PREVIOUS EVENT 2018
AfriLabs Annual Gathering 2018
- 25th -28th October, 2022
- Lusaka, Zambia
The third edition of The AfriLabs Annual Meeting was held from October 11 to 13, 2018 at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania under the theme “Innovation in the Age of Data”.
The Annual Meeting welcomed more than 500 participants, including members of the AfriLabs network from across the African continent, groups of investors such as the African Community of Venture Capitalists (VC4A) and the African Business Angels Network (ABAN) , representatives of the Tanzanian government, development agencies such as the African Development Bank (AfDB), corporate organizations and partners of AfriLabs such as IBM, Facebook, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, Esri, GSMA, Google, the grant-granting foundation Grants and Outreach for South Africa (OSISA), Growth Wheel, among others.
As a prelude to La Rencontre Annuelle, AfriLabs hosted a workshop on October 10. The workshop, sponsored by the Grantmaking and Outreach Foundation for South Africa (OSISA), brought together key players in the ecosystem to co-create AfriLabs Connect – which aims to proactively facilitate a closer collaboration between organizations that support entrepreneurs and innovators across the continent.
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Event conference speaker
AfriLabs Annual Gathering 2018
REBECCA ENONCHONG
Board Chair AfriLabs
BERNARD CHIIRA
Incubator Manager, iBiz Africa, Kenya & AfriLabs Board Secretary
MEGUID HANAN ABDEL MEGUID
CEO Kamelizer, Egypt
DR. REGINALD MENGI
Chairman-IPP-Group
MICHEAL OLUWAGBEMI
Co-founder & Executive Partner at LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited, Nigeria
DR. AYMAN ISMAIL
Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation & Founding Director, American University in Cairo (AUC) Venture Lab.
RAKOTOARIVO SAROBIDY
AfriLabs Board Treasurer, Habaka Hub, Madagascar
BEN WHITE
Founder, Venture Capital For Africa (VC4A)
HON. AMB. EINAR H. JENSEN
Denmark
BEN ROBERTS
GCTO, Liquid Telecom, Africa
DR. JEAN-LEAH NJOROGE
Senior Data Scientist, Dell Technologies, USA
JOHN KIMANI
Program Manager, Google
KIDUS FISAHA ASFAW
GPL, UNICEF Innovation
AMBASSADOR ARTHUR MATTLI
Switzerland Embassy, Tanzania
REGINA MBODJ BROWN
Executive Director, CTIC Dakar & Francophone Representative, AfriLabs Board
MATTHEW PENNELLS
Digital Transformation Business Development Manager, Esri
MARTIN KARANJA
Senior Market Engagement Manager, Ecosystem Accelerator, GSMA
PENELOPE TERRANOVA
Project manager and Network Officer, JokkoLabs
CHRISTIAN JEKKINOU
President, African Business Angels Network (ABAN)
AHMED BASTAWY
Founder, Icealex, Egypt
ALPHA NURRY
Founder, Jamaa Funding
BANKOLE OLORUNTOBA
Founder, Network of Incubators and Innovators in Nigeria (NINe), Nigeria.
CHRISTIAN JEKKINOU
Executive Manager, Afric’Innov
ABIODUN ODUNUGA
Business Development and International Partnerships Manager – Bond’Innov
CHRISTIAN KAKOBA
Founder & Programs Manager, BitHub Africa, Kenya
NEKESA WERE
Managing Director, iHub, Kenya & AfriLabs Board Member
RACHEL SIBANDE
Founder, mHub Malawi
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