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Uganda ICT Summit 2026: What Our Talents Learned
Our Talents attended the Uganda ICT Summit 2026 at the National ICT Innovation Hub in Kampala, joining conversations on artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure and the future of Uganda’s digital economy. Uganda ICT Summit: AI and digital infrastructure for economic growth Uganda’s Tenfold Growth Strategy aims to expand the economy from around $50 billion in… -
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100 Talents in 2027: Help Us Fund Our Biggest Cohort Yet
Nearly 1,000 women applied for 100 places in our 2027 cohort. Now we need the funding to bring them to campus. In January 2027, we'll welcome our largest-ever group of Talents to our residential tech campus in Bukerere, Uganda. Nearly 1,000 young women applied. The women are now waiting for their chance to become women… -
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Groundbreaker Talent Takes on Blockchain Summer School
Groundbreaker Talent Patience Sitati from Cohort 4 recently spent three weeks in South Africa at the Deep Dive into Blockchain International Summer School, learning alongside students from around the world. Patience was selected for a fully funded place in the international program, led by the University of Zurich and hosted at Stellenbosch University in South… -
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33 New Software & AI Engineers Graduate from Groundbreaker Talents
We just celebrated the graduation of 33 new Software & AI Engineers, marking another milestone in creating career opportunities for young women in Uganda. Our campus was filled with proud, happy faces as we celebrated the graduation of Cohort 5, a group of 33 talented young women who successfully completed twelve months of intensive, full-time… -
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Groundbreaker Talents Win 1st & 3rd at Africa’s Talking AI Hackathon
Groundbreaker Talents secured both 1st and 3rd place at the Africa's Talking Women in Tech 2G Meets AI Hackathon after developing AI-powered solutions that improve access to healthcare and education for underserved communities. Fifteen Groundbreaker Talents participated in the Africa's Talking Women in Tech: 2G Meets AI Hackathon in Kampala, collaborating in three teams to… -
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Groundbreaker Talents Wins SheCanCode STEM Educator Award
Groundbreaker Talents has won the SheCanCode STEM Educator Award, recognising our work expanding access to careers in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence for African women in Uganda and beyond. View the 2026 winners. This recognition celebrates organisations helping more women enter science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It reflects a mission at the heart of everything… -
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Our Campus is Now 100% Solar-Powered
A Campus Built for the Future — Now 100% Solar-Powered Reliable infrastructure makes access to tech careers possible. At Groundbreaker Talents, our residential campus in Uganda is now fully powered by solar energy. Every line of code, every project, and every late-night study session runs on stable, reliable power. This milestone was made possible through… -
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Women in Tech Day: Why Access, Not Talent, Is the Real Gap
Women in Tech Day: Why Access, Not Talent, Is the Real Gap Today we celebrate every woman shaping the tech industry and the digital world around us. But it wouldn't be us if we didn't use this moment to also talk about how underrepresented women in tech still are. According to UNESCO, only 6% of… -
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Two Groundbreaker Talents Win UGX 10 Million Startup Grant
Two Groundbreaker Talents have won a UGX 10 million micro-seed grant for an AI startup they built from scratch. At the Pathogen Economy Labs x STI AI Innovation Demo Day 2026 at Makerere University in Kampala, Nina and Patience — Talents from Cohort 4 — received funding for SIMU, a curriculum-aligned AI tutor designed specifically for… -
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Hello, Cohort #6 – Welcoming Our Largest Cohort Yet
Our largest cohort of 40 young women has arrived on our campus in Uganda to begin their software and AI engineering training journey. Last week, our Talents stepped onto campus to begin a year-long journey toward a career in tech — accompanied by their families, who traveled for hours from across Uganda to support them…
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