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The Inspire Africa Conference brings together local and international product and training leaders to drive impact in the African product community.

THE COACHES

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Gabrielle Bufrem
Gabrielle Bufrem

Product Coach, Product Coaching Limited

Gabrielle Bufrem is a Product Leadership Coach described by her clients as the perfect balance between coach and cheerleader.

She has trained hundreds of Product Managers from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to becoming a coach, she built products across 9 industries in B2B, B2C, and B2B2C living and working across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Chidi Afulezi
Chidi Afulezi

Founder, Red Kola Product Consultancy

Chidi Afulezi is a product guy, digital insurgent, creative, educator, and entrepreneur who coaches and consults with leading product leaders and product teams in the private and public sectors globally.

He is currently building the Product Leadership Accelerator, a Pan-African associate product management program and also serves as a product faculty and instructor at the African Leadership University School of Business and CRA Public Sector Fellowship, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and General Assembly.

Marty Cagan
Marty Cagan

Founder, Partner - SVPG

Marty Cagan founded the Silicon Valley Product Group in 2001 to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching.

Prior to that, Marty served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay.

Christian Idiodi
Christian Idiodi

Partner - SVPG

Christian has been a product leader for over 15 years, building teams and developing enterprise and consumer products that have shaped companies such as CareerBuilder and Merrill Corporation as well as clients such as Microsoft, Starbucks, and Squarespace.

Christian is passionate about helping companies implement the discipline of product management to build world-class products and new technologies.

The Speakers

  • Mitchell Elegbe

    Founder & Group CEO, Interswitch Group

  • Ebi Atawodi

    Director of Product Management, YouTube

  • Victoria Fabunmi

    National Coordinator, Office for Nigerian Digital Innovation

  • Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi

    Director-General/CEO of the National Information Technology Development Agency

  • Uche Onwudiwe

    Managing Director & CEO,
    COURE Software Inc.

  • Kristin Wilson

    Managing Partner, Innovate Africa Fund

  • Dayo Famakinwa

    Vice President of Product Management, Indeed

  • Oyinkan Akintola-Bello

    Country Director, UK-Nigeria Tech Hub, Foreign Commonwealth Development Office

  • Abiodun Lukman Aroworamimo

    Managing Director,
    Inqaba Biotec West Africa

  • Tomilola Majekodunmi

    Founder & CEO, Bankly Holdings Inc

  • Akosua Annobil

    Founder, AB2020 & Tech in Ghana

  • Felix Ochefu

    Founder & CEO,
    Kahana

  • Olatokunbo Ige

    Founder, Togomall

  • Deepankar Rustagi

    Founder and CEO,
    Omniretail Technology Limited

  • Sefunmi Osinaike

    Co-Founder & CEO,
    Co.Lab

  • Annu Augustine

    Founder,
    NedRock

  • Vanessa Kisowile

    Founder and Executive Director , SheFound

  • Ciku Mugambi

    CEO, Kobo360

  • Princess Edokpayi

    Cofounder & Chief Operating Officer , Spurt!

  • Michael Famoroti

    Co-Founder, Stears

  • Tochi Ginigeme

    Managing Partner,
    Mesh Ventures

  • Tersser Shaguy

    CTO, Zuri Health

  • Princess Edo-Osagie

    Product Leadership & Agile Governance, Interswitch Limited

  • Andy Obuoforibo

    Head Of Product, 54 Collective

  • Samora Akinbulumo

    Product Manager, Paga Group Ltd

  • Missy Mwendwa Kago

    Chief Product Officer,
    Educate!

  • Ifeanyi Okafor

    Senior Product Manager,
    Generative AI

  • Anne Idiodi

    Human Resources/Operations, Worknigeria

  • Christine Adejorooluwa

    Chief Strategy Officer, Beacon Power Services

  • Diana Mulili

    Chief Digital Officer, Leadway Holdings

  • Taonga Grace Banda-Chizyuka

    Manager - Innovation Consulting, BongoHive

  • Gloria Okorie

    Head of Programs, Impact Hub Lagos

  • Esinam Maura Adorkor

    Program Partner, Innovation & Digital Economy,
    Mastercard Foundation

  • Nkem Nweke

    Product, Design & Innovation

Who We Are

The Inspire Africa Conference brings together local and international product and training leaders to drive impact in the African product community and is organised by a few amazing companies, all working to upskill African product experts.

Silicon Valley Product Group is a team of industry veterans who have held executive level positions at major Silicon Valley companies and are eager to help the product community in Africa build great products.

The Product Leadership Accelerator (PLA) is a premier, comprehensive talent discovery and acceleration program designed to elevate the field of product management across Africa.

Innovate Africa Foundation’s mission is to create opportunities for meaningful solutions to some of the hardest problems in Africa through enabling technology.

The Innovate Africa Fund is a $2.5m angel fund for early-stage, Africa-focused startups solving complex problems with purpose-driven technology.

Worknigeria helps the Nigerian workforce find meaningful jobs and upskills them to help them grow with and within their careers.

We are thrilled to have Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) partners coaching, training, and advising the incredible product community in Africa.

The SVPG partners are authors of books INSPIRED, EMPOWERED & TRANSFORMED and have championed techniques that the best companies in the world use to build products customers love.

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