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The Art, business, and Creativity conference is a gathering of creatives across Africa. It is aimed at equipping and empowering creatives across Africa to enhance their skills, build an authentic body of work and thriving businesses so that they can impact their world with their distinct gifts and talents leading to a meaningful shift in the role creatives play in the transformation of Africa.
This Year’s Theme:
The Defining
Decade of the Creative
10am – 3pm | Nov 30th & Dec 1st 2021 | Kairos Hub, Lekki
The Speakers

Udo Okonjo
Keynote Speaker
Udo Okonjo, International Lawyer and astute Real Estate Entrepreneur is currently the Chief Executive Officer/Vice Chairman of Fine and Country West Africa. She also serves as an Independent Director, and Chair of the Governance and Remuneration Committee on the board of CAP PLC, a subsidiary of UACN Plc, one of Nigeria’s oldest and largest publicly listed conglomerates.
Mrs. Okonjo is a seasoned legal practitioner who was admitted to the Nigerian Bar Association and New York Bar in 1991 and 1994, respectively. She has had a successful legal and entrepreneurial journey career for more than three decades.
Udo acted as Senior Special Adviser on Legal and Constitutional Matters to the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and was a Partner at a leading commercial law firm, Templars Barristers & Solicitors.
As the best graduating female student at the Nigerian Law School, in 1991, Udo was awarded the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship to study at the University of London, Kings College School of Law, where she graduated with a Master’s degree in Law (LLM) specializing in Corporate and Commercial Law. She also earned a certificate in Effective Real Estate Marketing from the National University of Singapore in conjunction with the Dubai Real Estate Institute amongst several real estate and executive courses at the Said Business School, Oxford University, Judge Business School, Cambridge University, and Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University.
She is very passionate about real estate and entrepreneurship as a means of wealth creation and nation-building and is the convener of the annual Refined Investor Series which provides a roadmap and insight for building the future of the Nigerian real estate market.
She is also the founder and Chief Igniter of the Inspired Women of Worth (IWOW) Network a Business and Lifestyle Network for African Female Entrepreneurs and change-makers, she is also the founding chair of the IWOW Leadership Academy, an institution established to Transform Society through Empowered Female Leaders along with Ignite Africa an initiative to Enrich, Transform and Connect the next generation of African Entrepreneurs through experiential learning. Notably, recently under her leadership, Fine and Country West Africa has launched a cutting-edge Real Estate Leadership Development Programme in collaboration with the Executive Management division of the prestigious Lagos Business School.
Udo is a keen writer, teacher, and internationally sought-after speaker whose unique and authentic approach endears and connects her to any audience profile, with many testifying to being transformed by the practical principles learnt through the multiple platforms she engages through.
She has spoken extensively on Women in Leadership, Entrepreneurship in West Africa, and Real Estate Investment. She believes in ‘Inspiring and Empowering African Entrepreneurs to Think Big and Live their Best Lives while building Purposeful, Prominent and Profitable Businesses.’ Emerged CNBC Africa Finalist West African Businesswoman of the Year 2016, received the African Real Estate Personality Award, and the Extraordinary Brand Contribution Award to the Fine and Country Global Network. Interviews on CNBC Africa Power Lunch, BBC Radio in the U.K. for Refined Investor Series tagged: ‘Taking Nigeria to The World’ Featured in 50 Most Influential Corporate Giants in Nigeria, WIMBIZ Inspire Me, Conversations with her, amongst others. Udo is regularly featured in leading national business publications and national TV. She believes that true African transformation will start with champions who take responsibility for changing their lives and others around them through right thinking and actions.
Keynote Speaker

