Mohammed IbrahimJega is the Co-founder of Domineum Blockchain Solutions, a Distributed Ledger Technology Company providing Blockchain-as -a service solutions. He is a Director at Vogue Pay, an online payment processing company, and also a Director at Vpd.money, a challenger bank. He is the Chief Marketing Officer at mAcademy, an e-learning platform with the vision to get quality and affordable learning at the fingertips of every Nigerian, and the Founder of Startup Arewa, a platform designed to build a sustainable northern tech ecosystem and unlock the potential of the Region. Mohammed is an accomplished highly-organized Project Manager and Business Developer with 18+ years of experience, a Serial Tech Entrepreneur, Startup Advisor/Mentor, Fintech Expert, Blockchain Advocate, International Partner World Business Angel Investment Forum (WBAF), an Official member at Forbes Business Council, and Director at silicon Valley-based Founder Institute. He sits on the board of several tech companies and has received several awards both locally and internationally including Africa’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 by the Tech Times African Influencer Award, Future Awards Africa nominee for Service to Young People, and recognition as the most influential young Nigerian in 2017 by Avance Media and awarded Royal African Young Leadership Forum Award 2021 by Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi the Ooni of Ife. He has a Master's Degree in Information Systems from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, a Bachelor’s degree, and Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science from the same institution. In 2010 he added another Post Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Maiduguri.

Co-Founder, Domineum Blockchain Solutions Limited

Blockchain

Ray is the founder and leader of Extreme Venture Partners, Canada's top seed stage venture fund. Ray and Extreme Venture Partners has lead-funded or founded 100+ startups with exits to Apple, Google, Electronic Arts, McKesson, Salesforce and many others. Community service is an integral part of Ray’s business philosophy. Ray has served 4 years on the Ontario Judicial Council, oversight body for the judicial system; another 6 years of service at the Royal Ontario Museum, as a member of the Board of Trustees; as an advisor to the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario on open data strategy. Ray authored a chapter with the CIO of the Government of Canada on the role of 5G on citizen services. Ray is the founder and leader of national hackathon competitions Great Canadian Appathon, Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE), as well as charitable organization Hackergal. Ray serves on the Technical Advisory Committee of Duality Accelerator, the first program in the US focused on quantum science and technology.

General Partner, Pacer Ventures

Blockchain

Ahmed Yousif has been working in the ICT industry for over 21 years, most of which has been on Digital Transformation products and services for the e-Government. After a decade working in the U.S. Government in a leadership role, he joined the Saudi Government in 2015 in Saudi Arabia as a Digital Transformation Leader and Strategic Head. Mr. Yousif is leading the Blockchain for Government Initiative Middle East. As a Digital Transformation Leader, he has led many blockchain and data driven projects in the area of BI, AI, and ML where he is able to deliver substantial strategic results. His strong operational focus based on data and customer digital experience is used to inform, plan, and enable the digital strategy. He is a proven cross-cultural, multi-national executive with exceptional influencing skills. He is an innovator with a deep grasp of G2C and G2G technologies, data, and services both in the U.S. and abroad.

Lead of BSV Blockchain for Government Initiative Middle East, BSV Blockchain.

Blockchain

Ray is a founder and the CEO of Paxful, the global peer-to-peer platform with over ten million users. The company was recently named a TIME100 Most Influential Company for 2022. A proud African immigrant, Ray grew up in the middle of Hell’s Kitchen during the 80s and 90s while working at his parents' newsstand. Prior to launching Paxful, he started out as an entrepreneur, founding a series of start-ups including a successful digital ringtone business. He realized that the fundamentals of our financial system were broken, but that Bitcoin offered a way for anyone, anywhere to access the global market. Paxful was born from that idea. In 2021, Ray was named one of Coindesk’s 40 Most Influential people. He is also a contributor for Bitcoin Magazine. As part of Paxful’s mission to support emerging markets, Ray founded the Built With Bitcoin Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit dedicated to creating equitable opportunity by providing clean water, access to quality education, sustainable farming, and humanitarian support—all powered by Bitcoin. To date, the Foundation has built and repaired ten schools, seven solar projects, and over a dozen water and farming systems across the globe.

Founder and CEO, Paxful

Blockchain

Lorien Gamaroff is the founder/CEO of Bankymoon, a blockchain and cryptocurrency consultancy and co-founder/CEO of Centbee, a cryptocurrency payments and remittance company. He also serves as a Bitcoin Association ambassador. As one of the world's foremost blockchain experts, Lorien has been invited internationally to speak on digital/cryptocurrencies and decentralized/distributed ledgers and their benefits for emerging economies. He has addressed and advised the United Nations, IMF, World Bank, FBI and Commonwealth Secretariat, the South African Reserve Bank, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, TEDx and a host of professionals in multiple industries and attorneys general throughout the world. He offers insight and guidance to universities, business executives and advises governments on blockchain technologies and their implications. He pioneered blockchain payments for utility smart metering and was the co-founder of the Blockchain Academy which educates professionals on all aspects of blockchains from regulations to software development.

