On Thursday, 16th May 2013, kLab hosted the second edition of Ni-!mpamo, (reality) a monthly event that brings local successful ICT entrepreneurs to speak to ICT youngsters aspiring to become Techpreneurs. The 120 minute event hosted a young inspiring Rwandan Kaneza Innocent. Born in Kigali in 1983, Kaneza carries with him many years of professional experience in software development, web design, web development, Graphic design and mobile application solutions, project management and that in several sectors from government, telecoms, banking, insurance, private, NGOs, etc.

"I made a website with a friend and we approached many big companies but they all refused to buy it. A year later, many websites started coming up and due to our low persistence we didn't make it," he said in regret. Along this path of trials and tribulations, he learnt a lot and made the best of these lessons. After this inspiring speech, the floor was open to the audience who expressed a lot of their concerns and Kaneza as well as the crowd had solutions to air out as well.

Some of the major issues that came up were: market realities and opportunities, how to manage a startup, where to invest/spend, difficulty in managing the coding and business part of a project, and the biggest issue faced by young developers - sleeping projects. Ntwari Shaka, a kLab tenant says having to share failures and success stories makes it easy for future programmers to develop apps with ease. "This discuss was motivating and boosting. It was an eye opener for those of us that are going to face the market soon and I, personally loved how people's talked about the proper marketing strategies to use like first making a free trial project then charging later,"

Over the course of his experience, Kaneza has won local and international awards such as; the award winning project of Electricity payment project (TIGA Award 2007 organized by UNECA …). The DG Immigration and Emigration online visa services which won several local and international awards in service delivery. He is currently the senior consultant at Esicia LTD, a local software development and security firm servicing different institutions in the different sectors of activities stated above with activities in Rwanda and across Africa in general.