Ehia Erhaboh

Co-Founder AI in Nigeria

Event Keynote Speaker

Event Opening/Keynote Speaker –  Future-Proofing Your Business: The Role of AI in Sustainable Growth

This topic will delve into how AI can help businesses stay competitive in a rapidly changing market. It will cover AI-driven innovation, risk management, and sustainability practices, ensuring long-term growth and success for entrepreneurs.

Thursday, August 29th 2024 @ 12.00pm – 12.30pm W.A.T

Ehia Erhaboh is currently a PhD Researcher at the University of Bradford, UK, where he is researching on the impact of digital transformation (focus on AI technology) on firm performance in fintech and financial services firms in sub-Saharan Africa. He is Co-Founder of AI in Nigeria, a unified platform that connects and empowers AI stakeholders in Nigeria, supporting organisations in developing sustainable AI transformation strategy, deploying AI products responsibly, and leading AI research in Nigeria.

Prior to founding AI in Nigeria, he had over 2 decades of experience in the diversified financial services, technology, and payment sectors, holding senior and executive management roles across operations, technology, products, innovation management, strategy, and digital transformation across banks and payment companies in Africa including Standard Chartered Bank, Standard Bank, and Interswitch.

Ehia is enthusiastic about AI and its potential to transform society and holds the view that sustainable transformation happens when technology is deployed with ‘people’ at the centre.Session – Mastering Task Delegation with A.I. Tools: Empowering African Solopreneurs and Entrepreneurs, and discover how A.I. can transform your business operations.

Dr. Ojiugo Ajunwa

Co-Founder Ritetrac Consulting, Nigeria

Event Host – SMEVCON 2024

Topic: Mastering Task Delegation with A.I. Tools: Empowering African Solopreneurs and Entrepreneurs, and Discover how A.I. can Transform your Business Operations.

She is a qualified, highly experienced professional Project Manager, trainer, speaker, coach, and author. A management consultant with over 23 years of experience in Project Management consulting, Facilitating, Training, Event management, speaking etc in various industries.

In this session you will takeaway the following benefits:

• Boost Efficiency: Automate routine tasks to free up your time for strategic activities.
• Save Costs: Find out about budget-friendly and free A.I. tools that enhance productivity without breaking the bank.
• Increase Productivity: Streamline processes such as project management, customer interactions, and content creation.
• Gain Insights: Learn from real-life examples and case studies that showcase practical applications of A.I.
• Enhance Business Growth: Equip yourself with the knowledge to integrate A.I. effectively, paving the way for scalable business growth.

Session – Mastering Task Delegation with A.I. Tools: Empowering African Solopreneurs and Entrepreneurs, and discover how A.I. can transform your business operations. Thursday, August 29th 2024 @ 12.30pm – 1.30pm W.A.T

Event Closing – Friday, August 30th 2024  @ 6.30pm – 7.00pm W.A.T

Dr. Vivian Okoye

Founder Entrepreneurs Nook, Canada

Topic: How to build an Online Community with Digital Tools

With over 12 years of experience, I have worked with individuals, families, children, and organizations, showcasing expertise in clinical and community healthcare practice, Eye Care Practice and Regulation in Nigeria, Mental Health Policy and Best Practice Engagement in the UK, as well as mentoring, coaching, and therapy for individuals and vulnerable communities. My approach integrates evidence-based practices with genuine human connection, reflecting a commitment to patient-centered care that extends beyond the healthcare setting.

I’m currently serving as a Nudge Mind’s Practitioner in a UK nationwide team, where we provide tailored therapeutic interventions to chronically disengaged children and young people. I contributed to research as part of the team to write a best practice Chapter for the Association of Clinical Psychologist UK. I also serve as an Executive Board Member at Afrikindness and leading the Neurodiversity research and community education project.

I have recently founded Minds and Well-being Network, an initiative dedicated to providing culturally sensitive mental health education and support to Africans worldwide. I have been featured on reputable media platforms such as Channels Television Nigeria, British Broadcasting Corporation, Christian Broadcasting Network, African Independent Television, and various radio stations and national newspapers, including Guardian Newspaper, Leadership Newspaper, and Daily Trust. I currently contributes as a feature columnist to the Guardian Nigeria Parenting Column.

