Habesha in Tech

Habesha in Tech

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  • Ethiopia's Digital Transformation with Myriam Said

    My guest on Habesha in Tech was Myriam Said, who is currently Digital Advisor at the Office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia coordinating efforts in transitioning Ethiopia to a Digital Economy. Previously she was the Director of the National Digital Transformation Program at the Ministry of Innovation and Technology where she led the development of “Digital Ethiopia 2025”; an Inclusive National Digital Transformation Strategy.

    Myriam was born in Addis Ababa, went to Lycée Guebre-Mariam and attended her secondary education in France (1st Degree in Mathematics, 2nd Degree in Physics, Master in Physics applied to the Environment). She moved back to Ethiopia to focus on practical works. Her first unpaid job was at UNHCR as Environmental Impact researcher. But at the time, ICT was vibrant in Ethiopia more specifically the system integration area. For that reason she took a CISCO certification and start working for a System Integration company as a junior engineer.

    Myriam spent over 15 years in the private sector. She started in a leading ICT System Integration Company implementing National IT Infrastructure projects and was then the co-founder of a Digital Financial Service Provider that built several digital platforms to enable payments and bring efficiency on how people transact.

    We discussed about Ethiopia's Digital Transformation & on issues that are currently changing the digital space. We talked about unleashing value from agriculture, The next version of global value chains in manufacturing, building the IT enabled services, and, digital as the driver of tourism competitiveness. We also talked about the "broader ecosystem: People, Connectivity, Payments, Digital ID, Cyber security, E-Governance and more.

    I would like to thank Myriam for her willingness to come to our session to share us the latest information on Ethiopia's Digital Transformation Journey.

    Please have a listen and tell us know if you have any question and what you feel about our conversation.

    1 hr 31 min
  • Habesha in Tech club | ሀበሻ ኢን ቴክ ክለብ

    Welcome to 𝙃𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙖 𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝 Club.                                             

    As the global market moves into more tech-oriented businesses, 𝙀𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨 & 𝙀𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 are joining the tech world either through an academic path or making a career change.   

    We will invite guest speakers working in tech to share with us how they make their decision to join the tech, answer some questions from the audience and provide their advice on how to be successful in the field.  In this room, we can help each other by sharing our experience.  The Language of discussions are 𝗔𝗺𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗰 or 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵.

    This sessions occur every Saturday @1:00 PM EST. 

    Stay tuned for more exciting episodes. 

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    እንኳን ወደ ሀበሻ ኢን ቴክ ክለብ በደህና መጡ!  

    ይሀ ክለብ በየሳመንቱ ቅዳሜ ከሰዓት 1:00ፒኤም (በቶሮንቶ ሰዓት) ወይም ከምሽቱ 3:00 (በኢትዮጵያ ሰዓት) የቴክኖሎጂ ባለሙያዎችን በመጋበዝ የሚከናውኑ ውይይቶቸ የሚዘጋጅበት ክለብ ነው።   

    ወደዚህ ክለብ የምንጋብዛቸው እንግዶች በቴክኖሎጂ የሙያ ዘርፍ የተሰማሩና ልምድ ያላቸው ሲሆን ለያለፉበትን መንገድ እና የመረጡትን የሙያ ዘርፍ ያካፍሉናል።   በተጨማሪም በተመረጡ የቴክኖሎጂ የሙያ ዘረፎች ላይ ያተኮረ ውይይት ይደረጋል።  በቴክኖሎጂ የስራ ዘርፍ መሰማራት ይሻሉ? በቴክኖሎጂ ውስጥ የሚሰሩ ኢትዮጵያውያንና ኤርትራውያን የህይወት ተሞክሮ ማድመጥ ይፈልጋሉ?   እንግዲያውስ ይህንን ክለብ ይከታተሉ፣ ፖድካሰትና ዩቱዩባችንንም ሰብስክራይብ ያድርጉ ለወዳጆችዎም ያጋሩ። 