CEO, Centbee

Blockchain

James Sisneros is the founder and CEO of the Possibility Company, a safe and positive social app & digital wallet to promote, track, and reward participation in meaningful, real-life activities impacting student achievement, and globally supporting financial literacy and inclusion. James is a passionate entrepreneur and a member of 5 startups, with 12 years of Executive search experience. He developed Zaahah, as a free platform to track, manage and promote student participation; launching the aHa token - a global cryptocurrency to reward schools, educators, students, and parents for participation in school-related activities and behaviors that are proven to improve graduation rates and student achievement. Having run a recruitment agency for over 20 years, James is an expert recruiter and has a very detail oriented consultant - supporting innovative technologies that redefine education with real world scalable solutions.

Founder & CEO, The Possibility Company

Blockchain

Simit leads the nChain commercial & strategy team, where he is responsible for shaping and delivering complex strategic campaigns across some of nChain’s key industry verticals and driving the commercial strategy for the organization. He is a leading figure within blockchain, speaking at conferences around the world on the topic of blockchain, and more recently, central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and digital payments.

Director, Commercial & Strategy, nChain

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Faith Titus OkaforMbah is a career multi-disciplined Tech seasonality mastermind professional, also a converner of Tech conferences and has spoken in numerous blockchain Tech conferences both home and abroad. Her passion cuts across building capacity, and has impacted over 1000 blockchain technology and Cryptocurrency enthusiasts through her education center via a periodic hosting of knowledge and product based conferences, both at state and national level including “Regional blockchain and Digital Assets Summit, 2018”; Abuja Blockchain and AI conference, and other blockchain in house trainings, meetups and seminars across major cities within and outside Africa since 2016. A trainer and business entrepreneur with a demonstrated job career history of over 15 years both in the government and private sector ICT/Finance/Business development driven departments as management executives. Furthermore, deploying Sonergy protocol-A blockchain-based data integrity protocol that connects businesses, researchers, and data providers to access quality and trustless data that will inform their strategic business decisions.

Founder/CEO, Sonergy Data Technologies & Cofounder Blockchain Nigeria User Group

Blockchain

Saminu Salisu is a Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator, and a PhD candidate at TU Wien with a research focus in Data Analytics and masters degree in Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. He has extensive commercial experience in blockchain development where he co founded a successful blockchain startup bird.money which was incubated by binance for the season 3 programme. As part of a research, we built TimeSet https://vis4sense.github.io/, an intelligence visualization tool with Middlesex University in collaboration with https://mass.co.uk/ for the Ministry of Defence (MOD) UK.

Founder and CTO, Bilic.io

Blockchain

Chimezie Chuta is Founder/Co-ordinator, Blockchain Nigeria User Group. He is the protem Chairman for Organization of Blockchain Technology Users (OBTU) and the Africa Lead, Technology & Innovation at Blockspace Africa Technologies ltd. Chimezie Chuta was previously Regional Director for Africa at Paxful Inc and is an Advisory Board Member at Kinesis Money for West Africa. As a Certified Technology Innovation Expert, he plays a key role in organizing Nigeria’s biggest Blockchain and Cryptocurrency events in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt for three consecutive years. With his involvement as a community lead organizer, he is involved in a number of industry- government projects working towards technology innovation. This includes being a member of Fintech Roadmap Committee of The Nigeria Capital Market, set up by SEC Nigeria, Blockchain, Virtual Financial Assets Regulations Working Group also set up by SEC Nigeria, and NITDA National Blockchain Strategy Team.

Founder, Blockchain Nigeria User Group

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Jennifer Chizua is a Serial Entrepreneur and the Founder of StartPreneurs. Startpreneurs is a Full Service Technology Company Transforming Government Through Digitization. Jennifer Chizua also is the first Female to Head a Smart Project in the Federal Capital Territory Administration as a Model City on the deployment of Telecommunications Antennas and Base Transceiver Stations on Street Infrastructure. StartPreneurs also is Abuja’s first African Parallel Entrepreneurship Ecosystem which operates a Venture Builder Model to speed up our start-up’s development through a combination of financial support and hands on guidance. In 2014 she invented the world's first automated cleaning machine in the Cosmetic industry. It uses innovative technology to clean, dry and disinfect Make-up brushes for professional make-up artists and for every Make-up user.

