Nigeria’s biggest technology market, the Ikeja Computer Village will host a five day event tagged the Computer Village expo (#CVE2019) to display cutting edge technology innovation.
The event is expected to take place from December 10-14, in Lagos.
According to the Iyaloja of Ikeja Computer Village, Mrs Bisola Azeez Isokpehi, the event is packaged to showcase consumer technology innovation. She also revealed that there will be a display of products and services that will define lifestyles next year and beyond.
The Iyaloja also said that participants across Nigeria, Africa and the rest of world will be exposed to a wide array of smartphones, gadgets, devices, accessories, consumer electronics, computing, and allied products and services during the country’s biggest tech extravaganza.
She said that the Computer Village Expo is a collaborative event platform that followed a definitive agreement signed between the Ikeja Computer Village Market Management Board (under the Iyaloja and Babaloja), the Strategic Partner, and Technology Times Media Limited, Event Organiser, to create a world-class event that promotes innovation, entrepreneurship, and consumer technology trends in the market.
She says that #CVE2019 with the theme, “A New Partnership Agenda for Growth” will foster a better understanding of the Ikeja Computer Village ecosystem and also create awareness of trade, investment, partnership and growth opportunities among the largest technology SMEs in Nigeria.
The Iyaloja of Ikeja Computer Village identifies #CVE2019 as part of initiatives to positively showcase and elevate the status of “Brand Computer Village.” The goal of our new Board is to create an enviable and reputable market environment and elevate the ‘Brand Computer Village beyond its present status.”
#CVE2019 is a fully-owned brand of Technology Times Media Limited.
According to ITedgenews, the Ikeja Computer Village Market Management Board is headed by Mrs Bisola Isopkehin Azeez and Mr Adeniyi Olasoji, the Iyaloja and Babaloja respectively, who were installed on May 2, 2019, to be the administrators of Ikeja Computer Village.
The Iyaloja of Ikeja Computer Village says the new Board will unveil a landmark program at the #CVE2019 festival conceived to make the tech market hub a zero-tolerance zone for trade-in stolen phones.
“We are collaborating with the Association of Mobile Communication Device Technicians of Nigeria (AMCODET), an association of technicians within the market, that has designed a program to eradicate trade in stolen phones and curb the issues of incessant police harassments of its members in the market”, the Iyaloja of Ikeja Computer Village added.
Under the plan, the new Market Board is also collaborating with the Nigerian Police Force, industry regulators and other stakeholders towards eradicating the buying and selling of stolen phones in Ikeja Computer Village market, according to the market leader.
“The goal of the new Board is to create an enviable and reputable market environment to elevate the brand “Computer Village” beyond its present status. We are also bringing new partners and stakeholders to #CVE2019 to explore mutually-beneficial and enduring partnerships that leverage the largest technology
SME cluster in Nigeria as drivers of growth across various sectors of the economy,” according to the Iyaloja of Ikeja Computer Village.
She said that the Ikeja Computer Village Market Board is collaborating with Technology Times Media Limited to elevate #CVE2019 show to a world-class event platform that delivers benefits to Technology SMEs represented in the market by promoting innovation, entrepreneurship and consumer technology trends.
Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Shina Badaru, Founder of Technology Times, the Nigerian technology media group and publishers of Komputer Village Magazine, says that #CVE2019 will build upon the inaugural edition of the show held 2015 in Lagos.
“Technology Times is excited to partner and identify with the vision of the new market Board to elevate #CVE2019 into the annual festival of technology innovation connecting 10000+ Technology SMEs from Nigeria’s largest technology market hub with consumer technology buyers across Nigeria, Africa and beyond for five exciting days in the heart of Nigeria’s commercial capital city, Lagos,” said Badaru.
According to the Technology Times Founder, “#CVE2019 further extends our ongoing partnership with Ikeja Computer Village to promote a developmental journalism coverage of players, activities, and trends in the market. We are also proud to create an annual consumer technology festival that will be the pride of Nigeria which takes Ikeja Computer Village to the world and brings the world to Ikeja Computer Village.”
The event will promote niche Technology SMEs that are the backbone of the Nigerian economy in driving innovation, job creation and overall economic growth.
