Come and meet a highly influential leader in sales and marketing, whilst having a short seminar on the importance and future of sales across industries!
Opportunity to engage in a smaller group and impress our guest with your powers to problem solve. Show off your ingenuity while getting to know our speaker and their industry.
Bring your current entrepreneurial ventures to our expert. Opportunity to get rare insight and professional guidance, and you never know what may come from the impression you leave!
Main speaking event with our surprise guest speaker #1. Speaker will engage us in his wisdom and experience followed by and extended student lead Q&A. Refreshments and appetizers will be served at 5:15!
Opportunity to engage in a smaller group and impress our guest with your powers to problem solve. Show off your ingenuity while getting to know our speaker and their industry.
Bring your current career to our expert. Ask your burning questions about career decisions and how to get the most of your internships. Opportunity to get rare insight and professional guidance, and you never know what may come from the impression you leave!
Main speaking event with Sneha Shah. Speaker will engage us in their wisdom and experience followed by and extended student lead Q&A. Refreshments, treats and appetizers will be served at 5:15. Sneha will join you for a special dinner following the Q&A.
Every day leadership demystifies the apparently-complex concept of leadership and provides simple, easy-to-use tools for developing one’s leadership potential, assessing one’s leadership and the leadership of others around you. The seminar is grounded in scholarly research, yet presented in a manner that makes it easily understandable and applicable for people of ages 16 to 85. The seminar interactive and is facilitated useing Socractic methodology ensuring seminar attendees contribute to the learning outcomes.
Dinner will be provided, space is limited!Modupe Taylor-Pearce (PhD) is a scholar and practitioner of leadership and management with two decades of management and consulting experience in the manufacturing, finance, retail, logistics, and food processing industries across three continents – Africa, Europe, and North America.
Opportunity to engage in a smaller group and impress our guest with your powers to problem solve. Show off your ingenuity while getting to know our speaker and their industry.
Bring your current entrepreneurial ventures to our expert. Opportunity to get rare insight and professional guidance, and you never know what may come from the impression you leave!
Kofo will be facilitating a special section of Entrepreneurial Leadership. See how your learning theory applies to the real experiences of this accomplished entrepreneur. Unique and rare opportunity to go in-depth into the real skills needed to succeed in your own ventures.
Main speaking event with Kofo Akinkugbe. Speaker will engage us in their wisdom and experience as and entreprenuer followed by and extended student lead Q&A. Refreshments, treats and appetizers will be served at 5:15. Sneha will join you for a special dinner following the Q&A. Space is limited!
Have you ever seen an awesome Ted Talk and wanted to ask follow up questions? That is what this session is all about. Come meet Dolika Banda for a special Q&A with her. Please take some time to watch Dolika's Ted Talk and learn a little more about her and her career before coming to this session. Very unique opportunity to learn from an incredible African leader.
Opportunity to engage in a smaller group and impress our guest with your powers to problem solve. Show off your ingenuity while getting to know our speaker and their industry.
Bring your current career to our expert. Ask your burning questions about career decisions and how to get the most of your internships. Opportunity to get rare insight and professional guidance, and you never know what may come from the impression you leave!
Host Anis Haffar for lunch Elysee student housing in Trou aux Biches. Enjoy a personal chat with them alongside having a meal.
Learning to negotiate is essential no matter your career or life path. Take advantage of this rare opportunity from ALU School of Business Faculty member Bobbi Thomason to better your negotiation strategies. Lunch provided.
At ALU, entrepreneurship is a team sport, so we're counting on the audience to bring your A game - come ready to share your feedback to help our teams take their ventures to the next level. We'll provide food, fun, and at least one epic fail!
Address us as Mr Itu Kgaboesele addresses our new student body with a 20 minute Ted style talk followed by Q&A over lunch! Sign up and see you there!
Indra will be sharing his insight and expertise as a former BBC journalist and South African television producer on telling Africa's stories to the world. He will also address the massive technology changes going on in the continent. Indra's presentation will be followed by a Q&A. Light snacks and beverages will be served
Every great leader needs to tell great stories. And every storyteller ends up telling stories about great and not so great leaders. Indra has told the stories of Nelson Mandela, Augusto Pinochet (the Chilean dictator), Mikhail Gorbochev (the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War), Kurt Waldheim (the head of the UN and President of Austria), Sadaam Hussein (the Iraqi leader) and Margaret Thatcher (the Prime Minister of the UK).
Join Indra for this rare opportunity to hone your storytelling skills through multimedia outlets. Bring your video, audio and combined media work to learn from the expert how to improve your technical and storytelling skills to create impact.
