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Irene Aruku
Irene Aruku is a multipotentialite whose professional career revolves around the fashion and digital world.
She has experience in Client Experience Management, Digital Marketing/Communications and Business Management. She was previously Community Manager for SmartBcamp (now Headstart Africa), Clients Services/Digital Communications Manager for Silky Touch Emporiums and most recently Business Manager for Italian Outlet Shop.
Irene a lover of fashion and all things digital.
She recently completed her GoogleAds certification and also runs her online fashion company Picture Perfect Styling (@pixperfectus)
Joy Eneghalu
Joy is the founder of Creative iMan. They are a social media agency that helps business owners manage their online presence, build websites so that they can increase their sphere of influence and make profit.
Mary Job
Mary is a Product Manager at How Do You Tech, an ed-tech firm curating answers to problems and challenges in tech for Nigerians and Kenyans. She techs #WordPress daily and teaches digital skills at Uwani Hub. She loves cats, photography, rabbits & travelling.
Chinedu Adirije
Chinedu is an exceptional person and currently the Assistant Director at Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
Bede Okoro-Banks
Bede Okoro-Banks is a technopreneur with vast interest in online services, WordPress CMS use/tutoring, video and web contents creation. He currently is a Co-founder at Entitude.com and Printamnow.com. So far, Using WordPress, Bede has designed and developed more than 320 websites for individuals, SMEs, Startups and multinationals.
Olulade Ebenezer
Dr. Olulade Ebenezer. O is a captivating writer who doubles as a medical practitioner licensed both at home and abroad. His passion to communicate about Purpose and Leadership makes him a widely sought-after speaker around the country and in the United Kingdom.
His down-to-earth, real-life experiences detailed with succinct panache makes his lessons stay with you much longer. His knack for studying and writing puts him ahead of his peers in communicating value with mind blowing literary style and speaking excellence.
He exerts profound influence on social Media where a modest gathering of people await his every post. He currently lives and works in Ijebu, Ogun state.
Stephen Amaza
Ali Afegbua
Obaloluwa Odelana
My name is Obaloluwa Odelana. I am a 13-year-old Software Developer and Founder/CEO of Kiga Limited. I program in over 8 different programming languages. My interest in technology led me to start building circuits and robots using electronic components and Arduino in April 2016. I attended boot camps on Game Development. After the boot camp, I utilized online resources to learn Unity 3D. I built and launched my first game Galaxy Blast on Google Play Store in April, 2017.
Shortly after the launch of my game, I launched Guns vs. Zombies, Spartan Run and Cosmos Walk VR (Virtual Reality). I also went into Web and App Development. I learnt WordPress theme development and created several websites including blogs, business websites and an ecommerce website with it.
I created a Quiz App (Fun Learn) for my school. I later went into VR/AR development and created Cosmos Walk VR and Space Explorer (which teaches people about Outer Space in VR) for a school project. I created an AR (Augmented Reality) app called ShopAR. It allows you to shop online and place items in a “real world” environment. The app is still under development.
Presently I am taking online courses to further my learning. I have Certifications in Unity Game Development, Web Design and Development and VR/AR Development from Udemy.
Lanre Ogungbe
Ogungbe Lanre is a technopreneur who started his career in the NGO sector but later moved into the tech space. And over the last few years, he has built/still building successful tech-enabled businesses such as mypadi Technologies providing housing for tertiary institutions across Nigeria and also Accounteer helping SMEs in Africa with their accounting processes.
Lanre currently seats on the board of few startups and organizations, serves as a faculty member for Utiva (a company helping college students in sub-Saharan institutions with innovative solutions.).
To help with national policy and bills, Lanre was recently inaugurated into the Nigeria National Senate Assembly Business Environment Roundtable where he sits in the IP and E-Business committee.
Best described as a tech-business operations expert, he generally consults for brands that are hoping to optimize their operations using technology solutions or build tech solutions.
