Let me join the world to congratulate my studentship mentor and senior in Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO),  Kingsley Fregene: “Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Chief Engineer Kingsley Fregene has joined the ranks of a select group of only 23 U.S. researchers recognized as pioneers in control practice.

“Kingsley was awarded the annual Control Engineering Practice Award by the American Automatic Control Council in late May 2021 for his work on autonomous control of unmanned vehicle systems in the early part of the last decade”.

Like I told FUTO students during the 2019 Commencement Speech that someone who studied in this very school is one of the best in the world. Some of us who attended FUTO in his generation know that Fregene is peerless.

Congratulations Fregene; FUTO, Nigeria and Africa congratulate.

The 2021 Tekedia Mini-MBA Innovation Week has been scheduled for Nov 22-27, 2021. The sub-theme is Growth Makers, and it is packaged within the Tekedia Mini-MBA theme of Innovation, Growth and Business Execution. All participants of Tekedia programs (mini-MBA, CollegeBoost, advanced diploma, etc) in 2021 qualify to attend free.

Meanwhile, we have opened registration for the next edition of Tekedia Mini-MBA (Sept 13- Dec 6, 2021). Register now to join the edition which will begin on Sept 13, and get many early benefits including attending Tekedia Career Week and Tekedia Innovation Week at no extra cost.

2021 Tekedia Career Week “Nurturing Innovators” Will Hold Oct 25-30, 2021

It is always a privilege when your professors call you. The biggest one was when Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) asked me to deliver the University Public Lecture, the zenith of any academic gathering. So, it was another moment when Nigeria Computer Society sent an invitation for me to deliver this year’s keynote speech. The theme is “Innovative Systems for Digital Economy”.

I plan to go very technical to inspire our young people. There is a project we are working on here in Silicon Valley in a startup I am serving as a technical design mentor. The young people are building systems that use less power, hoping to make “electronics” that last longer on a single charge.

To do that, they are building a new computational paradigm, mimicking human biology and synaptic plasticity in the construct of the event-driven asynchronous parallelism in the human central nervous system. If that happens, electronics like phones will run longer and we will use less energy: that is innovation for the future.

So, mark the date: Aug 3-5 2021. It would be a great talk.

My keynote at 2021  Digital Africa Conference and Exhibition this week. I spoke on the theme – “Building a New Africa with AI & Blockchain”.  I spoke on June 22, 2021.

Digital Africa Conference and Exhibition is Africa’s premier consumer technology show which holds annually. It provides the perfect platform to showcase your brand and enhance your reputation. It presents to its participants a major opportunity for unrivalled networking and privileged access to strategic partners, investors and potential buyers.

The 2021 Tekedia Mini-MBA Career Week has been scheduled for Oct 25-30, 2021. This career week is not designed for finding jobs. Rather, it is structured to TRANSFORM workers, founders & entrepreneurs into business leaders and champions of innovation in their companies. Yet, if you have no job, by the time you are done with the series, you will have a path to one! 

The sub-theme is Nurturing Innovators, and it is packaged within the Tekedia Mini-MBA theme of Innovation, Growth and Business Execution. All participants of Tekedia programs (mini-MBA, CollegeBoost, advanced diploma, etc) in 2021 qualify to attend free.

Our knowledge experts for the Week include human resources experts and leaders from MNCs and startups, across industries and global regions. 

Meanwhile, we have opened registration for the next edition of Tekedia Mini-MBA (Sept 13- Dec 6, 2021). Register now to join the edition which will begin on Sept 13, and get many early benefits including attending our Career Week and Innovation Week at no extra cost.

2021 Tekedia Innovation Week “Growth Makers” Will Hold Nov 22-27, 2021