3rd Event: Lifestyle
Software as a Lifestyle choice. Building our own stuff.
Aslam Khan will be leading an interactive discussion around software design and lifestyle.
Venue: CITi Woodstock (directions here)
RSVP: here or here More Info about #WDC405: here
Date: 20th May 2014
Time: 12h00 for 12h30. Finishes 13h30. There will be coffee afterwards.
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More About our speakers
Lorain Steyn:
Lorraine Steyn started a successful software company 27 years ago, and is now involved with an exciting mobile social media startup. Lor has a long track record of training and growing new developers, and has seen many changes in the IT field in her 30+ years of involvement.
She now has a startup called http://imbored.co.za/about/
Aslam Khan:
Aslam is just another software developer that gets humbled by the design challenges he gets to face. Despite this, it is the reality of life in Africa that keeps his spirit in check. His appreciation for Open Data came from working on national statistics systems that measured the major social and economic indicators for South Africa. Like every citizen of Africa he is an activist by default. Having battled through the apartheid years of South Africa, he now sees a need for a new wave of activism - how to mobilise every person to be a democracy builder.
Aslam, together with Ryan Lemmer, make up Stillpoint Software, a Cape Town based software consultancy and learning centre. Together, they use Still Point as a vehicle to help Africans find a career in software development, building solutions for Africa, a little bit at a time.
He blogs at f3yourmind.net.
Dr Brain Betechuoh:
Dr. Brain Leke Betechuoh holds a PhD from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa in Computational Intelligence for Complex Systems. He has used computational and statistical techniques to model stock data, as well as, to understand how demographic parameters influence the risks of HIV susceptibility. After completing his PhD, he worked at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research were he led a team doing biometrics research and assisted with the implementation of multi-search scheme for fingerprint identification based on localized parameters, and classification schemes. He also was in charge of assisting with the data mining team.
Dr. Leke Betechuoh has presented at several conferences internationally on computational models and data mining for complex systems. Dr. Leke Betechuoh now works as a Lead Consultant and Acting Head of Technology at ThoughtWorks PanAfrica where he is involved in Software Development, as well as, Agile Analytics.
Philip Copeman:
Philip is the founder of TurboCash. TurboCASH Accounting, entry level Accounting package for single users, small networks and distributed networks. Delphi development in Windows, Linux in Wine. Accomodates developer scripts, local plugins and multi language translation. Ideal for SME market. It has been continuously developed since April 1985, and was released under the GNU General Public License in July 2003. According to the company, TurboCASH has a 'community of over 100,000.
