Speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
MI Abaga
Jude Abaga, known by his stage name M.I Abaga, was born in Jos Plateau State. He is widely heralded as Africa’s most commercially successful rapper. He first tasted mainstream success in 2008 with his debut, ‘Talk About It’, which sold 30,000 copies in the first 30 minutes; the largest sales recorded at that time. The album was a watershed moment for Nigeria’s hip-hop community, laying out the much-needed blueprint for commercial success selling rap in Africa.
His music was largely based on his experience as a kid from war-torn Jos and his immersive experience while earning a business degree from Calvin College, Michigan. His love for melody and understanding of music at his high school choir was infused with the heavy beats and poetic delivery of American rappers like Jay-Z and DMX; crafting the early parts of his trademark punchline-heavy musical style.
M.I. is widely known for his commitment to innovation in producing and marketing his music, as well as showcasing young talent. His ‘MI2’ album remains Nigeria’s best-selling hip-hop album. After taking a 4-year hiatus from music, he returned with the ‘Chairman’ Album, and did over 25 million streams in less than a month. His 2018 release ‘Rendezvous’ featured a mishmash of burgeoning young talent, and members of the country’s ‘alte’ community. He also holds the record for the most albums (5) charting simultaneously on Apple Music in Nigeria.
Beyond his music, M.I. is a brand favourite, holding Ambassadorship positions with brands like Globacom Limited, Martell, and Henessy.
MI Abaga
Branka Mracajac
Branka Mracajac is the CEO of 9 Payment Service Bank (9PSB), Nigeria’s first payment service bank with the mandate to close the financial exclusion gap in Nigeria. Branka is seasoned enterprise resource planning expert with 15 years of leadership experience within a traditional banking and FinTech industries. She brings the best practices and top-notch planning and execution collected in more than 30 markets worldwide where she has had prime exposure to the challenges faced by Financial Institutions in their go to market and transformation strategies.
Prior to her appointment by 9PSB, Branka worked in several multinational digital finance companies, where she was accountable for the risk management operations of the company, its subsidiaries, and other groups of related entities in Russia, India, The Asia-Pacific region, Latin America, Moldova, Ukraine, Spain, Latvia, and Balkan region. She was also responsible for the integration of risk concepts into strategic planning, risk identification, and risk mitigation activities.
Branka’s other notable achievements include a record of accelerating the adoption of digital payments and facilitating financial inclusion for various emerging markets around the world. She is passionate about women’s development and empowerment and believes that financial inclusion is the right of every individual.
Branka Mracajac
Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami)
Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) is the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Prior to his appointment as a Minister, he was the Director-General (DG)/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). He serves as Chairman of several Presidential and Inter-Ministerial Committees. He has received over 150 awards, including the Award of Best Minister on multiple occasions. He lectured at universities for almost two decades and is currently a Professor of Cybersecurity. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian and British Computer Societies, and is happily married with children.
Prof. Isa Pantami
Teejay Ameen
Teejay Ameen
PANELIST
DAY 1
Ifidon Isimeme Tracy
In the past 8 years, she has worked in the Media and Public Relations consulting space and harnessed strong business knowledge of the industry. She has proven competencies in working with senior management to integrate talent function with the overall strategies of businesses, leading teams to execute business strategies and achieving results through the design and implementation of talent management frameworks and initiatives.
Tracy’s passion as well as her outstanding results in developing talents has made her a strong resource in the arsenal of business owners and top level management in the industry.
She holds an MBA degree from the University of Lagos and is a Certified Senior Professional in Human Resources.
Ifidon Isimeme Tracy
Ife Adediran
Ife Adediran is a creative entrepreneur who has combined her passion with her numerous interests to add value to various brands, businesses and projects centered on the development and promotion of the creative industry, over the past ten years.
With years of experience in Talent Management, Artist Development, A & R Content development and Public Relations, she is recognized as a voice in the Abuja Creative scene, particularly.
A creative in her own right, Ife is a creative writer, visual artist (doodling) and craftsman. She has dabbled into other forms of expression including dance, theater and music which is her first love. In this time, she has been privileged to meet the best of what Nigeria has to offer in arts and creativity, having worked with the likes of Qudus Onikeku, Kaffy, Salem King, Threadstone, Tyrone Terrance, Emil Garuba, The Cavemen, Noble Igwe, Dike Chukwumerije and a host of others.
