Oyinkan Akinola-Bello 2026 speakers

“Oyinkan is the Country Director of UK-Nigeria Technology Hub, a part of the Internationional Tech Hub Network of the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth Development Office where she supports the West African Technology Ecosystem across areas such as skills development, growth, and raising capital.

Prior to this she led the Governance and Digital Security Practice at Co-creation Hub. She is a technologist with over 13 years of experience at the intersection of law, governance and technology across Sub-Saharan Africa and the United Kingdom. Her experience spans the use of technology to expand economic access to working with startups across Africa to support scale. She is passionate about critical digital access issues such as connectivity, digital literacy and inclusion and the responsible use of emerging technology.”