A Game Thinker, a Tech & Innovation Consultant, a Community Builder, and a Serial Entrepreneur with an appetite for both Science and Arts; Dagmawi has one vision, that is to Sell Joy in Jars and he believes the ultimate way to do so is by investing on the development of a meaning seeking, service centred and fully engaged youth and youth communities.
He describes himself as a deep generalist (the real jack of all trades), who has made it his life purpose to see the creation of these communities. After working as Senior Software Architect for Ethiopia’s biggest Tech Company, Dagmawi has made a 180' career shift into the world of Games and Engagement which he describes as the highest form of art and the perfect bridge between the humanities and science.
He together with his team has co-founded, setup and run various initiatives including Chewata Awaqi (a start-up that specializes in gamethingking), the Ethiopian Games Associations, Efuyegela Publishers, Enter Africa (a Game Thinking lead and Regional Manager for the Afro-futuristic pan-African ecosystem building initiative by the Goethe Institute Addis Ababa across 15 African countries), Chewatacon (the first ever gaming festival of its kind), 100Shama (a community for nurturing the 4C of the 21st century), Positive Thinkers Club, Thursday Game nights and PugaumeTalks. He was a speaker at the Gamescom 2017 and 2019 in Cologne, A Maze in Berlin and Munich Media Day in Munich and various local and international platforms.