Meet The Power Shift Speakers

I’m the Co-founder and CMO of Accrue, an intra-African payments company helping people and businesses move money across Africa quickly and easily. At Accrue, I lead marketing, user acquisition, retention, revenue, brand, and market expansion. We’ve grown Accrue to over 350,000 users across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Benin Republic, and Cameroon, supported by a network of 16,000+ agents. We’re building financial infrastructure that makes it easier for Africans to send, spend, and receive money across borders.

Lantana Elhassan is the Head of Exploration at UNDP Nigeria’s Accelerator Lab, where she leads systems innovation at the intersection of policy and practice. Her work focuses on climate adaptation, inclusive finance, food systems, and energy resilience. Lantana holds master’s degrees in Development and Planning (University College London) and Architecture (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria). She is passionate about translating macro-policies into responsive, investment-ready systems that empower local communities.

Jody Simpson is a Google Software Engineer and ecosystem builder dedicated to creating a more accessible and equitable tech landscape. Deeply committed to social impact, Jody centers much of her work on community, mentorship and investing. She serves as the Co-Director of Women in Tech Caribbean, where she curates supportive spaces for Caribbean women in the tech industry. She serves as a board member for the MindsOf Initiative, a non-profit providing students with crucial mentorship opportunities.

Temitope engineers robust backend systems at Moniepoint, a leading African fintech revolutionizing financial access across the continent. Her work centers around the POS infrastructure, building resilient systems that businesses rely on daily while ensuring seamless performance as the business scales. Beyond her technical work, Temitope is a dedicated mentor who helps the next generation of developers start their careers in fintech.

I support software engineers who build revenue-generating products by providing scalable, reliable infrastructure for their code to run on.

Audrey Ezeonyedika is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in server-side development and AI. She builds the infrastructure powering investment platforms and digital banking systems across Africa, bringing financial access to millions. A passionate mentor and advocate for women in tech, Audrey believes the most revolutionary technologies come from people who refuse to wait for the future to arrive. She's building that future and bringing others with her.

Thelma is a Senior Product Designer and Builder with a reputation for solving hard problems in high-stakes environments. Her career spans the African Fintech landscape, including work with Flutterwave and Chipper Cash, where she focused on product growth and user retention. Beyond Fintech, She served as a design consultant for Apple, redesigning legacy applications for battery engineers, and collaborated with Verizon R&D (in partnership with Nvidia) on the user experience for AI infrastructure in media.

Melissa Onwuka is a research strategist by practice and brings a rare dual foundation: a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and a near-complete Bachelor’s in Computer Science. She founded Google Developer Groups at Bowen University, a community that connected students with industry resources and global developer ecosystems. She authored The Partnership Playbook, a guide to building sustainable, high-impact collaborations, and has published over 14 articles on technology and data.

Dami is a product designer with years of experience in user experience, design systems, and product strategy. She has led design at companies ranging from pre-seed startups to growth-stage firms, including YC-funded teams. Her research & data driven, human-centred approach has shaped product direction, market adoption, and driven business growth. She is also the founder of Tabs (often described as "Mobbin for Africa"), a thoughtfully curated library for discovering digital products built for the African market.

I’m Folashade Adegbite, a Senior Product Designer at Interswitch, where I design user-centered products that drive real business impact. Beyond my role, I’m building the next generation of designers through Designer Fola Circle, a community focused on helping designers move from learning to becoming job-ready and strategically positioned. Through my work with the Incubator Hub, I’ve trained and mentored over 1,000 designers, equipping them with the skills, mindset, and clarity needed to transition into real-world opportunities.

Kay is a multimedia journalist, conference host, and EMBA graduate (Valar Institute, 2026). With over a decade of experience in PR, brand management, public speaking, and marketing, Kay is a recognized speaker, host, moderator, and storyteller who blends humor, wit, and intellect to energize audiences of any size. Conferences she has hosted include Termii Elevate 4.0, Moonshot by TechCabal, Wetech conference, AfricArena, and GITEX Lagos.

