Oti: Developers Academy to host Startup Summit dubbed: Mobile Application for Sustainable Business Development and Job Creation on January 13, 2022.
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Developers Academy one of the finest I.T firms in Dambai in partnership with Ghana Tech Lab under the Pathways to Sustainable Employment Program to host it's Second Local Startup Summit.
This year's summit is set on the theme: “Mobile Application for Sustainable Business Development and Job Creation in Oti.
The second edition of the Local Startup Summit will be held come 13 January 2022 at Developers Academy in the Oti regional capital Dambai. This special day will also mark the second anniversary of the hub in identifying, nurturing and developing startups over the past 24 months in the Oti and Volta regions of Ghana.
This unique event will bring together entrepreneurs and key stakeholders including; government agencies like GEA, Krachi East Assembly, YEA, Rural banks, Media houses, Digital industries in the region and other relevant industry players.
The summit and anniversary celebration will be climax with a pitch session as the MobileApp Cohorts or trainees have had an intensive 6-week long training in MobileApp Development using Flutter.
Explaining the way forward after the Local Startup Summit, the Cofounder of Developers Academy Simeon Martey Kwawununu has oblique successful teams during the pitch session will proceed to the incubation phase of the program to further develop their ideas into scalable business modules whilst the other teams or individuals proceed unto the internship or employability phase of the program with monthly allowance to support them as they ideate into scalable startups and successful employees respectively.
He added this is another rare opportunity to learn best practices coupled with weekend classes with Developers Academy to get fully prepared for the job market.
Below are the achievements of the Academy.
On the anniversary, the hub will be celebrating its 2years in the following Key Performance Indicators since its
□ Presence in 2 Regions of Ghana (Volta & Oti)
□157 Businesses Registered under our in-house initiative dubbed Entrepreneurs-In-Training (EIT)
□1702 youth trained in ICE (Entrepreneurship Innovation Creativity) under collaboration with the Ghana Enterprise Agency formally NBSSI
□Nurturing an early stage Digital Media (Creative Life)
□ 8 Key Partners (GIZ, GTL, SE Ghana, Right to Play, MDF Africa, NEIP, GEA, Intelligent Capital
□ 72 Youth trained in different Digital Skills with internship opportunities.
□ 2 National Nominations
□ 1 Award
□ 2939 Learners supported in Supplemental Learning
□ Premiere hub in Oti
□ 201 Business Advisory Support