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'Gbenga Sesan
Nigeria
'Gbenga Sesan is the Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN), a social enterprise that connects underserved people-groups with ICT-enabled opportunities.
Oluseun Onigbinde
Nigeria
Oluseun Onigbinde, CEO of BudgIT and Tracka, platforms that apply technology to intersect citizen engagement with institutional improvement, to facilitate societal change.
Mrs Ini Laura Abimbola
Nigeria
Ini Abimbola, the CEO and Lead Consultant of ThistlePraxis Consulting Limited has over 15 years working in the international development space; broad consulting experience & expertise on capacity building, visioning, planning & implementation, sustainability, projects & innovations management, process re-engineering, strategy & toolkit development among others.
Adepeju Jaiyeoba
Nigeria
Adepeju Jaiyeoba, founder of Mothers’ Delivery Kit, a company that manufactures and distributes birth kits for purchase irrespective of the remote location.
Somto Mbelu
Nigeria
Somto Mbelu is a Social Entrepreneur and International development specialist. He currently serves as the Advocacy and Communications Manager for PharmAccess Foundation an international NGO dedicated to facilitating affordable access to quality health care in Africa by stimulating investments in the healthcare industry through partnerships with the private sector and government institutions.
Tope Ogundipe
Tope Ogundipe, works with Paradigm Initiative, and serves as the organization’s Director of Programs, overseeing its digital inclusion and digital rights advocacy programs in Africa. She has worked on various ICT Policy intervention initiatives focused on internet freedoms and women’s rights.
Debola Deji-Kurunmi
Debola Deji-Kurunmi is the Executive Director at Ideation Hub Africa, which is the host of Development Dialogue – Nigeria’s foremost thought-leadership conference for changemakers, nonprofit professionals and social entrepreneurs.
Omotola Akinsola
Omotola Akinsola is the Chief Executive/Founder of Jumpstart Academy and a Nonprofit Consultant. She is also an Assistant Professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She holds a Master’s Degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She is focused on nonprofit development, social enterprise development & management, grant writing, and fundraising and has a specialization in social entrepreneurship.She founded JumpStart Dream Academy, a nonprofit organization in Nigeria that works with youth to develop them into agents of positive change. She has worked and consulted for various nonprofit organizations in different capacities such as creating and designing programs, evaluating programs, structuring nonprofits to run effective, budgeting, grant proposal writing and reviews, and coming up with fundraising strategies.
'Lamide Johnson
‘Lamide Johnson is a storyteller, teacher & author.
Trained in Business and Entrepreneurship from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA, ‘Lamide has helped entrepreneurs make huge positive changes using the power and influence of storytelling. He has authored four books including “StoryHack: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Mastering the Business of Storytelling”. He has mastered the art of helping leaders inspire and engage their team, creating a meaningful connection between employees and the higher purpose of the business in alignment with their ambition for the future.
‘Lamide is passionate about young entrepreneurs, helping them build high-performance companies.
Oluseyi Ojurongbe
Oluseyi Ojurongbe heads Sahara Foundation — the Personal and Corporate Social Responsibility vehicle for Sahara Group (a leading international energy and infrastructure conglomerate with operations in over 38 countries across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia). He is responsible for fostering partnerships with local, national and international agencies, corporate foundations and business neighbors towards sustainable development. He has successfully managed projects in Cote d’ Ivoire, Geneva, Ghana, Nigeria, South Sudan, Singapore, Tanzania and Zambia.
Olusola Amusan
Olusola Amusan is an Artificial Intelligence Evangelist, UNLEASH Alumnus, HIVE Global Leader, the Author of Are You Branded or Stranded, a global shaper of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Country Support Mechanism (CSM) of the Global Community Engagement & Resilience Fund in Nigeria and the President of the 8th Session of the African Youth and Governance Conference. He is passionate about social entrepreneurship as a key to unlocking Africa's immense potential. He is also widely acclaimed as one of Africa’s Youngest Growth Consultants.
In January 2018, he started building a high-impact AI program that has trained 1000+ Junior AI Experts on Machine Learning Models using mostly Python and R getting the attention of Facebook, Microsoft, World Bank and Amazon Web Services. Sola is very passionate about AI and is now CEO of Coven Works Inc. (covenworks.com) which has been backed by Google, C5 Capitals (Washington DC) and Amazon Web services.
Sola is strongly concerned about subjects such as unemployment and its economic impact, literacy, eradicating poverty and inspiring leadership, through the effective deployment and use of big data, mobility, social media, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Technologies
In January 2018, he started building a high-impact AI program that has trained 1000+ Junior AI Experts on Machine Learning Models using mostly Python and R getting the attention of Facebook, Microsoft, World Bank and Amazon Web Services. Sola is very passionate about AI and is now CEO of Coven Works Inc. (covenworks.com) which has been backed by Google, C5 Capitals (Washington DC) and Amazon Web services.
Sola is strongly concerned about subjects such as unemployment and its economic impact, literacy, eradicating poverty and inspiring leadership, through the effective deployment and use of big data, mobility, social media, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Technologies
Emmanuel Agunze
Emmanuel Agunze has over six years’ experience in the not-for-profit sector, focusing on slum-reorganization and education for children living in slums. He is the founder of The Makoko Dream where he has successfully advocated for the placement of more than 100 Makoko slum children in schools since 2016, thereby reducing the illiteracy of children living in slums.
His organization has reached out to over 8000 Makoko indigenes via various intervention programs, and has granted children of the Makoko community access to education and life skills in order to address the issue of Child Labor.. He created a ‘water school bus’ - a custom-made canoe that transports children of the Makoko waterside to and from school, free of charge.
His organization has reached out to over 8000 Makoko indigenes via various intervention programs, and has granted children of the Makoko community access to education and life skills in order to address the issue of Child Labor.. He created a ‘water school bus’ - a custom-made canoe that transports children of the Makoko waterside to and from school, free of charge.