CEO Startprenuers

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Dr Salisu Uba is a Blockchain researcher, procurement and supply chain leader, and consultant, Evolve Commercial U.K, and the Founder of NatQuest. He is a procurement, and supply chain leader who has delivered complex procurement and supply chain transformation, digital innovation, and operational excellence projects and programmes. He has enjoyed combining his deep interest and research expertise in emerging technologies with his procurement and supply chain expertise to implement transformation in Africa, the Middle East, and the Uk with a track record of completed industry-spanning projects (public sector, defense, oil and gas, and manufacturing). Salisu has used his academic and consulting experience to develop new business streams for adopting emerging technologies (Blockchain, AI, Cloud computing, etc.) to procurement, contract management, and supply chain. Salisu has presented at international conferences, webinars, and workshops and published in academic journals in Blockchain adoption, digital transformation and supply chain. He’s a consultant with Evolve Commercial in the U.K. and the Founder NatQuest.

Founder/Managing Partner, NatQuest Limited

Blockchain

Saeed Mohammed Alhebsi
AI Advisory for the UAE Government,
Project Manager at MOHRE,
Blockchain Advisory for multinational companies, and
Public Speaker
He is a serial entrepreneur in Dubai and aso:
Graduate of the first batch of artificial intelligence program from Oxford University - Ministry of Artificial Intelligence
Graduate of the first batch of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Program - Prime Minister's Office
Graduate of the first batch of the Emirates Program for Creative Government Leaders - Prime Minister's Office

Advisor AI & Snr Project Mngr, UAE Ministry of HR & Emiratisation

Blockchain

Mr Calistus is an enthusiastic Blockchain, Python and DevOps engineer with over 7 years of experience in the information technology industry.
He is the Country CTO of Domineum Blockchain Solutions, and Tech Lead of the Blockchain Center at Baze University, and Cloud Mentor at Andela.

Country CTO, Domineum.io

Blockchain

Tony Emeka is a media practitioner, Blockchain consultant, business man with more than 15 years in the media sector and more than 6 years experience in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry.
He is a crypto evangelist, cofounder and CEO of two innovative companies in the blockchain industry; CryptoTvplus, a blockchain and crypto focused media company, and Earnathon, a free to learn about blockchain , Web3 and NFT'S , and earn cryptocurrency.
Tony Emeka has become a household name in the African industry as he continues to pioneer innovative programs, aimed at driving education, information, and adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrency. He has also through his companies worked with various firms across the globe. Tony Emeka believes in giving the platform for people to grow, building them to achieve their potentials and this is reflected in his the popular BCAT (blockchain and cryptocurrency awareness tour) program which saw tens of thousands of young Nigerians get exposure to blockchain and cryptocurrency for the first time.

Founder, Crypto Tvplus

Blockchain

Musa Ali Baba, an Independent Consultant, is a technology and finance strategist with over 25 years of varied experiences. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Wales, an MBA from the London Business School; and did the IMP at the Stern School of Business, NYU. He also is an alumnus the African Angel Academy and is setting up an Angel Fund, based in Abuja. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers Nigeria and a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consulting. He has worked at Pfizer, Microsoft and Oracle Corporations, as well as in government. Until recently he was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Teasy International (TeasyPay). He engages himself in activities aimed at growing Nigeria’s IDE ecosystem and serves on the board of FSDH Merchant Bank, Nigeria, as an Independent Non-Executive Director. He is in the Second Cohort of students at the SPPG.

serves on the board of FSDH Merchant Bank

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Franklin Peters is a computer scientist, business mentor, blockchain enthusiast, entrepreneur as well as founder of boundlesspay, a cryptocurrency wallet that solves the problem of global remittance. He is also the VC partnerships and investment in Stake Holders in Blockchain Association of Nigeria (SIBAN), and the founder Blockchain Vibes (a recurring event that is centered on educating crypto and tech enthusiasts about Blockchain technology.
He has been featured in Tekedia Mini-MBA, Fintech Nigeria, and other intelligence series and regularly shares insights on blockchain and its impact in both finance and tech. His accuracy in projecting blockchain trends and evolutions is the reason why he is popularly known as the Blockchain Oracle.

Executive Director, Boundless Nexus Limited

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Jeffrey Williams-Edem is an accomplished business and technology leader with over 11 years of experience in the fintech industry, Jeffrey worked with brands such as Interswitch, NCR and Nomba, taking on high-impact sales growth in the African market. Recognized for deploying innovative and novel business models in multiple African business sectors through strategic partnerships at the local and global levels.
Jeffrey Williams-edem Is known for his deep understanding of the regulatory landscape of the payment industry. He built the popular Quickteller Business and introduced 2 well-known business models- the Acquirer-as-a-service and the Terminal-as-a-service. He has a track record of building practical digital business tools integrated with digital payment solutions that facilitate micro and enterprise-type transactions, enabling investments for fintech start-ups to support industry growth. He is an alumnus of Lagos and Columbia Business Schools, trained in Melian Heiman and Value Selling Methodology.