As a writer, she has garnered praise as an entertainment critic, fiction writer and avid adventurer, sharing her opinion and work on blogs like isysdrain.com.ng and stylevitae.com.
Ife Adediran is a creative entrepreneur and runs an agency called Kreative Kollective, an Abuja based 360 entertainment agency that provides talent management and entertainment services. Her work as a talent Manager has earned her the nicknames ‘ Ife of Abuja’ and ‘ Manager of Men’ due to her talent roster being predominantly male.
She has also worked on projects with Ebony life TV, Soundcity Awards, the Burning Man International Festival, MBA Africa Talent Project and many more.
With multiple achievements under her belt, Ife Adediran remains humble, crediting her success to God and hardwork.
She is Ambitious, vibrant, charismatic, intelligent and creative. She believes in seeing the good in others and helping talent discover their potential. She is a believer of loving others as one would love oneself and is of the opinion that art can bring people together for good. She enjoys experiencing new places and cultures and hopes to continue to travel the country and the world.
Ife Adediran
Kolade Pelumi
Kolade Pelumi is an experienced Marketing professional who has worked on building some of your favorite brands : Tom Tom , Buttermint , Clorets , Vaseline , Pears , Axe, Dove , Sunlight etc. He is currently the Brand Manager , Dettol Soap , West Africa.
He is also the Creative lead for Vexscheworld, a creative hub helping people find their creative voices and then monetize it.
He is a published poet, with 2 poetry collections under his belt : ‘Love Diary’ and ‘Only just a boy’ .
Kolade Pelumi
King Pexxie
Bamidele Olamilekan popularly known as “Kingpexxie” with Over 57 awards won is a household name in the Nigerian Entertainment and Legal Space, as he had carved a niche for himself over the years, where he currently serves as the Principal Partner at Lekan Bamidele and Co, a 360 legal advisory law firm in Lagos Nigeria.
His presence and noteworthy contribution to the social media sphere in Nigeria and Africa generally at large cannot be understated, which landed him as the 4th Most Influential Young Nigerian of 2018 alongside Davido, footballer Ahmed Musa and more from a survey carried out by a Ghanian based research agency “Avance Media”. This further also got him on the No 4 spot on a High-profile List called “The Top 17 Young social Media Influencers of 2017”.
Bamidele Olamilekan is a Graduate of the great Afe Babalola University (ABUAD) where he gained his LL.B degree and further went to obtain his B.L in the Nigerian Law school (Abuja – Bwari Branch) coming out with a second class upper division which then landed him a spot in the Nigerian Bar association after a successful call to Bar ceremony.
Bamidele Olamilekan during his stay in Afe Babalola University was regarded as many things but most importantly a responsible, social, and jovial man. He was the PRO for the Law students society in an unopposed election in 2013-2014, who later ran for the post of Director of Socials and won subsequently in the year 2014-2015 where he meritoriously served.
He won Most Social Male Student in all Universities in Nigeria at the 2015 campus heat awards. He also won most popular Male and most social male student in the 2015 Law students society award Night and won Most influential make at 2018
NTCA awards amongst other awards.
Bamidele Olamilekan during his undergraduate years did his Internship program with Yinka Farohunbi in the year 2013 and 2014 during his summer program.
He also carried out his externship program in 2016 with Lola Bolarinwa and Co, a distinguished law firm in the Victoria’s Garden City of Lagos. He worked diligently well, and he got a request letter from the Same Lola Bolarinwa & co to the NYSC state coordinator, which got him the same place for his Place of Primary Assignment during his National Youth service year.
Describing Bamidele Olamilekan isn’t complete without adding the word “philanthropist” and “humanitarian” in his accolades, as he ensured to visit an orphanage home in Abuja in 2015 to give back to the less privileged, and he, in turn, started a war against malaria in the Makoko slum Area of Lagos State in November 2016 sharing over 10,000 mosquito nets and drugs to residents of the slum in his program tagged “King Pexxie Kick Against Malaria”. Less than a month after, he and his media company collaborated with Nigerian Artist Dammy Krane alongside his charity home “Amin foundation” to take their malaria kicking war to the Ebutte Metta area of Lagos in Yaba.
Bamidele Olamilekan’s love for brand building and digital marketing has earned him the favorite spot on the list of Major Multinational brands like One.org, Pepsi, Union bank, American Honey, Mc Dowell, Coca-Cola Nigeria, Intel, Hp, MTN Nigeria, Globacom, Sunlight, Martel cognac, Yudala, etc.
