On November 30, IT/Tech professionals from across the globe will converge on Ado Ekiti, capital of Ekiti State, Southwest Nigeria for Cloud Connect, described by the organizers, Alluvium HQ, as the most anticipated tech event southwest of Nigeria.Cloud Connect aims to prepare government at all levels, MDAs, SMEs, and IT professionals, for the massive opportunities of cloud migration, ITSM, DevOps and AI.
Fielding questions from reporters at a recent press conference, Alluvium co-CEO, Taiwo Ojo said the event will be attended by A-list professionals from Nigeria, Ghana, United Kingdom, the United States and India.”We’re having speakers who include Atlassian Community Leader, Kevin Tuei. Tuei’s a certified cloud developer and educator. Chief Product Officer & Co-founder of @Appsvio, Katarzyna Zofia Pawlak and Senior Atlassian Toolsmith, Rodney Nissen have confirmed attendance.”
“Also on the list is the Commissioner for Innovation, Science & Digital Economy in Ekiti State, Hon Seun Fakuade. Vice President of Federal Sales at ISOS, Naj Irshrad, Atlassian Community Leader, Erica Larson, sales team lead for Onpoint Africa, Samuel Desu Acheampong, and Artificial Intelligence Engineer and Data Scientist, Olaniyan Remilekun.
“Co-CEO, Wale Olojo, highlights that Cloud Connect will offer unlimited opportunities to all the attendees. “The future is undeniably AI, cloud migration and remote work. Migrating to the cloud will help businesses and companies streamline processes, especially in many public institutions in Nigeria. The work systems are too dispersed among organisations, which creates inefficiencies in the national public IT architecture. The era of paper filings and documentation is winding down. Especially data center backups. Migrating to cloud will save businesses hundreds of man hours and funds which can be expended in other areas.”
Speaking further, Ojo says the event is specifically designed for three sets of people. The IT savvy youths who have the requisite skills and acumen to work remotely in the area of cloud technology, the business leaders who are consumers or who want to be consumers or hoping to be able to adopt the cloud technology for the benefit of whatever they need it for, whether it is government, ministries, department or agency.The third set of people are people like us, the experts who deploy the technology.”
“Africa needs to move to the cloud, Wale and I have built Alluvium which is unarguably part of the global IT/Tech network and we have put a lot of investment into the capability to be cloud-first, to be able to take companies and MDAs and enterprises and what have you to the cloud because we must embrace digital transformation. We are trying to make sure that Africa, especially Nigeria, leave the paper to code their data in digital form.”
On the choice of Ekiti as the location of the event, both CEOs said it had always been a challenge, also on the choice of Ekiti for Alluvium University and Headquarters.”People think events like this should happen in Lagos or Abuja but we have a vision”, said Olojo. “But then the focus and message is that remote work is the future so what better time than now to practice what we’re preaching at Alluvium. Our fine crop of engineers have provided services to very big companies across the globe, all from the comfort of their various environments. These are some of the things we’ll be discussing at Cloud Connect”.
Philips Babatunde