In this episode of Habesha in Tech, host Tef Kassa sits down with Getnet Aseffa, the Founder and CEO of iCog Labs. Getnet, a computer science and engineering graduate from Ethiopian Defense University, shares his personal tech journey, discussing how he got started in the industry and the challenges he faced along the way. Getnet began his career as a software engineer, working for a variety of companies before starting his own business. He talks about the struggles he faced as an...

In this episode of Habesha in Tech, host Tef Kassa sits down with Getnet Aseffa, the Founder and CEO of iCog Labs. Getnet, a computer science and engineering graduate from Ethiopian Defense University, shares his personal tech journey, discussing how he got started in the industry and the challenges he faced along the way. Getnet began his career as a software engineer, working for a variety of companies before starting his own business. He talks about the struggles he faced as an...

In this episode of our podcast, we are excited to welcome three experts from Salesforce to discuss the different roles and responsibilities within the company. In addition to answering our host's questions, these experts will also be taking live audio questions from our audience. First, we have Alem Abraha, Lead Systems Engineer at Salesforce. Alem will provide an in-depth look at the role of a lead systems engineer and the skills and experience necessary to excel in this position. He will...

In this episode of our podcast, we are excited to welcome three experts from Salesforce to discuss the different roles and responsibilities within the company. In addition to answering our host's questions, these experts will also be taking live audio questions from our audience. First, we have Alem Abraha, Lead Systems Engineer at Salesforce. Alem will provide an in-depth look at the role of a lead systems engineer and the skills and experience necessary to excel in this position. He will...

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At the end of 2021, The Ethiopian government called 1 Million Ethiopians to come home for Ethiopian Christmas and support the Economy, show the world that Ethiopia is still a stable country and change western media's negative portrayal of Ethiopia. In our session we discussed techie's experience.  The session was moderated by Tef (Habesha in Tech host). The panelists were Professor Solomon Negash, Fiseha Desta, Rahel Boon-Dejene, & Jay Jemal (PhD candidate). Podcast Cover art by: Beth...

The demand for tech professionals is growing. Tech jobs are getting very competitive. Companies are hiring aggressively. Amazon is aiming at hiring 30K new employees every year. Our guest for March 19 session was Melon Y. and she shared us all things we need to know Before Applying at AWS. Teferi, the host, started the session by asking Melon about her brief background. Melon was born in Ethiopia and grow up in New York after her family moved to the US. She loves New York city. Melon has...

Our guest is Dagnachew Birru (PhD) who is currently the Global Head of R&D at Quantiphi. Dr. Dagnachew has many years of experience as an idea-driven technology researcher, developer, and leader in systems employing Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and smart algorithms, resulting in 50+ issued patents. He was born and raised in Northern Ethiopia. Dr. Birru grew up in a very difficult time where there were no role models who could inspire him professionally. He was curious to...

Audience Questions It was a great honor to have a conversation with Mekonnen Kassa on Habesha in Tech club. We spent close to 3 hours talking about his personal &  professional journey. It was an eye opening session where we learnt how  he was able share us his personal story starting from his life in  Gondar, Ethiopia. Mekonnen left Ethiopia during the Socialist Derg military was leading  the country. He was young & ambitious so he and his friend together  walked to Sudan, yes...

It was a great honor to have a conversation with Mekonnen Kassa on Habesha in Tech club. We spent close to 3 hours talking about his personal & professional journey. It was an eye opening session where we learnt how he was able share us his personal story starting from his life in Gondar, Ethiopia. Mekonnen left Ethiopia during the Socialist Derg military was leading the country. He was young & ambitious so he and his friend together walked to Sudan, yes WALKED TO SUDAN. He was able...

My guest on Habesha in Tech was Myriam Said, who is currently Digital Advisor at the Office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia coordinating efforts in transitioning Ethiopia to a Digital Economy. Previously she was the Director of the National Digital Transformation Program at the Ministry of Innovation and Technology where she led the development of “Digital Ethiopia 2025”; an Inclusive National Digital Transformation Strategy. Myriam was born in Addis Ababa, went to Lycée Guebre-Mariam and...

Welcome to 𝙃𝙖𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙖 𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝 Club.                                              As the global market moves into more tech-oriented businesses, 𝙀𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨 & 𝙀𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 are joining the tech world either through an academic path or making a career change.    We will invite guest speakers working in tech to share with us how they make their decision to join the tech, answer some questions from the audience and provide their advice on how to be successful in the field.  In this room, we can...

