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AIC | Saturday, April 24th, 2021 | Agenda

8:00 AM | NETWORKING SESSION 1

• Featuring breakout rooms for open networking

9:00 AM | WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
9:15 AM | OPENING KEYNOTE

• Acha Leke | Senior Partner and Chairman, Africa Practice @ McKinsey & Co. ​

10:00 AM | SPEAKER PANELS 1 & 2
Panel 1: Fintech & Investments | Advancing Digital Banking; Promising Investment Opportunities (additional details here)

• Panelists:
  • ​Chijioke Dozie | Founder @ Carbon
  • Ziad Oueslati | Founding Partner @ AfricInvest
  • Ifeoluwa Orioke | CCO @ Flutterwave
  • Wilmot Allen | Founder @ Venture Lift Africa
  • Moderator: Onazi Aboh | Capital Markets Professional

Panel 2: Agriculture | Scaling Small and Medium Size Enterprises (additional details here)

• Panelists:
  • ​Celi Khanyile-Lynch | Founder/CEO @ Green Source Africa
  • Onyeka Akumah | Founder/CEO @ FarmCrowdy
  • Temitope Adegoroye | Partner @ Sahel Consulting
  • Momarr Maas Taal | Founder @ Tropingo Foods
  • Moderator: Lamide Adeosun | Principal, Seed Investments @ Consonance Investments

11:30 AM | BREAK/NETWORKING SESSION 2

• Featuring breakout rooms with speakers from panels 1 & 2; open networking

12:00 PM | MID-DAY KEYNOTE

• Ralph Mupita | President and CEO @ MTN
• Moderator: Tavneet Suri, PHD | Professor of Economics @ MIT

12:45 PM | SPEAKER PANELS 3 & 4
Panel 3: Education | Harnessing Technology to Scale Access to Education; New Model of Teacher Preparation and Development (additional details here)

• Panelists:
  • ​Folawe Omikunle | CEO @ Teach for Nigeria
  • Claude Grunitzky | Founder @ TRACE and True Africa University
  • Faraja Nyalandu | Executive Director @ Shule Direct
  • Daniel Dotse | CEO @ Lead for Ghana
  • Moderator: Shari Loessberg | Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship @ MIT

Panel 4: Healthcare | Access to Specialty Medicines and Diagnostics; Precision Health Equity (additional details here)

• Panelists:
  • ​Naa Akwetey | SVP/Strategy and Business Development @ mPharma
  • Yusuf Henriques | Founder/CEO @ IndyGeneUS
  • Emilian Popa | Founder @ Ilara Health
  • Moderator: Uzo Osikhena | Managing Director @ The Lisben Group

1:45 PM | BREAK/NETWORKING SESSION 3

• Featuring breakout rooms with speakers from panels 3, 4, & 5; open networking

2:15 PM | SPEAKER PANEL 5
Panel 5: Mobility | Delivery Despite Disruptions (additional details here)

• Panelists:
  • ​Adetayo Bamiduro | Co-Founder/CEO @ Max
  • Dumebi Okwechime, PhD | Chief Data Officer @ Kobo 360
  • Amos Ouattara | Founder of TaxiJet
  • Paola Corrado | Head of Supply Chain Unit @ World Food Programme
  • Moderator: Jarrod Goentzel, PhD | Director of MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab @ MIT

3:15 PM | CLOSING REMARKS

• MIT AIC Leadership Team