IT NEWS NIGERIA:
The 4th edition of the Nigeria Innovation Summit will focus on the theme: Accelerating Nigeria’s Economic Growth Through Innovation.
The summit which will hold on August 20-21,2019 at Sheraton Hotels, Ikeja Lagos, Nigeria is an annual event that promotes the need for businesses, organizations, entrepreneurs and government in Nigeria to become more innovative and use innovation to drive sustainable economic development.
It helps Nigeria embrace innovation and move in the direction of digital transformation through the use of Emerging Technologies and Trends, Research, Development, Commercialization, Entrepreneurship and Investments.
Each year the summit provides a platform that
fosters collaborations among Government
Agencies, businesses, International organizations, innovators, researchers,
Academic community and startups.
While announcing this year’s summit,
Mr.Kenneth Omeruo,CEO, Emerging Media-the organisers of the summit states “This
is the time for Nigeria with her youthful population, to leverage new
technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Blockchain,
Internet of Things, Robotics, Data sciences etc and apply them in sectors like
Health, Agriculture, Financial services, Education, Renewable Energy and
Clean-techs to solve problems around us. These opportunities are already
creating new businesses who are becoming a major source of foreign investments
into Nigeria and that is a major way of accelerating Nigerians economic growth.
This is our motivation each year to host this summit”
He further explains that small businesses and startups hold the key to a sustainable economic growth for the country as in 2018 according to Partech Africa report Nigerian startups attracted US$ 306 Million in funding over 26 deals, and encourages the government to provide more support and create the enabling environment for Nigerian businesses and innovations to thrive.
Mr Tony Ajah, Program Coordinator for Nigeria Innovation Summit 2019
states” Each year we bring in experts from around the world in several
innovation ecosystems to Nigeria to share these global opportunities and
network with participants are the summit.
This year’s summit will feature keynote presentations, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions focusing on Healthtech,Agritech, Renewable energy and CleanTech, FinTech,Edutech,Techtainment, Emerging Technologies, Research, collaborations, WomenEntrepreneurship, Youths, Technology and Entrepreneurship Development in Nigeria”
The 2019 Nigeria Innovation Summit
offers great opportunity through sponsorship, partnership, exhibitions of
innovative products, ideas, applications and services. The organisers therefore
call for participation from government agencies,international organisations,
academics, business leaders, companies, organisations,Smes, CEOs,
entrepreneurs, decision makers, innovators.
