Tafra.io

05/09/2022

We are happy to announce our speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #52: Will platforms conquer the world? (Panel Discussion): Jock Busuttil.

Jock Busuttil is a freelance head of product, coach, and author. He has spent over two decades working with technology companies to improve their product management practices, from startups to multinationals.

In 2012 Jock founded Product People Limited, which provides product management consultancy, coaching, and training. Its clients include BBC, the University of Cambridge, Ometria, Prolific, and the UK’s Ministry of Justice and Government Digital Service (GDS).

Jock holds a master’s degree in Classics from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Practitioner’s Guide To Product Management, published in January 2015 by Grand Central Publishing in the US and Piatkus in the UK.

He writes the blog I Manage Products and the weekly product management newsletter PRODUCT HEAD. You can find him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jockbu) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbusuttil/).

Registration Link: https://airtable.com/shrOVvu8u79O5et2M

28/08/2022

We are happy to announce our speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #52: Will platforms conquer the world? (Panel Discussion): Peter Stadlinger.

Peter Stadlinger is head of product for Freshsales Suite at Freshworks, and former product leader at Salesforce (Einstein) and Adobe (Experience Cloud).

In his current role, Peter focuses on democratizing artificial intelligence, specifically deep learning and natural language processing, for the purpose of personalizing customer experiences at scale.

For over 15 years, he has worked with a wide range of customers including Fortune 500 brands, mid-market companies, small businesses and startups.

He has spoken at various conferences, including Spark Summit, Dreamforce and Adobe Summit, as well as published thought leadership articles in the industry.

Peter holds a master’s degree in computer science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany.

Get to know more about Peter from the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stadlinger/

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26/07/2022

We are happy to announce our speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #51: Increasing Diversity in Product Planning Approaches: Hans-Bernd Kittlaus.

Hans-Bernd is the Chairman of ISPMA e.V. He is also the owner and General Manager of InnoTivum Consulting (www.innotivum.com) which he founded in 2001.

Before, he was Director of SIZ GmbH (Computing Center of the German Savings Banks Organization, Germany) and Head of Software Product Management and Development units of IBM. His main focus area is Software Product Management.

Hans-Bernd has been working as a Trainer, Coach, and Consultant for both corporate IT organizations and companies in a number of industries. He has trained hundreds of product managers in more than 90 SPM training including all five ISPMA-based training modules.

He is a frequent presenter at conferences and has published numerous books and articles, his latest being “Software Product Management: The ISPMA-Compliant Study Guide and Handbook, edition 2” (Springer 2022). He is Diplom-Informatiker (corresponds to M.S. in Computer Science).

Get to know more about Hans-Bernd from the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansberndkittlaus/

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29/06/2022

We are happy to announce our speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #50: Career Perspective for SW Product Managers: Hans-Bernd Kittlaus.

Hans-Bernd is the Chairman of ISPMA e.V. He is also the owner and General Manager of InnoTivum Consulting (www.innotivum.com) which he founded in 2001.

Before, he was Director of SIZ GmbH (Computing Center of the German Savings Banks Organization, Germany) and Head of Software Product Management and Development units of IBM. His main focus area is Software Product Management.

Hans-Bernd has been working as a Trainer, Coach, and Consultant for both corporate IT organizations and companies in a number of industries. He has trained hundreds of product managers in more than 90 SPM training including all five ISPMA-based training modules.

He is a frequent presenter at conferences and has published numerous books and articles, his latest being “Software Product Management: The ISPMA-Compliant Study Guide and Handbook, edition 2” (Springer 2022). He is Diplom-Informatiker (corresponds to M.S. in Computer Science).

Get to know more about Hans-Bernd from the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansberndkittlaus/

Registration Link: https://airtable.com/shrCaAhjGJOnPFgeC

14/05/2020

These times, last year, we had our annual Iftar gathering and it was full of fun, food, and smiles :)

We wish you a very healthy stay-at-home Ramdan and we are looking forward to meeting you again in person. till then, do not miss our online webinars!

Thank You to the best tech community ever! :)

It was an intense of fun, yummy food and lovely people to meet.

Thanks to whom attended our Tafra Community Iftar - Ramdan'19 (Giza Edition) at Town4One -unfortunately, we forgot to take pics :D- and whom attended Tafra Community Iftar - Ramdan'19 (Cairo Edition) at AlMaqarr Coworking Space.

BIG FAT Thanks to lovelies behind Sisters - Home Food & Sola's kitchen .. They are cooking the BEST FOOD in TOWN!!

Stay tuned for the big things after Eid! till then, Stay always

14/04/2020

We are happy to announce our fourth speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #49: Is User Experience affected by Covid-19?: Tarek Elsawaf

Tarek is a designer by nature. He is the founder of "desirm” - a design firm specializing in UX Consulting, Digital Design & Development, and Design Training.

He worked with many leading brands such as Smart Dubai, Etisalat Egypt, Lagorta UAE, BBI Consultancy KSA/UAE/Egypt, Cairo University, and other promising brands.

