I will be sharing selected public speeches on this page.

Interview with NTA Nigeria (2021)

2019 the Platform titled “The Growth of Nations”

At Deeper Life YPF 2021

This is my keynote at the Champions of Talent Development (CTD) 2020 Conference. My presentation was titled “Business and Learning Agility”. I spoke on Wednesday October 14, 2020.

2019 FUTO Biennial Lecture

2019 Big Data & Business Analytics Conference, Lagos, Nigeria, March 2019.

2017 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum plenary, Lagos, Nigeria.

ABWxD ’10 – Ndubuisi Ekekwe from A Better World By Design on Vimeo.

DHL continues the mission of integrated logistics, finding ways for Africans to buy things from major Western retailers. It just launched DHL Africa eShop to make it easier for African dwellers, in eleven countries, to buy items from Macy’s, Carters, Neiman Marcus and other brands. It is partnering with MallforAfrica to execute this – MallforAfrica’s Link Commerce service will anchor the local payments, procurement and delivery.

DHL Express has announced the launch of its new mobile and desktop app aimed at improving the online shopping experience for Africa-based consumers. The exciting new platform, DHL Africa eShop, enables customers to shop directly from more than 200 US- and UK-based online retailers, with all shipments delivered by DHL Express, to the shopper’s door. DHL Africa eShop will be available in 11 African markets to start – South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritius, Ghana, Senegal, Rwanda, Malawi, Botswana, Sierra Leone and Uganda.This solution was developed in partnership with Link Commerce – a division of Mall for Africa.

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Despite the growing demand, many US and UK-based retailers do not offer shipping to African countries, owing to the perceived logistical challenges involved such as high last-mile delivery costs and fraud concerns. However, DHL Express was the first express operator to set up in Africa over 40 years ago, so we are well positioned to offer innovative and reliable solutions for on the continent.” (Press release)

Join me with many eminent thought-leaders on the Platform on May 1, starting at 9am. Endeavor to tune in or attend the event LIVE at The Covenant Place, Iganmu, Lagos. The Platform, on a national TV, reaches excess of 35 million people. My talk will focus on the mechanics of economic growth, innovation and piloting a future of abundance in Nigeria. I have titled it “The Growth of Nations”.

Ndubuisi Ekekwe to Speak in the Platform – the National Live TV program

Facebook is bringing new technologies into the African space through new AI-powered, high-res maps to help humanitarian aid and relief agencies better assist people in need. The social media giant is working closely with key non-profit and research partners to use artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to address large-scale social, health and infrastructure challenges in sub Saharan Africa. These efforts range from rural electrification in Tanzania to vaccinating people in remote corners of Malawi.

Facebook is applying the processing muscle of its compute power, its extensive data science skills and its expertise in AI and machine learning to create the world’s most detailed and accurate maps of local populations. Facebook also partners with Columbia University’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) to ensure that this effort leverages the best available administrative data for all countries involved.

The Boston-based Facebook team uses advanced computer vision and machine learning to combine satellite imagery from Digital Globe with public census data and other sources to create detailed population density maps of Africa. Using Facebook’s machine learning capabilities, Facebook started developing population density maps to provide better tools to support connectivity efforts around the world. No Facebook data has been or will be used in the project and the census and satellite data used contain no personally identifiable information.

High-resolution satellite imagery already exists for much of the world. However, prior to Facebook’s mapping project, it would have required countless hours for volunteers to comb through millions of square miles of pictures to identify which contained a tiny town or remote village.

The Facebook team used AI to solve that problem, efficiently crunching through data at a petabyte scale. For Africa alone, for example, the computer vision system examined 11.5 billion individual images to determine whether they contained a building. The team found approximately 110 million buildings in just a few days.

The Facebook population density maps project now aims to keep adding new continents and countries.