Fintech Business Growth Expert

Blockchain

Mohammed Bello popularly known as BELLOKANO is a serial entrepreneur in the northern part of Nigerian who actively contributed a lot in the Nigerian tech ecosystem and founded idcheck.ng - a licensed NIMC KYC platform, Dansahu Keke ride hailing app, Health pay HMO, bellmonie POS agency (decentralized banking) BellBank BellBank MICROFINANCE (DIGITAL BANK) and many more. With an ultimate goal of making life more simpler leveraging on innovative technology.

Founder, BelloKano

Blockchain

Michael Femi Simeon is the CEO and Co-Founder at VPD Money - A start-up Pan African border-less digital financial service, targeted at millennial Africans in the continent and diaspora, with the aim of providing an emerging fit-for-purpose financial service technology that meets the needs of Africans’ financial institutions disintegrated operations, unavailability of border-less proficiency and legacy administration hitch. As an erudite FINTECH enthusiast, Michael leads VPD with about three decades of business experience, mainly in the property investment sector, and online projects.
Prior to VPD Money, Michael fore-fronted VoguePay- a payment processing company that facilitates seamless online payments thereby enabling global business growth while providing exceptional customer experience, where he led the firm from zero to a multi million dollar firm, thereby taking the firm to be full blown both locally and globally. Under his leadership, VoguePay has won prestigious industry award including “African Online Payment of the year” at the African Achievers Award in 2016, an award rated by FORBES magazine as one of the most prestigious award ceremonies that represents the entire African continent, and also the “Best FINTECH start-up” at Cashless Africa Award in 2017, amongst several others.
Additionally, Michael is a strategic and relentless thinker, who holds a B.A (Hon) in politics & Economics from the Northumbria University UK, he also acquired a Masters degree in International Relations from the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom.

CEO, Vpd.money

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Dr Usman Gambo Abdullahi is the Director, Information Technology Infrastructure Solutions, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). Prior to joining NITDA, Dr Abdullahi served for six years as the pioneer Director, Accreditation, Curriculum and Quality, Centre for Management Development (CMD), Nigeria’s foremost Human Capital Development Agency. He has also served as a member of a number of Governing Boards including Maybury School, Surrey Governors’ Association and Ashford & St Peters’ NHS Trust, all in the United Kingdom. Dr Abdulahi holds both Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Computer Science from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi – Nigeria, and PhD in Human Computer Interaction from Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He is also a registered PRINCE2 Practitioner, Agile Project Management Practitioner, a holder of Postgraduate Certificate in Education and a number of other professional qualifications. He is also a Member, Association of Computing Machinery (MACM) and British Computer Society (MBCS).

Director, IT Infrastructure Solutions, NITDA

Blockchain

Dr Risla Abdulazeez Kanya is a resourceful and focused ICT specialist with considerable exposure in Enterprise Architecture, Project/Programme management, ICT4D, Higher Education Innovation, Data Impact, Visibility & Funding Analytics, Design & Implementation of Campus and Large Networks, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and many more. Prior to his role as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of IT, Research & Innovation, Dr Rislan had earlier worked as an instructor for CTech USA certification programs at Informatics Institute, before joining Baze University as a pioneer staff and Head/Director of IT service in 2011, during which he was instrumental in driving the University’s digital transformation agenda, including the implementation of digital literacy and competency programs. Dr Rislan has a PhD in Computing (ICT for Development - ICT4D) from the University of Portsmouth, a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Wales, and a BSc. (Hons) in Computing and Information Systems. He has diversified experience in Information Systems, Digital Transformation, Change Management, and Business Process Re-engineering.

DVC IT Research & Innovation, Baze University

Blockchain

Dr Ibrahim is a seasoned professional, a versatile strategist, policy analyst, a project & risk manager. He is a highly motivated and passionate professional and has conceived several ideas and made some of them worthwhile projects that have affected the lives of people. As an accountant and an administrator, Dr Ibrahim specializes in public and corporate administration, management accounting and financial management, risk management, project management and business development. His years of experience have sharpened his awareness as well as adherence to standards and quality in project delivery. This he applies to personal, professional and business relationships which have served to produce established, stable, productive relationships with colleagues, employees and even other professionals. He has a PHD in Business Administration, he is also a Fellow CF.PRMP, a Certified Management Consultant (CMC), FCMAN, FCAI, and a Master Project Manager, to mention a few.

