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Africa Speakers Group is a leading platform for keynote speakers, influential thinkers and star performers on the African continent, and elsewhere in the world.

Entrepreneur

Audrey Joe-Ezigbo

Audrey Joe-Ezigbo is a highly experienced business leader, advisor, enery expert and coach, with over 29 years proven track record and deep expertise in Strategic Planning and Execution, Corporate Governance, Investor relations, Advocacy, Entrepreneurship Development and Environmental Sustainability in private, public and non-profit sectors at Executive and Board levels.

Entrepreneur

Affiong Williams

Affiong Williams is the CEO/Founder of ReelFruit, the largest fruit processing, packaging and marketing company in Nigeria. The company, founded in 2012, retails a range of dried fruit and nut snacks through a variety of channels including over 1000 Supermarkets, Airlines, Schools, Hotels, and internationally. She is a recipient of the inaugural Veuve Clicquot “Bold Woman Award” in 2022, the WIMBIZ Entrepreneur of the Year and Forbes 30 under 30.

CEO of Education Group

Sameer Rawjee

Sameer founded the Life Design Lab at Google, which is used by Google employees from more than 100 countries. Life Design was created to explore multifaceted aspects of Human Purpose at Work. Today there are over 10 000 employees enrolled in the lab globally, who are graduates of the world’s Ivy League schools and former VPs of Fortune 500 companies.

Global CEO, Teraflow

Michael Cowen

Michael Cowen, CEO of Teraflow.ai, is a driving force in the AI revolution. With a background in leadership roles at Deloitte Digital and Mindshare, he’s also an experienced entrepreneur, having founded five startups. Now, he’s shifted gears to lead Global AI Business Teraflow.ai, applying his groundbreaking ‘Philosophy of Flow’ to change traditional business norms.

AI Consultant, Speaker, Lecturer

Johan Steyn

Johan Steyn is a renowned Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Advocate and a prominent speaker at global conferences on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Emerging Technologies. In 2019, he was honored as the Best AI & Robotics Management Consultant by Wealth & Finance magazine in the UK.

Business Journalist

Alfred Edmond Jr

Alfred A. Edmond Jr. is an accomplished public speaker, moderator and live-event interviewer. Edmond is SVP/Executive Editor-at-Large of Black Enterprise (BE), responsible for providing brand, marketing and content leadership as a member of the multimedia company’s senior management team.

CEO, White Shark Africa and Great White Storage International.

Craig A.W. Ferreira

Craig is the first person in the world to attached a camera onto a Great White Shark. Also, he is the first and the only person to have extracted blood from free swimming Great White sharks. In the course of his adventure with the Great White Shark he has discovered significant behavioral aspects of the species.

CEO, What The Foresight

Craig Wing

Craig is an expert in emergent futures thinking, scenario planning, disruptive technologies, emergent business models, company culture and the new world of work. For two decades, he has delivered 500+ keynotes to over 5,000 global leaders and executives to understand, create and design their ideal futures through imagineering and futures thinking.

CEO, Sogato Strategies LLC

Kingsley Moghalu

Kingsley Moghalu was Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 2009 to 2014, and subsequently Professor of Practice in International Business and Public Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA,

Founder & Creative Director, Banke Kuku

Banke Kuku

Banke’s creative interior designs have graced Selfridges, Aynhoe Park, Hotel Oxford, Bon Marche Paris, Bazar et Grande Manger Tokyo, ABC Carpet and Homes New York, etc.

CEO, Wellahealth

Ikpeme Neto

Ikpeme is a distinguished internal medicine physician turned health techpreneur with focus on creating innovative, award-winning solutions in the digital health ecosystem. His journey began with a medical degree from Ireland, and further enriched with postgraduate medical and business training in both Ireland and New Zealand.

Art Illustrator

Mike Asukwo

Mike Asukwo is a renowned illustrator who works as the Chief Editorial Artist in BusinessDay Media, Nigeria. His illustrations, including capturing the odds in different governments in Nigeria, are widely circulated. His illustrations/cartoons have featured in several art exhibitions, and it wouldn’t be surprising to find his work in many art galleries, offices and homes across the world. Mike is considered a master in the art of speaking through illustration.

AI & Digital Solutions Specialist

Brett StClair

Brett StClair, the Co-founder and Chief Connector of Teraflow (http://teraflow.ai/), is a former Google and Barclays Executive. He is a seasoned professional in building AI and digital solutions. Brett’s primary passion is to identify the world’s Rebel Technologists and assist every business in embracing AI technology.

