Learn From The Best
Visionaries. Innovators. Builders.
Meet the thinkers and doers bridging creativity, commerce, and capital to unlock the next chapter of East Africa’s creative renaissance.
Addison Henderson
Filmmaker — writer, director, actor, producerAmeer Collier
Literary Manager & Producer (under independent banner Dirt Road Productions)Amuwa Oluseyi Asurf
Producer / Director
Burna Boy
Nigerian Singer, Songwriter, and Record Producer
Dr. Laila Macharia
Head of Kenya Programs, Imaginable Futures | Chair, Aspen Initiative for Africa | Board Member, Centum Investment, Absa Life Assurance Kenya & Africa Digital Media Institute
Dr. Pete Odera
Entertainment Veteran, Spiritual Leader, Author, Broadcaster, Founder of The Waterbrook Ministry & The Ixos Institute, and Co-Founder of the Kisima Awards
Elissa Blount Moorhead
Artist, Director, Writer, Founder/Principal of Seven Stories ProductionsEzekiel ‘Ezy’ Onyango FRSA
Founder, PAIPEC–CCI | Policy Advisor | Executive Producer | Chair, KFTPAFemi Jacobs
Actor, Motivational Speaker, and WriterGrace Murugi Maina
Chief AI Strategist, This is DigitalGregory Wanjama Mwaura
Full-Stack Software Engineer, Strategic Technologist & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of This is Digital
Hellen Fissihaie
Entrepreneur, Investor, Global Strategist, and Founder & CEO of Nia Khen Capital
June Gachui
Performer (singer, actor, voice-over artist, bilingual MC), Advocate (High Court of Kenya), Founder & Principal Consultant of JGIP Consultants
Leah Cohen-Mays
Writer, Director, Producer, Attorney
Logan Coles
Producer, Director, and Screenwriter; Co-Founder of X•ception Content
Martin “X” Bell
VFX Art Director, Filmmaker, and Visualisation Supervisor
Master Tesfatsion
Award-Winning Journalist, Host, Producer, and CEO of Masterpiece Productions Inc.Maud Guerard
Actress
Messiah Jacobs
CEO, Producer & Manager at Four Screens (Management, Development & Production Company)Peres Owino
Emmy-Nominated Kenyan-American Writer, Director, Actor, and Producer
Phillip Glenn Reed
Head of Content Creation • Talent Acquisition • Co-founder, IKWETA ARTS
Polycarp Otieno (Fancy Fingers)
Guitarist, Producer, and Co-Founder of Sauti Sol
Ruby Akubueze
Actress, Singer, Model, and Filmmaker
Shiro Grace Migwi
Director of Executive Affairs, F3Global Advisory GroupSourou Gouvoeke
Actress
Tiffany Boyle
President of Packaging & Sales at Ramo Law PC; Producer & Executive Producer; Co-founder of Vested Interest (with Elsa Ramo)
Wale Ojo
Actor
Wambui Kairo
Producer; Founder of One Boy Productions (Production Services & Fixer Company)