Partner and opening goodwill message
HealthTrace Data Hackathon 2026
Three days in which undergraduates from universities across Nigeria built AI and data solutions for public health using real research data. Jemirae was one of the two partners FUTA named, and we gave the goodwill message at the opening ceremony.
- Date
- 15 to 17 June 2026
- Where
- School of Computing, FUTA, Akure
- Audience
- Undergraduates from universities across Nigeria
- Our role
- Partner, opening goodwill message
- Organiser
- HealthTrace (Tracy IoT) research initiative, FUTA
- 188
- applications
- 30
- students selected
- 10
- teams
- 9
- universities
- 3
- challenge tracks
Why we do this
6 in 10
Africans are under 25.
Source: UNFPA; UN World Population Prospects 2024
Africa is young. The skills gap is real.
Every year millions of young Africans finish school and look for work that asks more and more for digital skills: working with data, building software, using AI well. Schools cannot close that gap alone. If young people learn these skills early, the size of this generation becomes the continent's advantage.
Why a young company is already giving back
Jemirae is still an early stage company. We don't have a foundation or a big budget. What we do have is knowledge of digital work and part of what we earn, so we put both into classrooms. We sponsor events that teach young people digital skills, we speak and mentor, and our team turns up on the day.
What we did
- 01Partnered with FUTA's School of Computing to support the hackathon.
- 02Gave the goodwill message at the opening ceremony.
- 03Backed students working in three tracks: data analysis and visualisation, predictive modelling, and system design and innovation.
What we bring to a training programme
These events are how we work with young people today. The same team can help deliver a larger skills programme, alongside schools, universities and the organisations that fund them.
Teaching tied to real work
Digital skills, AI and product thinking, taught through real problems and the careers behind them.
Speakers and mentors
People who build technology for a living, in Nigeria and in Japan, in person or online.
Funding from our own revenue
We sponsor events from what we earn, not from a grant, so support does not stop when a budget does.
A team on the ground
Our people turn up on the day in Nigeria and help run it, and we document each event for partners.
What the students built
1st
Team Gradient
Lafiya, a disease surveillance platform that shares information over encrypted Bluetooth, so it still works where there is no internet.
2nd
Team Seaborn
An early warning framework that turns health data into insights health workers and decision makers can act on.
3rd
Team Tensor
Tracy Alert, a system that predicts disease exposure risk and flags readings caused by faulty devices.
Judges from universities and industry assessed every entry on innovation, relevance, technical accuracy, creativity and presentation. FUTA plans to grow future editions with more students, more industry and international partners, stronger mentoring, and support to turn the best projects into research and working health tools.
Proof
“She also acknowledged the valuable support of ValueBridge and Jemirae (Japan), whose partnership contributed to the successful organisation of the hackathon.”
From the day
Running a youth skills programme?
We train, mentor and sponsor young people in digital skills, in person in Nigeria and online. If you are building a programme, we would like to help deliver it.
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