Speaking & Media

On stage across four continents, for fifteen years.

From Kellogg to Kenya Innovation Week to the Bank of Ghana's own convenings, I speak on digital payments architecture, national AI and digital policy, and how research becomes a market. I keynote, moderate, and teach.

Selected Engagements

Recent & notable.

2026

UC Berkeley Haas Africa Business Forum

10th Anniversary Edition · Berkeley, CA
2025

Africa Research and Innovation Commercialisation Summit (ARICS)

Founder, host & keynote speaker · Accra. Covered by Pulse Kenya and Business Insider Africa (Ringier Media Group)
2024

3i Africa Summit

Moderator, International Technology Panel · Accra, co-convened by the Bank of Ghana & Monetary Authority of Singapore (via Elevandi). Appointed Policy Ambassador for the 2025 Policy Forum
2024

Kenya CEIL Summit

Panellist & moderator, Commercialisation and Entrepreneurial Institutions Leaders' Summit · Mombasa, convened by the Kenya National Innovation Agency
2024

KNUST Renowned Scholars' Dialogue

Research Entrepreneurship · Kumasi
2023

WashU Olin Business School Africa Business Forum

St. Louis, USA
2023

Kenya Innovation Week, Commonwealth Edition

UK Government · Nairobi
2022

Standard Chartered Bank Markets in Motion Series

2021

Standard Chartered Digital Banking, Innovation and Fintech Festival

2019

Seamless West Africa

Future of Payments
2018

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

MzuzahConvergence
2017

London School of Economics Africa Summit

London
2016

Kellogg School of Management Africa Business Forum

Northwestern University · Chicago, IL
2013–2015

Africa Innovation Roundtable · Agile Africa Conference · AITEC Mobile Money West Africa

Johannesburg

Plus 30+ additional international engagements across Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia since 2010, including the Ghana Economic Forum.

Topics

What I speak on.

Digital Payments Architecture

How regulatory sequencing, not just technology, determines whether a digital payments market compounds or stalls.

National AI & Digital Policy

Strategy-led statecraft for governments regulating technologies they are still learning to understand.

Research Commercialisation & Innovation Ecosystems

Turning research and invention into investable, market-ready ventures across emerging markets.

Watch

Talks, interviews & panels on video.

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Also recorded, hosted off YouTube: Olin Africa Business Forum, Day 1 ↗ (Washington University in St. Louis).

On Instagram

Moments from the field.

In the Media

Press, panels & broadcast.

Mar 2025

Heritors Labs and partners equip young minds for innovation commercialisation

The B&FT Online. Read the piece ↗

Mar 2025

Pulse: 'Time to unleash Africa's ingenuity...'

On the ARICS 2025 keynote, positioning me as a leading voice on innovation ecosystems and research-to-market systems across Africa. Read the piece ↗

2023

Germany's Migration About-Face: Berlin Seeks to Recruit Skilled Labor from Africa

DER SPIEGEL, a feature built around a profile of me and DreamOval's talent pipeline. Read the piece ↗

2013

Pulse TV: Meet The Boss

"The Dream Master": broadcast profile of me and DreamOval. Watch the episode ↗

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