Udo Okonjo
Udo Okonjo, International Lawyer and astute Real Estate Entrepreneur is currently the Chief Executive Officer/Vice Chairman of Fine and Country West Africa. She also serves as an Independent Director, and Chair of the Governance and Remuneration Committee on the board of CAP PLC, a subsidiary of UACN Plc, one of Nigeria’s oldest and largest publicly listed conglomerates.
Mrs. Okonjo is a seasoned legal practitioner who was admitted to the Nigerian Bar Association and New York Bar in 1991 and 1994, respectively. She has had a successful legal and entrepreneurial journey career for more than three decades.
Udo acted as Senior Special Adviser on Legal and Constitutional Matters to the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and was a Partner at a leading commercial law firm, Templars Barristers & Solicitors.
As the best graduating female student at the Nigerian Law School, in 1991, Udo was awarded the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship to study at the University of London, Kings College School of Law, where she graduated with a Master’s degree in Law (LLM) specializing in Corporate and Commercial Law. She also earned a certificate in Effective Real Estate Marketing from the National University of Singapore in conjunction with the Dubai Real Estate Institute amongst several real estate and executive courses at the Said Business School, Oxford University, Judge Business School, Cambridge University, and Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University.
She is very passionate about real estate and entrepreneurship as a means of wealth creation and nation-building and is the convener of the annual Refined Investor Series which provides a roadmap and insight for building the future of the Nigerian real estate market.
She is also the founder and Chief Igniter of the Inspired Women of Worth (IWOW) Network a Business and Lifestyle Network for African Female Entrepreneurs and change-makers, she is also the founding chair of the IWOW Leadership Academy, an institution established to Transform Society through Empowered Female Leaders along with Ignite Africa an initiative to Enrich, Transform and Connect the next generation of African Entrepreneurs through experiential learning. Notably, recently under her leadership, Fine and Country West Africa has launched a cutting-edge Real Estate Leadership Development Programme in collaboration with the Executive Management division of the prestigious Lagos Business School.
Udo is a keen writer, teacher, and internationally sought-after speaker whose unique and authentic approach endears and connects her to any audience profile, with many testifying to being transformed by the practical principles learnt through the multiple platforms she engages through.
She has spoken extensively on Women in Leadership, Entrepreneurship in West Africa, and Real Estate Investment. She believes in ‘Inspiring and Empowering African Entrepreneurs to Think Big and Live their Best Lives while building Purposeful, Prominent and Profitable Businesses.’ Emerged CNBC Africa Finalist West African Businesswoman of the Year 2016, received the African Real Estate Personality Award, and the Extraordinary Brand Contribution Award to the Fine and Country Global Network. Interviews on CNBC Africa Power Lunch, BBC Radio in the U.K. for Refined Investor Series tagged: ‘Taking Nigeria to The World’ Featured in 50 Most Influential Corporate Giants in Nigeria, WIMBIZ Inspire Me, Conversations with her, amongst others. Udo is regularly featured in leading national business publications and national TV. She believes that true African transformation will start with champions who take responsibility for changing their lives and others around them through right thinking and actions.
Udo Okonjo

Tomie Balogun
Tomie Balogun is a leading expert in investment with excellent competence in helping young working professionals build wealth. She has a proven track record of helping people pay off debts and build investment portfolios seamlessly.
With a career of over 15 years spanning across investment advisory, fin-tech, value-added technology, telecommunications, and management consulting, she is indeed a force to reckon with in Africa’s financial services industry.
In management consulting, she dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s as a business analyst at Alliance Consulting and at the International Financial Corporation (IFC), she was a sought-after consultant.
Tomie took her career to another level and brought her knowledge of creating value-added services with the aid of technology when she became the Product Manager, West Africa at Greystone Partners Limited.
Realizing her innate potentials, Tomie was selected as a young African Leader for an accelerated leadership program in Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company in August 2013.
She currently seats as CEO, The Vestract Company – a digital financial advisory company that promotes financial literacy using investment clubs and technology for its operations.
Constantly, Tomie and her dynamic team push out 21st-century financial solutions that are designed for the youths and the young at heart.
For instance, she has helped 1,700 young people tidy up their personal finances, get financially educated, pay off debts and build investment portfolios for financial independence.
Experience they say is the best teacher, Tomie’s journey into the investment market started from her experience of facing the consequences of poor finances which she eventually overcame. Since then, she has been taking giant strides in filling the gap in investment education and helping clients gain access to investment opportunities in Nigeria and other climes.
Helping others make viable decisions about their investment is one of the things that Tomie is passionate about and she does that through credible channels like the Green Investment Club where the goal is to teach millennials to invest confidently.
She has been featured on various media platforms including CNBC Africa, Channels TV, Arise Africa TV etc. She also speaks at corporate organisations and has been invited to speak by organisations such as the Shell Nigeria Co., Ernst & Young, KPMG, Axa Mansard, GTB , FBN, British High Commission in Nigeria.
If you are trying to get an inroad with your audience on financial services, Tomie is that conference speaker you need as she makes investment attractive and a hassle-free venture for her clients.
She is an alumnus of the Harvard Fin-tech Program with an MBA from the prestigious Lagos Business School as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Economics.
Tomie is the author of the book, Investment Clubs – how to create wealth beyond your pay-cheque by investing with others. Her book was featured as the No.1 new release in the crowdfunding category when it was launched on Amazon in May 2018 and ranked No. 6 in the Amazon bestsellers rank. Her book launched her to be in the elite league of best-selling authors on the world’s largest online store, Amazon.
Tomie Balogun
Founder, Twelve App

