Ghana's Innovation Week 2016 To Focus On Internet Of Things IoT And Drones

The Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT Accra will host this year's Innovation Week (i-Week) which begins from 12th – 16th September 2016.

The annual event is the country’s foremost event which brings together key stakeholders to deliberate on emerging ICT issues which impact development.

The theme for i-Week 2016 (#iweek2016, Internet of Things (IoT) and Innovation focuses on how Ghana can embrace IoT for increased development and efficiency in all sectors of the economy, fast-track growth and success rates for Start-ups and SMEs.

The term Internet of Things generally refers to scenarios where network connectivity and computing capability extends to objects, sensors and everyday items not normally considered computers, allowing these devices to generate, exchange and consume data with minimal human intervention.

A new addition to the event this year is the introduction of presentations from Academia. This is to highlight innovative research from the tertiary institutions.

This will be followed by panel discussions which will pair individuals from academia and industry to shed more light on the subject of discussion and find areas of collaboration.

Another new addition in 2016 is the Developer Conference (DevCon) for IT and software developers who will gain additional skills in crafting code, DevOps, frameworks and also find answers to real challenges, which they encounter in the course of their work. As part of the programme there will be parallel workshops on IoT and GIS applications and Real-time computing.

i-Week 2016 will also bring together players in the IoT and Drone space to showcase their innovative solutions and how the nation can leverage on the technology to develop.

More than 20 start-ups will showcase their innovations during the Innovation Waves each day as well as large vendors and exhibitors.

The event promises to be both insightful and exciting with a large number of participants from Ghana, the sub region as well as substantial on-line participation via web-streaming.

Participants are to register for the free sessions at http://iweek2016.aiti-kace.com.gh. Visitors to the #iweek website get to know more about the thought leaders, panelists, the programme scheduled and more.-Ends-