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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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