President PVG Consult

Blockchain

Senator Ihenyen is the Lead Partner at Infusion Lawyers where he heads the FinTech, Blockchain & Virtual Assets Practice of the law firm. A tech lawyer with interest in policy and regulations, Senator is the current President of Stakeholders in Blockchain Technology Association of Nigeria (SiBAN). He served as Vice Chairman, Policy & Regulations. Senator is also the current General Secretary of the Blockchain Industry Coordinating Committee of Nigeria (BICCoN), the coordinating body in Nigeria's emerging blockchain industry. He is also the current General Secretary of the FinTech Alliance Coordinating Team (FACT). Senator is the exclusive contributor (Nigeria chapter) to the International Guide to Blockchain 2020 and Lead Trainer, Blockchain for Lawyers 101. He is currently the 1st Vice Chairman, Intellectual Property Committee and member of the Information Technology Committee of the Nigeria Bar Association Section on Business Law (NBA-SBL).

President, Stakeholders in Blockchain Technology Association of Nigeria (SiBAN)

Blockchain

MD/CEO Unitellas International Limited

Chartered IT Professional and Telecoms Consultant, ICT and Project Director, Community Leader, Volunteer Mentor, Philanthropist and Administrator par excellence with Ph.D. in Wireless Communications having research interest in Underwater Wireless Communications (UWC) and Cellular-based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications who had published in several journals and IEEE conference articles. Nasir is an Ericsson Certified Customer Project Manager and Experienced Consulting and System Integrator with a track record of handing complex projects. He has vast experience working with private and public sectors as well as multinationals while at NITEL, MTN Nigeria & Uganda, Airtel, Ericsson Nigeria & KSA, NHIS and University Community at Umaru Musa Yar’adua University (UMYU, Katsina) & Usman Dan-Fodio University, Sokoto (UDUS). Prior to his appointment as GBB CISBCO, he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Backbone Connectivity Networks (BCN) where he championed the company’s digital economy transformation and broadband expansion initiatives in Nigeria and Sub-saharan Africa. Nasir is married with children and plays Chess and Golf cheerfully during his free moments.​

Galaxy Backbone Limited

Dr Sambo-Magaji is an experienced computer scientist and academic with diverse skills in data analytics, technology policy, innovation strategy and project management. She served at the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for 14 years before moving to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). For 5 years, she was responsible for coordinating the activities of the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystems in Nigeria. She restructured the office to serve as an agile Government facilitator which created an enabling environment for the ecosystem to thrive. In 2021 she was part of the team that pioneered DIgital Economy at NITDA. This role kick started the Nigerian outsourcing and e-commerce policies among others. Dr Amina is recently appointed the pioneer Ag Director, Digital Skills and Capacity Development at NITDA.
Academically, Dr Sambo-Magaji has an all distinction academic record. She holds a first class degree in Computer Science from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi (ATBU) and a Masters with Distinction in Information Engineering with Network Management and PhD (Artificial Intelligence) at Robert Gordon University, Scotland. Her research work has been published in reputable platforms with several outstanding awards.
Dr Sambo- Magaji is an active member of the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS) and British Computer Society (BCS). She led the team that draft the first AI policy preliminary report and has represented Nigeria globally in several high level meetings in AI, technology, innovation and women empowerment. She is from Kaduna State and married with children.

Director, Digital Skills and Capacity Development at NITDA

Yele Okeremi is the founding and incumbent Chief Executive Officer of Precise Financial Systems Ltd. A company he co-founded with a capital of less than $60 in 1994. He is an Adjunct Professor of Business Strategy at the Nobel International Business School Accra, Ghana.
Okeremi holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree from the Swiss Business School, Zurich, Switzerland having previously obtained a Master of Applied Business Research from the same institution. He also has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science (With Economics) from the Obafemi Awolowo University. He is an alumnus of the Wits Business School, Johannesburg South Africa and Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA where he completed the Owner President Management Program. He is also an alumnus of INSEAD Fontainebleau, France where he completed the International Directors Program and obtained the Certificate in Corporate Governance.
Prior to PFS, he had a successful professional career at Inlaks Computers before he proceeded to Industrial Bank Limited (Merchant Bankers) as a Programmer/Analyst. He was the Chief Information Officer of Industrial Bank as at the time he left for Ventura Savings and Loans Limited as the Head, Systems and Logistics department. He held this position until 1994 when he co-founded PFS with Philip Ayeni, a Chartered Accountant.
As a leading icon in software development in Nigeria, Okeremi is a member of the Presidential Initiative for developing the software industry in Nigeria and has previously served on the board of the Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). He is a past President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) having previously served as Second and First Vice President and Chairman Legal and Legislative Committee of the Institute.
As a technology startup advocate supporting the promotion and funding of indigenous entrepreneurs, twice, he served as the chairman of the Local Organizing Committee [LOC] for Demo Africa in 2014 and 2015. Demo Africa is an initiative of the United States Department of State and Lions@frica to promote innovation in the technology field globally and connecting startup companies with investors.
Dr. Okeremi has a passion for the development of intellectual capital of the black race and continues to advocate his position that irrespective of the conditions of the black man, the black man is by no means inferior in intelligence to anyone else in the world.