Abimbola Ojo
Abimbola Ojo is a technology enthusiast with a knack for problem solving. She has fourteen years’ experience in the ICT industry. Abimbola is adept at website design, and digital marketing. She’s a WordPress lover.
She is a co-founder at Polar Global Resources, a full-fledged IT consultancy firm providing business solutions and support for businesses. She has always had a great interest in website design and the web. With her self-starter attitude and in her quest to help business owners get their businesses on the worldwide web, Polar Global Resources gave birth to her web design agency in 2012. Using various tools and software like Joomla, OpenCart and Magento, she was able to deliver some projects.
In 2013, Abimbola discovered WordPress and since then she had a breakthrough in delivering web projects in a timely and professional manner. Over the years, she has project managed over sixty websites including E-commerce, NGO, hospital, travel & tourism, Schools, oil & gas, membership sites, blogs and many more.
Her key achievement at Polar Global Resources include:
Formulation of relevant IT policies for IT service deliveries
Implementation of online payment integration for clients
E-commerce development for various clients with full inventory management system
Website design for over 60 clients
Implementation of helpdesk and remote assistance facility
Design of intranet website for collaboration
Drafting of SLA with external vendors
Implementation of automated invoicing
Implementation of firewall and other security solutions for corporate data integrity
Automated and cost effective backup solution
Currently, she is exploring Android app Development and Amazon Web Services. She is also an event organizer at the Lagos WordPress Community.
Oluwatoba Obaniyi
As Whogohost Chief Executive Officer, Toba Obaniyi is responsible for the company’s overall operations and strategies. He has been able to grow the indigenous web hosting provider from a small startup into the world class thriving enterprise and currently the largest hosting provider in Nigeria. He is a member of the Nigerian Internet Registrars Association. Toba is passionate about giving back and this is evident in how he has led the Whogohost Team in giving out free trainings to students on website development and sponsorships of several events like the Tedx Covenant university event, etc.
He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University finishing in the top 5 percentile of his class in 2008. Toba began his web hosting career in 2010 building websites as a web developer during his NYSC days. Little did he know that it will become a huge part of his life. He is happily married to his beautiful wife Yetunde. He is dedicated, disciplined, focused and always ready to learn something new. He loves listening to music, playing computer games and watching animes.
Opeyemi Bakre
Opeyemi Bakre is a wife, mother and physiotherapist at Pro-Health Community Physiotherapy. She is set on a mission to bring affordable world-class physiotherapy closer to individuals in a fun and interactive atmosphere.
Kate Ebinum
Kate Ebinum is a seasoned marketing professional with over 15 years marketing experience and has over the years honed her expertise in on-line and off-line social networking techniques to drive sales and build clientele.
She is the Chief Technical Officer for PYB Nigeria a digital marketing company created to help entrepreneurs and small businesses owners improve their digital footprints. Her ultimate goal is the global promotion Nigerian businesses “
Mary Abiodun
Mary Abiodun is a software developer and a technology enthusiast who seek for ways to help blend education and technology to produce outstanding results in the educational sector.
Her love for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) has pushed her a step further to teach coding to kids in schools, girls and youths when the opportunity surfaces.
Again, she offers mentorship to secondary school students and anyone who will like to to the line of Tech. She believes that with technology, most of the world’s problems will be solved.
Mary Job
Mary is a Product Manager at How Do You Tech, an ed-tech firm curating answers to problems and challenges in tech for Nigerians and Kenyans. She techs #WordPress daily and teaches digital skills at Uwani Hub. She loves cats, photography, rabbits & travelling.
Adedayo Adeniyi
Adedayo Adeniyi has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the prestigious University of Lagos, and over ten years experience working in the Information Technology sector. She works with Content Management Systems, Web and Mobile application systems on a daily basis, and has vast experience leading teams in the Web, Mobile and the Mobile Value Added Services (VAS) industries.
Her ‘blades of choice’ are PHP, MySQL, and Java. She is a CMS Evangelist, and is a frequent speaker at CMS Africa, an annual initiative that promotes Content Management System adoption and use on the African landscape.
