Facebook and CcHub Working to Transform Nigeria’s Tech Ecosystem With New Innovations
Facebook and Co-creation Hub (CcHub) kicked off the first-ever Innovation Showcase Week on Wednesday, February 28, 2019.
Tagged ‘ISW 2019’, the event by West Africa’s first deep tech accelerator showcased the latest transformative technologies set to transform Nigeria’s tech ecosystem.
Stressing the need for these new products, Bosun Tijani, CEO and Founder of CcHUB said, “We recognise the urgent need to accelerate innovation support to medium and large corporates who are positioned to secure significant gains for the economy through smart application of technology.”
Continuing, he added, “ISW will close the gap between corporates and startups by being an unprecedented platform where industry leaders can experience and adopt homegrown innovations and solutions first hand”.
Exhibitions at the innovation showcase week
On the day one of the three-day event, 21 startups took to the stage to showcase their ground-breaking innovations built in Facebook’s deep-tech startup program - FBStart Accelerator - and the CcHUB 2018 Incubation program.
Using Data Science, Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence, their products offered solutions to problems in the Healthcare, Agriculture, Mobility, Energy, Education, Safety Training and, Security sectors.
Security-focused startups like Chiniki Guard, SayPeace, Identity Tech, E-Estates, DeepQuest AI and Insyt use AI to demonstrate its promising power.
Products in the Health and Agriculture sectors include Vetsark, Doctoora, Plantheus, TrepLabs, Gricd and Truppr.
Upnepa, Smart Electricity, Hydrolite, Cycles and Lara products fall in the energy and mobility dedicated categories while Quadron VR, Kanji Drive and Project Move use virtual reality to offer real solutions.
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