He was also on Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s online media campaign team from 2014 till the year 2015 presidential election.
His strong prowess in online marketing, brand building, and Entertainment has made him a private lawyer to so many Nigerian Entertainment superstars and major brands.
King Pexxie
Oyindamola Fakile
With over nine years experience in the marketing communications sector where I thrive as a leading Communications expert and an agile Design thinker. My keen eye and mind for proffering human-centered solutions has put me in an unending love affair with solving complex briefs, creating amazing brand stories, and unearthing ahead-of-the-curve, engaging, and iconic brand ideas. Over the years, I have inspired award-winning solutions for brands like MTN, Bet King, Airtel, CBN, Jameson, McVities, Haansbro, Dangote, The clean cooking alliance, Ford Foundation and more. More than creating great brand campaigns, I am passionate about people reaching their potential.
Oyindamola Fakile
Omolara Dada
Omolara is a marketing expert who is passionate about career development and gender parity and has spoken at different platforms for this cause.
Omolara Dada currently works as a Communications Specialist at Earnipay a foremost tech startup aimed to revolutionalize the way salaries are paid in Nigeria.
Prior to that, she led the social media team at Anakle – one of the leading digital agencies in Lagos, Nigeria.
She is a published author of the book – Ultimate Guide to Social Media Management, a book that serves as a guide to people who aim to become experts in social media management.
She is the Team Lead for Google Women Will Abeokuta, an initiative that empowers women in the area of digital literacy, leadership, entrepreneurship, and workplace, she hosts events in the city for this cause.
In her spare time, she enjoys reading, movies, and gallivanting about on social media platforms.
Omolara Dada
Ononuro kevwe
Hungry for growth and burning with passion, Kevwe Ononuro is an exceptional storyteller with keen interest in 2D animation and illustration who hopes to be an integral part of the leading force that changes the existing narrative of storytelling in Africa. Kevwe expresses his creative ability through KHYNETIC, an incorporation he founded in 2016 which he currently heads operations that works to convey compelling tales. His ambition spills over across several creative roles in film where he is committed to helping individuals, and brands to express their missions, visions and purposes through the creative power of illustration and animation.
Ononuro kevwe
Franklyn Ikemefune
My name is Franklyn Nnamdi Ikemefune, I’m from Delta State. I’m an Actor, Content Creator, Recording Artiste and Content Developer. I’m currently the Head of Contents at WeTalkSound. I’m popularly known as Vader The Wildcard or Samo Agbero (from “If An Agbero Had A Diary“ comedy series). I’ve creatively worked with brands like Hennessy, Pepsi, Supa Kommando energy drink, Orijin, Men’s Abode etc.
Franklyn Ikemefune
Opeyemi Adeyeye
Opeyemi Adeyeye is popularly known as Creator Ope. He is the director at the visual experience company Orpheez, where he leads the people at the table on a journey through creating and building brands people love using the power of research, strategy, design, and technology.
Opeyemi doubles as a partner at Endit Studios, a video production company connecting people, places, brands and culture.
Opeyemi Adeyeye
DAY 2
May May Ogboibe
May-May Ogoigbe is an ambitious and energetic professional with a knack for creating Digital and Marketing Strategies for Individuals, businesses, and brands. With over 6 years working in a
marketing background, she has successfully led Digital Marketing Campaigns for local and international organizations.
She is the Founder & CMO of The Fifth Alley, a Digital Marketing & Creative Agency providing businesses with cutting-edge marketing solutions. She is also the Program Director of SME Growth Lab Africa, an initiative that aims at empowering underserved businesses.
She has been recognized as a TOP 10 Career Influencer in Africa by the Workbooth Magazine.
She is a member of the Chartered Management Institute UK. She serves as a Mentor at the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Foundation Programme where she works with ambitious founders to achieve their business objectives.
As a Digital Marketing enthusiast, May-May has trained more than 3,000 people all over Nigeria, on hands-on Digital Marketing skills for business growth. She has led trainings for She Leads Africa, Haptics Nigeria, Mentor Africa Foundation and other renowned organizations.
Her numerous skills also make her a dynamic speaker as she enjoys speaking on topics that are idea-focused, and on a wide range of Marketing, Personal Branding and topics under the umbrella of Digital Marketing, to foster learning, inspiration and provoke conversations that
matter.