I am a Product Manager who specializes in scaling complex systems and building high-performing teams. In my day-to-day, I work at the intersection of product strategy and leadership driving execution, reducing time to market, and delivering enterprise-scale platforms that strengthen business operations. I have built across industries like Logistics, Affiliate Marketing, and Domestic Technology, while also leading user-facing products in EdTech, Ride-hailing, Web3, and Promotional Gaming.

I’m a former lawyer turned Product Manager, community builder, and career coach. I work as a Product Manager for Samsung Pay UK, where I focus on improving the wallet experience for customers and banking partnerships. Before Samsung, I worked at American Express across enterprise loyalty platforms and ML-powered personalisation tools. I also founded the Kumu Circle, a global personal and professional development community for ambitious African women across the continent and in the diaspora.

Osarhieme is an AI & Law specialist with an LLB in Law from the University of Exeter and is currently completing an LLM (Masters of Law) in AI & Law at Queen Mary University of London, where her work focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, regulation, governance, and innovation policy.In 2021, she founded Uncovered Conversations, a youth-led platform through which she has engaged over 50 founders, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders.

Bashira is a Senior Consultant at Africa Practice (AP), advising clients on policy, legislation, and political economy within the dynamic digital and creative economy and broader innovation ecosystem. Before joining AP, Bashira was an integral member of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Director-General’s Policy Team, where she developed and implemented policies aligned with global best practices and to advance Nigeria’s digital innovation landscape.

Chika Yinka-Banjo is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Lagos (UNILAG). A PhD graduate in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, she has over two decades of experience in AI, robotics, machine learning, and intelligent systems. She coordinates UNILAG's Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab (AIRLAB) and serves as Pioneer Director of UNILAG's AI University Innovation Pod (AI UNIPOD), part of Nigeria's national innovation initiative.

Oyindamola Oladosu is a Principal at Boston Consulting Group, where she advises financial institutions, private capital platforms, and public sector organizations across Africa on growth strategy, capital deployment, and transformation. She has worked closely with investors and early-stage companies on fundraising, market entry, and scaling strategies, and has supported the design of innovative financing solutions aimed at expanding access to capital for underserved and women-led enterprises.

Miishe is Co-Founder and CEO of Jetstream, a trade technology platform that bridges the trust gap between ground operations in frontier markets and remote stakeholders. Jetstream has enabled financing and facilitated over $70 million in physical goods trade in West Africa. She started her career as a top-ranked analyst at Bain & Company and worked on over $50 billion in M&A transactions as a licensed attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. She lives in Tema, Ghana.

Folasade “Sade” Dada is an attorney by training and represents Meta in the region as Head of Public Policy, Anglophone West Africa. In her role, she collaborates with stakeholders from government, civil society, academia, and industry to find solutions to complex internet policy issues facing African countries. Prior to Meta, Sade tackled significant broadband deployment issues through her work at the Wireless Infrastructure Association, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, and Microsoft.

Chinyere is the Managing Partner at Accelerate Africa, a 12 week, pre-seed/seed accelerator program and fund for startups. She was formerly a Partner at Future Africa. Early in her career, she was the founding operator of a scale up, before transitioning to technology consulting and operations at organizations such as Bluewolf (IBM), Ernst & Young, and JP Morgan Chase. She has a Bachelor's in Business Management, from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Master's in Finance from Georgetown University.

Tosin Faniro-Dada is an ecosystem builder and investor. She took on the inaugural role of Executive of Lagos Innovates, an incubator powered by LSETF that proppelled over 200 tech startups in Lagos state. She later joined Endeavor Nigeria as Managing Director & CEO, igniting the growth of Nigeria’s most notable tech scaleups. Now a Partner at Breega, an early-stage VC fund in Europe and Africa, Tosin deploys capital to help tech founders solve significant economic and social challenges.

Morayo Adisa serves as Mastercard’s Government Affairs and Policy Lead for West Africa, where she leverages over 15 years of diverse legal and policy experience to drive strategic engagement with governments, regulators, and key stakeholders across the region. Called to the Nigerian Bar in 2008, Morayo holds an LLB from the University of Lagos and an LLM in International Human Rights and Terrorism Law from Lancaster University in the UK.