TechWeek Nairobi

Network Design, Integration and Management as well as Internet Services Design and Management (aka System Administration) are career paths available for upcoming engineers. TechWeek aims to offer a platform for experienced engineers in the respective fields to share their knowledge, challenges and ideas with their peers and also with upcoming engineers who may wish to pursue similar career paths.

The event is split into 2 days which include a bootcamp and one conference day.

 

iHub, Nairobi Kenya

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Day 1 – Bootcamp for beginners - Saturday December 1st - 9AM - 3PM

The Bootcamp is aimed at Novice to Intermediate Network and System engineers actively working in the said fields or seeking to pursue careers in the fields. If you are a beginner/novice Engineer, consider signing up for the free Bootcamp that will be held on December 1st. If you are an experienced engineer, you can skip the bootcamp and simply attend the conference day.

Who needs the Bootcamp?

If you are NOT familiar with the following terms/technologies and how they work, consider attending the Bootcamp:

    - BGP, RPKI, MPLS, IPv6
    - DNS, DNSSEC, 
    - SMTP, MX, SPF, DMARC, DKIM

    - Firewalls, Deep Packet inspection, Netflow, SFlow
    - Fibre cable, HVAC
    - Cloud Storage, NFS

 Experts go over the technologies and terminologies in their fields

     - Network Integration

     - Network Design and Routing Technology & Terminology

     - Security Technology and Terminology

     - Internet Services Technology and Terminology

     - Data centers and Big Data, and Data storage

Day 2 – Conference Day - Wednesday December 5th (8:30AM-6:00PM)

Mixture of presentations and panel discussions

8.30 - 10.30AM: Session 1: Network Integrators - 

   - A session where experts in the areas of physical cabling, and Layer 1  and Layer 2 integration describe trends in their fields

11AM - 12.30PM: Session 2: Network Engineering:

   -  A session where experts in the areas of Network Design, Deployment and Management describe recent deployments in their areas 

2.00PM - 3.30PM Session 3: Internet Services 

   - A session where experts in the areas of Network Design and Management describe recent deployments on DNS, DNSSEC, Web, Email, etc

4.00PM - 6.PM Session 4: Security and Data Storage

   - A session where experts in Information security and Data storage solutions present on current trends and solutions in InfoSec and Big Data storage