Meet the speakers set to ignite ideas and innovation at Moonshot 2025

Get ready, Lagos. Moonshot 2025 is landing connected October 15–16, bringing unneurotic immoderate of Africa’s brightest minds and planetary innovators shaping the aboriginal of technology, business, and creativity.

From artificial quality to task capital, policy, and integer transformation, the talker lineup for this year’s variation is simply a almighty premix of thinkers, builders, and changemakers redefining Africa’s innovation story.

Ikemesit Effiong, Partner, SBM Intelligence

Ikemesit Effiong is simply a lawyer and Partner astatine SBM Intelligence, wherever helium manages the firm’s African probe web and works with clients crossed Nigeria’s political, economic, and societal sectors. His acquisition spans judicial administration, geopolitics, firm communications, and governmental consulting — including serving arsenic a advisor to 4 Nigerian governorship races and advising starring multinationals connected

compliance and CSR.

Since 2021, helium has led projects connected countering COVID-19 misinformation, shaping post-lockdown acquisition policy, strengthening property freedoms, and improving antiauthoritarian information for susceptible groups. Outside his nonrecreational role, helium manages a 1,300-member concern professionals mentoring network, chairs the Technology Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association’s Section connected Business Law, and contributes to West Africa’s archetypal civilian nine self-regulatory framework.

Olubayo Adekanmbi, PhD – CEO/Founder, DSN

Dr. Olubayo Adekanmbi is the CEO of Data Scientists Network (formerly Data Science Nigeria), a non-profit gathering a world-class AI knowledge, research, and innovation ecosystem delivering high-impact research, AI-first startups, employability, and societal bully usage cases. He is besides the Co-Founder of EqualyzAI, which advances inclusive and context-driven AI for emerging markets.

With implicit 24 years of enforcement and method experience, Dr. Adekanmbi is recognized arsenic 1 of Africa’s foremost leaders successful AI for development. His pioneering enactment connected inclusive innovation earned the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Grand Challenge Award for processing ample connection models that grow fiscal inclusion.

A cardinal contributor to Nigeria’s National AI Policy, helium collaborates with planetary exertion leaders specified arsenic Google, Meta, Microsoft, and GSMA. A published student and ranked information scientist, Dr. Adekanmbi is dedicated to gathering Africa’s AI endowment pipeline and shaping the continent’s integer future.

Dr. Vincent Olatunji, CPPPS, CDPO, FIIM – National Commissioner/CEO, NDPC

Dr. Vincent Olatunji holds a PhD successful Geography and Planning from the University of Lagos, an Advanced Diploma successful Computer Studies, and certifications arsenic a Public-Private Partnership Specialist and Data Protection Officer.

With implicit 34 years successful the nationalist sector, helium joined NITDA successful 2002 and roseate to Director successful 2014, aboriginal serving arsenic Acting DG successful 2016. As Director of e-Government Development and Regulations, helium led the instauration of large nationalist frameworks, including the Nigeria Inter-Operability Framework, Cloud First Policy, and the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation.

Rosy Fynn, Country Director, Mastercard Foundation Nigeria

Rosy Fynn is the Country Director of the Mastercard Foundation successful Nigeria, overseeing the Young Africa Works strategy to alteration 10 cardinal young Nigerians to entree dignified enactment by 2030. In 2024, she was named a Top 50 Women of Impact Honoree for her relation successful empowering African younker done employment initiatives.

Mr. Carlos Rojas-Arbulú, Deputy High Commissioner of Canada

Carlos Rojas-Arbulú has implicit 20 years of planetary experience, having worked successful 9 countries crossed 4 continents. Currently serving arsenic Deputy High Commissioner of Canada successful Lagos, helium has antecedently held elder diplomatic and commercialized roles successful Chile, India, and Haiti.

At Global Affairs Canada, helium served arsenic Senior Departmental Advisor to 2 Ministers of International Cooperation and arsenic Director of the Environment Division. Fluent successful 4 languages, Carlos holds degrees from Concordia and McGill Universities and serves connected aggregate assemblage and concern boards.

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Founding Partner, Future Africa

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