Ojoma Ochai 2025 Speaker

Ojoma Ochai Bio Ojoma Ochai is the managing director of CcHUB, Africa’s leading creative and innovation ecosystem enabler, which supports and invests in tech and creative entrepreneurs and innovators to promote African prosperity. She is also a co-founder of CcHUB’s Creative Economy Practice. She is a member of the UNESCO Global Expert Panel on the 2005 Convention on Cultural Expressions, a group of about 40 experts from around the world who support UNESCO and its state parties on strategies and approaches for growing the global Creative Economy. As part of this role, she has delivered global research and advisory support to state parties on emerging technologies (including AI) in the global creative industries. She is a member of UNESCO’s Global Reference Group on Diversity of Cultural Expressions in the Digital Environment – supporting the development of frameworks for supporting the sector in the age of technologies like AI. Ms Ochai is also co-chair of the Microsoft and UNDP Reference Group on AI for Development to help shape prospective AI opportunities in Nigeria. As a Rockefeller Bellagio Centre Resident in 2023, she undertook research in the Responsible AI and Data track, focusing on the impact of emerging technologies like AI and Blockchain on Creative Economy policy and practice in Africa. Her almost 20 years of experience spans International Cultural Relations and leading Creative and Digital Economy projects. Her previous roles have included being Regional Director for the British Council Sub-Saharan Africa Arts and Creative Economy Programme and other roles working on projects for institutions like the Swedish Arts Council, World Bank, and various national governments to support the development of the global Creative Economy. She sits on various creative and technology organisation boards, including the board of ₿ Trust (a trust set up by musician and entrepreneur Jay Z and Jack Dorsey – CEO of Block Inc. and co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, to support Bitcoin development in Africa and other locations), Africa No Filter (a narrative change organisation funded by a collective of donors including Ford Foundation, Luminate and Bloomberg) and Pixel Ray Studios (a global film infrastructure development company).