You are invited to attend an invite only full-day workshop from Facebook, designed for our priority partners.
During the workshop, you'll hear from Facebook Product, Partnerships, and Engineering teams, who will be providing exclusive, hands-on instruction via code-labs, tech-talks, and updates on the latest Facebook Platform products designed
to help you build and grow a successful business.
You'll be joining other software engineers and product managers across industries, and you'll have the option to
attend 3 workshop streams including:
• Reaching your audience with Bots on Messenger
• Building fast and reliable login flows with Account Kit
• Making your apps globally accessible with React Native
Ime Archibong , Facebook's Director of Global Product Partnerships will share Facebook's Ten Year Roadmap and the important role of Africa in achieving the mission. The talk will conclude with an open Q&A on all things Facebook.
Registration is free, attendance is by INVITATION ONLY, and limited to 60 participants.
Please RSVP to apply for an invite
Application Deadline is 11th of August 2016
Ime Archibong is the Director of Global Product Partnerships at Facebook. His team drives Facebook's strategy through global programs and strategic product integrations with partner companies. As a long time Facebook employee, his teams have led a number of key initiatives and partnerships for Facebook including Music & Video, Messenger, Internet.org, Education, and Platform. Prior to joining Facebook, Ime was an Advanced Technology Business Development Professional at IBM. He started his career at IBM as a software engineer in the Systems and Technology Group, before doing a stint on the Corporate Strategy team, and eventually settling in business development. Ime holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Yale University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Christine is a Developer Advocate on the Open Source team at Facebook, with previous Developer Advocacy roles with Parse and Facebook Platform. Christine has a passion for developers and mobile technologies, especially iOS and Android. Prior to Facebook, Christine headed up engineering at Mshift, a mobile banking software provider, delivering iOS apps and mobile browser-based products.
Emeka leads Facebook’s Product Partnership efforts in the Middle East and Africa focused on driving Facebook strategy through global programs and strategic product integrations with partners. Prior to Facebook, Emeka led Google developer community initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa as part of the Africa and Middle East Developer Relations team. He started his career as a software engineer at Socketworks and also spearheaded strategic initiatives at Parkway Projects both in Nigeria.
Jon is a Partner Engineer on the Facebook Messenger team. Based out of London, he’s most recently been working with developers across EMEA to help them be successful on the Messenger platform, he also has extensive experience on both Instagram and Facebook platforms. Prior to Facebook, Jon was a serial entrepreneur leading engineering teams at Finance and E-commerce startups.
Wayne is a Partner Engineer on the Partner Engineering team at Facebook, managing platform product launches and at Facebook F8 conference, driving relationships with top-tier platform partners in games and app space such as King, Ubisoft, Plarium, Flipboard, Pinterest and Skyscanner. Wayne has a passion for software engineering and mobile technologies, especially iOS and Android. Prior to Facebook, Wayne led Android development at Supercell, a AAA mobile games software company, porting Hay Day from iOS, and implemented many game features at Supercell, Nubee and Nexon Corp.
Ziad Traboulsi is an Engineering Lead at Facebook, where he’s been employed for the past 6 years. He had previously founded his start-up at an early age with a successful exit. He now develops software to bring access to the Internet in the developing world as part of Internet.org. Internet.org is a Facebook-led global partnership dedicated to making affordable internet access available to the two thirds of the world not yet connected. Ziad holds a bachelor's degree from the American University Beirut and a master's degree from the London School of Economics and has filed one U.S. patent.