When she is not speaking and volunteering, she can be found reading, swimming or writing short stories for Kunku, a storyteller app for kids.
She currently works remotely with Orion Origin as a technical writer and customer service professional.
Temitope Adelanwa
Omodara Adediran
Omodara Adediran is the SME Brand Manager who empowers business owners to build brands that are profitable and sustainable in their various industries. She has over 5 years experience in marketing communications, growing businesses across industries including Maggi, TECNO Mobile, Intel, Nigerian Breweries etc.
Omodara now works with business owners to build their brands into profitable and sustainable businesses. She has worked with brands such as Sari Herbal Living, G’s All Fresh , Darasbakesandcakes in the areas of marketing strategy and brand development.
She also hosts monthly webinars and and training programs for business owners.
Hermann Lahami
Hermann Lahami is the CEO of Orion Origin, a company in Benin (the country, not the state) who sell WordPress and Woocommerce plugins around the world on Envato and Codecanyon.
Hermann will seating on a panel discussing how he has built a business within the WordPress Ecosystem.
Tunbosun Ayinla
I am a developer at Sandhills Development, LLC and co-organizer of the Lagos WordPress community.
Adejoke Haastrup
Praise Onyehanere
Praiz is a User Experience Designer and an expert at UX Research. She has a deep sense of problem solving through research and analysis. She is obsessed with observing how and why people interact with digital products, solutions. She ensures all our solutions, products and events are human centered, efficient, usable and valuable.
She has a deep sense of empathy. She works with both micro and macro data for qualitative analysis (understanding why and how people do what they do) and quantitative analysis (in how many ways and how much of the time they do so).
Currently, she works as a UX Researcher at Interswitch Group where she manages the UX Design process and UX research on vast Fintech products and solutions.
Chidindu Mmadu-Okoli
Chidindu Mmadu-Okoli is a medical laboratory scientist, an author, writer, TEDx Speaker, health storyteller and content strategist. Her interests are in Healthcare, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Personal Development, and Storytelling (HELPS).
As the Chief Storyteller of Story4Strategy, she loves to help experts in the health and wellness industry connect with their target audiences ( patients, professionals, and stakeholders), through persuasive, purposeful and powerful narratives. She intends to help lay people take action towards healthy living, through her stories.
Tolu Michaels
Tolu Michaels helps Entrepreneurs build, launch and earn income from their Personal Websites. In the past year, students from 3 continents have taken her online course and via her free training series, she’s trained over 300 entrepreneurs on how to leverage the internet to grow their personal brand, earn extra income, and impact lives.
Tolu has a certification in Digital Footprints via the University of Edinburgh, a Bachelor of Engineering from Covenant University, and is a Google certified Digital Marketer. Tolu is equipping Africans to show up and look great online so that our existence can be captured in inspiring stories and characterized by exemplary courage.
Vincent Nwosu
My name is Vincent but I’m widely known as VoN. I reside someplace in Lagos and I have used WordPress for over 6 years in building and redesigning a sizeable amount of websites.
My portfolio can be found on my personal website at webdesignervon.com and I have a little experience with web development using Django.
I love helping WordPress newbies find easy solutions to their many needs and I hope to use this avenue to do the same as well.
Oh yes, I love singing; but I promise not to sing when I climb the stage to give my speech.
Gbolade Ogunfowote
I’m a WordPress developer based in Lagos, Nigeria. I started using WordPress out of a need to have a scalable CMS for my client projects and that’s how my WordPress journey began. I’ve built dozens of sites with WordPress since then and I enjoy extending and pushing the boundaries of what WordPress offers out of the box.
Josephine Uba
I am Josephine Uba, a digital marketing expert who founded and currently manages Kleensa Promotion, a digital marketing and branding company in Nigeria (www.kleensa.com). In addition, I run a dedicated marketing blog basically on digital Marketing, creative designing and branding to sustain both startup and individuals’ brand (www.josephineuba.com).
