ICA — FULOKOJA Meetup 1.0 Recap
ICA-FULOKOJA is a platform for growth and development of future world-class developers, designers, CTOs, founders and CEOs, to learn from industry subject matter experts, share knowledge, network, build the community and gain from the many great opportunities attached to the program.
“Our aim is to create an active environment for tech enthusiasts to learn, share knowledge, network, build their technical skills and equip everyone, regardless of their major, to become world class developers.”
On Thursday, May 9th 2019, we held the first ever Ingressive Campus meetup in Federal University Lokoja from 10:00 AM till 3:00 PM. The meetup was tagged: The Modern Day Developer, Why and Why?.
How did it go?
We had amazing speakers from across Nigeria and the US who spoke on several topics ranging from Data Science, Machine Learning, Version Control, Git/GitHub, Product Design, Productivity, Web Development, Android/Firebase amongst others.
Link to speakers slides, highlights and the event photos/ videos would be available at the end of this recap article.
Keynote Speech
Mr Oluwole, Technological officer at the Federal University Lokoja, ICT Centre introduced the audience to Modern Day Development and why everyone should care.
The Modern Day Developer, Why and How?
Jeremiah Asuquo, a Teaching assistant at NPOWER introduced the audience to Modern Day Development, best practices and modern development analytics.
10 Simple Rules to Learn to Code Front-end
Lois Tanimola, FullStack Developer at Let’sCodeIt demystified Web and Front-end Development alongside introducing the audience to front-end frameworks, developer tools and productivity tips.
All Hail the XGBOOST Algorithm
Emeke Boris, Data Science Instructor at GitGirls demystified The XGBoostAlgorithm, Evolution of Tree-Based Algorithms, XGBoost performance, Kaggle projects that use XGBoost and XGBoost on Code.
Demystifying Product Design
Cole Solomon, Product Designer at Just Curator Interiors demystified Product Design, Design thinking processes and relationships between other designs: UI, UX, INTERACTION, IA & WEB DESIGN.
Finding Developer Opportunities Around You
Seun Daramola, Software Engineer at Andela joined us remotely from Lagos Nigeria and spoke excessively on Discovering Developer Opportunities Around You. Watch live record below
Introduction to Open Source
Samson Goddy, Co-founder Open Source Community Africa joined us remotely from New York, US and introduced the audience to Open Source, Google Summer of Code and Open Source Community Africa.
Building Cross-Platform Applications with React Native
Dabit Nader joined us remotely from Mississipi, US and anchored a live coding session where we built a GOT application from scratch with React Native and GraphQL. Watch session snippet here
Sample code demo from the session here
Outside The Caged Firebase Authentication Model
Abel Ayuba, Android Developer at Yottabit Consulting LLC demystified Firebase Authentication models and introduced the audience to Android development practices.
Q/A Sessions
We had a question and answer session where attendees asked brilliant questions and got answers from our awesome speakers
Dev Quiz
We ended the event with a quiz session where we asked developers/designers related questions and distributed awesome swags and gifts to winners.
Link to speakers slides
- All Hail XGBOOST Algorithm
- The Modern Day Developer, Why and How?
- Demystifying Product Design
- Outside The Caged Firebase Authentication Model
- Discovering Developer Opportunities Around You
- Introduction to Version Control with Git and GitHub
- Developing a Career in Tech
- 10 Simple Rules to Learn to Code Front-end
Event Media [Photos + Videos]
All event photos and videos were taken during the meetup and can be found in the drive below:
Attendees Feedbacks/ Highlights
View more highlights below #ICAFulokoja
Special Thanks
Bunch of thanks to Ingressive for making this a reality
Thank you to our sponsors — GitHub and Figma
Special thanks to Dr Francisca Oladipo, Mr Godwin Sanni and Mr Malik.
Thank you to our speakers, volunteers and attendees, you all made this happen