Precise Financial Systems Ltd

Ayodeji Rex Abitogun is a recognized leader and advocate of technology entrepreneurship and sustainable digital transformation. He is the Lead Consultant/Chief Executive officer of Management Edge Limited, an information technology consulting firm assisting individuals, governments, and organizations in achieving sustainable digital transformation.
With two decades of experience in the information technology industry, Rex has distinguished himself in leading diverse teams delivering major IT projects for governments and private organizations within and outside Nigeria. He has adequate experience in IT service delivery, Project Management, New Product development, and business sustainability strategy.
Mr. Abitogun is a chartered IT professional with many industry certifications. He is a fellow and a member of the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Computer Society, where he currently serves as the Chairman Conferences Committee (CCC). He is also a member of the Institute of Directors (IoD), the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM), and the Association of Change Management Professionals. He enjoys playing football, swimming, and traveling.

Management Edge Limited

Dr Vincent Olatunji has a doctorate degree in Geography and Planning and an Advanced Diploma in Computer Studies. He is a Certified Public Private Partnership Specialist (IP3 Specialist) and a PECB Certified Data Protection Officer. He has worked in the public sector for over 32years.
He joined to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in 2002 where he rose to the position of a Director in 2014 and Acting Director General in 2016. He successfully mainstreamed the development of various regulatory instruments such as the Nigeria IT Policy/ICT4D Plan, Inter-Operability Framework, Nigeria Enterprise Architecture, Cloud First Policy, Government Digital Service Policy, Nigeria Data Protection Regulation and Smart Initiatives Framework .
He is a member of many committee of experts and chaired Nigeria’s National Interoperability and Enterprise Architecture Committee, Digital Transformation Technical Working Group and the Nigeria Data Protection Implementation Committee.
He is highly experienced in team building, research activities, policy development and strategic planning on various development initiatives. He equally offers significant capability in the delivery of high value outcomes as a skilled negotiator, social networker and public speaker whose personal focus is on working with teams and individuals to maximize economic potentials.
He was listed among the 100 Leading Telecom and ICT Personalities in Nigeria in April, 2018 and is a member of many professional associations.
On the 4th of January, 2022, he was appointed as the pioneer National Commissioner/CEO of the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau by President Mohammad Buhari, GCFR.
He is happily married with children.

National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)

Olawale is a leader within the data space. He is a data enthusiast with more than 12 years of experience developing Data Strategy, architecture, and governance processes. He has led multiple MDM (Master Data Management) projects and helped formulate organization’s data governance policies. Wale as fondly called is an alumni of Havard Business School, where he studied Disruption Strategy and also possess multiple certifications within IT and Data space including TOGAF Enterprise Architecture.

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Abubakar Umar has over 15yrs working experience in Information Technology and Strategic Level Management, with extensive knowledge of managing the delivery of business-critical IT and Business Change Management for large organizations using the latest technology and business process reengineering tools. I have gained cutting-edge experience working on projects, designing and developing enterprise applications solutions in the UK and Africa. I pioneered the deployment of Cloud Technology on an enterprise scale within the power sector in Nigeria post-privatization which led the way for value added services in mobile app and software services integration for payments and Business Intelligence processes for the power distribution arm of the power sector value chain. A graduate of Computer Science from UEL in the United Kingdom, who holds an MBA in Leadership & Sustainability from Cumbria University. He also holds technology course certificates in Applied Blockchain Technology from MIT, Data Visualization from Harvard University and Senior Executive Program from London Business School (LBS). Abubabkar is on the board and hold Director positions of a few tech startups, with special interest in blockchain and emerging technologies.

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Technopreneur and civic technology activist, Abdulganiyu Rufai is a co-founder of Telegro, an e-extension startup that provides advisory support to smallholder farmers, and Promager, a development project management startup that supports grant-making organizations. He is presently the CEO of Digital Development Hub, the first innovation hub in Northern Nigeria with a headquarters in Kano. He belongs to the Internet Governance Forum, the Internet Society, and Afrilabs. He also serves as the director of corporate affairs for Nigeria's largest umbrella body of innovation hubs, startups, and maker spaces. He is becoming more interested in venture capital and angel investing.

Telegro

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Salisu is a procurement and supply chain leader specialising in digital procurement transformation across multiple industries. He’s completing a doctorate programme on the adoption of Blockchain technology in the oil and gas supply chain at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has recently delivered complex IT procurement transformation strategies for public sectors, the Procurement 4.0 programme for the UK’s manufacturing sector and many more.
Salisu founded NatQuest, a leading consultancy focusing on learning, supply chain, technology and consulting. He is a member of the Board of Silvershell UK, Sahel Iron and Steel, and co-founded the African Chamber of Digital Commerce (ACofDC), United States of America.
Salisu holds a BSc (Hons) Accountancy from the University of Maiduguri, Master of Supply Chain from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Executive Management Certificate in Managing Digital Transformation from Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow and a certificate in Blockchain technology from IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In addition, he is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), Chartered Institute of Loan and Risk Management of Nigeria and a member of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), UK and International Society of Innovation Management.
He has presented, published, and participated in international conferences, academic journals and webinars. He has recently emerged 1st runner-up best paper award at EPRBSS, Middlesex University, Dubai, United Kingdom.