Her ambition is to continue impacting lives, as well as people empowerment.
May May Ogboibe
Tutu Adetunmbi
Tutu Adetunmbi is a Social Entrepreneur, Brand Strategist & Consultant to Global Brands. She stumbled into digital media and marketing space and has been building a fabulously modern career path for 4 years. She studies what makes social media tick and has helped brands from The Economist Africa to L’Oreal Luxe, Mitsubishi Motors, Shea Moisture, ORIKI Group, Jobberman, and more build strong brands and businesses on social media.
Because of her unintentional entry into the creative space, she is a strong proponent of African millennials creating their own career and successes, rather than fitting into the established mold. She is the Chief Gathere of Let’s Vent, a community that shares stories, advice, tips, resources and opportunities to help millennials through new age careers. She is also the Founder of Tutu Adetunmbi Consultancy (TAC), a full service digital marketing agency that has helped brands across various industries with different aspects of their digital and social media marketing strategy. She is known as The Digital Tinker, an online community that has helped brands and businesses find success on Instagram by sharing marketing tips, content creation apps, resources and tools to help you achieve your Instagram marketing goals.
She believes that whether you run your own business or not, a creative and entrepreneurial approach is critical to fully blossom in the modern world!
Tutu Adetunmbi
Mary Edoro
Mary Edoro is a seasoned digital media strategist and journalist with a penchant for fashion, beauty and lifestyle. She has developed her skill by working for over 8 years in the digital media industry.
Mary is very passionate about issues surrounding inclusivity and diversity as well as the promotion, growth, and development of the African fashion industry.
Mary Edoro
Harrison Obi
Having been in charge of content and strategy at some reputable marketing and communications agencies in Nigeria, Harri Obi’s impressive skills span the vast marcomms landscape. He has worked on some multinational and reputable brands like Facebook, Indomie, Pepsi, Hero Lager, HP/Intel, Rexona, Kellogg’s etc. Never one to rest, he has recently turned his attention towards the tech industry. Harri is currently the PR & Marketing Manager at FTX (Africa), the fastest blockchain company to achieve unicorn status and the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world currently valued at $25bn. As the PR & Marketing Manager for FTX in Africa, he is responsible for all regional brand, product and performance marketing efforts, driving breakthrough regional PR and marketing campaigns and activations that raise brand awareness, accelerate customer growth, improve FTX’s brand positioning and generate revenue.
Harri’s immediate past role as the Creative and Strategy Lead at AT3 Resources (Facebook’s official Communications agency in West Africa) saw him drive comms / creative strategy and execution for Facebook in the West African sub-region.
Harri is the founder of Lagos strategy unit, a community for new and junior strategists. He also leads the Academy unit of Digiclan Africa as its Dean of Academic Affairs.
Harrison Obi
Mofe Ade
Mofe Ade is a brand strategist and designer with over 7 years of experience in creating
identities and digital platforms that connect African brands with their audiences. While
he does this with his branding company Crevtus Studios for multinational companies,
SMEs and personal brands, he’s also on a mission of impacting 10 million African
brands and thus teaches thousands of people online, via offline workshop sessions
and co-convenes CultivARTe, a one day conference in Lagos building future African
innovators. He has also authored two books, the latest being about personal branding
which had over a thousand downloads in the first week of release.
Mofe Ade
Nonye Udoegu
Nonye is a multifaceted creative with a 4+ years experience in visual storytelling + content development. She creates premium content for local and international fashion & lifestyle brands such as Darling, Coldstone, Dominos, Molped, GTBank, JOBBERMAN, SAMSUNG, Mai Atafo, MAC Cosmetics and a lot more amazing brands.
When she’s not busy creating content she’s on a couch watching her favorite tv series and eating pasta.
Nonye Udoegu
Salem King
Salem King is a content creator, teacher, coach, entrepreneur and social media influencer with growing repute in new media/communication circles.
He uses his platforms to share content focused on empowering and mobilizing creative young people to become vanguards for change.
Salem is passionate about personal development, sharing valuable ideas and catalyzing growth.
Over the past year, he has trained over 1000 creators, been nominated for a TFAA award, spoken at a TEDx event and successfully built a community of young individuals who are committed to growth and catalyzing change.
