Tech Talk Africa

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa | Season 2 Episode 09: Heroes Without Scrubs Guest: Uzma Qureishi , Senior Manager EHR Operations at AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, EAST AFRICA Some of the most important work in healthcare happens far from the bedside, and it still saves lives. I’m joined by Uzma Qureishi, an award-winning health IT leader who’s helped transform hospital care by keeping pat...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa | Season 2 Episode 08: AI Sovereignty in The Age of the Kill Switch  Guest: Timothy Laku , Fractional CTO/CIO A single policy decision can break your AI roadmap overnight. That’s not fearmongering, it’s the new operating environment when frontier AI models, GPU supply chains, and model weights sit inside global power dynamics. We sit down with fractional CI...

What are your thoughts? AI is moving at “anything you can imagine is real” speed, and that pace is already colliding with cybersecurity, elections, scams, and jobs. We talk with Shiphrah Wairima, Kenya's President / AI Advocate, in the Global Council for Responsible AI, about what AI governance actually looks like when you stop treating it like a policy buzzword and start treating it like saf...

What are your thoughts? Kenya’s tech story is bigger than startups and bigger than mobile money. When digital infrastructure grows, energy demand grows with it and that forces a hard question: can the digital economy scale without going green first? We talk with Belgian Ambassador Peter Maddens about why his team links “digital and green,” and what that looks like on the ground in Nairobi, includi...

What are your thoughts? Guest: Ambassador Philip Thigo - The Special Envoy on Technology for Kenya AI hype is loud, but the real question is quieter: are we building the infrastructure that makes AI work for us, or are we stuck as permanent users of other people’s systems? I’m joined by Ambassador Philip Thigo, the only African tech envoy, to unpack what “AI is infrastructure” means from a Kenyan...

What are your thoughts? Guest: Serge Blockmans - Independent Advisor | Change Management Go live is a moment. Transformation is a behavior change that survives the moment. I sit down with Serge Blockmans, who helped bring SAP and ERP into the East African market, to revisit what digital transformation looked like in Kenya before the term became fashionable. Back then, organizations wanted controls...

What are your thoughts? Guest: Justice Mukaro - Founder of Strateji & Zimbabwean entrepreneur   What happens when Africa stops importing assumptions and starts exporting standards? We sit down with founder and computer scientist Justice Mukaro to unpack a bold, practical plan for sovereign AI: Amanzi Cloud, a decentralized infrastructure designed to keep data local, cut costs, and connect ever...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa | Season 2 Episode 02: After The Hype Guest: Harry Hare, Chairman & Publisher at CIO Africa A pandemic rewired our habits, but did it truly change our leadership? We open the door on Kenya’s post-COVID tech reality—how hybrid work became muscle memory, how decision-making evolved, and where old instincts still hold back progress. Then we wade into the s...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa | Season 2 Episode 01: The AI Infrastructure Reckoning   Guest: Michael Michie, Co-founder of EverseTech and Special Advisor on AI to the Kenyan Government Africa’s digital future isn't just about the code we write; it’s being laid in the cables, servers, and power grids that most people will never see. In this season premiere, we move past the headlin...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa – Episode 10: Law, Code, And The African Future Guest: Richard Odongo, Senior Associate (IP & Technology) at Bowmans What happens when Africa’s most dynamic innovators meet laws that are still catching up to AI’s speed?  We sit down with Richard Odongo, Senior Associate (IP & Technology) at Bowmans (Law Firm), to map the real terrain: who owns AI-ge...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa – Episode 9: A Woman Shaping Africa’s Digital Financial Future Guest: Diana Gathoni, Digital Commercialisation Senior Manager In this inspiring episode of Tech Talk Africa , host Stella sits down with Diana Gathoni , a powerhouse in Africa’s digital transformation space. From her early days as a banking intern to leading digital commercialization at ABSA, D...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa – Episode 8: Africa’s Higher Education Sector and Technology Guest: Dr. Nico Elema, Director of the Centre for Collaboration in Africa at Stellenbosch University In this episode, host Stella Gichuhi speaks with Dr. Nico Elema , Director of the Center for Collaboration in Africa at Stellenbosch University.  Together, they explore how African universities can...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa – Episode 7: Connecting Africa; Nigeria’s Infrastructure Paradox Guest: Ahmed Atere, CEO of MEED Networks In this episode of Tech Talk Africa , host Stella Gichuhi explores how ambition meets adversity in Nigeria’s digital evolution. Joining her is Ahmed Atere , CEO of MEED Networks , an infrastructure pioneer building the country’s connectivity backbone. F...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa – Episode 6: Rwanda’s Digital Leap: How Policy, People and Partnerships Are Powering Transformation Guest: Alex Ntale - Rwanda's ICT Chamber CEO. In this episode of Tech Talk Africa , host Stella Gichuhi sits down with Alex Ntale , CEO of the Rwanda ICT Chamber , to explore how Rwanda is redefining what’s possible in digital transformation on the Afric...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa – Episode 5: Africa's Internet Part 2: What comes next? Guest: Ben Roberts - Non-Regional AFRINIC Board Member.  Ben Roberts, AfriNIC’s new non-regional independent board member, reflects on Africa’s internet governance and infrastructure. AfriNIC, which allocates IP addresses and system numbers, recently overcame legal disputes and board gaps through...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa – Episode 4: The Great Firewall of Africa (Cybersecurity and The Skills Gap) Guest: Mr. Joseph Mathenge , the Chief Operations Officer at Serianu Limited, an award-winning Pan-African cybersecurity and business consulting firm. In Episode 4 of Tech Talk Africa, host Stella Gichuhu and guest Joseph Mathenge, COO at Serianu, discuss cybersecurity's link...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa – Episode 3: Technology and the African Customer Experience Guest: Mr. Nyasha Mutsekwa , the Chief Executive Officer of  Africa’s leading Customer Experience (CX) platform - Ajua In this episode of Tech Talk Africa, we explore the customer experience transformation across the continent. African consumers no longer accept "That's just how it is.&qu...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa – Episode 2: Who Owns The African Story? Guest: Dr Joel Ongoto , Ag. Deputy Secretary General of Research and Resource Mobilization and Programme Director, Social and Human Sciences at KENYA NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO ( KNATCOM ) In this critical episode of Tech Talk Africa, host Stella Gichuhi dives into the powerful intersection of culture, communicat...

What are your thoughts? Tech Talk Africa – Episode 1: Who Owns Our Internet? Guest: Fiona Asonga , the Chief Executive Officer of a non-governmental, not-for-profit Technology Service Providers Association of Kenya ( TESPOK ) In this debut episode of Tech Talk Africa, host Stella Gichuhi and guest Fiona dive deep into the unfolding AFRINIC situation and explore its ripple effects across businesses...