YYC Speakers

More than 20 successful leaders, entrepreneurs and policy makers will be sharing their experiences during this conference.

See some of our speakers below




IMOH PETERS is a Chemical Engineer with extensive experience in corporate marketing across several industries. He is a leadership mentor to several youths and the resident pastor of House on the rock, Osogbo


AYODEJI BELLO is an advocate for female empowerment. She is the founder of Ladies Circle International.




BUKOLA IDOWU is the CEO is Kimpact Consulting. He has several years of banking and Human Resource Management experience.



ADEYINKA ADENIYI is the CEO of Depreemex Consulting. He has over 12 years experience in entrepreneurship.



DEJI ADEFILA is a leadership expert and an On Air Personality at Osun State Broadcasting Corporation.
DIDEOLU FALOBI is the Managing Director of Kresta Laurel Limited Nigeria. Kresta is a Total Engineering Company with Distinctive Competence and Knowledge in the field of Electro-mechanical Systems such as Elevators (Lifts), Overhead Travelling Cranes & Hoists, Industrial Un-interruptible Power Systems (UPS), Generators, Power Systems, Welding Machines, Data Centre Enclosures, Building Maintenance Units (Cleaning Cradles) as well as Mobile Shelving Systems. 


HON. ADEOYE ADELAKUN was an honorable member in the Osun State house of assembly between 2003 and 2011. He is currently the vice chairman of APC in Osun State and the special adviser to the Chief Whip of the senate of the federal republic of Nigeria. He is also the chairman of Charli- Tonia enterprises.


GBENGA ADEBUSUYI is the deputy chief of staff to the governor of the State of Osun. He has over 30 years’ experience in fields related to Project Development and Management, in different areas of life, including Agriculture, Land and Aquatic Resources Development, Information Technology, and Governance. His career has witnessed remarkable accomplishments in both private and public sectors and at state, national and international levels.



KUNLE ADEWALE is an artist by profession and a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria with specialization in painting and art history. With over a decade experience as an artist and educationist, Olakunle founded Tender Arts Nigeria in 2013, a non-profit making organization which positively impacts children and young people with focus on education, talent development, community development and civic engagement. He has impacted over 1000 beneficiaries through his art programs in three years.. In August 2015, he had the honor of meeting President Barack Obama through Mandela Washington Fellowship award for Young African leaders in Washington D.C. Kunle is an aspiring Yale World Fellow and TED fellow.
FUNMI ILORI has been a green ambassador and preschool educator for nine years and is founder of iRead Network, the celebrated mobile children’s library in Nigeria. Growing up seeing the damaging and value-eroding educational system in her country, Funmi understood that in order to improve the quality of education, a new approach to learning was necessary. This birthed her dream to build the largest library in Africa, creating direct jobs in the education industry and making a positive contribution to the shaping of educational practices in Africa and closing the gaps in youth literacy by providing access to materials that enhance basic reading and writing skills among women and children. Funmi is a President Obama’s Mandela Washington Fellow.


TIMI OLAGUNJU has six years’ experience engaging governments and communities in promoting open governance, democracy, and the rule of law, through youth inclusiveness in Nigeria. As an 'accountapreneur'​, he also provides leadership to hundreds of young civic leaders through the Nigerian Youths in Motion.
He studied Law at the University of Ibadan, and earned a Certificate in the Science of Communication from the Graduate School of Communication, Amsterdam. He has also attended leadership, business, and policy courses at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business (the second ranked Business School in the World according to the Economist), Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and the College of Williams and Mary (the first public institution in the United States, and the second University after Harvard) via the President Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative, in which he received a certificate signed by President Obama.


EFE FAGBEJA is a jewelry designer. After graduating from business school with a Masters degree, she worked for about five years in a blue chip company, but resigned to chase her dreams of independence by starting her own jewelry company called ISURA in 2011. Ìsúra is the Yoruba word that means “treasures”.



MOPE ESAN is the CEO of Indigo Blue, a makeup studio and spa which offers one of the best beauty business services in Osun State.



OLUFEMI AIKI is a business mind in an engineer’s body. He graduated as a Chemical Engineer at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife with First Class Honors in 2007. He holds an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from the prestigious Imperial College in London and a Corporate Master in International Business (Project Management of Complex Products and Platforms – Aircrafts, Helicopters, Defense Electronics, Defense Equipment, Aerospace payloads, Power Plants, Rail transportation systems and Airport Baggage Handling Systems) from Finmeccanica SpA in Italy. Femi has worked across India (Infosys Limited – IT Consulting), the UK (Amazon – e-Commerce), Italy & Saudi Arabia (Ansaldo STS SpA – driverless trains) and Nigeria (First Bank of Nigeria – retail banking). A winner of scholarship and business awards, Femi and his Co-founders are currently building Nigeria’s first ever technology- driven conglomerate through his company, Einsight. He is currently the CEO/Co-founder of Einsight, an equity-funded technology startup based in Ibadan, Nigeria.





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