Chris Kayiya
IQ Business, Manager, Data & Analytics
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Chris is a Senior Management Consultant with over 16 years working experience and is passionate about finding cutting edge and innovative solutions to business problems. He has worked for a number of top-tier Advisory firms as a management consultant. A significant portion of his work experience focused on Data Analytics, AI & Data Governance.
He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Information Systems), an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science and an Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting CIMA(UK). He is currently completing his qualification to become a chartered Management Accountant with CIMA (UK). His broad qualifications have given him versatility and thereby has become a key strength to the unique and changing characteristics of a business.
Chris co-founded and was involved in the establishment of two start-up companies. One business is a provider of Learning & Development solutions while the other is an outsourced outbound contact centre.
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Strategies to Help You Succeed as a Developer
If there’s one thing that software developers care about, it’s becoming even better software developers. There’s also a lot of demand out there for good developers. A great developer isn't an individual who is an expert coder or someone who can code in multiple languages. Whether you’re an experienced developer or you’ve just started your career, there are aspects of being a good developer that aren’t covered at university and mastering them will help you succeed.
To help delegates learn how to stand out in the world of developers, Chris will walk them through the strategies one needs to make a difference in their career, and of course, be a financially successful software developers. These are essentially strategies Chris has practiced himself over the years, which he still uses even today. They have been a tremendous help to him in his career. He strongly believes if you try them, they’ll work for you as well. It would be difficult to list all the strategies but areas that will be covered in his talk will include:
• Improving problem solving skills
• Creativity as a developer
• How to stand out in the world of developers
• Learn how to learn (required skill for 4IR)
Adapt & Thrive Amid Chaos
As a tech industry worker, you know that software and hardware evolve at an unflagging rate. Many of the tools you used when you started out in the industry may have lost favour. Whether it’s new programming languages or Java frameworks, companies need employees who can adapt to the latest technological developments.
Never before has it become important to be adaptable as a way to withstand the barrage of change coming at us. It is no longer IQ or EQ but AQ (Adaptability Quotient) that is increasingly important for all of us. We know the world is speeding up. The rate of technological change is accelerating. The challenge we are facing is not just a technological but very much one of societal change. This puts us in a predicament as a society. Some of us are stuck in the past. As we are in this transitional phase everybody feels anxious because we don’t know what’s coming, we don’t know if the future will be familiar.
The talk is designed to help professionals with a basic blueprint for obtaining agility and becoming adaptable through this transition. Chris will take you through principles on how organizations can boost and build adaptive capacity while the same time arm individuals with the tools to smoothly transition into this new world. Those that thrive are quick to read and act on signals of change.
Areas the talk will cover include:
Individual Transition: Making sense of this new world and adapting accordingly
o World Shift: Understand How the World is Changing
o Mindset shift: Think Clearly About the Future
o Skills Shift: Act Effectively to Achieve Success
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