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The Mentorship and Career Insights Forum organized by ISACA UON provided practical guidance on transitioning from academic life into the professional world. A key takeaway was that soft skills are just as important as technical skills. While technical knowledge forms the basis of competence, abilities such as communication, teamwork and adaptability are what distinguish individuals in real work environments.

The Makerthon, which runs from 16–20 March 2026, provides a collaborative environment where multidisciplinary student teams rapidly design, prototype and test solutions to real-world challenges. Hosted at the C4DLab innovation hub, the event reflects the University of Nairobi’s commitment to advancing innovation, entrepreneurship and technology-driven problem solving across the continent.

• AWS held a three-day cloud computing training at the University of Nairobi, teaching 125 students foundational cloud skills through its Skills Center Community Classroom program.

• The initiative is part of AWS’s broader push to close the digital skills gap in Africa, with similar programs already running in Cape Town and remote access available continent-wide.

Health Systems Innovation Hackathon
The Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab is organizing its 6 th annual Health Systems
Innovation Hackathon on Thursday 10 th  April and Friday 11 th April 2025. The theme of this
year’s Hackathon is ‘Building High-Value Health Systems: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence’.
The event will be global and we anticipate hundreds of participants in Boston and across
Innovation Hubs in North America, Central and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

The University of Nairobi ranked 1st in Kenya, 805th in the global 2025 rating, and scored in the TOP 50% across 129 research topics.

Monday, January 14, 2025: The University of Nairobi’s Department of Computing and Informatics academic committee members met at the department’s PhD lab for a writing workshop. In response to the dynamic field of computing and informatics, the department is developing a postgraduate programme in artificial intelligence planned to be rolled out in September 2025. The MSc in Artificial Intelligence programme is at the core of the University’s Chancellor’s UoN Big 5 agenda on the Nairobi School of AI.

The AI for Health  Seminar scheduled to take place on 22 October, 2024 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. The seminar themed "AI for Health: Innovations, Challenges and the Future of Care" has been organised by  C4DLab, Department of Computing and Informatics.

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The Kenya Reinsurance Corporation (KenyaRe) and the University of Nairobi (UoN) conducted an inspiring and successful AI-4-Insurance Hackathon between 25th and 27th September 2024. It was hosted at the KenyaRe Academy at the Reinsurance Plaza. This followed the signing of a collaboration agreement between the UoN and KenyaRE on a number of areas of mutual interest.

The 2024 orientation and induction programme of first year students at the Department of Computing and Informatics was conducted over five sessions, each with a focus on a particular aspect of student life on campus.