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    1 min
  • My Tech Journey with Dawit Lessanu, ED of Enterprise Architecture at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
    Dawit Lessanu was born in Addis Ababa but raised in the United States Dawit Lessanu is an accomplished senior technology leader with over 26 years experience in Information Technology. Dawit has worked across diverse industries as a big 4 consultant, Media, Music, Publishing, Finance and Retail Consumer Goods. He has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Africana Studies and an MBA in IT Management. Dawit is also an accomplished artist and a yoga instructor. He has raised 2 adult children and enjoys reading, meditation and traveling. He hails from the greater New York area and is currently Executive Director of Enterprise Architecture at the Estee Lauder Companies.
    1 hr 15 min
  • My Tech Journey with Abeba Birhane (PhD)
    Our guest is Abeba Birhane (PhD), a cognitive science PhD researcher at the Complex Software Lab in the school of computer science at University College Dublin, Ireland. She hails from the beautiful city of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. She was a brilliant student. You may not guess how she earned her first salary, by being a DJ. She is now living in Ireland. Abeba completed her PhD in Cognitive Science from Complex Software Lab in the school of computer science at University College Dublin, Ireland. Congrats to her. 
    Abeba is fearless to challenge the status quo whenever she sees injustice and inaccurate representations. One of the researches Abeba co-wrote was a reason for MIT to takedown the 80 million datasets that has racist and offensive content. She also don't support Robots to be given rights because that only is going to give more rights to the Robots manufacturers. 
    Thank you Abeba for sharing us your Tech Journey. 
    Have a listen and share this with your friends.
    1 hr 28 min
  • Blockchain for IoT Security with Jay Jamal, Wondimu Zegeye (PhD) & Hailu Kassa (PhD)
    In this session we discussed about Blockchain & its impact in the Cyber Security space more specifically IoT Security. Our panelist are experts in their field and they shared us their point of views in this regard. I would like to thank Jay Jemal for bringing his colleagues to share their knowledge in the blockchain space. I also would like to thank Wondimu Zegeye & Hailu Kassa for willing to join our session.
    Please find the below excerpt of Panelists' Profile, Click learn more to view the full profile. 
    Jay Jemal is a Blockchain/distributed ledger technology expert. He has implemented Blockchain solutions for several government agencies such as HHS, CDC, NSF and DoD, to mention a few. He leads the architecture and implementation of the only CGI’s Blockchain IP based platform, Secure Data Fabric (SDF™), CGI’s first Blockchain/ML/AI IP commercial product (Patent issuer and number us 63054225). Mr. Jay Jemal is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Dallol Consulting Group, LLC founded and based in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Jemal, as a successful Sr. Technologist, has a proven track record of more than 20 years of experience in architecting and implementing cutting-edge software systems for government agencies and fortune 500 companies. Mr. Jemal holds a master’s in Computer Science and B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. He also holds several technology and management certifications. Mr. Jemal is currently pursuing Doctor of Engineering (DEng) in Cybersecurity track at Morgan State University (MSU) CREAM Lab – with research focusing on Blockchain for IoT security. Learn More
    Wondimu Zegeye (D.Eng) is a Sr. Research & Development Engineer, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Post-doc fellow at Cyber Security Assurance and Policy (CAP) Center, and Adjunct Professor at Morgan State University. Dr. Zegeye has been doing research in the areas of Cellular networks, Data and communication networks, Cyber Security, Machine Learning and AI. He has published over 20 scientific papers globally. He currently leads a team of researchers at MSU’s CAP in IoT security for Smart homes. He runs multiple projects in collaboration with John’s Hopkins University, Dartmouth College, University Michigan, University of Maryland at College Park, Tufts university, and University of Illinois Urban campagna in the NSF funded project, Security and Privacy in the Lifecycle of IoT for Consumer Environments (SPLICE). He also teaches advanced computer and data communication, Cyber Security, and digital electronic courses. Learn More
    Hailu Kassa (D.Eng) is a research scientist at Cyber Security Assurance and Policy (CAP) Center, and Adjunct Professor at Morgan State University. Dr. Kassa has been doing research in the areas of 5G security and Energy Efficiency; Distributed Sensor Networks and IoT; Wireless Sensor Network for Healthcare Applications; Big Data Analysis, Extraction and Forensic. Dr. Kassa also worked with over 26 MSc students. Advised and graduated 11 MSc students at Hawassa University, Ethiopia. Given a training on Solar Technology Technical and Business Training for Small and Large scale enterprises, organized by GIZ. Learn More
    Cheers, Tef Kassa Website: https://habeshaintech.com Clubhouse:https://www.clubhouse.com/club/habesha-in-tech Facebook: https://facebook.com/habeshaintech/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/habeshaintech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/habeshaintech/
    1 hr 55 min
  • My Tech Journey with Alem Abreha
    On Saturday November 6, 2021, I had the opportunity to chat with Alem Abreha, who is a Systems Engineer, with more than 10 years of experience in Infrastructure, Service Reliability Engineering, Tooling/Automation and DevOps. He started his career as a Systems Administrator in Unix and Linux operating systems while he was in College (Mekelle University). He is now a Lead Systems Engineer at Mulesoft (a Salesforce Company). Alem walked us through his tech journey starting from his school year to where he is now. 