Here’s a concise 3-paragraph summary of key points:

Online communities powered by digital tools and AI offer African entrepreneurs, a cost-effective way to engage with a larger audience. These platforms facilitate 24/7 accessibility, knowledge sharing, and cultural exchange across different regions, fostering a sense of belonging among community members.

AI-driven insights enable personalized experiences and data-driven decision-making, allowing entrepreneurs to better understand and serve their audience. Automation of routine tasks through AI frees up time for strategic community management, while chatbots can improve customer support.

These digital communities not only enhance engagement but also provide scalability and monetization opportunities. They offer a platform for rapid feedback, enabling entrepreneurs to quickly gather insights on ideas or products, which is crucial for business growth and adaptation in the dynamic African market.

Session – How to build an Online Community with Digital Tools : Friday, August 30th  2024 @ 2.00pm – 3.00pm W.A.T

Tavershima Ayede

Aberdeen Business Consulting

Topic: How to Use AI to Increase your Sales

Tavershima G. Ayede is a business growth podcaster who helps SMEs, founders and CEOs come up with unique sales strategies for business growth.

Most attention on AI today is on the negative consequences that it could have on society, and how it might impede people’s creative faculties. My thesis is that AI can be used as a tool for business growth, increase national GDP, and a catalyst for value add in the economy as a whole. Using AI for such purposes will provide the stimulus for unlocking creativity amongst humans for decades to come. AI is not a problem to be feared, but an opportunity for unlocking human potential.

Session – How to Use AI to Increase your Sales : Friday, August 30th 2024 @ 3.30pm-4.30pm W.A.T

Farai Mutiwanyuka

CEO Sprouting Tree Group,South Africa

Topic – Future-Proofing Your Brand: Leveraging A.I. for Authentic and Sustainable Growth in the Digital Age

In the fast-paced digital era, building an authentic brand while ensuring long-term sustainability is a significant challenge for businesses. Join us for this session, where you’ll discover how Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) can revolutionize your branding strategy.

We will delve into and address the unique obstacles faced by African entrepreneurs, providing practical, A.I.-driven solutions to enhance brand presence and customer engagement.

Attendees will gain valuable insights into integrating A.I. into their branding efforts, ensuring their business remains relevant and resilient in a competitive market. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to harness A.I. for creating a brand that resonates deeply with your audience and drives sustainable growth.

1.Integrating A.I. for Authentic Customer Engagement: -Maintaining brand authenticity while employing advanced technology
2.A.I.-Driven Market Analysis and Trend Prediction:-Leveraging A.I. tools and enhancing decision-making processes through data-driven strategies.
3.Optimizing Content Creation and Distribution:- Automating content generation to maintain brand consistency and using A.I. to identify and reach target audiences more effectively.

Session – Future-Proofing Your Brand: Leveraging A.I. for Authentic and Sustainable Growth in the Digital Age : Thursday, August 29th 2024 @ 4.00pm – 5.00pm W.A.T

Caroline Wabara

 Founder: WAB Digital,Nigeria

Topic: How Wab Digital Uses AI For Advanced Content Creation.

I’m a digital marketing consultant and CEO of Wab Digital, trained and mentored in Lagos Nigeria with 10+ years of experience consulting for Ecommerce and B2B Companies in strategic Web Design, SEO and Paid Ads.

Before discovering digital marketing, I started my career in traditional marketing and sales for construction, insurance and banking sectors in Nigeria. Then I stumbled on internet marketing and went on to learn how marketing on the internet works.

Eventually, I became a freelance web designer for small businesses, and worked as a copywriter and marketing lead for two digital marketing agencies before launching my own agency.

Nowadays, I consult for marketing and sales professionals and companies around the world on how to build their profitable digital marketing agencies and how to create marketing strategies to sell anything online.

In this webinar, we’ll cover:
Leveraging AI for content creation
Learn practical ways to use AI to streamline content production.
How we recycle content across different channels.
Discover how to use AI to ensure consistent writing across mediums.

Session – How Wab Digital Uses AI For Advanced Content Creation. Friday , August 30th 2024 @1.00pm – 2.00pm W.A.T

Babatunde Ogunnowo

 Founder Absolute Hearts Media,Nigeria

Topic: The AI Advantage: Leveraging Technology for Business Growth

How business owners can leverage new and developing AI tools for business growth and success.

