Agenda
Monday, 24 September 2018 | TechCamp Day 0
Ongoing - Dinner for participants at Hotel as they arrive
Tuesday, 25 September 2018 | TechCamp Day 1
08:00 - 09:00 - Registration and Networking (Table in back of main auditorium)
09:00 - 09:20 - Opening/Welcome Remarks (Sam + Jamie, U.S. State Department)
09:20 - 10:00 - Icebreaker where participants unpack similar shared challenges that are unique to women entrepreneurs in India & Pakistan
10:00 - 10:30 - Solving Social Challenges (Design Thinking Explanation) - Alex & Alisa, Ideo
10:30 - 11:00 - Thinking about a joint/shared challenge: Case Study Showcase of Solutions or Campaigns that impact multiple organizations or are cross-cutting.
10:45 - 11:00 - Coffee & Tea Break
11:00 - 12:00 - What’s your challenge: Brainstorming Groups
(Groups are organized by sector and participants are asked to brainstorm similar shared challenges that might be addressed by a tech solution // Sector Approach (Health, Education, Economic Empowerment, Agriculture, Civic Engagement, Creative Industries)
12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch
13:00 - 13:45 - SpeedGeeking Session #1 (Rolling Coffee & Tea Break)
| Topic | Trainer |
| Tools, Tactics, and Algorithms For Game Changing Engagement | Joanna Rossignol |
| Cloud Solutions | AWS Team (Ulrike, Dave, Manpreet) |
| Reaching Rural Populations through Mobile | Neelam Azmat |
| Scaling your Business/Developing your Business Plan with Pricing and Valuation | Meenah Tariq |
| Using Human Centered Design to Understand & Serve Your Customers | Alisa Ahmadian and Alex Nana-Sinkam |
| Building Effective Partnerships, Connecting to Grants and Resources | Srishti Bakshi |
| Reaching the Unreachable: Effective Digital Media for Brand-Building | Maria Umar |
13:45 - 15:15 - Interactive Training Session #1
15:15 - 15:30 - Coffee & Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00 - Informal Networking Activity
16:00 - 17:00 - Peer Idea Evaluation and Feedback
Evening - Dinner & Networking Time
Wednesday, 26 September 2018 | TechCamp Day 2
09:00 - 09:45 - Second Round of SpeedGeeking with New Topics
| Topic | Trainer |
| Google Tools for Streamlining Business & Virtual Incubation | Maryam Arshad |
| Chatbots/Apps/Websites: What's the right tool for your business? | Harish Kotra |
| Digital Storytelling: Using Video to Craft your Narrative | Nishant Pagare |
| Online Community Building + Agile Methodology: Designing Communities with Intent + Empathy | Nafisa Isa |
| How To Become an Effective Fundraiser + SonderConnect Marketing Sessions | Lathika Pai |
| Using Human Centered Design to Understand & Serve Your Customers | Alisa Ahmadian and Alex Nana-Sinkam |
| Tech Description and Automation for Expansion | Sameer Malik |
09:45 - 11:15 - Interactive Training Session 2
11:30 - 13:00 - Interactive Training Session 3: Designing Tools and Strategies to Improve your Business. (This is a second opportunity to choose a different trainer/session that participants have not yet visited. We will ask trainers to combine forces for a few power sessions on highly requested topics/natural crossovers)
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch and SonderConnect Room for Stories
14:00 - 14:30 - Defining your Challenge (Cohorts from the previous day define challenges they want to solve as a group -- Participants add these challenges in Slack)
14:30 - 14:45 - Present challenge statements (One participant offers to “lead” each challenge group and explains why they chose it. Participants can select any challenge, even if they worked on a different one the day before.)
14:45 - 17:00 - Cohort Solutions (Teams work together to map out a potential solution to their actionable challenge; suggesting possible tools that could be used and defining a strategy for implementation)
17:00 - 18:30 - Free Time: Additional Pitch Training, 1 on 1 Mentorship Time, Rest Time, SonderConnect Time: Meet in Lobby at 6:30 PM
19:00 - Cultural Dinner, Al Fahidi Historic District, organized by the Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding
Thursday, 27 September 2018 | TechCamp Day 3
09:00 - 12:00 - Further Project Refinement and Group Work / Submit Project Solutions Descriptions Online / One-on-one trainer mentoring time
Optional Pricing and Valuation Session:
Optional Pitch Training Session:
- Customer Pitch
- Business Pitch
- Funder Pitch
12:00 - 13:00 - Presentations of Solutions
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 - Expo 2020 Presentation
14:30 - 14:45 - Additional Alumni Engagement Opportunities
14:45 - 15:00 - Share Your Thoughts: Survey Time
15:00 - 16:15 - Developing your Individual Business Road Map
(Defining your own next steps: Interactive activity for people to map out the tactics and strategies they could take forward in their own business plans or the ideas they developed at TechCamp. What’s the roadmap look like for 3/6/9 months down the road)
Open Office Hours Available with Trainers
16:15 - Closing Remarks
16:30 - Group Photos + Certificates