Tolu Michaels
Tolu Michaels is a digital entrepreneur and a personal brand strategist. She teaches and helps modern entrepreneurs how to position themselves as valuable experts and leaders so they can attract quality clients and impact lives profitably.
In three years, she has built a profitable and formidable digital business that has reached clients from across five (5) continents, trained 20,000 entrepreneurs, and reached an audience of 50,000 subscribers weekly.
Through her digital programs, she has helped students and clients from several parts of the world, get the clarity and confidence to show up online, communicate their value, mean business, and create a bigger impact with their work.
Tolu is the best-selling author of the acclaimed “Show Up” book – a blueprint for creating a profitable brand while doing work you love, with clients you like and it was met with raving reviews.
For her outstanding work on revolutionizing the profitable business of Personal Branding, she has been featured in notable magazines such as Guardian Nigeria, Thrive Global amongst others.
Tolu considers herself a Nation Builder and lays her building blocks by writing and teaching. Through her work with hundreds of clients, her mantra is that you can be seen, heard, and hired without losing yourself or compromising your values.
Find out more about TOLU MICHAELS at: www.tolumichaels.com/links
Tolu Michaels
Personal Branding Strategist

Bayo Omoboriowo
Bayo Omoboriowo is a Multi award-winning Nigerian photojournalist and documentary photographer. He is the Chief Official Photographer to President Muhammadu Buhari, a position he has held since May 2015. His work has significantly contributed to the advancement of political photography in Nigeria and Africa at large.
Named one of Nigeria’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Nigerian Politics, Omoboriowo has a B.Sc in Pure and Applied Chemistry from the University of Lagos and a postgraduate degree in Education Administration. His photographs have been featured in art exhibitions and have been published in magazines and newspapers worldwide.
Omoboriowo was the 2nd youngest appointee and Presidential Aide to be appointed by a seating President in the nation’s history and the youngest ever Chief Photographer to a President Worldwide.
He won the NACCP Climate Change Photo Contest in 2012, and in the same year was awarded the Future Awards for the Most Creative Artist of the Year. He led the team that won the MTN Afrinolly film competition in 2012, and the Sundance Institute film award, USA. He was a finalist at the Nigerian Professional Photography Awards 2011, and a second runner-up at the AAF-Etisalat Photography competition 2012.
Currently a Guinness world Title holder for the “largest photo book” Discover Nigeria, He is the author of ‘Buhari: A New Beginning’ and Being Buhari. He is the founder of Unabashed Africa, a photography mentorship platform that has held trainings and events across Africa. Through Unabashed Africa, he has contributed to mentoring over 1,000 creatives in Nigeria and Africa at large.
Bayo Omoboriowo

Debola Deji-Kurunmi
Debola Deji-Kurunmi is a transformational catalyst, equipping a new breed of African visionaries to rise and enthrone the continent into global prominence, through her work of coaching, consulting, and capacity building.
She is the Founder of IMMERSE Coaching Company (a personal transformation coaching practice), Executive Director at Ideation Hub Africa (a public policy and impact advisory firm), and President at Kingdom Women Global Alliance and FIREBRAND Movement (both faith-based Organizations).
Debola has been on the Resident Faculty of organizations including the World Bank, FATE Foundation, AWESOME Treasures Foundation, AD Consulting, LEAP Africa, VFD Bridge, Olaniwun Ajayi LP amongst others.
At IMMERSE Coaching Company, Debola leads a 50,000+ strong tech-driven global community of change-makers in 99 countries, using her breakthrough coaching methodology to elevate their impact, authority, and legacy leadership. Since 2014, IMMERSE has produced over 80 courses and runs three different subsidiaries including its recently launched men-only coaching arm. Her transformational work has been featured on TV, international news, and awards.
Through Ideation Hub Africa, she runs a social profit accelerator, which supports Africa’s non-profits, innovators, civil society organizations, and public sector agencies, with executive education, collaborative platforms, funding opportunities, and advisory. Ideation Hub is also the host of Development Dialogue, Nigeria’s leading development sector conference since 2015.
Debola has been severally recognized for her outstanding leadership impact and has received Awards including the 2014 New Leader for Tomorrow in the order of business, government, and parliaments at the Crans Montana Forum in Geneva; an award conferred before several Presidents and world leaders.
She served twice as a Mentor Jury of the Queen’s Young Leader Awards (a UK Government fellowship that honors exceptional young leaders in the Common Wealth). In 2018, she was selected by the US Government as one of Africa’s most promising young leaders and a Mandela Washington Fellow. In 2019, she was listed as one of 100 Most Inspiring Nigerian Women and announced as Nigeria’s Leading Coach at the 2021 Motherland Awards. She continues to serve as a Youth Representative at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group.
DDK as she is fondly called, is an author of 20 books till date, and has spoken in three continents to emerging leaders, teams of multinational corporations, global development practitioners, SME owners, and young people yearning for a purpose-driven life.
Debola Deji-Kurunmi
Founder IMMERSE coaching company

