Day: May 29, 2023

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Aya ElGebeely

African Changemaker

Aya ElGebeely

Aya is an Egyptian software engineer and entrepreneur who aims to bridge the gap between top tech talents and hiring companies.

She is doing this through Talents Arena, the ultimate ‘talent marketplace’ for African job seekers and recruiters in tech.

 

Talents Arena is re-inventing technical hiring by matching tech gurus with ideal hiring tech companies, thus cutting down time wasted in the hiring process.

Aya has worked in the tech industry for over a decade, starting as a software engineer at IBM – Egypt. She later moved to lead many tech teams in regional startups, including 360 Imaging, Instabug, and others.

 

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Flavien Kouatcha Simo

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Flavien Kouatcha Simo

Flavien is a Cameroonian agricultural engineer and entrepreneur passionate about agriculture and committed to the development of Africa.

He is the Founder of Save Our Agriculture, a start-up helping Cameroonian farmers improve their yields and incomes by producing four times more vegetables and fish in small areas.

Founded in 2015, Save Our Agriculture specializes in the conception of aquaponic kits used for vegetable production – above ground and without chemical fertilizers. Flavien also believes in empowering the youth and creating jobs through agriculture.

At Save Our Agriculture, he has embarked on a mission to ensure that Africa is food secure by putting innovation at the service of the food industry on the continent. He has collaborated on projects with international organizations, including FAO and the International Organization for Migration to feed more than 250,000 people every year.

Flavien is today considered a pioneer of sustainable agriculture in francophone Africa, with his contribution to Africa’s agriculture ecosystem earning him several prestigious distinctions.

 

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Regina Honu

African Changemaker

Regina Honu

Regina is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and software developer harnessing the power of technology to promote social change in West Africa.

She is the Founder and CEO of Soronko Academy, a leading technology and digital skills development center in Africa. At Soronko Academy, Regina equips young women with the technical and soft skills they need to attain dignified, fulfilling jobs and overcome the gender gap in technology.

Soronko Academy is also cultivating the next generation of female innovators who leverage their critical thinking skills and entrepreneurial spirit to create solutions that address their community’s most pressing problems.

The academy, which is the first coding and human-centered design academy in West Africa, has trained over 20,000 women and girls and has expanded to train boys, men and children with disabilities.

Regina has won multiple awards for playing a lead role in bringing women and girls in Ghana into the ICT space. In 2017, she was listed as one of BBC’s 100 most inspirational and innovative women.

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