In a friendly and educative discussion, UK-Nigeria Tech Hub meets with leading players in Nigeria’s tech ecosystem and Investors Forum on how to explore mutual opportunities and foster collaborations needed to grow the Nigerian tech and startups space.
Nigeria’s technology industry is quickly becoming a leader, as the growth of digital platform businesses are rapidly increasing due to factors, such as an improving business environment that supports startups in digital destinations and investor interests, internationally and locally – from a growing middle class comprised of mainly young adults.
According to the Country Director for the UK-Nigeria Tech Hub to Honey Ogundeyi, UK-Nigeria Tech Hub is excited to deepen its relationships with Africa’s emerging tech scenes and is also ready to create more opportunities.
“We are excited with the success of the Lagos Tech Meetup, supporting entrepreneurial activity and strengthening the Nigerian technology ecosystem is a core focus of the UK-Nigeria Tech Hub,” Ogundeyi said.
Ogundeyi noted that Nigeria’s tech sector continues to thrive, generating more than 10 percent of the country’s economic output as the UK-Nigeria Tech Hub is committed to providing the UK’s significant expertise in ecosystem building, start-up investment and digital skills to Nigeria’s burgeoning tech sector.
“This event was great, you can get caught up in work and there are not many avenues to connect with other founders on the same journey as you. I would love to see efforts go into startups in funding and advisory so the nascent ecosystem could have a chance to get by,” Odun Eweniyi, Co-founder Piggyvest said.
Oo Nwoye, Executive Director TechCircle expressed satisfaction with the attendance of 40 key decision-makers in the Nigerian tech industry at the meet-up. He noted that relationships are key components for the tech community to thrive.
“Thankfully, the UK-Nigeria Tech Hub agrees with this and has worked with TechCircle to put this first edition together of the Tech Meetup,” Nwoye said
The event, curated for guests to share ideas and discuss the importance of partnerships and collaborations to grow the digital economy and drive local contents and key strategies pivotal to helping the tech ecosystem in Nigeria scale up to a point of reference globally, had over 40 tech industry-heads, founders and entrepreneurs present.
In attendance was Uzoma Dozie, CEO of Sparkle; Ola Brown, founding director at Greentree Investment; Odun Eweniyi, cofounder of Piggyvest; Fola Olatunji-David, head of Start-up at Google Nigeria’s; Victoria Crandall, Director Of Media Relations, Insider Host of Young African Entrepreneur; Emeka Okafor, CEO of ConnectNigeria; and Bayo Adekanmi, Chief Transformation Officer of MTN Nigeria.
Other tech experts at the event include Gbenga Agboola, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flutterwave; Chinedu Azodoh, co-founder Max.ng; and Emmanuel Okeleji, CEO of Seamless HR among others.