Implementing AI driven marketing strategies for improved customer engagement, AI for content creation, Prompting generative AI tools the right way

Session – The AI Advantage: Leveraging Technology for Business Growth: Friday, August 30th 2024 @ 4.30pm-5.30pm W.A.T

Ruth Adeyemi

Founder : SARMLife

Topic: Leveraging AI Overviews for Business Growth

Using current search engine optimization strategies, you will learn how to position your content for citing by AI overviews.
“📍Breakdown of SEO
📍Breakdown of AI Overviews
📍SEO strategies for citable content”

“Ruth Adeyemi is the Owner/Founder of SARMLife, an SEO Agency

Ruth Adeyemi is a multidimensional woman who has achieved incredible feats in her career and business.

As the founder of SARMLife, an organization focused on helping brands grow their blog traffic and income with business blogging and digital marketing strategies, she has done a tremendous job raising 5-figure business owners and other bright minds in the digital space.

Three years ago, she started a “hobby blog” to share her knowledge, a reason common to almost every blogger. But after eight months and without a desire to job search with her biochemistry degree, she began to take blogging seriously. 

From a solid desire to HELP fellow bloggers grow, she started her first coaching program with 40 bloggers. From there, she saw the pains of these bloggers, from monetization to increased traffic, business structuring, pricing, etc. 

With this understanding, she combined her knowledge of Digital Marketing and Search Engine Optimization with her experience in professional (business) blogging to help her first Agency client increase her website traffic by 1147.39% in 10 days. 

Currently, she works with businesses and influencers to grow their brand visibility/revenue using her SEO & blog marketing strategies. HER MISSION IS TO stimulate endless possibilities in you, translating to dangerous confidence in the ability of your brand to thrive in the digital space.

Ruth is also getting her doctorate in Pharmacy at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy in Jacksonville, Florida.

She desires to help and be a shining light to everyone who crosses her path, even as she carves a future that enables her to continue to help others grow.”

Session – Leveraging AI Overviews for Business Growth : Friday, August 30th 2024 @ 5.30 -6.30pm W.A.T

Ugochukwu Nkwocha

Founder: Skillsrave Technology

Topic: AI Powered Lead Generation and Nurturing with Email Marketing

Ugochukwu Nkwocha is a co-founder and CEO of 9jacodekids Academy, an online supplemental education technology business focused on coding and education for kids age 6-16. In just over 8 years, his academy has taught over 7000 kids tech skills in coding, robotics and artificial intelligence.

He is also the CEO of Skillsrave Technology, a tech services company for small businesses focusing on Web design, and marketing automation.

Ugochukwu holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Electronic Engineering from the University of Port Harcourt and a Masters degree in Computer Network Administration and Management from the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is married with 3 children.

AI-Powered Lead Generation and Nurturing with Email Marketing:
Want to grow your business by finding and keeping more customers? This session shows you how small and medium businesses can use new technology to do just that, especially through email marketing. We’ll explain in simple terms how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way companies connect with potential customers. You’ll learn about practical tools that can help you attract interested buyers around the clock and send them personalized emails that really grab their attention. We’ll share real stories of businesses like yours using these methods successfully. You don’t need to be a tech expert to benefit – we’ll cover easy-to-use AI tools for email marketing that can save you time and help you build better relationships with customers. Whether you’re just starting to explore this technology or looking to improve your current approach, you’ll leave with ideas you can use right away to help your business grow
1. Introduction to AI in Lead Generation
2. AI-Powered Email Marketing for Lead Nurturing
3. Practical Implementation and Success Stories

Session – AI Powered Lead Generation and Nurturing with Email Marketing: Friday, August 30th 2024@ 12noon -1.00pm W.A.T

Ifeanyi Julian Etuokwu Oludumila

Nathan Jules Consulting

Topic: Survey Smarter, Not Harder: How AI Is Transforming Market Research

Ifeanyi Julian Etuokwu-Oludumila is a seasoned Marketing Consultant, Social Media Coach, and Brand & Design Expert, she helps CEOs and MSMEs achieve their marketing goals through:
-Setting marketing goals
-Identifying customers
-Conducting proper market research -Developing effective marketing strategy
-Crafting social media marketing strategy
-Creating content marketing strategy/plan
-Effective brand development

With a passion for empowering African entrepreneurs, Julian has already trained over 70,500 MSMEs on ‘How Marketing Works’ and delivered numerous impactful workshops and webinars.