    He also shared us about his startup that he worked on. Alem is the founder & CEO of Gooday™. He founded it in 2019, Gooday Online is headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The word "Gooday", while it has a well intentioned meaning in English, also means "business" or "errand" in Amharic, spelled 'ጉዳይ'.
    I would like to thank Alem for his time and willing to share us his tech journey. I want to also thank our audiences who were listening to us and those who participated in the Q&A.
    Please listen to our full conversation to get more perspective and discover his journey.
    Cheers,
    Tef Kassa
    Website: https://habeshaintech.com 
    Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/habesha-in-tech
    Facebook: https://facebook.com/habeshaintech/
    Instagram: https://instagram.com/habeshaintech/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/habeshaintech/
    1 hr 28 min
  • My Tech Journey with Goitom Seyoum Q&A [Part 2]
    I had the opportunity to chat with Goitom Seyoum, Staff Software Engineer at Google, on Clubhouse to discuss his Tech journey. Goitom was very honest to share us his journey from where everything started. He is the one of first Ethiopians to attend at Maharishi International University. While at the university he used to apply for jobs but he felt like he could apply to even more companies if he could find help. So he decided to build his own automated program that search(crawl) websites for keywords he set up (such as job title, skills ...). After he completed the development, he was able to apply to more companies than his fellow classmates and he was getting email & phone call responses from recruiters. When his friends saw the success of his program, they wanted to use it and he made the program accessible to them.  Goitom is A father, an entrepreneur, problem solver, ambitious, strategy thinker, engineer and people leader... Built more than 5 startups. Currently working at Google for the last 8 years as a tech lead manager at Google Play. I would like to thank Goitom for his time and willing to share us his tech journey. He is also an amazing story teller. I want to also thank our audiences who were listening to us and those who participated in the Q&A.  
    Please listen to our full conversation to get more perspective and discover his journey.  
    Cheers, 
    Tef Kassa 
    Website: https://habeshaintech.com 
    Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/habesha-in-tech 
    Facebook: https://facebook.com/habeshaintech/ 
    Instagram: https://instagram.com/habeshaintech/ 
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/habeshaintech/
    1 hr 14 min
  • My Tech Joueney with Goitom Seyoum, Staff Software Engineer at Google [Part 1]
    I had the opportunity to chat with Goitom Seyoum, Staff Software Engineer at Google, on Clubhouse to discuss his Tech journey. Goitom was very honest to share us his journey from where everything started. He is the one of first Ethiopians to attend at Maharishi International University. While at the university he used to apply for jobs but he felt like he could apply to even more companies if he could find help. So he decided to build his own automated program that search(crawl) websites for keywords he set up (such as job title, skills ...). After he completed the development, he was able to apply to more companies than his fellow classmates and he was getting email & phone call responses from recruiters. When his friends saw the success of his program, they wanted to use it and he made the program accessible to them. 
    Goitom is A father, an entrepreneur, problem solver, ambitious, strategy thinker, engineer and people leader... Built more than 5 startups. Currently working at Google for the last 8 years as a tech lead manager at Google Play.
    I would like to thank Goitom for his time and willing to share us his tech journey. He is also an amazing story teller. I want to also thank our audiences who were listening to us and those who participated in the Q&A. 
    Please listen to our full conversation to get more perspective and discover his journey. 
    Cheers,
    Tef Kassa
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    Website: https://habeshaintech.com
    Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/habesha-in-tech
    Facebook: https://facebook.com/habeshaintech/
    Instagram: https://instagram.com/habeshaintech/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/habeshaintech/
    1 hr 4 min
  • My Tech Joueney with Goitom Seyoum, Staff Software Engineer at Google.
    I had the opportunity to chat with Goitom Seyoum, Staff Software Engineer at Google, on Clubhouse to discuss his Tech journey. Goitom was very honest to share us his journey from where everything started. He is the one of first Ethiopians to attend at Maharishi International University. While at the university he used to apply for jobs but he felt like he could apply to even more companies if he could find help. So he decided to build his own automated program that search(crawl) websites for keywords he set up (such as job title, skills ...). After he completed the development, he was able to apply to more companies than his fellow classmates and he was getting email & phone call responses from recruiters. When his friends saw the success of his program, they wanted to use it and he made the program accessible to them. 
    Goitom is A father, an entrepreneur, problem solver, ambitious, strategy thinker, engineer and people leader... Built more than 5 startups. Currently working at Google for the last 8 years as a tech lead manager at Google Play.
    I would like to thank Goitom for his time and willing to share us his tech journey. He is also an amazing story teller. I want to also thank our audiences who were listening to us and those who participated in the Q&A. 
    Please listen to our full conversation to get more perspective and discover his journey. 
    Cheers,
    Tef Kassa
    _______________________________
    Website: https://habeshaintech.com
    Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/habesha-in-tech
    Facebook: https://facebook.com/habeshaintech/
    Instagram: https://instagram.com/habeshaintech/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/habeshaintech/
    2 hr 17 min

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በቴክኖሎጂ የስራ ዘርፍ መሰማራት ይሻሉ? በቴክኖሎጂ ውስጥ የሚሰሩ ኢትዮጵያውያንና ኤርትራውያን የህይወት ተሞክሮ ማድመጥ ይፈልጋሉ?