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...
Nanko Madu is a seasoned entrepreneur ecosystem builder with ~12 years’ progressive experience in managing programmes on economic development and entrepreneurship on the African continent. She is the Director of Programmes at AfriLabs, where she leads the design and implementation of the organization’s programmes targeted at strengthening the capacities of technology and innovation hubs, innovators,...
David is Briter’s Director of Strategy and Growth. Since joining Briter he has managed a multi-country research and ecosystem project to develop investment guides for the startup ecosystem across 9 countries in Africa. In addition, he led the research and production of an investment and innovation report on North Africa. Previous to Briter, he spent...
Mayssa is the Chief Incubation Officer at Afkar, holding an Executive MBA from the SMU – South Mediterranean University. Since 2019, she has managed two incubation programs for Tunisian entrepreneurs living in Tunisia and within the Diaspora which helped training 264 innovators and launching 131 Startups. These programs also offered funding opportunities for 84 projects....
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...
Rebecca Enonchong is the Founder/CEO of AppsTech and a Co-founder of I/O Spaces. She is the Board Chair of ActivSpaces (African Center for Technology Innovation and Ventures, Cameroon) as well as a Founding Member of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN). She is also part of the Advisory Board of AfriLabs. With a blissful...