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About Colab.

CoLab is Kaduna's first CoWorking Space and Innovation Hub. Beyond that, we want to grow a collaborative community of Programmers, Developers, Designers, Bloggers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Entrepreneurs, Freelancers, Startups and Tech enthusiasts generally.

Hey!

How's your month so far? Ours started off on such an eventful note that it seemed like we forgot all about you. We can't forget you, can we? You're our family. So, we were recently in San Jose for Facebook's annual conference, F8 and also in Kigali with other hubs to create an Africa Innovation Policy Manifesto. Those trips took some of our attention.

Back to business. Here are some updates we've got for you:

Boost Your Business
If you're interested in getting the folks on Facebook and Instagram to know about your business, you should come around for Facebook's Boost Your Business. You'll learn about the most up-to-date tools, insights, and best practices for achieving success on Facebook and Instagram. Register here.

Time: 10am
Date: 19th May 2018
Price: Free

CoLab for Women
Next Saturday, we'll be having our CoLab for Women meetup with focus also on business. A lot of businesses are struggling and we'll be sharing a lot of helpful tips. We'll have Sola Magaji and Sekinat Yahya talking on "Making your Business Work". Sola is an experienced entrepreneur, business development consultant and a financial services professional so, don't miss this because she comes packing. Register here to reserve a sit.

Time: 10am - 1pm
Date: 26th May 2018
Price: Free

F8 Deepdive:
Also next Saturday, we're diving deep into the latest features and updates recently announced at F8 while we discuss and exchange ideas and build connections. If you joined us at the live viewing some weeks back, you should definitely come by. If you didn't you should still come by :-)
Register now!

Time: 1pm
Date: 26th May 2018
Price: Free
Venue: Colab Innovation Hub, 4 Barnawa Close, Barnawa, Kaduna. (Google Directions here).

Google I/O Extended:
Google recently concluded their annual developer conference (I/O) a little over a week ago with some pretty interesting announcements. We'll learn about these announcements and all we can do with them as we network. Please sign up here to save a sit.

Time: 1pm
Date: Tuesday, 29th May 2018
Price: Free

DigiClan Meetup: Data warehousing and integration for Business Intelligence
DigiClan has got something for digital media enthusiast and experts. If you're looking to join the community and also learn, they'll be talking on "Data warehousing and Integration for Business Intelligence". That's a mouthful :-)
Date: 2nd June 2018.
Time: 11AM
Price:Free

TIT BITS

If you know anyone currently a part of the HNG Internship program, let them know we're providing free access to our facilities and internet for the duration of their internship.
Got any FinTech solutions? Applications are currently open for the Ecobank FinTech Challenge. Deadline is 23rd May (next week), so hurry.
Big Cabal Media is hiring for a number of roles. If you are interested in covering tech or know anyone who is, point them this way.
Paystack is currently hiring. Check out the positions and apply here.
Google is giving out travel and grant scholarships to students in Computer Science-related fields to present their papers. Select Africa and apply here.
Got any community-related solutions, join the 2018 Facebook community challenge and stand a chance to win $30,000 worth of prizes - deadline is July 26th. Sign up for the challenge here.
Know any lady aged between 18-25 and interested in programming? Applications for Gitgirl Codebase is currently open. Apply here.