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Briefings, workshops and webinars run by our practice teams in Kano, Abuja, Lagos and online — technical, free to attend, and always with open question time at the end.
We have run technical briefings since 2018, initially as a way of answering the same client question more than once. The format has not changed much: a working engineer or practice lead presents for thirty to forty minutes on something they have recently built or fixed, and then takes questions for as long as people keep asking them. There is no product pitch, no partner sponsorship slot and no queue of vendors at the door.
Sessions run in three shapes. Webinars are online, sixty minutes, and recorded so that anyone who cannot attend live can request the recording afterwards. Workshops are half-day, hands-on and capped at twenty-four places so that everyone gets time at a keyboard. Breakfast briefings are ninety minutes in person, aimed at directors and permanent secretaries, and deliberately kept small enough for a real discussion around one table.
Attendance is free. Our reason for running them is straightforward: the questions people ask in the room tell us what the market is actually struggling with, and that shapes both our research programme and our service design. Several of our whitepapers began as a question from the floor that we could not answer well enough on the day.
Places are limited and allocated in order of registration. Confirmed schedule for the remainder of 2026.
| Date | Event | Format | Location | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 August 2026 | NDPA Readiness: Ninety Days to a Defensible Position | Webinar | Online | Compliance officers, MDA directors |
| 3 September 2026 | Security Sunrise: What Our SOC Saw This Quarter | Breakfast briefing | Kano | CISOs, heads of IT |
| 17 September 2026 | Hands-On Hardening: Firewalls, Segmentation and Logging | Workshop | Abuja | Network and security engineers |
| 1 October 2026 | Public Sector Digital Breakfast: Revenue Systems That Reconcile Daily | Breakfast briefing | Abuja | Permanent secretaries, revenue chairmen |
| 15 October 2026 | Hybrid Cloud Cost Modelling Under an Unreliable Grid | Webinar | Online | CTOs, finance directors, architects |
| 29 October 2026 | Brilliant Tech Forum 2026: Building for Nigerian Conditions | Workshop | Kano | Engineers, architects, IT managers |
| 12 November 2026 | Agent Banking Security Clinic | Workshop | Lagos | Banking and fintech security teams |
| 26 November 2026 | Developer Meet-Up Kano: APIs, Queues and Failure Modes | Workshop | Kano | Software developers, graduate trainees |
| 3 December 2026 | ICT Academy Open Day: 2027 Cohort Pathways | Workshop | Kano | Prospective trainees, employers |
| 10 December 2026 | Year in Review: What Changed in Nigerian Enterprise IT | Webinar | Online | All |
Five programmes that run to a regular calendar. Each has its own audience and its own rhythm.
Annual • Kano • Full day
Our largest event of the year, bringing together roughly three hundred engineers, architects and IT managers for talks and hands-on tracks on building systems that survive Nigerian operating conditions. Held each October at the Kano headquarters.
Quarterly • Abuja • 90 minutes
A small, invitation-friendly table for permanent secretaries, directors and revenue chairmen. One case study, one honest account of what went wrong somewhere, and a chaired discussion. Led by Kabiru Ismail Gaya, Director of Public Sector Business.
Quarterly • Kano • 90 minutes
Zainab Idris Kabo and the security operations team present what the 24/7 SOC has actually seen over the past quarter — attack patterns, phishing trends, incidents handled — under a strict no-attribution rule. Frank, technical and consistently oversubscribed.
Twice yearly • Kano • Half day
For anyone considering a cohort with the ICT Training Academy, and for employers who hire from it. Laboratory tours, pathway briefings, certification routes and a panel of recent trainees who will tell you honestly what the programme is like.
Learn moreEvery two months • Kano • Evening
An informal evening for developers in and around Kano. Two short talks, usually one from our team and one from the wider community, then open discussion. Free, no registration fee, and open to anyone who writes code for a living or hopes to.
Learn moreHighlights from sessions already held this year and last.
Tech Forum 30 October 2025 Three parallel tracks covering cloud, security and data drew delegates from banking, health, government and the manufacturing sector. The most heavily attended session was a live failover demonstration in which the presenting team deliberately pulled power from a running cluster on stage.
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Public Sector 9 July 2026 The July session in Abuja was scheduled to cover revenue analytics but spent most of its ninety minutes on procurement timelines. The discussion fed directly into our current work on realistic implementation scheduling for publicly funded technology programmes.
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Security 4 June 2026 The June briefing set out a marked increase in business email compromise aimed at finance departments, with attackers monitoring mailboxes for weeks before acting. Attendees left with a one-page payment-verification control that several have since adopted.
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Community 26 February 2026 The February meet-up in Kano outgrew its usual room. Talks covered idempotent queue consumers and the practicalities of offline-first mobile applications on intermittent networks, followed by an unusually long and useful question session.
Read moreRegistration is free for every event listed. Workshops and breakfast briefings have limited places, so early registration matters.
Pick the date and title from the upcoming events table above. Note the format — webinars are online and unlimited, workshops are capped at twenty-four places, and breakfast briefings at thirty. If two sessions clash, tell us and we will hold you a place at the later one.
Use the enquiry form at /contact selecting the events option, or write to the events mailbox at [email protected]. Give the event date and title, your name, organisation, role and a telephone number we can reach you on if plans change.
You will receive confirmation within two working days. For online sessions the joining link arrives at the same time and again on the morning of the event. For in-person sessions we send the venue address, parking guidance and the running order.
Attendees who send a question in advance almost always get a better answer, because the presenter can prepare figures or a demonstration. Anonymous questions are welcome; say so and your name will not be read out in the room or on the call.
Slides go out to every registered attendee afterwards, along with any referenced whitepaper. Webinars are recorded and the recording is available on request for ninety days. If you registered but could not attend, you still receive the material.
68
Webinars Run
Since the programme began in 2018
4,700+
Total Attendees
Online and in person
9
Sessions Scheduled
Remaining in 2026
280
Tech Forum Delegates
Kano, October 2025
Any of our public sessions can be run privately for a single organisation, at your premises or at our Kano, Abuja or Lagos offices. Private briefings are tailored — we will use your architecture, your regulatory position and your figures rather than generic examples, which makes the discussion considerably more useful for a management team or a board.
There is no charge for a standard ninety-minute briefing to an existing or prospective client. Half-day hands-on workshops delivered privately are quoted as consulting work. To arrange one, write to [email protected] or use /contact with the subject you want covered, the audience and your preferred dates.
Tell us which session you want to attend, or ask us to run a private briefing for your team. Every public session is free of charge.
