Theme: Re-Think

On April 23, 2016, over 1000 of Africa’s most curious and creative, interesting and interested, positive and progressive thinkers and doers will gather at the National Theater again to be inspired by visionaries sharing their unique stories and valuable perspectives at TEDxAccra2016 themed ‘Re-Think’.

TEDxAccra is the largest event of its kind in Ghana with an audience of over 1500 gathered at the National Theatre to share and discuss innovative and creative ideas. Our former speakers range from activists, entrepreneurs, historians, scientists, explorers, technologists and artists that shared insights and ideas related to, or relevant to, the Ghanaian society and the world as a whole

National Theater
Liberia Lake, Accra
Accra, Greater Accra, 233
Ghana

Adjoa Boateng

A Physician

A physician well-versed in helping patients deal with pain, Adjoa Boateng has seen the many different reactions of people to pain. Aside her work as a Junior Physician in the ICU, she has worked with the drug addicts, young veterans, non-violent offenders and abuse victims.

Amma Sefa-Dedeh Lartey

Ama Sefa-Dedeh Lartey is a young lady who is very passionate about how business and driven entrepreneurship can drive social transformation. She leads the Africa Region of Reach for change, an organisation which runs innovation, competitions, accelerators, incubators and hubs for social entrepreneurs in Ghana, Tanzania and other parts of Africa.

Daniel Marfo

Daniel Marfo an electronic health care innovator, with a singular passion of ensuring an increase in efficiency, profit ability and growth of the healthcare market in Africa. And has propelled the creation and use of out of the box electronic tools

Dilys Sillah

Dilys Sillah is Founder and CEO of Who Will Hear My Cry (WWHMC), an NGO that is focused on raising awareness on rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence. She has grown to become a voice for rethinking the status quo, and creating an enabling environment for young girls to thrive, and feel safe from sexual abuse.

Dr. Elikem Tamaklo

Dr. Tamaklo, the managing director of Nyaho Medical Centre, a leading health care provider in Accra and the first private group of Medical Practice in Ghana. Passionate about influencing better healthcare in Africa and maintaining the trust that has been placed in medical practitioners.

Dr. Paul Henry Dsane-Aidoo

He is a Medical office and the Acting Medical Superintendent at Kosoa Polyclinic. He is also a public health advocate and a one-time member of the Ghana Medical Association Public Health Advocacy Team. His vision is to disciple, mentor and bring young Ghanaians unto strategic leadership. He is married to Belinda with a son called Aseda.

Dr. Thomas Tagoe

Dr. Thomas Tagoe is a PhD holder in Neuroscience, basketball lover and a die-hard Leicester City fan. He is Co-founder of GhScientific, a project that seeks to solve the problem of poor science education and communication in Ghana.

Edem Adzaho

As an International Training Consultant who meets people pursuing careers chosen by parents and guardians, she, like many people, took a completely different career path from what she got formally trained in. Edem, is the Founder of The Global Graduate Academy and also manages the award winning human Capacity Development Company, SPEC Consult limited where she has coached and trained over 5000 young Ghanaians and some West Africans on world class employability skills, entrepreneurship and accessing scholarship opportunities.

Fredrick Amissah

; Fredrick Amissah, a Ghanaian corporate business executive with over thirteen years of extensive corporate experience who believes leadership and gunning for success should be espoused by living and performing above self and world class excellence in mind shares the ways to innovate and be successful with his audience

Ivy Appiah

Ivy Appiah is the CEO of Twajo Industries Limited. She is a Ghanaian biochemist with a decade's experience in product formulations both in food and cosmetic development.

Jide Otoki

Jide Otoki is the CEO of Jobberman Ghana; the biggest Jobs board in Sub-Saharan Africa. A ruthless business thinker, who is never satisfied with the ordinary, his life’s story is the epitome of starting something from nothing.

John Awuah

He is the CEO of Universal Merchant Bank with many stories to tell; of how he got to his positions and how he is working to stay at the Top, John Awuah has a strong passion for nurturing and grooming young people, because they are the future of Ghana and Africa as a whole. He believes his inspiration would guide the youth to leverage innovation to transform the fortunes of Ghana and Africa.

