meet the speakers

The Inspire Africa Conference brings together local and international product and training leaders to drive impact in the African product community.

Check out the speakers and coaches confirmed for 2025 so far.

2025 COACHES

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Chidi Afulezi
Chidi Afulezi

Founder, Red Kola Product Consultancy

Chidi Afulezi is a product guy, digital insurgent, creative, educator, and entrepreneur who coaches and consults with leading product leaders and product teams in the private and public sectors globally.

He is currently building the Product Leadership Accelerator, a Pan-African associate product management program and also serves as a product faculty and instructor at the African Leadership University School of Business and CRA Public Sector Fellowship, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and General Assembly.

Marty Cagan
Marty Cagan

Founder, Partner - SVPG

Marty Cagan founded the Silicon Valley Product Group in 2001 to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching.

Prior to that, Marty served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay.

Christian Idiodi
Christian Idiodi

Partner - SVPG

Christian has been a product leader for over 15 years, building teams and developing enterprise and consumer products that have shaped companies such as CareerBuilder and Merrill Corporation as well as clients such as Microsoft, Starbucks, and Squarespace.

Christian is passionate about helping companies implement the discipline of product management to build world-class products and new technologies.

2025 Speakers

  • Chiedza Muguti

    Consultant, World Health Organisation

  • Charles Wartemberg

    Head of Risk Product Management, Square

  • Laura Teclemariam

    Product Executive

  • Tesh Mbaabu

    Cofounder & President, Chpter

Who We Are

The Inspire Africa Conference brings together local and international product and training leaders to drive impact in the African product community and is organised by a few amazing companies, all working to upskill African product experts.

Silicon Valley Product Group is a team of industry veterans who have held executive level positions at major Silicon Valley companies and are eager to help the product community in Africa build great products.

The Product Leadership Accelerator (PLA) is a premier, comprehensive talent discovery and acceleration program designed to elevate the field of product management across Africa.

Innovate Africa Foundation’s mission is to create opportunities for meaningful solutions to some of the hardest problems in Africa through enabling technology.

The Innovate Africa Fund is a $2.5m angel fund for early-stage, Africa-focused startups solving complex problems with purpose-driven technology.

Worknigeria helps the Nigerian workforce find meaningful jobs and upskills them to help them grow with and within their careers.

We are thrilled to have Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG) partners coaching, training, and advising the incredible product community in Africa.

The SVPG partners are authors of books INSPIRED, EMPOWERED & TRANSFORMED and have championed techniques that the best companies in the world use to build products customers love.

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