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Tiyani is a qualified Computer Systems Engineer and is a Founding Member, Director and COO of
Geekulcha, and Strategic Lead of the Northern Cape Developer (NCDev) Ecosystem. In 2019 he was
named 41st IT Personality of the Year by Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa
in annual President’s Awards. Also, in 2019, he got appointed as an Ambassador of Sigfox in South
Africa, a mission to enable IoT startups and help build IoT capacity on the Sigfox Network. Since 2014,
he has been working with the University of South Africa in building Open Source stamina, pipeline and
innovation development. With this, he champions the role of Hackathons and Open Dataquests in
helping accelerate academic excellence. In 2019, he got appointed as an Ambassador of Sigfox in South
Africa, a mission to enable IoT startups and help build IoT capacity on the Sigfox Network.