Tech VC

Aloy Chife

Dr. Aloy Chife is a businessman with over three decades of experience working and investing in the technology sector. He currently serves as Managing Partner/CEO of family-owned venture capital firm Saana Capital located in Princeton, USA which has portfolio companies in the U.S., Europe, and Africa.

Geopolitical Advisor & Global Strategist

Arne Elias Corneliussen

Arne Elias Corneliussen is a geopolitical advisor and global strategist who supports business leaders, financial companies, and policy makers.

Entrepreneur

Obinna Ekezie

Obinna Ekezie is a former NBA Player. His professional basketball career saw him traverse Vancouver Grizzlies, Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Clippers and Atlanta Hawks.

CEO of Education Group

Sameer Rawjee

Sameer founded the Life Design Lab at Google, which is used by Google employees from more than 100 countries. Life Design was created to explore multifaceted aspects of Human Purpose at Work. Today there are over 10 000 employees enrolled in the lab globally, who are graduates of the world’s Ivy League schools and former VPs of Fortune 500 companies.

CEO, White Shark Africa and Great White Storage International.

Craig A.W. Ferreira

Craig is the first person in the world to attached a camera onto a Great White Shark. Also, he is the first and the only person to have extracted blood from free swimming Great White sharks. In the course of his adventure with the Great White Shark he has discovered significant behavioral aspects of the species.

AI Consultant, Speaker, Lecturer

Johan Steyn

Johan Steyn is a renowned Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Advocate and a prominent speaker at global conferences on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Emerging Technologies. In 2019, he was honored as the Best AI & Robotics Management Consultant by Wealth & Finance magazine in the UK.

Global CEO, Teraflow

Michael Cowen

Michael Cowen, CEO of Teraflow.ai, is a driving force in the AI revolution. With a background in leadership roles at Deloitte Digital and Mindshare, he’s also an experienced entrepreneur, having founded five startups. Now, he’s shifted gears to lead Global AI Business Teraflow.ai, applying his groundbreaking ‘Philosophy of Flow’ to change traditional business norms.

Business Journalist

Alfred Edmond Jr

Alfred A. Edmond Jr. is an accomplished public speaker, moderator and live-event interviewer. Edmond is SVP/Executive Editor-at-Large of Black Enterprise (BE), responsible for providing brand, marketing and content leadership as a member of the multimedia company’s senior management team.

Entrepreneur

Affiong Williams

Affiong Williams is the CEO/Founder of ReelFruit, the largest fruit processing, packaging and marketing company in Nigeria. The company, founded in 2012, retails a range of dried fruit and nut snacks through a variety of channels including over 1000 Supermarkets, Airlines, Schools, Hotels, and internationally. She is a recipient of the inaugural Veuve Clicquot “Bold Woman Award” in 2022, the WIMBIZ Entrepreneur of the Year and Forbes 30 under 30.

Entrepreneur & Global Business Speaker

Vusi Thembekwayo

Vusi Thembekwayo is a Global Business Speaker, private equity Managing Partner at Watermark Afrika, CEO of pan-African impact investment firm MyGrowthFund Venture Capital & convenor of leading research boutique IC Knowledge Bureau.

Entrepreneur

Audrey Joe-Ezigbo

Audrey Joe-Ezigbo is a highly experienced business leader, advisor, enery expert and coach, with over 29 years proven track record and deep expertise in Strategic Planning and Execution, Corporate Governance, Investor relations, Advocacy, Entrepreneurship Development and Environmental Sustainability in private, public and non-profit sectors at Executive and Board levels.

Technology Consultant

Nkem Nweke

Nkem Nweke is on a mission to build Africa’s future by developing inclusive, accessible and pioneering communities as he believes in an Africa where everyone can be a change maker. He leads Engineering Innovation at the Africa Development Centre (ADC), which is Microsoft’s Engineering team in the region. He formerly worked in several capacities with organizations like Hewlett Packard & Dimension Data.

Communications Specialist

Lucille Ossai

Lucille Ossai is an international award-winning communications trainer, coach, advisor, keynote speaker, and renowned blogger. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Leicester (UK). Lucille specialises in business communication. She works with professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders globally to amplify their influence and get results.