The Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) will host the University’s 11th annual ICT Conference on 3rd and 4th September. The theme of this year’s conference is “ICT Trends: Progress towards an Information Society”.

Dr Reuben Marwanga, the Dean of FIT will give the opening address. This year’s conference has attracted speakers from the academia, government and the industry from the East African region and behold.

Dr Sean McLean, the Officer in-charge of IBM University Relations in Sub-Sahara Africa will speak on ‘Services Sciences, Management and Technology’.

Prof Gikiri Thuo from Florida State University who will speak on use of IT in finance in his paper “Options pricing via Monte Carlo Simulations”. 

Simon Msanjila from Mzumbe University in Tanzania will deliver a paper on “Collaborative provision of ICT enabled HIV/AIDs advisory services to students in Tanzania.

This year’s conference is sponsored by IBM and Commercial Bank of Africa. It has also attracted speakers from Masinde Muliro, Moi and the University. A total of 26 papers are scheduled to be presented at the conference. The conference is open to students and professionals.

Mr Patrick Shabaya, Strathmore’s Director of Strategy will present a paper on challenges of implementing an information management system in higher learning institutions. Mr Shabaya has been at the fore front of implementing Strathmore’s ICT systems that include a finance system, academic management system, e-learning system, and a library system.

The proceedings of the conference will be published after a review-process by the Academic Committee.  The programme of the conference is available here:

The words "Information Society" in the theme highlight the envisaged information-led changes that the business community, academia, the public and private sectors can leverage to realize the Kenya Government's Vision 2030. During the first day of the conference, the academics and other researchers  showcase their research findings to peers. The second day of Conference is usually a forum for the invited speakers' and industrial experts to highlight and candidly discuss their varied experiences.

Posters by young researchers are usually on display throughout the period of the Conference to showcase the research work and/or ICT Projects that are innovative enough and have potential for market implementation or incubation ready business ideas.

According Mr Paul Kukubo, the CEO of Kenya ICT Board, Strathmore will do well as an incubator of student passions for ICT and could well serve the role that Stanford served in the formation of the Silicon Valley. It has two important ingredients and perhaps requires a few more. These two are: serious and passionate students and a committed faculty. See: http://www.paulkukubo.com/?p=68