MR ‘dayo ADEDAYO’
Born 1st July 1964 as Oladayo Mukaila Adedayo, but generally known as Dayo Adedayo.
Dayo Adedayo was trained as a photographer at The Westminster College and the University of Westminster, both in the United Kingdom.
His major breakthrough came when he worked as a freelance photojournalist with Ovation International, the Number 1 celebrity magazine in Africa. Several of his work adorns the front cover of the magazine including the bestselling edition, ‘See Dubai and Die’ in 2002.
He is the author of fifteen books; Nigeria, Nigeria 2.0, Enchanting Nigeria, Nigeria The Magical, Lagos State – The Centre of Excellence, Ogun State – The Gateway State, Owe Yoruba, Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation – Tourism is Life, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation 37 Years in Pictures, Rivers State – Our Proud Heritage, Tour Nigeria, Lagos State – A Visual Portrait, Owe Yoruba 2.0 and Ogun State – A Visual Portrait.
His book, Nigeria, was the first of its kind since the creation of Nigeria in 1914. No wonder it became a sought-after book by Nigerians and lovers of Nigeria. It was given out to the visiting Heads of State when Nigeria turned 50 in 2010, the United Nations General Assembly in New York, 2013, the Africa Union Summit on HIV/AIDS, 2013, and the West African Heads of State Security Summit in Abuja 2016.
His work also adorned the pages of the E-Passport of Nigeria, the One Hundred Naira note to mark the centenary of Nigeria, the walls of the International Airports of Lagos, Abuja, and several institutions and homes across Nigeria, and a member on the committee of setting up photography as a course in Nigeria Polytechnics.
The centenary edition of ‘MONOPOLY NIGERIA’ by Bestman Games also contains his work, so also were the pictures on display at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi International Airport, Abuja.
Also, between 2005 and 2007 he was the official photographer for ‘NIGERIA – THE HEART OF AFRICA’, a project that precipitated a lot of traveling all around the world, exhibiting Nigeria to the world in pictures.
Adedayo hopes that his work will add to the growing canon of contemporary African photography that seeks to challenge perceptions, broaden audiences and show the world the beauty of Nigeria like never before.
Instagram: dayo_adedayo
Twitter: @DayoAdedayo1
Website www.dayoadedayo.com
MR ‘dayo ADEDAYO’
Photographer | Best Selling Author of ‘Nigeria’

MR ‘dayo ADEDAYO’
John Obidi is a New Media Consultant, International Speaker, and Personal Development Trainer.
He is a highly-skilled, compelling visionary, and phenomenal resourceful person bringing practical intelligence and transferable solutions to both the workplace and marketplace as a whole; and doing so in the most innovative and unconventional ways, unlocking admiration and gratitude from clients and industry stakeholders everywhere.
In 2018, John was voted amongst Avance Media’s 100 Most influential Young Nigerians, coming in 2nd in the final rankings. In December 2018, he won The Future Awards Africa Prize for New Media. In 2020, he was voted among the 100 Most Influential Young Africans.
He is a leading consultant on online digital marketing in Africa and is the founder of HEADSTART AFRICA, a community of over 170,000 business and career professionals. As a thought leader in personal development, leadership, and online marketing, John’s blog, podcasts, webinars, workshops, masterclasses, conferences, and speaking engagements are acclaimed to be practical, disruptive, paradigm shifting, forward looking, and highly progressive.
He has served as a keynote speaker in Brazil, UAE, Ghana, Zambia, and Nigeria. He has also been featured on numerous platforms like Bella Naija, TVC Entertainment, Wazobia Max, Business Day, Channels, Social Media Week. John is available as a keynote speaker and panelist for conferences, workshops and knowledge sharing platforms.
John Obidi
Founder Headstart Africa

Isaac Emokpae
Isaac Emokpae is a Nigerian visual artist who studied art at the University of Lagos under Professor Abayomi Barber. He focused on painting at University but has worked in fashion photography and journalistic photography for most of his working life. He is the son of well-known Nigerian modern artist, Erhabor Emokpae and while he has inherited much of his father’s flare he also carved out a strong name for himself in a short time. Isaac has won awards such as the UNESCO “Save of Treasures” art competition in Troyes, France (1996) and the Hasselblad Masters (Semi-Finalist Award) for Photography (2007). He is increasingly known for his paintings on board and canvas which touch on complex philosophical themes such as duality.
Isaac Emokpae

Paul Ninson
Paul Ninson is a photographer and a filmmaker born in Kumasi, Ghana but currently in New York. He has a degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Industrial Art. He started his photography career four years ago as a medium of expression and to solve problems.
Ninson has traveled across Africa, working on personal projects including; Umoja Woman -”Village with No Men”, Culture According Africans, WWII Veterans, Where Education Is Free, and “Dipo: Rite of Passage.” Worked for a number of Non-Profit organizations, Agencies in part of Africa & USA.
Paul Ninson studied Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism at School of International Center of Photography (New York), where he was awarded The Director’s Fellowship and the George Moss Merit Scholarship.
Paul Ninson
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