I have awesome varieties of services and business partners inside and outside Nigeria. I offer a wide range of online marketing, branding & website design and creative design services which enable businesses to gain strong and competitive position in Nigeria Market. (website: www.kleensa.com).
Via my company Kleensa Promotion, I’ve helped over 50 new startups grow. I create designs, graphics, websites, animations, digital assets & other marketing materials for Individuals & Businesses. I at my company Kleensa Promotion, oriented “CONSTRUCTIVE WEBSITE DESIGN” an action oriented form of a website development targeted at fasting a web visitors decision, that even the laziest customers who hate to read contents can easily be won via Constructive website design.
I launched my digital marketing blog “Josephine Uba” to compete as one of the globally recognized blog globally on topics “Digital Marketing, Branding and Creative Designing”, revealing insights on how startups can promote their brand incorporating both knowledge and digital technologies. The blog is a digital business growth based blog categorised to treat up to 1200 topics and will eventually cover all topics with respect to creative marketing, sales, branding & design. I’m great at innovating strategies to attract customers and eventually solve their problems. (Visit Blog: www.josephineuba.com)
I’m a creative entrepreneur, corporate host, professional keynote speaker, tradeshow and spokesperson presenter. I continuously deep-dive into relevant researches to unveil insights and strategies, providing a well-structured guide to the channels, coupled with approaches that you will need to consider as you navigate the digital highway towards your business growth solutions.
USE BELOW LINK TO DOWNLOAD MY FULL SPEAKING PROPOSAL & BIOGRAPHY:
https://josephineuba.com/download/josephine-ubas-speaking-proposal/
Ademola Alabi
My name is Ademola Alabi, I am currently the Technology Team Lead at Wild Fusion Limited, Ikoyi, Lagos. An autodidact Designer and Developer with 5+ years experience in developing using WordPress, with the likes of Lafarge Africa Plc, Sahara Group Plc, Unilever and host of others in my Portfolio. I am learning to grow into a world-class Full Stack Developer.
Samuel Adekunle
Sam Adekunle is tech enthusiasts who love building communities and people, he started out as a media practitioner and a Digital Marketer before exploring and settling with design and Front end Development. Samuel currently leads the WordPress Community in Ile-Ife, bringing WordPress enthusiasts together for collaboration and growth.
Labi Francis
Labi Francis is a Technical Support Engineer at Postman(getpostman.com). He loves to travel, teach technical concepts, play adventure games and contribute to projects that impact society. When he’s free, he writes about his life experiences on his blog: labifrancis.com
Shodipo Ayomide
Developer Advocate & Engineer at VanHack
Dayo Samuel
I am Dayo Samuel, and since my undergraduate days (which is a little over 10 years now), I have created and given presentations locally and internationally, that totally left the audience in exciting thrills of clarity, enlightenment, and confidence.
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Dayo Samuel is a teacher-trainer, an Industrial Designer turned behavioral change professional, thinker, author, content creator, multiple award-winning podcast host who has been featured on several national and international media platforms.
Best known as the “grandfather of podcasting in Nigeria”, and inventing one of the most innovative behavioral change solutions, Dayo is the leading authority on The Fear Resolve Process which helps busy professionals clear the emotional blocks that are keeping them stuck, or feeling overwhelmed. He developed this process so that motivated people can overcome fear, conquer anxiety, and build the personal power to lead their lives and businesses with unstoppable confidence.
Relatable, smart and authentic, Dayo’s confidence-building research and fear-fighting techniques have been featured in television shows, podcasts, magazines and blogs.
His popular podcast at Audacity2Lead.com reaches thousands of people per month. He just started a new video podcast available on YouTube.
Ayodeji Adekore
Ayodeji Adekore is a digital marketing consultant with vast experience in the various aspects of digital marketing and strategy development. A former senior digital marketing executive with a major media group of company and now a consultant to the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture.
He has taught over 160 different personnel from major companies ranging from banks, universities, government parastatals etc..in most of the states across Nigeria.
