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YOUNG MINDS
Adaobi Adibe Tolani Agoro
Adaobi Adibe is an Electrical and Electron- Tolani Agoro is a consultant in Capita who has
ic Engineering (BEng) graduate from the international experience in business and digital
University of Manchester. She was the lead transformation in the utilities, government, me-
Venture Capitalists at Campus Capital, a £2.5 dia and telecommunications industry as a lead
million fund investing in early stage technol- business analyst and project manager. Tolani
ogy companies. She has also worked for VC studied Industrial Economics at the University of
fund Accelerated digital ventures, helping to Nottingham and was selected as as one of 100
source a £5 million investment into Chargifi. of the UK’s most outstanding students of Afri-
She is currently an advisor to Microtraction can and African Caribbean heritage, when she
where she was previously an investment as- featured in the 2013-14 edition of Future Lead-
sociate. Adaobi is also co-founder and CEO ers magazine. Passionate about homelessness
of CAREforseven, a clean energy platform and social enterprise, Tolani is a referrals offi-
focused on micro projects. Her work in ven- cer for Streetlink charity and has taught IT to
ture capital and clean energy led to her be- people in the St Mungo's Community Housing
ing awarded the number one black student Association charity. She was also a mentor of
in the UK by the prestigious Future Leaders a number of years for non-profit company En-
magazine, and nominated by Booking.com as actus which uses the entrepreneurial skills of
young technologist of the year in 2019. university students to transform lives globally.
Tobi-Ruth Adebekun Liz Ajayi
Tobi is British born Nigerian and grew up on the Liz is an Artificial Intelligence(AI) and automa-
south coast of the United Kingdom. After gradu- tion technical and delivery lead at PwC UK. She
ating with a degree in French and International has four years’ experience of delivering and
Media with Communication Studies from the leading AI and automation projects across mul-
University of Nottingham, she started her career tiple sectors and is currently managing a num-
at Six Degrees – a STEM public relations agency, ber of engagements supporting clients with pi-
where she worked on a wide range of technol- loting and delivering intelligent software robots
ogy businesses from apps (Treatwell, wire) to across their value chain to improve customer
cloud computing and software (Audatex, Exact, and employee experience and address strate-
OVH), as well as the startup world (CrowdRating, gic and operational imperatives responsibly.
Eight Roads Ventures).Since November 2016, she Within PwC, she is the training and capability
has been working at Snap Inc. – the parent com- lead for AI and Automation with responsibility
pany behind popular messaging app Snapchat for learning and development, capability ex-
– where she is part of the team managing com- cellence and most especially, championing di-
munication and media relations across Europe, versity. In January 2019, Liz was named a Tech-
the Middle East and North Africa. She is on the women100 award winner amongst 99 other
Emerging Leaders board of a child and youth remarkable role models in the tech sector and
development charity and has spent time volun- remains incredibly passionate about attracting
teering in refugee camps in Calais. and retaining women in AI and Automation.
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