Mr. Francis Omorojie is an innovation enthusiast and a venture builder with over 7 years of supporting both start-ups and innovation ecosystems across Africa. He also provides innovation consultancy services to global organizations such as the United Nations ITC, DW Akademie, European Business and Innovation Network, Practical Education Network and more. Francis is the Founder...

Noémie Hailu is the Program Manager for the Africa Innovation Mradi at Mozilla Corporation, where she manages initiatives, partnerships, events, and promotes Mozilla’s work and specifically Lean Data Practices in the Africa region. Noémie has over 10 years of experience in international affairs across policy, campaigning, and program implementation. Before Mozilla, she worked on conflict resolution and peacebuilding, and has a background...

Nneka Ekechukwu-Soyinka is a Sr. Privacy Manager at Mozilla Corporation and the Lean Data Practices Lead for the Africa Innovation Mradi. She started her career as a Security & Privacy Consultant at Deloitte before transitioning to industry where she would say her privacy career really began. Having worked for two Fortune 100 companies (The Coca-Cola Company and Cisco Systems), Nneka brings global...

Britney Crooks leads Mozilla’s Innovation Studio which is responsible for identifying and building new products and businesses. In addition she is supporting Mozilla’s ecosystem strategy, helping the company enter new spaces and conversations to build Mozilla’s innovation brand. Britney brings with her 10+ years of enterprise tech experience, having worked in corporate finance, sales, business development, venture and DE&I for companies...

Chimfumnanya Nwandu is a lawyer and a Senior Programs Associate at She Leads Africa, an organization that believes in the power of young African women to build amazing careers and businesses. We create both online digital content and in-person programs to teach and support ambitious African women around the world, and have been featured on...

Rene Parker: Rene is a social impact entrepreneur with extensive experience in building social ventures at scale. Her role as the CEO of RLabs has led to its transformation from the humble beginnings of a community project in Cape Town into an award winning global social enterprise. RLabs is a global movement that has inspired...

Yousif Yahya is the founder of Savannah Innovation Lab, a start-up incubator and art exhibition space in Khartoum, Sudan. Yousif a founding member of Bloom, Sudan’s first digital bank and the first Sudanese start-up backed by Y-Combinator. Yousif is a world economic forum Global Shaper at the Khartoum Hub.

Adnane Addioui is an Ashoka Fellow, social commentator, social entrepreneur and disruptive thinker, who has committed his life to work in the MENA region, particularly Morocco, enabling creative thinking, entrepreneurship and innovation for the common good. He has co-founded the Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship where he currently serves as Chief Visionary. He...

Dominique is a certified professional coach of the “CFC academy”, in charge of coaching programs at the Mahna association, President of the Association for Art and Oratory Debates (ASSADO), consultant in innovation, junior consultant in business structuring. Trained as a managerial economist, he has been interested in entrepreneurship and innovation since his youth. He will...

Muna Ahmed is the Country Program & Operations Manager at Innovate Ventures, the leading Somali startup accelerator and early-stage startup fund supporting ambitious startups that use technology to change the world. With Innovate Ventures, she specifically supports female startup founders through a program called Women Business Accelerator (WBA). WBA is a unique accelerator program that...