NatQuest,member of the Board of Silvershell UK, Sahel Iron and Steel, and co-founded the African Chamber of Digital Commerce (ACofDC), United States of America.

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Gbemi is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Pacer Ventures, a Venture Fund focused on investing in early-stage African tech startups. Through his work at Pacer Ventures, he supports early-stage tech founders who are solving the most critical problems across Africa.
Over the past 10 years, he has worked in several roles in innovation and startup ecosystem development. His experience spans across the Middle East, Africa and North America. He helped design and launch startups' innovation program in Dubai, UAE; launched one of Canada's first Venture Studios in Toronto; and was the program manager of Canada's first Cybersecurity and Ecommerce Accelerator.
He received an MBA from the Hult International Business School and has a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Pacer Ventures

Ajuma is an angel investor, technology innovation and enterprise solutions builder and also CEO of The Learning Gate. Experienced business development consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the sectors of agriculture, education, technology and international trade. Skilled in project management/turnkey projects, business planning, coaching, and entrepreneurship; a Cochran Fellow, Mashav Scholar and Swedish Institute Alumna. Possessing Social entrepreneurship certifications from University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Copenhagen Business School. Startup Ecosystem builder, Venture partner in Private equity.

CEO of The Learning Gate.

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Jude Ozinegbe is a Digital Transformation and Blockchain Consultant.
He is the Convener of Cyberchain - A National Cybersecurity and Blockchain Conference.
He is a Cisco, ITIL, Microsoft and Fortinet Expert, An author, A trainer and A multi-vertical Entrepreneur.
Jude serves as the Managing Partner at Zinochrome International - A Digital Transformation Company, that has successfully built various Network Infrastructure for several companies ranging from the Banking Hospitality, Educational and Governmental Institutions, over the past 14 years.
He is the Nigerian Ambassador of The University of Nicosia, Cyprus on her Blockchain and Digital Currency Programs.
He is a pioneer member of the Stakeholders in Blockchain Association of Nigeria - SiBAN, he is also a member of the Antiscam Taskforce, set up by the Antiscam Consortium made up of SiBAN, Blockchain Nigeria User Group - BNUG and Cryptographic Development Initiative in Nigeria - CDIN in collaboration with the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission - SEC to curb nefarious Cryptocurrency activities within the Nigerian Blockchain ecosystem.
Connect with Jude Ozinegbe at: linkedin.com/in/judeozinegbe/

Managing Partner at Zinochrome International

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Maryam Gwadabe
She is the Founder of Blue Sapphire Hub, a hub that nurtures talent and foster innovations. Maryam is passionate academic researcher, Startup Mentor, and Social Innovator.
She has bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Coventry University and Masters in Computer Network Management from Middlesex University.
Maryam won an award for best paper at ERPBSS in 2015, an alumni of 2020 Forbes Africa 30 under 30, a 2021 alumni for International Visitor Leadership Programme in science and technology by US department of state.
She has keen interest in the opportunities presented by technology leveraging its innovations to impact on the livelihood and businesses of all that she come across. Over the years, she has supported and encouraged people across the dimensions of social strata, age and gender to engage ICT by giving them an avenue that strives for up to date industry best practices where they can realize potentials and unleash latent abilities

Founder of Blue Sapphire Hub

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Hadiza is the General Manager of Pacer Labs. She has a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Technology, Minna. A seasoned Sales and Channel Partnership professional with over 12 years combined experience across businesses and diverse industries. She has led sales engagement in
multi-million Dollar deals while building tactical and strategic business relationships with C-level executives.
Hadiza has found her niche in working across industries to deliver technology solutions in Nigeria while consistently achieving and exceeding set business targets. She is responsible for driving Pacer Labs growth in Nigeria and across Africa

General Manager of Pacer Labs

Bashir Yusuf Ahmed, is the CEO of Etijar, an Africa focused Islamic Fintech company providing data driven business finance, they have developed means to track you financial data while it calculates your zakat. Etijar is making Islamic finance ubiquitous.
He was Senior VP Network Development at Gicell Wireless a CDMA Telecom company. He was Founder and CEO of Metronet Broadband Networks an MSP and FTTx enabler in Abuja, also was a Partner at Anthill Capital Partners a MICRO-PE in the FMCG and QSR space among many other Management Consulting roles in over 16 years of work. Along the way he has advised and designed many government projects in the security and intelligence space.
On the side he breeds and raises livestock, trade commodities and facilitate deals and transactions for the benefit of the Republic.

