dedicated hackathon site.
Happy hacking!
From the BTNG team.
