SPEAKERS CATEGORIES
Kenneth Izomoh
ADL-INNET ASBL
Africa & Luxembourg
Kenneth Izomoh
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Mr. Kenneth Izomoh is a digital strategist, an ExO advisor, and an expert in digital transformation, leadership, exponential strategy and innovation with extensive experience in innovation architecture solutions development, business and market positioning. He is an astute entrepreneur and has more than 22 years’ experience in ICT innovation & industry. He has consulted more than 20 EU H2020 ICT development projects for Europe and Africa; and managed business developments related activities in cloud platforms for many economic sectors namely e-health, e-tourism, e-agriculture, oil-&-gas, e-energy, Environment, Circular Economy, smart mobility & insurance, enterprise solutions, e-commerce, factories of the future, and smart manufacturing under industry 4.0 enterprise initiatives. Over the years, Mr. Izomoh served in high profile ICT consulting companies helping clients to achieve exponential growth, offer advisory support to innovation hubs, senior executives, and supporting conceptualization of innovation products’ & designs, value chain optimization schemes, and innovation studies for a number of private and public clients. He also acted in the past as an event manager related to the dissemination & continental networking of stakeholders’ in view of turnkey ICT programmes and entrepreneurships related to EU and Africa joint collaborations.. |
Mondher Khanfir
Co-Founder & VP at Tunisia Africa Business Council
Head of Think Tank “For a shared prosperity in Africa”
Policy Advisor, Innovation Expert and Author
Mondher KHANFIR
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Mondher Khanfir is a seasoned professional with a strong background in business consulting, digital transformation strategy and investment advisory for both private and public sectors. His passion for innovation policy as enabler of social and economic development had driven him to policy analysis, mainly in Africa and MENA region, where he is regularly appointed as expert by different International institutions, namely the World Bank, OECD, UN-ESCWA, AFD, GIZ and EBRD. He is assisting Governments to develop innovation ecosystem and manage infrastructure projects in order to better integrate international value chains. He authored several reports and led many missions to implement Research & Innovation programs, also delivered studies on private sector competitiveness and analysis on the capital market development in emerging economies. His publications are searchable on https://www.slideshare.net/MondherKhanfir . |
Mark De Blois
CEO & IoT Connectivity Expert ,
Upande Ltd, Kenya
Mark De Blois
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Mark De Blois is a Passionate social entrepreneur with 23 years of work experience on IoT connectivities in asset monitoring & supplychain, 12 years of which in Kenya, 2 years at Google Kenya, 10 years having started/running Upande Ltd... |
Ify Ogo
Regional Coordination Specialist on AfCFTA
UNDP , Ghana.
West Africa
Dr. Ify OGO
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Dr. Ify Ogo is a Legal Economist and Trade Specialist working as the Regional Coordination Specialist on the AfCFTA at UNDP. Ify joined UNDP from the African Trade Policy Centre of the UN Economic Commission for Africa where she led the Trade in Services work stream and was a focal point for trade diversification covering digital economy, blue economy and green economy portfolios. Also, in this role, she directly supported the AfCFTA negotiations, as well as country-level implementation processes. Prior to the ECA, Ify worked in the public and private sectors as an investment advisor. Ify holds a BA in Law and Politics and LLM in Law and Development from the University of London, and a PhD in Law and Economic Development from Maastricht University. . |
Sand Mba
Chief Executive Officer,
Africa International Trade & Commerce Research,
Abuja, Nigeria.
Sand MBA
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Sand is an International Trade Expert with over 16 years professional experience, working in a complex multicultural environment in International Trade and Investment. He is the Executive Director of Africa International Trade and Commerce Research, Board member International Trade and Research Centre (An Independent Not-for-Profit Think-tank), Technical committee member, Trade Working Group for National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable (NASSBER), member, Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, convener, Nigeria International Trade and Investment Conference and has played a lead role in Business Development, conference and keynote presentation, Consultancy and Research. Sand experience cut across several sectors in Africa and comprise many engagements, which include assignments managed for: European Union, World Bank, International Trade Centre, Geneva, German Embassy/ GIZ, Swedish Embassy, Naurex Nigeria, Nigerian Trade Experts Forum, Federal Ministry of Agriculture Rural Urban Development, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations (NOTN), Expo-Link, Manufacturing Association of Egypt, Natax International, UK, Policy Development Facility 2 (PDF II), MSCA Worldwide Projects, Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Export Connections, UK, Nigerian Private Sector Alliance (NiPSA), and multinationals. He was one of the lead technical consultant that conducted the independent study on the potential benefit of African Continental Free Trade Area on Nigeria, with the following objectives; Assess harmony between AfCFTA and ERGP 2017-2021; Harness the perspectives of the private sector on benefits and costs of AfCFTA to businesses and the economy; Evaluate potential output, trade, welfare and labor market effects; Examine the potential effects on frontline sectors. . |
Marcin Jablonski
Vice President - Chamber of Commerce
Exporters & Importers, Poland
Co-founder - ADL-INNET, Luxembourg
Marcin JABLONSKI
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Vice President of Chamber of Commerce Exporters and Importers (Poland), Co-founder of African Digital Leadership Innovation Network (Luxembourg), Supervisory Board Member at Incuvo S.A. More than 20 years of consulting and mentoring services to either government, SMEs or clusters as well in Poland, Europe, Asia and Egypt. Since 2012 he is present also in North and West Africa (Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Ivory Coast). MA., with extensive experience in clustering, innovations, policy making, SME development and internationalization. Co-funder of Polish Fashion Cluster, strongly committed to VR, AR gaming and software industry. Co-facilitator of Incuvo Gaming Academy to be run in MENA countries in a partnership with universities and technoparks. Partner of Fabryka Sztuki (Art Incubator) in Łódź – focused on support creative industry growth. Member of Silesian Innovation Council (Poland), Partner of National Forest Center (Slovakia), External expert of Technology Agency of Czech Republic,- Expert of Upper Silesia Agency for Entrepreneurship and Development, stakeholder of Organization and Management Department at Silesian Univerity of Technology. Co-founder of Regional Export Platform (Silesia Province) focused on improvement quality of internationalization services in Silesia Voivodship and win-win sustain and corporate international cooperation. Lecturer, Trainer, Mentor. More than 500 lectures, presentations, workshops, trainings in Europe, Africa and Lebanon. Teacher of judo and chess. . .. |