Indra currently offers this seminar to working journalists and post-graduate students in his current role at University of Witwatersrand. We are fortunate that he has offered it this one time for ALU Students and staff while he is visiting us, please take advantage of this rare learning opportunity!
Space is limited.
How to Prepare to Lead in the New African Market
As a continental leader and expert in the growing African economy, Mr Corneille Karekezi will share his wisdom for the next generation of leaders. This is a 15 minute presentation followed by extended lead Q&A
Sign up and see you there!!
Judy Nobuhle Dlamini
Chairperson of Mbekani Investment Holdings LimitedSizwe Errol Nxasana
Chief Executive Officer of FirstRand LimitedBorn 07-08-1957
Sizwe Nxasana is the Chief Executive Officer of FirstRand Limited. Sizwe served as Chief Executive Officer of Telkom SA Limited from 1998 to 2005. He served as National President of Absa Group Limited from 1991 to 1994. He holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science and is a Chartered Accountant.
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Tomorrow we will be welcoming Dr Judy Dlamini, an inspiring medical practitioner and prominent business mogul from South Africa. Judy recently published a book entitled “Equal but Different” which chronicles her own professional journey and that of other women who have achieved professional success. Her book focuses on the ways in which these women have negotiated barriers of race, gender and social class in their professional journeys.
Dr Dlamini has agreed to have a fireside chat with ALU staff and students to discuss the ideas in her book tomorrow at 1-2pm in Donald Kaberuka.
This will be a great opportunity to hear an interesting perspective on gender diversity issues which is based on Judy’s doctoral thesis drawn from multiple interviews with women leaders from several industries and countries. You are all encouraged to attend this important session as we think about how we can further implement our values of inclusivity and diversity here at ALU.
In the same session, her husband, Sizwe Nxasana, CEO of FirstRand Limited in South Africa, will also share his insights on leadership in conversation with Judy.
Causes and Causalities: An Aristotelian framework
Causes and causality are core in our explanatory attempts. While we use those concepts almost every day we rarely reflect on their meaning.
In fact, the way we conceptualize those concepts is tacitly rooted in the Newtonian paradigm which considers causes solely as efficient causes and implies a certain type of causality. Aristotle suggested a contrario that there are 4 types of irreducible causes and different causalities. This framework presents another world view and thought structure which enables us to enrich our analysis of social phenomena.
This presentation seeks to highlight the importance of taking time to think about the way we think and wishes to inspire to look for different perspectives.
MORE ABOUT DR. ANDREEA ZARA:
Andreea Zara holds a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Geneva, and is an expert on Organisational Studies. Her research and work experience spans from Switzerland to France to Vietnam to Romania to Serbia and she has done research on topics such as the Balkan Mafia in Serbia, Electricity distribution in Switzerland and industrial management in Vietnam.
Alex Aberg Cobo is the Managing Director of Latin America at Minerva, where he overseas student outreach, strategic partnerships, media, and post-graduation placement in his region. In addition to this, Aberg Cobo has set up Minerva’s Buenos Aires residential locations and oversaw the student experience there.
Alex will be on campus next week as our guest and he will be introduced to the ALU Community to share his experiences and expertise.
Alex has spoken at multiple innovation and educational panels, including Cumbres de Líderes por Educación in Colombia and the Tecnológico de Monterrey conference on innovation in education, and has been a guest speaker on CNN en Español, Reforma, Estado do Sao Paulo and La Nación, where he was one of three executives invited to discuss the University of the 21st Century.
Prior to Minerva, Aberg Cobo worked in multiple industries, including finance, where he founded his own financial advisory practice and served as a director at Deutsche Bank in New York and Buenos Aires. He has also worked at Morgan Stanley, initially in Capital Markets and M&A and later as Vice President in the Global High Yield Group. Aberg Cobo headed Corporate Development and the U.S. Operations of internet service provider and content producer El Sitio LLC. Aberg Cobo earned his J.D. from Universidad Católica Argentina and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Data-Driven Entrepreneurship
Through his career as an entrepreneur, Dr. Ed Powell has been part of founding 11 different ventures (so far) solving a wide variety of different problems across sectors. From healthcare to pest control to air travel and many things in-between, each of these start-ups have used model-based artificial intelligence to help organizations make better business decisions. His "main" job is his role as CEO of IPX, a software company that manages large Intellectual Property portfolios and provides innovation-related advisory and monetization services to universities and corporations. IPX also partners with inventors and entrepreneurs to help them build companies and leverage this proven "data-driven entrepreneurship" approach to bring their own inventions to market.
Prior to his move to the commercial sector, Dr. Powell was a Member of the Technical Staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, where he focused on large scale data fusion and the application of Artificial Intelligence to the command and control of surveillance satellites. The algorithms he developed for modeling satellite trajectories are still the core of many of these companies' economic optimization technologies. Dr. Powell received his PhD and MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Auburn University.