Her programs focus on actionable marketing education for tangible results.

Join the session to discover how AI can transform your surveys and unlock actionable insights. You’ll learn:
– The pitfalls of traditional surveys and how AI can overcome them
– How to refine survey questions with AI for maximum impact
– Best practices for designing effective survey questions that yield meaningful data
– Tips for interpreting data to drive business decisions

1. The challenges of traditional survey
2. How AI can refine survey questions
3. Best practices for designing effective survey questions and interpreting data

Session – Survey Smarter, Not Harder: How AI Is Transforming Market Research: Thursday, August 29th 2024 @ 3.00pm – 4.00pm W.A.T

Segun lawal

 Wisdom Scroll Consulting

Topic: Adaptability to Change; The Most Important Skill in the Future of Work.

This session will help Participants to understand and develop strategic skills which will help them to have a better approach to various changes dynamics in today’s workplace.

Participants will also learn how to

1) Develop adaptability to various changes in their work environment.
2) Understand Change dynamics in the workplace

3) Adapt to change in the workplace 

Segun is a seasoned Management Consultant specializing in HR
innovations and strategy. His extensive experience underscores his
proficiency in leveraging innovative approaches to enhance organizational performance and efficiency within the realm of Human Resource Management.

He has worked at top management level across various industries, shaping high-performing teams and delivering value through people-focused programs. He’s a graduate of Marketing. Has a Chartered Post graduate Diploma in Marketing from National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria and holds an MBA in Human Resource Management. He’s a member of National Institute of Training and Development, also a Member Chartered Institute of Human Resource Management Nigeria and a Chartered human Resource Consultant. Segun has undergone several training courses in HR management, Business analysis, and Leadership.

Segun is a facilitator and has trained many youths, graduates, and professionals in leadership, HR management, soft skills training, entrepreneurship, and capacity building programs. He has served as a Panelist with Financial Institution Training Centre (FITC) for Staff promotion exercises. He has done same with notable Federal Government Financial Institutions like Federal Mortgage Bank Nigeria FMBN, National Insurance Commission NAICOM etc. Segun has worked on several training projects with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority,
NIRSAL, Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), NIRSAL to mention a few.
Segun is a Facilitator with The West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management WAIFEM, Piston and Fusion Business Academy Lagos, Training Heights Ltd Abuja, FITC Abuja. He was also a Facilitator for the Young Africa works Project implemented by IITA and funded by MASTERCARD.

He is a Director at HSF Foods Ltd, The Chief Operating Officer at MEDEVOLT Healthcare Ltd, specializing in recruitment, training, and capacity building for healthcare institutions, The Vice President Family Bond Helping Hands Foundation.
Segun is the Lead Consultant at Wisdom Scroll Consulting Abuja.

Session – Adaptability to change; the most important skill in the future of work: Thursday, August 29th 2024 @ 5.00pm -6.00pm W.A.T

Tosin Shobukola

 Founder – Social Impact Consulting,Nigeria

Topic: AI & Business Innovation: How AI can help business owners scale their business using multiple solutions greater and deeper than ordinary Generative AI

Tosin Shobukola is a seasoned leader in Enterprise Technology Solutions and Business Innovation, with over 17 years of experience across multiple industries. Currently leading ApreeCourt Solutions, he crafts innovative solutions driving Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. His tenure at Microsoft saw him revolutionize cloud solutions, saving clients significant costs. As the founder of Analytics Africa (a Social Enterprise company), he fosters talent and inclusivity in data analytics. With diverse interests including hosting a podcast and community service, Tosin is a thorough-bred professional with global impact, who embodies excellence and innovation, poised to propel organizations to unparalleled success.
ApreeCourt Solutions

AI & Business Innovation
How AI can help business owners scale their business using multiple solutions greater and deeper than ordinary Generative AI
AI concepts
AI opportunities
AI case Studies and scenarios
How can AI help your business to grow.

Session – AI & Business Innovation: How AI can help business owners scale their business using multiple solutions greater and deeper than ordinary Generative AI: Thursday, August 29th 2024 @ 1.30pm – 2.30pm W.A.T