Women Entrepreneurship, AI, and Emerging Tech in Africa

The Center for Arts, Migration + Entrepreneurship (CAME)  is happy to invite you to our events on Tuesday September 27^th, “Women Entrepreneurship, AI and Emerging Tech in Africa,” where we will have virtual and live discussions with leading technological and innovative women in their field.   

We are bringing Saidah Nash Carter, Kishau Rogers, and S. Ama Wray to the virtual panel, hosted at the Digital Worlds Auditorium.   

Saidah Nash Carter 

Carter will be presenting her work on, “Crowdsourcing Our Stories & Decolonizing AI.”  She is a digital business native with a passion for value creation and the use of technology to create new opportunity for business and for humanity. She began her career with Reuters NewMedia during a period of profound digital transformation and went on to build and launch some of the first online news services for early internet sensations like Yahoo! and AOL. 

Kishau Rogers 

Rogers will be presenting a piece called, “The Science (and Art) of Iterative Innovation: Amplifying impact with the ‘smart’ integration of creative intelligence, strategic entrepreneurship & technology.”  She is an award-winning technology entrepreneur on a mission to amplify human capability and solve the world’s increasingly complex problems with computer science, systems thinking, and creative intelligence. She is the Founder & CEO of Time Study Inc. and owner of the innovation agency bigThinking and its lab Websmith Studio. 

S. Ama Wray 

Lastly, Wray will be presenting her work, “Improvisation is a gateway to human flourishing, and Embodiology® is a rendering of ubuntu, a liberation technology, grounded by ancestral African-Atlantic wisdom, operating to optimize thriving for the individual and the group.” Creator of Embodiology^® Dr. S. Ama Wray is also a TEDx Speaker and Professor of Dance at the University of California, Irvine. Self-styled as a Performance Architect for over 30 years she has been performing, teaching, researching, speaking, choreographing and collaborating across three continents. 

In partnership with the Center for African Studies, we are hosting two events: the livestreamed panel and discussion, hosted by Oṣubi Craig, and a Lobby chat (in person) with the panelists at UF Innovate’s Hub Atrium, moderated by Qudus Onikeku. 

Register for the online panel presentation and short discussion from 12-2 pm on a Digital Worlds Livestream HERE. 

Register for the in-person lobby chat from 4-6 pm at UF Innovate’s The Hub Atrium Space HERE. 

For questions, email CAME@arts.ufl.edu

We look forward to seeing you there!