Anyone interested in Entrepreneurship, the real world applications of Data and Decisions, or how engineering and business can intersect is highly encouraged to attend Dr. Powell's talk.
MD Ramesh is president and regional head for southern and eastern Africa at Olam International, a global agribusiness and food conglomerate headquartered in Singapore. The company was established in 1989 in Nigeria and started by exporting raw cashew nuts to India. Today Olam has grown into a global company with operations throughout the world including 25 African countries.
Ramesh joined Olam in 1992, during its early years, and has spent the last 22 years in various leadership and management positions within the company. He has also lived in a number of African countries and travelled extensively across the continent. Today Ramesh is a widely sought out speaker and adviser concerning business, agriculture and supply chain management in Africa.
Tonjé Bakang is the Founder & CEO of Afrostream, the “Netflix for African, African-American and Caribbean content” a streaming site serving the European and African markets. Afrostream is equally a platform for the digital distribution of Black films and series produced by major Hollywood studios and independent distributors seeking an international audience.
Prior to founding Afrostream, Tonjé worked in the entertainment industry for over 15 years, first in music business as a creator of videos, then as a producer of comedy shows and theater. He scouted and mentored a new generation of comedians of color, and was the first to introduce stand-up comedy shows in France inspired by HBO Def Comedy Jam. His passion for storytelling led him to develop a screenplay for a major network in France and he will use this expertise to produce original content for Afrostream.
Tonjé is an Y Combinator alumni and a member of the Choiseul 100 Africa 2016.
Tonjé tweets @Tonjebakang
Tonjé Bakang is the Founder & CEO of Afrostream, the “Netflix for African, African-American and Caribbean content” a streaming site serving the European and African markets. Afrostream is equally a platform for the digital distribution of Black films and series produced by major Hollywood studios and independent distributors seeking an international audience. Prior to founding Afrostream, Tonjé worked in the entertainment industry for over 15 years, first in music business as a creator of videos, then as a producer of comedy shows and theater. He scouted and mentored a new generation of comedians of color, and was the first to introduce stand-up comedy shows in France inspired by HBO Def Comedy Jam. His passion for storytelling led him to develop a screenplay for a major network in France and he will use this expertise to produce original content for Afrostream.
Tonjé is an Y Combinator alumni and a member of the Choiseul 100 Africa 2016.
Tonjé tweets @Tonjebakang
Observation skills is one of the basic skill required in the innovation process. This practical workshop highlights the need for observation and listening skills. We are all being taught how to read, write and even how to behave socially; yet, education systems do not teach us how to see. We look but we don’t see and that is a difference.
Observation skills can be enhanced with focused viewing of original works of art, describing, and then interpreting findings. In this session, we focus on viewing original works of art, describing, and then interpreting findings.
In this session, “A Renaissance of Renaissance Thinking,” we advocate for the connection between artistic talent and business entrepreneurship, two areas that fuel each other and provide an opportunity for mutual learning. By revealing trends and upcoming changes in the world, we highlight the importance of being creative and having artistic skills. Using examples of leaders in the business world that have already capitalized on art and creativity, we raise questions such as: is it the balance between the right brain and the left brain that made this person or company successful? How can we accomplish this balance? Why should we do it? These questions help to initiate a change in paradigm.
This presentation will discuss the current state of transportation in Nairobi, the challenges with implementing state-of-the-art smarter transportation solutions, and opportunities for collecting new data sources that can inform transportation planning efforts.
Like many other African cities, Nairobi is now grappling with the challenges of rapid urbanization. Kenya’s population has increased by 55% over the last decade, and this combined with significant rural-to-urban migration in Kenya has resulted in critical stress on Nairobi’s limited transportation infrastructure. To mitigate these transportation issues, Nairobi County Government has proposed a number of transportation solutions, including bus rapid transit and arterial expansions. The challenge here is the lack of adequate transportation data for investigating potential travel responses to such investments. There is currently no on-going data collection system nor periodic planning effort to investigate the travel behaviors of Nairobi residents. This significantly constrains the ability Nairobi transportation planners to investigate (via scenario analysis and forecasting) transportation solutions that will best address Nairobi’s multimodal transportation needs.
Garth Saloner, the John H. Scully Professor of Leadership, Management and International Business and Spence Faculty Fellow for 2016-2017, served as the ninth dean of Stanford GSB from September 2009 until September 2016.
He is an economist whose intellectual interests span a broad range of applied areas including strategy, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
What a better opportunity to make networking with amazing people like him!!
