About the Event

The AITEC Banking & Mobile Money conference was held at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies which is 5 Kilometers from the Nairobi CBD. The event was themed “Finance SMEs – Fire Up The Economy”. More than 350 guests attended, five of whom were young entrepreneurs who were sponsored by iridium interactive.

Notable speakers and moderators includes Mr. Fred Matiangi, Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary For Information, Communication and Technology; Mr. Sriram Bharatam, CEO iridium Interactive; Heshan Devani, Founder VenCap Kenya; Mr. Sean Moroney, Chairman AITEC Africa.

#AITECmobilemoney – Twitter Trendsetter

If you are a Twitter fan of Twitter, you are familiar with the word hashtag. In this event, iridium Interactive took full charge of this Twitter handle, broadcasting to the entire world. In time, other guests and partners at the event joined in and the debate went viral. In less than 48 hours, word of the event reached over 184,000 twitter accounts. Cumulatively, our social media experts estimated the aggregate reach to be almost 500,000. Our sister organization, Kuza Biashara, also contributed to event success. Through the use of its popular blog which enjoys broad readership and its Facebook Page which has over 109,000 Likes, Kuza Biashara brought an near-instant buzz to the event bringing it to the attention of over 25,000 SME owners who form part of its client-base.

Comprehensive Coverage

A dedicated team of video production expert was on the ground to provide comprehensive video coverage for the event. Working tirelessly and with minimal breaks, the talented team set their eyes set on one goal – capturing every moment of the event and presenting it out to the world in the most elaborate ways possible.

The event was a success, all thanks to you…

Thanks to everybody who made this event the success of which participants, sponsors and organizers alike can be proud. We look forward to making #AITECmobilemoney2015 trend…see you there.

As a young organization, ALA was thrilled to have the ability to utilize Salesforce under the “Power of Us’, program run by the Salesforce Foundation. Unfortunately, ALA’s Salesforce implementation across differently, rapidly growing departments, were not coordinated as a result of which data became increasingly complicated and problems arose with data integrity and duplication due to data uploads with inconsistent review and clean up. Things got complicate further by the creation of two silos of data, -Salesforce and a password protected portal.

Iridium Interactive stepped in to optimize ALA’s ACN platform into a scalable, user-friendly one that allows its Staff, Students and Graduates to interact with one another, identify opportunities like internships, mentoring and job openings, and also support ALA’s graduates at university and throughout their careers.

Using the Salesforce platform , Iridium built a robust ACN portal with a fully personalized user experience for prospective students and applicants The portal consolidates all the information the potential students need in one place and displays necessary information to students at different points in the application process.

Sriram Bharatham,CEO and Founder of Iridium Interactive spoke about the challenge “ ALA teams were working in silos on various islands of systems. Data integrity and reliability was at high risk and as a result, the communication with ALA graduates were ad-hoc, intermittent and mainly via email, all this resulting to highly dissatisfied users. They made an excellent choice of working with Salesforce but the biggest challenge was that it needed to be tamed internally along with other islands of systems in place”

Sharmi Surianarain, Director of Lifelong Engagement, Africa Careers Network, ALA, appreciated Iridium’s role “ Iridium Interactive helped us to significantly streamline operational efficiency and simultaneously enabled the ACN team to provide imporved feedback, timely notifications, closely matching with opportunities stated with career interests etc.

The ability to process over 1000 applications, link with over 400 partner organizations and over 800 students in network, have greatly improved ALA’s customer service orientation, with Iridium’s infallible guidance

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.*

Theme: Dream. Live. Become

Nairobi, Kenya
August 10th, 2013
About this event

TEDxKaren brought together 100 people from around Nairobi to listen to a stunning array of presentations by renowned speakers.

Topics covered included waste management, youth empowerment, entrepreneurial idea incubation, environmental consciousness, diaspora economics, online reputation management, water conservation, brand protection, technological renaissance, ethnic rivalry, graphic design and extrasensory perception.

Speakers

Sriram Bharatam
Founder and Chief Mentor, Kuza Biashara Ltd

Stephen Njoroge
Founder and President, We Care Club

Diana Mong’are
Founder and President, Green Planet Inc.

Viona Leboo
Diaspora banker. Harvard University sophomore.

Maureen Kagambi
Social Media/ Research Professional, International House LImited Kenya.

Josh Folorunso
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, 4LR Graphic Design Ltd

Francis Ekii
Founder of Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge- Uganda