Speakers

መቲ Meti Shewaye Yilma is a media personality with 20 years of experience and plans to launch her new business leveraging Ethiopia’s untapped agricultural sector.

Program Director at Dereja, leading a team of young professionals to address Ethiopia's youth unemployment gap by providing career and personal development resources.

Nathan Damtew is the founder of the technology and gaming company BeBlocky. The companies first product is a programming learning platform for kids.

Betelhem Dessie is an Ethiopian web and mobile technologies developer. She is currently a Founder and CEO of iCog- Anyone Can Code.

Selamawit Zemene is a Director of Signum company limited

Valerie Bowden is a founder of CRDLE. CRDLE is a B2B eCommerce platform that makes it easy to source from Africa. Find great products and tech outsourcing services from some of the best brands on the continent.

Melaku Beshah is a Country Director at Excellerent Technology Solutions Inc. - Ethiopia Delivery Center

Bernard Laurendeau is the Managing Partner at Laurendeau & Associates. In Ethiopia, he’s advising clients mainly in the public sector in digital transformation and startup ecosystem building. He notably advises the Commissioner at the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Jobs Creation Commission.

Mrs. Rahel Boon-Dejene is the CEO of R&D Group, the daughter company of her Dutch based consultancy firm, RBD Consultancy.

Myriam Said is currently at the Office of the Prime Minister focusing on, and coordinating efforts in transitioning Ethiopia to a Digital Economy.