Justice Julia Sarkodie Mensah

She is a highly motivated and result oriented woman with a passion to bring about change, make a difference and leave a good legacy in her profession as a jurist, a diplomat and as a woman. With several experiences all over Africa, justice Sarkodie-Mensah believes she, as a jurist and legal consultant over the years and working in different jurisdictions in Africa and outside Africa has exposed her to many situations that she feels the need to share

Lisa Lovatt-Smith

Lisa Lovatt-Smith is English but was born in Spain. Her life experience of being abandoned at age 4 and being a foster child who was later reunited with her biologically mother gave her a better understanding of how families care for children better than orphanages. This enabled her open a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in rural Ghana OAfrica. Their duty is reunite abandoned children with their extended families.

Louis Manu

Louis Manu, is the head of data, innovations and product development at Airtel. He leads partnerships and business development and development of innovative products. Also at Revision App at google campus London helped UK startup team execute their new product that helped change the way hundred thousands of kids studied in the UK and in EU as a whole.

Lucy Quist

Lucy Quist is s multiple award winning telecoms CEO currently heading Airtel Ghana. She is a British and Ghanaian International Business Leader and the first Ghanaian woman to lead a multi-national telecommunications company. Her vast experience in telecommunications covers both mobile and fixed telephony for consumers and businesses. Her strength in Sales and Marketing is bolstered by her technical understanding of the industry

Mandy Budge

CEO of MultiKids

There was a significant moment in 1994 where a unique set of circumstances triggered a ripple effect in my life. The moment the stone hit the pond was in a London Special School where I was teaching, and I met two West African pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. We found a resonant means of communicating through wild skits over Kpan Logo rhythms played on Ghanaian drums, carried back from recent journeys to Ghana. The ripples have gathered momentum over the past 20 years and have been the inspiration behind the creation of Multikids Inclusive Academy and more recently, Multikids Foundation. If you are lucky enough to work with children who have special learning needs, your experience will transcend any preconceptions of ability and disability, success and failure. The open heart of a child with down syndrome or cerebral palsy manifests in a charismatic aura that enlightens your life. Our part is to open doors, to open minds, to de-construct the mindset and values that

Naki Akrobetto

A daughter of Ghanaian royalty and an American coal miner, Naki has studied historic writers which introduced her to her mentor during her freshman year in college. The poet Naki, found her voice and quickly became a highly requested artist on campus, and also took the community with a poetic call that required response. Performed with hip hop and Grammy nominated artists whiles achieving academically, Naki believed that poetry was her outlet on a platform for creative expression.

Nana Amoako-Anin

Nana Amoako-Anin is an artist, a model, a fashion designer, a mother and a yogi. At the peak of her career as a corporate hotshot, lawyer in New York, she fell to stress. Her life from that pivotal moment is a testament to the wonders of yoga.

NanaAma Botchway-Dowuona

NanaAma Botchway-Dowuona is worldwide accomplished advisor who has advised businesses in wide varieties of industries, from security firms to e-businesses and luxury apparel retail companies on a general corporate matters. Also the founder of N. Dowuona & Company and is ranked in the Chambers Global and legal 500 EMEA amongst the leading individuals.

Paul Miller

Founder

As a social entrepreneur and father, Paul Miller has realized that dealing with depression is not only important for the individual, but for his/her loved ones. Currently, his work interest is SIKA, a personal finance app that replaces your bank with a smarter financial experience, all done on your mobile phone.

Phrimpong Singer

A Pan African-born to a teacher father and a trader mother, an artist who preaches consciousness and addresses the daily plight of human lives.

Rev Alex Gyasi

Rev Alex Gyasi is the pastor of highway of Holiness church in London and running charitable organisations in the UK. He is .the founder and director of highway house, a shelter for homeless men. He. Is also the founder of highway youth supplementary school for under privileged young people in Tottenham, London. Producer of the popular TV talk show ‘‘Keep it real’’.

Steven Charles Wallace

Steven Charles Wallace is the founder of Omanhene Cocoa Ben Company, the first company to sustain exports of fine quality chocolate made entirely in Ghana. He oversees the company's key markets, United States, Canada and Japan.

Tina Tangalakis

Born in Los Angeles, her love for fashion pushed her into many different areas in the entertainment industry but that lasted for just a while. At a point in her life that can be considered as a crisis situation, she moved to Ghana, organized herself and started a new life; volunteering and serving in small communities. This birthed the passion for fashion and was the beginning of Della Fashion; a people-centred business