He also runs a digital marketing agency called Business With Measure and has helped both small and large scale companies develop digital strategies and implement them.
He will be sharing his knowledge with us on how he has profitably managed the website design aspect of his agency using WordPress. From client acquisition to the closing of deals to getting results and everything that makes you succeed in the web design.
Sodiq Akinjobi
Akinjobi Sodiq is the co-organizer of WordPress Lagos and a mentor of Developer Student Club, University of Lagos. When he is not in class teaching WordPress or Programming, he is playing with terminal.
Luminus Alabi
Luminus is a WooCommerce Happiness Engineer at Automattic with a penchant for helping people figure out the easiest and most reliable way to achieve their objectives with WordPress, WooCommerce and everything in between.
Sometimes coder, abysmal designer, Equal Opportunities Hugs Dispenser and wannabe social butterfly with a 6th-degree black belt in hanging out.
Godwin Ojebiyi
I am a savvy professional with broad skill set. Excellent communicator experienced in interpreting and implementing client and staff vision of new websites and applications. Known for ability to multi-task and juggle multiple projects simultaneously, meeting all deadlines. Thrives in environments that constantly embraces new technology. I’ve been working as a freelance software developer for over 5 years.
Caroline Wabara
Caroline Wabara
Digital Marketing Specialist & Trainer, WAB Digital
Caroline Wabara is a digital marketing consultant and founder of WAB Digital, a digital marketing agency with a focus on SEO, Content Marketing & Online Advertising for Lead Generation.
Before discovering digital marketing, she started her career in traditional marketing 7 sales for insurance companies and banks. Then went on to work as a copywriter for a digital agency before going solo.
Nowadays, she does consult agencies and companies on strategy, SEO, Content marketing and advertising. She enjoys teaching small businesses and organisations on how to create strategies to sell anything online.
Precious Omonzejele
WEBDeveloper of me 🤓. Programmer && Code Explorer. PHP, SQL,MySQL,JS,C#,Front-end something #WordPress Sage, mumu Drone enthusiast
Ugochukwu Anumiheoma
SEO, Website Design, and Digital Marketing Specialist with vast experience in managing and optimizing online reputation for brands and businesses in various industries.
Justin Ahinon
I’m a WordPress oriented web developer with a background in applied statistics. I’m currently working WordPress developer in a multinational tech hub based in Benin.
My interests go from open source contribution to open access to academics resources in Africa.
I’m also an Mozilla Open Leaders mentor where I help young open science enthusiasts on open projects.
Mark Onoja
In 2007; I decided to choose Business Development as my career path. This will mean me working for other consulting firm to get cognate experience. I did this and added trading to get the full grabs of the experience attached with business.
In 2014; I went into business full time. It started rough but I soon learnt how to scale my business. Then business picked up, jobs came in to do and I had to employ two staffs.
Then in 2015; business went awry. Growth just became stunted. I knew there must be a way to grow my business and scale profitability. I did some research, applied what I learnt and boom! Business picked up.
These experiences made me understand that other Startups and Small business faced similar hurdle that I was able to overcome.
So from the fourth quarter of 2015; I decided to focus on:
1. Helping professionals easily kick-start a profitable business. I help Startups achieve this in less than 30 days.
2. Helping Small Business Develop and Execute Strategy. This all-inclusive growth is achieved in less than 90 days.
3. Automating Online and Offline Platforms that generate leads and convert them into paying customers.
4. Designing website that generate traffic, communicate brand essence and convert traffic to paying customers.
5. Being a crusader for the use of Inbound Marketing
Toyin Alagbe
I am an enthusiastic individual with over 5 years of hands-on experience in producing quality and responsive websites using WordPress. I currently work as a Technical Buff at WPBuffs a WordPress Maintenance company, where I help clients with resolve their day to day WordPress related issues.
Oluwasegun Oderinde
IT Consultant. WordPress Enthusiast. Community Organizer. Software Developer and Entrepreneur.