Importance of participating in IT competitions and hackathons and their impact on soft skills
Participating in competitions and hackathons is a great way to combine technical learning and soft skills development, while standing out in the IT field. These events offer a unique platform to solve real-world problems, collaborate with other talents, acquire key skills and connect with professionals, mentors and recruiters.
In this presentation we will discuss more details about this enriching experience.
Speaker(s)
Fatima Zahra Fagroud
Professor-Researcher of C.S. | IT Trainer | Huawei ICT Academy Instructor | Ambassador of Human AI and Cluster Digital Africa | International Speaker | Mentor & Judge in IT & Innovation
Fatima Zahra Fagroud is a doctor and researcher in computer science, professor of computer science, Huwaei ICT Academy Instructor, IT Trainer, Human AI and Cluster Digital Africa Ambassador, international speaker and Mentor & Judge in IT and Innovation. She obtained her doctorate in computer science (A thesis entitled: "Towards a real-time search engine for IoT connected objects: a new approach based on artificial intelligence" ) from the Ben M'Sik Faculty of Science in 2023. Fatima Zahra is a member of the winning team of the 2nd prize of the 1st cycle of the DDR Award MENA 2021, Global Ambassador of Women In Tech Conference 2024 and Regional Ambassador of the Hackathon of the World Innovation Day of United Nations for the 2022 and 2023 Edition. She was nominated as the best researcher in "Internet of things and information retrieval" by International Research Excellence and Citation Awards and best researcher in "IoT application and IoT devices retrieval" by International Research Awards on Internet of Things and Applications. She is a member of the ABCD index, as well as serving on the review committees of various international journals and conferences. She is chair of the international workshops A2IoT, IA&Nlp and NSCTI and a member of the organizing committee of various national and international workshops and conferences. His research interests include information retrieval, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and metaverse.