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Theme: The beauty of Diversity

This event occurred on
June 20, 2021
Lekki, Lagos
Nigeria

Encouraging ideas from very diverse walks of life to demonstrate how diversity can lead to positive growth. With diverse ideas from extreme ends of the spectrum.

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Lekki, Lagos, 10013
Nigeria
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Chidi Nwaogu

Co-founder at Publiseer and Savvy
Chidi Nwaogu is a serial tech entrepreneur, entrepreneurial ecosystem builder, and software developer. Nwaogu is Co-founder and CEO at Publiseer, a digital publisher that has helped over 6,000 underserved African creatives living in low-income and disadvantaged communities to earn over $240,000 in revenue. He is also the Co-founder and Head of Programs at Savvy, a global fellowship program that has equipped over 3,500 passionate young individuals from 128 countries, with the necessary knowledge and skill they need to start an impact-driven business and succeed as entrepreneurs. Nwaogu is the winner of the Migration Entrepreneurship Prize 2020, the Africa 35.35 Award 2019 for Entrepreneurship, the Young Leaders Award 2019 for Media and Entertainment, and the Bizz Business Excellence Award 2019. He is an Acumen Fellow 2020 (West Africa), Alibaba eFounders Fellow 2020 (China), Westerwelle Fellow 2019 (Germany), AfricanPLP Fellow 2019 (Cairo), and Yunus&Youth Global Fellow 2019 (New York).

Elohor Thomas

CEO/Cofounder of CodeLn
Elohor is a Tech Entrepreneur with a mission of growing global businesses. She is a mentor and coach to tech enthusiasts; having trained over 500 people on Software Development, she is now focused on helping African Software Developers find their dream jobs. As the CEO of CodeLn, she helps Companies seamlessly recruit skilled Software Developers.

Modupe Durosinmi-Etti

Program Director - The Bulb Africa
Modupe Durosinmi-Etti is a Business Development Manager with demonstrated experience driving technology expansion, partnerships, strategy, and operations in top-tier technology startups across Africa. She is the Program Director at The Bulb Africa, where she is coordinating multiple projects towards the empowerment and growth of tech talents and startups in Africa. Modupe’s career has focused on building tech communities and initiating collaboration among entrepreneurs, employees and delivery partners. Prior to becoming the Program Director at the Bulb Africa, she served as the Senior Manager – Government Relations and Partnerships at OPay where she effectively developed and managed strategic relationships with over fifty government officials to facilitate the expansion of the company and promote strategic goals.

Seun Odegbami

Brand & Communications - Founder, Creatividad
Seun Odegbami is an experienced brand and marketing professional driven by passion to see businesses get actionable results using available resources, he takes pride in providing his best version as dutifully as possible. As a marketing professional some of his primary goals include helping business grow their brand and content marketing strategy having done this with several startups. Some of his contents have received recognition by one of the leading telecomms brand in Nigeria.

Organizing team

Priscilia
Amadi ICSN

Lagos, Nigeria
Organizer
  • Aderonke Salami
    Operations
  • Chinazom Ekwosimba
    Marketing/Communications
  • Collins Amabuo
    Marketing/Communications
  • Ekundayo Raymond
    Post production
  • Ore Afolayan
    Marketing/Communications
  • Vivienne Belonwu
    Operations