2018 CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture Platform Convention

Busses will take you to the Trademark Hotel. If you'd like to take a moment to change and freshen up in your hotel room, you have time. Otherwise, there are pre-party cocktails and snacks available ahead of dinner! Dinner will be served at 7PM, followed by the Inspire Challenge Award Ceremony and a concert.

Kenyan band Afro Simba performing:
AFRO SIMBA is an Afro-Fusion band that hails from Kenya. Their music is a fusion of Afro Jazz and the rhythms and music of the Mijikenda people from coastal Kenya. Their album “Pandizo” and the band’s original take on the genre will redefine and reintroduce Mijikenda music to the world at large.

The band leader Kombo Chokwe started his career in 2005 as a multi-talented instrumentalist and vocalist who has performed with Kenyas most prominent musicians.

The band was involved in the Somali Sunrise Peace Festival in Mogadishu Somalia, represented Kenya at Milege World Music Festival (Uganda),the Smithsonian Folk Festival in Washington D.C., USA, Musical Waves from the Kenyan Coast at Alliance Francaise Nairobi, Kenya and at the Africa Pavilion Global Village Multicultural Festival in Dubai.