Olusola Amusan

Olusola Amusan was invited to Denmark among 1000 others by the world's largest SDG Hackathon, UNLEASH in 2017. He is the best selling author of "Are You Branded or Stranded"(2010),curator for the Lagos global shaper community of the World Economic Forum (2017-2018), a member of the Country Support Mechanism (CSM) of the Global Community Engagement & Resilience Fund in Nigeria and the President of the 8th and 9th Sessions of the African Youth and Governance Conference. He is passionate about social entrepreneurship as a key to unlocking Africa's immense potential.

13 months ago, he started building a highly impactful Artificial Intelligence program that has trained 700 Junior AI Engineers on Machine Learning Models using mostly Python and R getting the attention of Facebook, Microsoft, World Bank and Amazon Web Services. He is very passionate about AI and his company Coven Works Inc. (covenworks.com) has been backed by C5 Capitals (Washington DC), Amazon Web services and Google.

Olusola is passionate about subjects such as unemployment and its economic impact, literacy, eradicating poverty and inspiring leadership, through the effective deployment and use of big data, IoT, mobility, Machine learning and cloud technologies. In 2014, he was appointed as the head of Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft Nigeria. For 4 years, investing $2million, Olusola drove all non-profit initiatives, social investments and impact oriented engagements for Microsoft within the larger Middle East and Africa group. He is a best-selling author, conference speaker, trainer and international development professional- widely acclaimed as one of Africa’s Youngest Growth Consultants.