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Music for Good + Technology for Good + Crowdfunding

Le 14 Mai 2014, à Montréal, nous avons le plaisir d'inviter l'artiste JASON BAJADA pour notre 5@8 pour soutenir le progrès numérique et digital des associations, OSBL , ONBL et agents de changements. JASON sera accompagné de la cordo Marketing INDIGOGO Canada.

  This forum provides a practical view of the global socioeconomic impact of IT for community managers, digital marketers, social entrepreneurs, and business leaders.  Speakers include TED fellow and founder of AppAfrica, Jon Gosier, as well as executives from Mozilla, Microsoft, the National Bank of Canada and IRDC.  Entrepreneurs, innovators, regional experts, software developers, philanthropists, investors, and marketers from the U.S., Quebec, Canada, Haiti, Nigeria, Cameroon will share tips in how to identify global opportunities for business and social entrepreneurship, and how to promote your own brand in this exciting emerging field.  They will also discuss case studies based on their own experiences in North America, Africa and the Caribbean. 

 Tickets:  https://kws-montreal.eventbrite.ca/

Location:  Concordia University Molson School of Business, Street, Montreal

Program

September 20, - at Maison du développement durable 

05H00 - 07H00 PM Cocktail Conference 

September 21 - at Concordia EV Building

08H30 – 09H20 OPENING and REGISTRATION

09H30 – 10H45  Workshop – Education in Africa: Gap or Opportunities

EDUCATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP  – Microsoft Imagine Cup & Bizspark

TECHNOLOGY How to identify influencers and build your own online community

10H45 – 11H00 Break

11H00 – 12H15 FINANCE Conference : ZAFEN en Pratique

EDUCATION TI et l’éducation en Afrique

TECHNOLOGY : Keynote - Personal Branding more important than ever

12H15 – 13H00

Break

13H05 – 13H30

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION : The positive impact of technology in the international scientific cooperation

13H35 – 14H15 RECRUITMENT The influence of technology on talents sourcing

14H20 – 14H40 TECHNOLOGY 

14H45 – 15H15 Healthcare Leveraging Technology to Transform Healthcare

15H20 – 16H00 TECHNOLOGY : Technology for social change – Apps4Africa

16H05 – 17H00 CLOSING & COCKTAILS

The Kongossa Web Series is an initiative of the Africa Link in the form of coherence forums promoting new online business careers, the development of local skills and entrepreneurship in Africa. The initiative adds another string to its bow by globalizing its concept and making it accessible to a wider audience.

For more information, visit : www.kws-forum.org

Kongossa Web Series (KWS) Montreal is coming.

Register now online to secure your seat

KWS Montreal is an international forum which assembles the most reputable experts of Digital Marketing, Entrepreneurship and the Social Economy to deliver conferences and panels on the most important topics of today. For 7 hours, KWS will have 15 speakers who will tackle the following subject matters:

Virtual Communities and Social Networks

Jean-Louis Ntang is a renowned expert on virtual communities. He will present his unique methodology to allow for the identification of leaders with valued opinions and to build an online community. This conference addresses itself to entrepreneurs and professionals who use social networks for self-promotion.

Education

The online education market is worth $52.6 billion and is expected to double as we reach the year 2015. Online education offers a number of different opportunities. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Karl Miville will present their most efficient strategies to profit from new opportunities found in the sector of education, notably in the African Regions.

Entrepreneurship, Mobile, Democracy, International Cooperation

Jon Gosier and Laurent Elder have been implicated in hard hitting social impact projects for many years. They are international experts who utilise new technology to give birth to economic and social changes.

In addition, Rami Sayar from Microsoft Montreal is another expert who will be presenting Microsoft’s initiatives to the public in the city of Montreal to support startups and students. Rami will present the initiative “Imagine Cup”, a competition held worldwide which rewards the projects with strongest social impact.

Finance, Entrepreneurship and Health

Katleen Felix is a virtuoso of humanitarian action. After a brilliant career at Wall Street she now devotes herself to the success of entrepreneurs across Zafèn, a platform which allows for the diaspora and Haitians to have a common vision.

The Technology market in the health sector will pass the $50 billion mark in 2017. Shivani Goyal will present her research on diabetes type 2. Her presentation will focus on the use of mobile technology in the health department.

Recruitment, Personal Branding

Linkedin has breached 200 million members recently. Frederic Harper, Nathalie Carrenard and Sebastien Savard know the secrets of a successful career. How do you attract the attention of recruiters when using the newer forms of technology at your disposal? The answer lies with the information that will be shared by them within their sessions.

Register now online to secure your seat