With focus on Influencing the business to unlock intersection of strategy, design, and technology, He is eager in Humanize AI. Also, Tarek held many talks and workshops for designers, geeks, and architectures, for instance, Google Egypt Community, Nile University and others.

Tarek became IBM Certified in human-centric AI in early 2019.

ElSawaf will be moderating an interesting Panel Discussion on how the "User Experience - UX" will be affected by COVID19 and what should UX Designers be prepared for?

Get to know more on Tarek from the following link(s):
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarekelsawaf/

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/kPLtTBfotJ1byHKk7

13/04/2020

We are happy to announce our third speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #49: Is User Experience affected by Covid-19?: Waleed Fahmy.

Waleed is a UX evangelist and design entrepreneur. His first encounter with personal computers goes back to 1990, when he wrote his first line of code using BASIC, an early programming language.

By the time he was graduated in May 2000, he already had four years of experience and was the second designer in Egypt to become an ‘Adobe Certified Expert’, thanks to the parallel career he started as a Web graphic designer while studying electrical engineering at Ain Shams University in Egypt.

Waleed gained exposure to a wide spectrum of clients and industries throughout his 20 years of work, He was hired by renowned clients such as Coca-Cola, The British Council, P&G and Crédit Agricole, among others.

Throughout his career, he has designed and managed more than 140 projects targeting a diverse range of media (web, desktop, and mobile). His experience spans across graphic, interaction, and user experience design.

Waleed will be sharing his thoughts with the meetup attendees on how the "User Experience - UX" will be affected by COVID19 and what should UX Designers be prepared for?

Get to know more on Waleed from the following link(s):
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/waleedfahmy

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/kPLtTBfotJ1byHKk7

12/04/2020

We are happy to announce our second speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #49: Is User Experience affected by Covid-19?: Abdelrahman Osama

Abdelrahman is a Product Strategist & UX Consultant with over 20 years of experience. He is the founder of Simpleia & Hive.

At Simpleia UX Consultancy, he had wokred with clients like Qatar foundation (Jalees), Raya (Aman), EFG Hermes (ValeU) & Elmenus.

He also worked as UX Director of UK based NMBl technologies, and head of products of Malaysia based NOOR Tech.

In addition to Co-Founding Hive -A ride hailing service for kids-, He is a Design Mentor with Designlab among other Mentors from Facebook, Mercedes, Nike & Uber. He also mentored students from SF, Germany, Australia, UAE & Singapore.

Osama will be sharing his thoughts with the meetup attendees on how the "User Experience - UX" will be affected by COVID19 and what should UX Designers be prepared for?

Get to know more on Abdelrahman from the following link(s):
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdelrahman/

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/kPLtTBfotJ1byHKk7

11/04/2020

We are happy to announce our first speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #49: Is User Experience affected by Covid-19?: Amira Sallam

Amira is a passionate UX designer with 14 years of experience in the IT sector. She earned her Masters degree in Computer Science from the American University in Cairo.

Amira is a certified UX designer from Human Factors International, working to bridge the gap between business needs and user goals; she has worked in few companies in Egypt, Belgium and Canada such as financial institutions, insurance companies and on a diverse set of projects such as governmental websites to e-commerce ones.

Last but not least, she is the founder of UXaweya group on facebook.

Sallam will be sharing her thoughts with the meetup attendees on how the "User Experience - UX" will be affected by COVID19 and what should UX Designers be prepared for?

Get to know more on Amira from the following link(s):
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirasallam

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/kPLtTBfotJ1byHKk7

03/04/2020

We are happy to announce our second speaker in the upcoming Tafra.io Meetup #48: Tech Team Coaching amid Covid-19 (Online): Mahmoud Ghoz.

A sum of 17 years of experience coaching and delivering complex IT, Web and Mobile projects with multiple technologies; out of which, Ghoz has been practicing Lean and agile techniques for more than 10 years to transform teams and help them scale the right way in different fast-growing local and multinational companies including DXC, ITWorx, OMS, Parent ApS, Swvl..etc.

Being eager to transform teams and organizations to adopt the agility mindset, Ghoz has pursued professional accreditation from Scrum Alliance, the most well-known agile professionals community worldwide, out of which he is the only one in the Middle East who earned both Advanced Scrum Master “A-CSM” and Scrum Professional “CSP-SM” till the moment.

In the field, it was repeatedly observed that as the number of Scrum teams within an organization grew, two major issues emerged:
* The volume, speed, and quality of their output (working product) per team began to fall, due to issues such as cross-team dependencies, duplication of work, and communication overhead.
* The original management structure was ineffective for achieving business agility. Issues arose like competing priorities and the inability to quickly shift teams around to respond to dynamic market conditions.

Mahmoud will show you how to to counteract these issues, using Scrum@Sclae framework for effectively coordinating multiple Scrum teams was clearly needed which would aim for the following:
* Linear scalability: A corresponding percentage increase in delivery of working product with an increase in the number of teams.
* Business agility: The ability to rapidly respond to change by adapting its initial stable configuration.

Get to know more on Mahmoud from the following link(s):
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mghoz/

Registration Link: shorturl.at/chxBQ