Moniepoint Inc. has expanded its expertise growth push with a women-focused expertise programme aimed toward deepening participation in Nigeria’s fast-growing digital financial system as competitors for expert software program and product expertise intensifies throughout Africa’s largest market.
The initiative, held in Lagos as a part of Worldwide Girls’s Day actions not too long ago, introduced collectively ladies working throughout completely different ranges of the expertise ecosystem for management growth, product coaching and utilized engineering expertise. The occasion was hosted at Moniepoint’s headquarters in partnership with Girls Techmakers Lagos and Google Developer Group Lagos.
The programme, themed ‘Break the Sample’, mixed keynote periods, panel discussions and a hands-on product growth workshop centered on synthetic intelligence-enabled instruments and fast utility constructing.
Moniepoint stated the initiative displays a broader effort to strengthen its engineering pipeline whereas addressing structural obstacles which have traditionally restricted ladies’s participation in science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic fields.
Head of Product at Moniepoint, Kemi Nwogu, stated societal norms proceed to form profession decisions for younger ladies in ways in which limit entry into expertise.
“From a younger age, many women have been subtly discouraged from pursuing science and tech,” she stated. “These patterns aren’t information; they’re constructs. And what has been constructed will be deconstructed.”
She urged members to prioritise steady ability growth via structured studying pathways corresponding to coding bootcamps, on-line programs and open-source initiatives, alongside real-world product publicity.
The occasion additionally featured a panel dialogue titled ‘Unscripted: Main Past the Patterns We Inherited’, which examined management fashions in Nigeria’s expertise sector and the cultural expectations that affect profession development throughout engineering, design and buyer expertise roles.
Members included professionals from fintech, software program engineering and inventive industries who mentioned how they’ve navigated organisational constructions and, in some circumstances, redefined management approaches inside their groups.
A key part of the programme was a workshop titled Immediate to Manufacturing, which launched members to AI-assisted product growth, from immediate engineering to prototype deployment. The session culminated in a buildathon the place groups developed and offered useful functions, with chosen initiatives recognised on the finish of the programme.
Organisers stated the sensible focus was supposed to shut the hole between ideation and execution, significantly for members with restricted prior software program growth expertise.
Co-organiser at Girls Techmakers Lagos, Funke Olasupo, stated the purpose was to maneuver past awareness-building to functionality growth.
“IWD celebrations are sometimes heavy on inspiration, however we wished to supply one thing extra, a proof of functionality,” she stated. “By the tip of the day, one thing that after felt complicated began to really feel attainable.”
The programme kinds a part of Moniepoint’s broader funding in Nigeria’s developer ecosystem, which incorporates partnerships with group teams and inner initiatives corresponding to Girls in Tech, DreamDevs and HatchDev, alongside participation in government-backed abilities programmes.
Moniepoint, one in all Nigeria’s fastest-growing fintech employers, has been increasing its hiring and coaching footprint as digital funds and embedded monetary companies proceed to scale throughout casual and formal sectors of the financial system.