Theme: The Pareto Change

TEDxGbagada is a newly inaugurated annual conference that aspires to bring together Nigeria’s finest and best scientists, entrepreneurs, professionals and innovators to share ideas that will transform the current state of affairs in the Nation.

Our speakers and performers run the Nation’s most admired companies, design its best loved products, they invent world-changing devices and create ground-breaking media. They’re trusted voices and convention-breaking icons and geniuses.

At TEDxGbagada, TED Talk videos and live speakers will be combined to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self organized.

This years event themed Pareto Change seeks to highlight the minute to minute change factors capable of making great impact.

QuadT Event Centre, Gbagada.
QuadT Event Centre. 171 Oworonsoki-Oshodi Expressway Pedro B/Stop Gbagada, Lagos
Gbagada, Lagos state., Lagos, 100234
Nigeria

Okupe

Disability Advocate

Temitope has four years of experience in the community service , and earned a master’s degree in Human Resource Management from Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge United kingdom. Temitope as a volunteer with Modupe Cole child care & Treatment center for mentally & physically challenged children in Lagos-state Nigeria as a part-time teacher. Temitope also worked at the Cambridge ethic community forum in United Kingdom where he worked as case worker and an advocate in advocating for disability and racial discrimination right. Temitope is working with a community-based organization called Ipaja community link. He is a project manager working with two disability inclusive unit in the largest local government in Lagos state on a Comic relief funded program to develop children living with disabilities in Nigeria. Through this experience, he has been honored by Guinness Nigeria Plc for advocating for the right of people living with disabilities and also a Mandela Washington fellow.

Adam Alqali

Founder, African NewsPage

Adam Alqali is a development journalist and founder/editor of the African Newspage (www.africannewspage.net) – a digital newspaper which exclusively reports social and development issues in Nigeria and across Africa. African Newspage’s reporting cut across a diverse range of development issues (health, education, governance and access to justice) and in less than 6 months of its existence, the publication has been able to carve a niche for itself as a pioneer web-based newspaper offering in-depth and analytical coverage of a wide range of development issues. In May 2016, he was a grantee of the Access Nigeria Research Reporting Fund of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) London and investigated acts of diversion and corruption in the distribution of relief materials by relief agencies in north-eastern Nigeria. He was also a 2015 co-grantee of the Nigeria Investigative Reporting Project (NIRP) funded by the Ford Foundation for the Oga Lecturer project (www.ogalecturer.com

Adepeju Jaiyeoba

Founder, Mothers Delivery Kit

Adepeju Jaiyeoba is the Founder of Mothers Delivery Kit, social venture which provides ultra affordable sterile supplies for women to use at childbirth while also increasing access to quality healthcare services.Since founding Mothers Delivery Kits in 2013, the Company has sold over 50,000 kits, trained over 2,000 birth attendants while also working to set up a technology platform to connect hundreds of women to the lifesaving information and quality healthcare personnel at childbirth. A graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Adepeju is a White House Emerging Global Entrepreneur, PATH International Innovation Champion, 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow, Fellow of the Unreasonable Institute, member of Women in Successful Careers (WISCAR) 2015 Young Innovator of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), She Leads Africa’s top 10 female entrepreneur for Diaspora Demo day, 2015 YNaija top 10 most influential Nigerians under 40 (Advocacy), 2015 Cordes Fellow.

Amak Ijeomah

Peformer

Arese Ugwu

Founder, SmartMoney Africa

Arese is the Founder of smartmoneyafrica.org a personal finance platform for the African millennial. As a contributor to the Guardian newspaper, the host on Guardian TV’s upcoming new personal finance show “Your Life Your Money”, and a co-host for “Analyse This” on Ndani TV, she has helped shape the new narrative on personal finance in the media. She serves on several boards including House of Tara and the Nigeria Higher Education Foundation as a non-executive director, and is also an associate member of WIMBIZ, serving on its planning committee since 2015. She was most recently a 2015 finalist for the Access Bank W Award for young professional of the year. After eight years working wealth management, Arese is now engaging young Africans on the importance of financial literacy and the impact it has on helping them get, keep and grow money as they drive the continent during its next leap forward.

Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor

Country Manager, Google Nigeria

Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor named by Forbes as one of the top 20 youngest power women in Africa, is Country Manager of Google leading Google’s strategy and business growth in the Nigeria. Under her leadership, the Google team has made significant impact on local content development, infrastructure deployment, and digital capacity building; receiving an award for most outstanding contribution to local content development from NIMES and the NCC. Juliet has actively contributed to developing national strategies -she was part of national committees that developed Nigeria’s broadband plan in 2013, and ICT incubation strategy in 2012.She has over 20 years experience primarily in technology, oil and gas, and new media industries across Europe Middle East and Africa.

Maka Nwamaka Sam-Ejehu

Spoken Word Poet

Maka, real name Sam-Ejehu Nwamaka is a singer and songwriter. Her genre centers around Soul with a blend of Hip Hop, Jazz and the Afro sounds. Since leaving her legal profession, Maka has proved to be a force to be reckoned with through a subtle entry of her soulful sound into the Industry. She has released a widely accepted single titled 'Ife' as well as a 7 track EP titled, 'Truth'. Maka has featured on several shows and media across the world with 2 successful concerts held in Lagos and Abuja respectively. She has also worked with quite a number of notable names in the Nigerian Music Industry like Modenine, Naeto-C, Blackmagic, too mention a few.

Steve Gukas

Filmmaker

Steve is a filmmaker, theatre arts practitioner a broadcaster and media consultant. His films have enjoyed critical and commercial success within and outside Nigeria. His most recent film 93Days had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Steve is the Managing Director of Natives Filmworks Ltd and is co-founder of a WE FM 106.3.He is also and alumnus of the prestigious London Film School. Steve believes in the power of narrative and is keenly interested in the ability to shape conversations, perceptions and development through the various platforms of communication available.