ASG

Africa Speakers Group is a leading platform for keynote speakers, influential thinkers and star performers on the African continent, and elsewhere in the world.

Global CEO, Teraflow

Michael Cowen

Michael Cowen, CEO of Teraflow.ai, is a driving force in the AI revolution. With a background in leadership roles at Deloitte Digital and Mindshare, he’s also an experienced entrepreneur, having founded five startups. Now, he’s shifted gears to lead Global AI Business Teraflow.ai, applying his groundbreaking ‘Philosophy of Flow’ to change traditional business norms.

AI Consultant, Speaker, Lecturer

Johan Steyn

Johan Steyn is a renowned Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Advocate and a prominent speaker at global conferences on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Emerging Technologies. In 2019, he was honored as the Best AI & Robotics Management Consultant by Wealth & Finance magazine in the UK.

CEO, White Shark Africa and Great White Storage International.

Craig A.W. Ferreira

Craig is the first person in the world to attached a camera onto a Great White Shark. Also, he is the first and the only person to have extracted blood from free swimming Great White sharks. In the course of his adventure with the Great White Shark he has discovered significant behavioral aspects of the species.

CEO of Education Group

Sameer Rawjee

Sameer founded the Life Design Lab at Google, which is used by Google employees from more than 100 countries. Life Design was created to explore multifaceted aspects of Human Purpose at Work. Today there are over 10 000 employees enrolled in the lab globally, who are graduates of the world’s Ivy League schools and former VPs of Fortune 500 companies.

Entrepreneur

Affiong Williams

Affiong Williams is the CEO/Founder of ReelFruit, the largest fruit processing, packaging and marketing company in Nigeria. The company, founded in 2012, retails a range of dried fruit and nut snacks through a variety of channels including over 1000 Supermarkets, Airlines, Schools, Hotels, and internationally. She is a recipient of the inaugural Veuve Clicquot “Bold Woman Award” in 2022, the WIMBIZ Entrepreneur of the Year and Forbes 30 under 30.

Entrepreneur & Global Business Speaker

Vusi Thembekwayo

Vusi Thembekwayo is a Global Business Speaker, private equity Managing Partner at Watermark Afrika, CEO of pan-African impact investment firm MyGrowthFund Venture Capital & convenor of leading research boutique IC Knowledge Bureau.

Entrepreneur

Audrey Joe-Ezigbo

Audrey Joe-Ezigbo is a highly experienced business leader, advisor, enery expert and coach, with over 29 years proven track record and deep expertise in Strategic Planning and Execution, Corporate Governance, Investor relations, Advocacy, Entrepreneurship Development and Environmental Sustainability in private, public and non-profit sectors at Executive and Board levels.

Communications Specialist

Lucille Ossai

Lucille Ossai is an international award-winning communications trainer, coach, advisor, keynote speaker, and multi-award-winning blogger. She holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Leicester (UK). She provides coaching, training, and advisory services on nonverbal communication, public speaking, interpersonal communication, business writing, and leadership communication and influence.

Technology Consultant

Nkem Nweke

Nkem Nweke is on a mission to build Africa’s future by developing inclusive, accessible and pioneering communities as he believes in an Africa where everyone can be a change maker. He leads Engineering Innovation at the Africa Development Centre (ADC), which is Microsoft’s Engineering team in the region. He formerly worked in several capacities with organizations like Hewlett Packard & Dimension Data.

Corporate Executive

Nkiru Olumide-Ojo

Nkiru has over 2 decades of experience as a Senior Corporate Executive looking after the reputation of multinational and national brands in Africa. Her work experience spans across various service sectors including Financial Services, Aviation, Telecommunication and the Oil and Gas sectors. She currently works in a financial services Group in South Africa in a role that covers several African Countries.