CEO of Etijar

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Oyewole is a senior manager at PAXFUL, one of the largest peer-to-peer Fintech platforms in the world, with over 10 million users worldwide. They provide blockchain technology-enabled remittance services to individuals and businesses. As a senior manager, he is heading PAXNAIJA, a tech hub that educates empowers, and enriches Nigerians around the digital economic space through digital skills. Paxnaija has organized campus tours, entrepreneurship drives, and about 7 entrepreneurship training sessions which have impacted over 1,000 individuals in total. He is a leadership development trainer with over 12 years of mentoring, coaching, and training people to be productive in their business and civic work. He is the Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) at Servelead Global (SLG), a company dedicated to equipping 21st-century change-makers with the necessary skills for global relevance. This firm has trained and impacted over 10,000 people cumulatively and has raised thousands of dollars for the development of their cowork and cobuild spaces in Abuja. His work has cut across the training of NGOs, Public Servants, and Businessmen.

Senior manager at PAXFUL, Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) at Servelead Global (SLG)

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KSH–as he prefers to be called, is a modest, loving yet determined man, who will stop at nothing to accomplish success. With a heart of gold, Khalil strives to enhance the living conditions of societies all over Africa by initiating and implementing various technological upgrades and sustainable local-based solutions to issues arising.
Khalil is a dynamic, creative, intelligent, hard-working entrepreneur and a firm believer in the power of technology to impact and improve livelihood in developing countries.
Khalil is what one can call a ”true born entrepreneur.” This only became clear in the later stages of his life when he developed a passion for providing affordable yet sustainable technological solutions to businesses operating in the agricultural sector. His continuous efforts and willingness to help others, has added value to humanity and positively changed the narrative of technological innovation in Africa.
After graduating from the University, Khalil worked as an admin clerk at Archimode & Associates. His path took a unique turn when he joined the family business and took over the position of Marketing Manager at Gongoni Company Limited. Gongoni is a vertically integrated aerosol manufacturing company and forms part of the sister company, Scirrocco International Limited, which specializes in the manufacturing of tea and cold beverages.
Khalil also served as Chief Operating Officer at Scirrocco and held this position for a little over three consecutive years.
At the young age of only 23, Khalil already held several positions in various companies as well as established an outstanding reputation for himself in the business sector.
Some positions Khalil has held over the time frame of three years include:
Managing Director (MD) at Khash Strategic Services Ltd. In 2014.
KSH Construction & Design LTD in 2014 Creative Director/Business developer- Africa Infotech Consultancy–2015 Operations Manager at ZCET Global Meter Services Ltd. in 2017
In 2019, Khalil founded the first-ever eco-friendly technological hub in West Africa, best known as The CANs. The hub grew very popular over a short period and has continued to attract fellow environmentalists and technology enthusiasts from all over the continent. A community that encourages individuals to share ideas, host events, and become one with nature, The CANS is not only a technological platform but serves as a center, where technology start-ups can connect, learn, grow and prosper.
Because of his business acumen, strategic skill, and detailed planning, Khalil is an asset and valuable resource to have on the Africa Infotech Consultancy board, as well as the JIGS Environmental Services and Agro-Allied Ltd. Khalil currently serves as the Chairperson of MACE Nigeria Ltd., which introduced the first digital content marketplace in Africa.

Gongoni Company Limited, Chairperson of MACE Nigeria Ltd

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Dr Rislan A. Kanya, DVC IT, Research and Innovation, Baze University: Rislan graduated with B.Sc. (Hons) Computing and Information Systems and PhD Computing (ICT for Development - ICT4D) from University of Portsmouth and Master of Business Administration from University of Wales, UK. Rislan is a Practitioner, Innovator and Researcher of ICT4D, with considerable exposure in IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Digital Transformation for Business Process Reengineering and Culture Change, Innovation/Startup/Spinoff Management, Design and Implementation of Campus/Large Scale Network, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). He was involved in various capacities to plan and implement ICT interventions (such as Digital literacy and competence, establishment of ICT Services Department and ICT4D project implementation and evaluation for optimal performance). Rislan is a Chartered Member of British Computer Society (CITP, MBCS), Member Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria (MCPN), Senior Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE), among others. Rislan delivered various keynote speeches, presented different technical and academic papers globally, contributed to many United Nation Systems, Ministerial and other top-level working groups and calls to action. Rislan invented over 30 digital transformation systems that are currently supporting various human development agendas. Rislan research agenda focuses on building smart, sustainable, resilience, inclusive ​and student's centered ​University campuses by leveraging​ on​ digital transformation​​ ecosystem.​

DVC IT, Research and Innovation, Baze University

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