Uplift Podcast

Abel is an International Conference Speaker, spoken in some of the most prominent conferences around the 🌎 world, he is currently the Chief Innovation Officer of a Global Conglomerate called Softdroom, the Parent company of many subsidiaries across the world including VersusPay, where he is also heading the company as the Chief Executive Officer. Abel is highly invested in Business development, Tech community advocacy, and building innovative solutions around the world to solve problems on a global scale. Tenacity, Curiosity, Creativity, and Collaboration has been his major pillar & pivot to success. Talk about a world class FOODIE, talk Abel 🤭

Motunrayo Alake Olasupo is a Tech enthusiast who is very passionate about helping people attain their best potential through her cutting edge human resources skills. She currently works with Decagon as a people and process associate and is certified by Human Resource Institute as a Professional Human Resource International (PHRI). She is most excited about using tech to help bridge the gap between employees' performance and the organisation's strategic objectives.

For about 5years, Baliqees Salaudeen has consistently worked as a development expert and a serial volunteer in Nigeria, her activities spanning environmental management, Climate Change Activism and youth Development.

She’s an Alumnus of Accra Business School and a Fellow of African Young Leaders Fellowship Program, Accra, Ghana.

Baliqees leads notable Environmental platforms in Kwara State and North Central Nigeria, including PickThatTrash, North Central Climate Conference, Climate Strike/Fridays For Future.

She has been engaged by several organizations including UNDP, ICCDI, YIAGA and the Federal Ministry of Environment.

Baliqees is the Executive Director and Founder of Bays Planet Foundation and the Director of Research, Advocacy and Strategy for AREAI4AFRICA.

You can catch up with her:
Mail— [email protected]
LinkedIn— Baliqees Salaudeen
Twitter— humanitarian_bs
Instagram— Baliqees_Salaudeen

Arfat Sabo, a graduate from Middlesex University, Mauritius Branch Campus holds a BSc in Information Technology and Business Information Systems. She is the lead on analytic reporting at the American University of Nigeria’s Office of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance, where she is saddled with the responsibility of providing succinct reports and visualizations to inform management decision making. Outside work, Arfat leads the Women Tech Makers(WTM) of the Google developers group (GDG) chapter here in Yola. Along with other GDGyola volunteers, she is creating visibility for tech enthusiasts in and around yola through the activities of the group. She is passionate about inspiring the next generation of female coders from her community. She also strives to solve some societal problems with the aid of technology within her community in Yola, Nigeria where she hails from.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OTRAC, Farida is a graduate of Biological Sciences from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. She is an epidemiologist, a software developer, a tech entrepreneur and ICT consultant with vast experience and interests in information technology, public health, and data analytics. Her company, OTRAC, develops and deploys enterprise software solutions cutting across healthcare and education sectors in Nigeria. In 2017, she became the federal ICT advisor for PERL, UK government’s flagship program on governance in Nigeria.

Farida also holds an MBA from the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank. She is currently the ambassador for Google Women Techmakers Abuja and the co-organizer for Google Developer Group Abuja. She is also a member of WHO AFRO steering committee for developing and implementing a framework for scaling health innovations across Africa.

She has won various awards, including the NYSC FCT Award, the Innoventor Award by Verdant Zeal Group and Nigeria’s 100 most inspiring women of 2019 by Leading Ladies Africa. In 2016 she was the only Nigerian amongst five Africans that was awarded by the French President, François Hollande, in recognition of her pioneering entrepreneurial strides in Health Technology.

He was a personal shopper and stylist for friends. He decided to focus on making clothes for men. His dissatisfaction with regular brands he used to style his friends led him to starting his own fashion design company.

Mr Kola Kuddus creates clothes for the modern man has showcased at high profile shows such as Lagos style week. His collections of clothes are long lasting, high quality and timeless. He started as a personal shopper in 2004, and grew into designing and outsourcing. The man behind the label is set to conquer the retail market as his brand is available throughout Lagos and is set to expand through Nigeria and eventually globally. He has come through the ranks of emerging designers to be in a place were he has forged and consolidated his place in the Nigerian fashion industry. A Philosophy Graduate from University of Lagos, he has also studied at City University London, Nobel Africk and at the prestigious London College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins. Distinctly modern but marked by rich color, flawlessly constructed designs and quality fabrics he remains loyal to African trends and styles yet epitomizes global glamour by offering men his innate fashion sense. The ready-to-wear collections pay careful attention to detail and his classic and casual styles are developed with a modern aesthetic.

He is currently the  president of Fashion Designers Association of Nigeria.

Yusuf Ahmed is the co-founder/Creative Director of Skyubd Nigeria. He also works with/for Plateau ICT Development Agency, Ministry of works etc

Kamaldeen Kehinde (a Managing Director and Community Organizer at Kwarabuild | Malhub) specializes in building and creating value towards tech ecosystem development. Yusuf’s Program incubation and management expertise is rooted in providing technical guidance, mentorship, community support and facilitation to help evangelize the importance of tech innovation across the nation.

Kamaldeen Kehinde is a Community Organizer for Kwarabuild tech community. In this capacity and in his role as the Community Lead, Yusuf is responsible for providing technical guidance, enablement, Knowledge Base, Best Practices and related collaterals to internal and external technical audience within and outside kwara. He is a popular and regular Speaker at technical conferences and workshops ((including Ingressive Campus Events, Malhub Meetup, and more), presenting technical subject matters related to Community building and tech ecosystem. His main passions are his Mum and Twin sister (Mrs Asmau and Taiwo).

Blessyn Kure is a multi-media personality, serial entrepreneur, culture and travel enthusiast from Kaduna state, Nigeria.
Her fascination with people and culture and her desire to explore Nigeria to behold the beauty amidst the chaos, has led her to travel across the nation while documenting some of these travels on various social media platforms in a bid to create more social impact by changing the narrative.

OSONDU C. BENEDICT AMIARSA, MIPMD

Lead Business and Market research consultant: Benth Plus Consulting

Osondu C. Benedict is a certified Market & Business research consultant, a business & marketing strategist, a marketing brand and feasibility expert.

He has over 5years of experience in helping government owned organization, startup and existing businesses to build a global brand perspective by providing them with business and market strategy, feasibility and marketing services.

He is an expert in helping startup and has been involved in starting up over 50 businesses by providing Strategy & Structure, feasibility & marketing research services for several companies currently existing and also help business in their marketing research plans & projects both within Nigeria and Abroad.

He is currently the Lead and founder of Benth Plus Consulting