Ivan is the Managing Director at Tala a financial technology lending app that instantly underwrites and delivers credit to customers who have little or no formal borrowing history. He is responsible for leading Tala expansion strategy, build cross market collaborations influence that global strategy decisions.
Ivan has over 16 years’ experience focusing on access to finance in Africa from international banking to venture capital-backed fin-tech entrepreneurship.

Tonee is an Avid tech-prenuer whose contribution and influence has advanced the Kenyan Technology start-up ecosystem. He has been involved in operationalization of different startups, advisory and mentorship programs of young tech-preneur’s. Tonee is the CEO at Kytabu an online text book aggregator application that allow students and teachers access text books on rent-to-read basis for certain period of time. Everything happens through digital gadgets and mobile money.

Nelson is the CEO at AIfluence an Artificial Intelligence-powered influencer marketing platform, offering an end-to-end solution to optimize and scale global influencer marketing strategies with advanced algorithms. The platform solves a major pain-point experienced by most marketers in Influencer Marketing by accurately predicting and delivering measurable ROI on every campaign. Nelson has gained immense experience of building global brands over the years in Sub-Saharan Africa through strategic and innovative Influencer Marketing techniques.

Lawrence Macharia, popularly known as Terence Creative, is one of the fastest growing online comedians and content creator in the region. He has adopted different characters to bring out our everyday life challenges and opportunities in a humorous, playful yet informative manner. His latest hit is papa Fred popularly Known as “Kemikal Wash-Wash” by the online community. He appears as a successful Congolese business man able to increase your money through fraudulent money printing machine using a special chemical.The short videos posted on his YouTube channel and other social media platforms have been trending for a all the good reasons.. This has given him an opportunity to perform as an entertainer in different offline events not only in Kenya but other parts of the world.