Salem King’s authenticity and delivery is infectious and he has worked with prominent brands like YouTube, MTN, Zenith Bank, Cowrywise, Mentally Aware NG, Wazobia MAX TV, and
Channels TV amongst others.
Salem King
Morolari Babatunde
Morolari Babatunde, popularly called Tunde TNT is the Creative director for Street Church a continual explosion of God’s creative expression for this generation. it’s a platform created to connect people to God with Love and creativity. To bring Joy and hope to all people over the world.
He is also the CD for TNT Media Africa which is a creative agency that provides creative solutions for brands, helping them tell their unique stories with Visual Communications, Branding, Printing and Digital Marketing among others.
He is a multi talented creative with years of experience in design, Influencing and Creative directing having worked with brands like Nokia, British High commission, Lagos State Government, Jumia, Youtube, MTN, Diageo to name a few.
With his years of experience he has also gained influence on the social scene across board with his social media platforms, helping brands create content and stories that tell their unique brand communication and values.
Morolari Babatunde
Samson Olatunde
Samson Olatunde is a Nigerian admired Digital Entrepreneur, a man of multiple talents, a Speaker, Trainer, Author, Consultant, Coach and Philanthropist.
In his untiring quest to nurture Career Professionals and Entrepreneurs, Samson Olatunde founded Samson Olatunde Foundation (Africa’s foremost solution NGO) with a mandate to transform Africa through Education and Enterprise using ICT.
He is the founder of @Digitalceotribe; Africa’s Community of Digital Savvy Professionals; with the vision to help businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond derive for enhanced business performance and profitability with leverage on the 21st Century’s Digital Tools.
Samson Olatunde is the host of The Digital Conversation; a weekly learning session with Knowledge Expert. He is Chief Curator of Knowledge Digest Africa; Africa’s One Stop Digital Knowledge Bank, aimed at educating and Empowering Africans by telling stories of Real People, going to Real Places on Real Platforms, thus solving the problem of unemployment or underemployment in Africa.
He is the author of more than 30 books including his latest book titled, The Digital Entrepreneur. Amazon’s Best Seller.
Samson is also the Convener, The Digital CEO Summit initiative with a 5 years plan to tour 40 African Nations before he clocks 40 and empower one million Entrepreneurs.
Samson is an alumnus of Pan Atlantic University (formerly Pan African University) Nigeria. He is Certified UK Life Coach, Management Consultant Canada, Small Business Consultant Texas USA.
Samson attracts a lot of “positive” media attentions and has featured and made headlines on over 1000+ Local and International media platforms.
An artistic dreamer with an excellence driven and independently positive spirit. His remarkable work over a decade earned him a recognition as Successful Nigerian Entrepreneur on Wikipedia.
He bagged Young Entrepreneur of the Year by prestigious 13thSuccess Digest Enterprise Award (SDEA), International Peace Ambassadors on Youth Development and Empowerment by The Universal Peace Federation; and in addition to his recent conferment as one of the Ecowas Youth Ambassador by Nelson Mandela Leadership Award of Excellence an Integrity.
Samson’s vision is fueled by her passion to build Nigeria and Africa where the energies and dream of the young generation to change the world is summed up and channeled towards purposeful endeavour in an atmosphere that encourages the free flow of ideas.
Samson Olatunde
Harrison Obi
Having been in charge of content and strategy at some reputable marketing and communications agencies in Nigeria, Harri Obi’s impressive skills span the vast marcomms landscape. He has worked on some multinational and reputable brands like Facebook, Indomie, Pepsi, Hero Lager, HP/Intel, Rexona, Kellogg’s etc. Never one to rest, he has recently turned his attention towards the tech industry. Harri is currently the PR & Marketing Manager at FTX (Africa), the fastest blockchain company to achieve unicorn status and the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world currently valued at $25bn. As the PR & Marketing Manager for FTX in Africa, he is responsible for all regional brand, product and performance marketing efforts, driving breakthrough regional PR and marketing campaigns and activations that raise brand awareness, accelerate customer growth, improve FTX’s brand positioning and generate revenue.
Harri’s immediate past role as the Creative and Strategy Lead at AT3 Resources (Facebook’s official Communications agency in West Africa) saw him drive comms / creative strategy and execution for Facebook in the West African sub-region.
Harri is the founder of Lagos strategy unit, a community for new and junior strategists. He also leads the Academy unit of Digiclan Africa as its Dean of Academic Affairs.