Introducing Andela: The global talent network that helps companies build remote engineering teams. As the world’s first long-term talent network, Andela identifies the best software engineers in emerging markets and embeds them inside software development scrum teams at some of the most innovative companies in the world.

Since 2014, Andela has screened hundreds of thousands of engineers and developed systems for identifying talent in markets that all too often get overlooked, such as Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt. By removing the hurdles that prevent companies from accessing top global talent, Andela has become the most efficient way to scale engineering output and, in the process, changed the way great teams and products are built.

During this event, David Blair and Dave Marks will talk about:

• Buy v. build: when do you build a local presence and when do you use outsourcing/staff augmentation
• How does staff augmentation fit into a modern engineering organization?
• What kind of projects can be done asynchronously and when is real time collaboration an absolute must
• Why Africa?