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Chichi Nwoko, has consistently created opportunities that enhance cross-border collaboration in Africa's creative sector. A true PanAfricanist, her commitment to bringing Africa to the world resulted in Forbes Africa calling her, "A woman to know if you are doing business in West Africa! The National Association of Black Female Executives in Music and Entertainment named her an Executive to Watch in recognition of her many accomplishments! She was also named one of the top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent by MIPAD in the “Media and Culture category.” ChiChi is the founder & CEO of THE WHAT “WE HEART AFRICA TELEVISION” NETWORK, a start-up broadcast media network, raised its pre-seed funding to empower young African creatives with studios and a distribution platform and to tell and celebrate their stories and culture. She is positioning the company as a dynamic content and media technology company in order to become the leading live, on-demand streaming platform for Africans at home and abroad. The network will launch in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda in September 2022, which the objective of being in every African country by 2025. She joins Hub cast to discuss feeling The Gap Between Project And Result : Strategies For Achieving Goals As A-Team.

Akitoye Balogun is the founder and CEO of Muva Networks, where he coordinates global trades, compliance, deals, and strategic partnerships. Akitoye began his career with US-based Cisco, working on the digital transformation of the banking sector. As an enterprise account manager, he successfully closed over $20M in sales over four years. In 2020, he went on to head business development at Pave - an investment holding company with operations in Lagos and Accra. As head of BD, notably worked on the Pave / Binance joint JV to develop fiat on and off-ramp partnerships and grow the Binance business in WA. He also spent time at Humanz Nigeria as the General Manager for the region, where he secured marketing deals with global brands such as Nestlé and Google. Akitoye has a tangible passion for music, performing under the moniker Ajebutter 22. Since 2014, he has released numerous projects, including 3 number one albums.

On her visit with delegates from the Economic Department of the French Embassy to explore Impact Hub Lagos' innovation community, French Ambassador to Nigeria - Madame. Emmanuelle Blatmann sat down with the team for a brief chat.

Research by Harvard Business Review found that male and female entrepreneurs get asked different questions by VCs and it affects how much funding they get. 66% of the time female founders got asked prevention-oriented questions focused on safety, responsibility, security, and vigilance. For men 67% of the time promotion-oriented questions were asked, focused on hopes, achievements, advancement, and ideals. Researchers then found that for every prevention-oriented question that was asked, those startups went to raise a staggering $3.8 million less in funding. Olutoyin Williams is a senior human resources management professional with over 13 years of experience in Human Resources Management. She is the Founder and current Chief Executive Officer of The People Impact Company, a prime Human Resources consulting firm dedicated to improving talent management practices for Small and Medium Enterprises with a core focus on SME CEO Leadership Capability Development. Through her in-depth knowledge of the Nigerian market, she has led her team to deliver advisory services that focus on business and people growth, working with more than 50 SMEs and SMEs aggregators. Olutoyin is a Life and Career Coach and a member of the John Maxwell Team certified to coach, train and speak. She is also a Goggle Launchpad (Lagos) Mentor, a Consultant and Super Mentor with FCMB SheVentures Program. She is an alumna of the Fate Foundation AEP program, an alumna of Microsoft Accelerate Labs and a mentee of Cherie Blair Foundation. She is a recognized volunteer mentor and counsellor with the Knowledge Exchange Centre and Asentech.

Workpay, a Nairobi-based company providing over 400 businesses with tools for managing their HR, payroll, compliance, and benefits, has expanded to Nigeria. Nigeria will act as the company’s hub for the West Africa region. Workpay is a graduate of Y Combinator and Google for Startups Africa and recently was selected among other 50 companies in Africa to receive equity-free funding and support from Google’s Black Founders Fund Africa. This week we’ll be discussing with Derrick Abincha - Head of sales Workpay Nigeria. We’ll be examining the Workpay solution and its benefits to SMEs and Entrepreneurs in general.

One of the most important traits in a successful startup is adaptability. Over time, you’ll face new competitors, and your existing competitors will launch new products and services to try and out-compete you. New technologies will emerge that could drastically change how your business operates (or even render your business obsolete). Market conditions will change, and consumer preferences will change with them. And as a result of this confluence of factors, even the best research business plan will quickly become irrelevant. If you’re lucky, these changes won’t have much of an effect on your core business model. You can continue operations as you have in the past and still make money. But more commonly, you’ll have two real options. You can either adapt or watch your business fail.

Design thinking draws on logic, imagination, intuition and systematic reasoning to explore the possibilities of what could be and to create desired outcomes that benefit the end-user (the customer). A design mindset is not problem-focused, it's solution-focused and action-oriented. Nelson Ushingio is an Economist, a software engineer, a Business strategist, and a product manager at Onepluge Technology Nigeria limited. He's a big endorser of design thinking for product development, startups and basic organisation. Over the years he has organized various webinars on design thinking for product management.

Many have used the metaphor of technology as a 'catalyst' to describe how its presence can facilitate a process and although the metaphor is stretching the meaning of its original chemical context, it does contain a sense of reaction, interaction, and change. Impact Hub Lagos' Hubcast, we are happy to sit with Bello Akolapo, the Software Lead at Rocheaux Technology Limited to demystify the statement and Shed some light on how everyday entrepreneurs can use technology to scale their business. Kolapo is an experienced software Developer and Programmer that leads an ISO-certified company that produces high-end quality software tools that solve complex business problems and proffer long-term solutions. Rocheaux is partnered with ODOO, MICROSOFT, IBM, Intel, HP, NASSCOM to bring qualitative change to the world

Femi Ojo is a Public Policy and Partnerships Management Professional with over a decade of experience in both public and private sectors in local and international environments. Femi Ojo currently serves as an Honourable Member of the Lagos State Parliament, the deputy country representative of the Africa-Asia Youth Foundation., Special Adviser to the Chairman of Oxford International Group on Government Relations, Partnerships, and Policy. He doubles as the Senior Program Manager at Civichive and Strategist to the Chairman of Ifako Ijaiye local government on developmental affairs. He won the Young Influential Award 2020 by the Lagos Ministry of Youths. He has also received a Lagos State Award and a letter of recommendation on his Youth Empowerment activities. He was also awarded for his impeccable leadership skills by the University of Minna.

Wunmi Ogunde is an engineer with a passion for people and knowledge. She has a bachelor’s degree in Automatic Control Systems Engineering from the University of Sheffield, and an MSc in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Warwick. With over 7 years of experience in the manufacturing industry where she worked as Technical Manager for production and recycling of plastic materials, she has since co-founded green energy and social impact enterprises including Ecoprune Africa, EMR Consult, and Xrubicon Solutions (home to next-gen waste management and environmental reporting software solution - Pakam Technology).

Joshua Alade is Policy Advocate, TEDx Speaker, Ecosystem Convener, Positive Youth Development Trainer and a Social Impact Leader. Joshua is also Project Coordinator of the Nigeria Youth SDGs Network, a national coalition of youth-led/focused civil society organisations driving accountability and local advocacy for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) implementation projects. In this episode, we discuss what exactly the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are, how they enable and are enabled by innovation and the benefits/potential of the goals towards a more sustainable Nigeria.

Israel Alabi is the CEO of Farmspeak an agritech startup that combines remote sensing, AI, data analytics, and IoT technology to transform African farming with smart tools, devices, and services.We discuss what it takes to build a business in the Nigerian Agriculture sector, the role of technology in the sector, and the venture journeys so far.