Dawit Lessanu was born in Addis Ababa but raised in the United States Dawit Lessanu is an accomplished senior technology leader with over 26 years experience in Information Technology. Dawit has worked across diverse industries as a big 4 consultant, Media, Music, Publishing, Finance and Retail Consumer Goods. He has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Africana Studies and an MBA in IT Management. Dawit is also an accomplished artist and a yoga instructor. He has raised 2 adult children and...

Our guest is Abeba Birhane (PhD), a cognitive science PhD researcher at the Complex Software Lab in the school of computer science at University College Dublin, Ireland. She hails from the beautiful city of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. She was a brilliant student. You may not guess how she earned her first salary, by being a DJ. She is now living in Ireland. Abeba completed her PhD in Cognitive Science from Complex Software Lab in the school of computer science at University College Dublin, Ireland....

Overview of the Digital Ethiopia 2025 and Ethiopians Digital Economy strategic documents. Current progress and barriers. Concluding with insights and feedback.

In this session we discussed about Blockchain & its impact in the Cyber Security space more specifically IoT Security. Our panelist are experts in their field and they shared us their point of views in this regard. I would like to thank Jay Jemal for bringing his colleagues to share their knowledge in the blockchain space. I also would like to thank Wondimu Zegeye & Hailu Kassa for willing to join our session. Please find the below excerpt of Panelists' Profile, Click learn more to...

On Saturday November 6, 2021, I had the opportunity to chat with Alem Abreha, who is a Systems Engineer, with more than 10 years of experience in Infrastructure, Service Reliability Engineering, Tooling/Automation and DevOps. He started his career as a Systems Administrator in Unix and Linux operating systems while he was in College (Mekelle University). He is now a Lead Systems Engineer at Mulesoft (a Salesforce Company). Alem walked us through his tech journey starting from his school year...

I had the opportunity to chat with Goitom Seyoum, Staff Software Engineer at Google, on Clubhouse to discuss his Tech journey. Goitom was very honest to share us his journey from where everything started. He is the one of first Ethiopians to attend at Maharishi International University. While at the university he used to apply for jobs but he felt like he could apply to even more companies if he could find help. So he decided to build his own automated program that search(crawl) websites for...

I had the opportunity to chat with Goitom Seyoum, Staff Software Engineer at Google, on Clubhouse to discuss his Tech journey. Goitom was very honest to share us his journey from where everything started. He is the one of first Ethiopians to attend at Maharishi International University. While at the university he used to apply for jobs but he felt like he could apply to even more companies if he could find help. So he decided to build his own automated program that search(crawl) websites for...

I had the opportunity to chat with Goitom Seyoum, Staff Software Engineer at Google, on Clubhouse to discuss his Tech journey. Goitom was very honest to share us his journey from where everything started. He is the one of first Ethiopians to attend at Maharishi International University. While at the university he used to apply for jobs but he felt like he could apply to even more companies if he could find help. So he decided to build his own automated program that search(crawl) websites for...

Last week I had the opportunity to chat with Kal Kassa. Kal shared us his experience before he entered into the crypto world. He has been in the crypto world for a while and he is a strong advocate for the adoption of Bitcoin in a global scale. He invested in making the Bitcoin buz get into the ordinary Ethiopian who may not have access to the documents, internet and the language. He leading the effort to write an eBook so that Ethiopians can read in their own language like Amharic, Afan...

Our guest on Habesha in Tech club was Eyosias Y. Imana (PhD) who is currently working as Staff Modem Systems Engineer at Qualicom. He is born and raised in Ethiopia. He went to Bahir Dar University to study Electrical Engineering. He also attended his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology which focused on signal processing and wireless communications. His aspiration to learn and specialize in wireless communications led him to go for his PhD at Virginia...

On October 2nd, I had an opportunity to chat with Rahel Boon-Dejene, the CEO of R&D Group. She is a person who is proud of her humble beginning and she shared us how she got into Tech. Her path to where she is now isn't an easy one but she accomplished it through persistence and pushing the limits of her ability and breaking barriers. She wrote 68 letters to multiple companies company that rejected her. Later she became Partner with ORTECH and she helped set up a state of the art analysis...

On our previous Clubhouse session we had a wonderful career talk on Data Science and Analytics career paths. The panelist (Mahlet Konjit-Solomon, Zeradam Fantaye, Bereket Kindo, Etana Disasa & Abel Gebresilassie) are currently working in the Data Science and Analytics fields. They provided their guidance and tips on how to be successful in entering in this career paths. This Episode is Part 2 of the sessions and in this episode the panelist answered questions about Data Analytics. Please...