The 19th and 20th of March 2021 will go down in IUEA’s history as the days we carved milestones in our growth journey as a University. We brought the world to IUEA. We hosted the world-famous TEDxTalks with speakers sparking deep and passion-filled conversations along with the scopes of science, life experiences, robotics, cryptocurrencies, gorilla conservation, gender and racial stereotypes and careers.
“I do vaguely remember what I wanted to be when I grow up: a pilot. Of course, I didn’t become one but I didn’t fall so far either. I ended up becoming a medical doctor.”
After learning that medical doctors in Uganda did not earn as much as other doctors elsewhere around the world, I decided to look in another direction. And, I have never regretted it since.
“Africa is one of the richest continents in the world but also has the poorest people in the world.
We need to rethink our education system. When we rethink it, we must start with the purpose of our education system. Not by copying Cambridge, not by copying Oxford, not by copying MIT blindly.”
“Digital transformation is really about learning new skills. it’s about skills and tools that we use to interact with the world around us.
And those skills and tools keep changing, And in technology, they change at a very very rapid pace”
Ms Biteete tells of how training youth with confidence embedded in their learning is important for digital transformation.
We are looking into the 4th Industrial technology about the latest smart technology. The future of currency is digital. And the future of cryptocurrency is in Africa.
“Several years ago, I dropped out of university… It was to change from computer science in Uganda to go to do animation in Malaysia. With all the awards and fame, the money still wasn’t quite coming in the way it was supposed to.”
“I joined university at the age of 18 on full scholarships for a course that I had worked so hard to join which is a bachelor of architecture. There was no way I was not going to become an architect that was the one thing I was very certain about. I recently turned 24 and guess what, I’m currently completing my bachelor’s degree in computer science. And I’m also a fitness entrepreneur”
She walks us through her journey of making a career change from architecture to computer science and going against odds to pursue her passion
“The cost of success varies, of course, someone once said it’s lonely at the top. and sometimes the most expensive price is walking a long journey alone”
Mr Hogel tells a story of how difficult his journey of starting everything from scratch in his life has been after leaving Sweden and settling in Tanzania.
“Power is so much about assignment and service. Many young people today want to be paid for availability but not productivity. There is also a predominant problem of youth not understanding why they studied what they studied.”
Children are stuck because they don’t know the possibilities out there. We help them discover this through robotics.
“Last year in May… someone granted me an interview, an interview that I had been looking forward to for 3 years and this was the President”
He tells us about the difficulties of being a young journalist.
“Change the way you see you and you will change the way life treats you”
There is no genetic preconditioning for success. The key ingredients for success include finding your passion, living your purpose every day and never forgetting to dream.
