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Africads, the nonprofit growth agency behind the AI grant writing assistant GrantsWriterAI, has officially been named the Official AI Grant Writing Partner of the Social Impact Marketing Summit & Awards (SIMSA) 2026. SIMSA, now in its fourth year is one of Africa’s leading virtual gatherings for nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, fundraisers, and communicators. This year’s […]
Technical Session
Founder, AfricAds & GrantsWriterAI
SESSION TITLE: AI-Powered Nonprofit Growth: How to Do More with Less Using AI, Automation and Data
Michael Kimanzi is a Kenyan nonprofit growth strategist, founder of AfricAds Consultants and GrantsWriterAI, an AI-powered grant-writing platform used by thousands of users globally. He has worked with hundreds of nonprofits and social-impact organizations across Africa and the United States, including Medical Benevolence Foundation (Texas), Agape Network (Miami-Dade), Maji na Ufanisi, Mentor Space, and the Stroke Association of Kenya. Michael serves on the Board of Maji na Ufanisi (Water and Development) and has delivered keynote presentations to the Kenya Association of Fundraising Professionals. His work focuses on helping nonprofits harness AI, digital fundraising, and technology to attract resources and scale their impact.
Technical Session
Solutions Consultant
SESSION TITLE: AI-Powered Nonprofit Growth: How to Do More with Less Using AI, Automation and Data
He brings over 11 years of experience in client-facing roles, focusing on account management, business development, customer success, and partnership management. Throughout his career, he has been passionate about leveraging technology to create meaningful impact, using his analytical and problem-solving skills to address challenges and provide effective solutions. He prides himself on his ability to build strong relationships through exceptional interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach, ensuring that customer satisfaction is always a priority. With an open-minded and empathetic outlook, he continuously seeks innovative solutions that align with business goals and customer needs. He has served as a Business Solution Consultant at Zoho in the MEA region for over three years, where he works closely with organizations to leverage technology to improve their business processes, efficiency, and growth. He is deeply committed to contributing to the growth of forward-thinking organizations like Zoho, which value teamwork, transparency, innovation, and the optimal use of human potential.
AI Educator · AI Governance Consultant · Trust Doctrine Author
Creator of Africa’s First PR & Communications MCP (AgentPR™)
Panel Discussion: AI for Good; Leveraging AI Tools for Social Impact
Dr. Celestine Ngozichukwuka Achi is Founder & CEO of Cihan Media Communications and Cihan Digital Academy; creator of AgentPR™ — Africa’s first PR & Communications MCP — and VoxShield, Africa’s AI-powered cognitive defence platform for reputation. Author of AI-Powered PR and the Engineering of Trust™ monograph (Doctrine Series Vol. I, 2026), he leads the Meaning Intelligence™ research programme and is Lead Researcher of the Nigeria Reputation Perception Index. His AATCCA initiative is featured on the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance Partnerships Hub. A global Top 25 Applied AI Trainer, he has trained 5,600+ professionals toward his mission of 100,000 AI-literate Africans.
Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, AI Governance & Digital Policy Expert
Africa’s AI Future Belongs to Us: Building Governance Frameworks That Serve African Communities.
Doreen Abiero is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, AI governance and digital policy expert, and environmental lawyer working at the intersection of technology, law, sustainability, and public policy across Africa. Her expertise spans artificial intelligence, data governance, digital sovereignty, digital public infrastructure, digital rights, environmental governance, and sustainable digital transformation, with a focus on developing inclusive, rights-based, and Africa-centred governance frameworks for emerging technologies. Doreen has contributed to landmark continental AI initiatives, including supporting the drafting of the Africa Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and technical working group engagements on the African AI Council. She has designed AI governance curricula and led AI literacy and institutional capacity-building programmes for senior policymakers across multiple African countries, strengthening public sector readiness for the responsible adoption of AI. She has also facilitated multi-stakeholder consultations to develop practical AI governance frameworks tailored to African contexts. Through research, policy development, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement, Doreen advances governance approaches that strengthen public institutions, protect human rights, promote digital inclusion, and support sustainable development. Her work also encompasses privacy and data protection, digital security, freedom of expression, health law, intellectual property, and technology-facilitated gender-based violence. In recognition of her growing impact in law and technology policy, she was shortlisted for the 2026 Next Generation Legal Leader Award at the Legal Innovation & Impact Awards in Johannesburg.
Founder & CEO, Anaase Technology | Creator of African AI
Panel Discussion: AI for Good; Leveraging AI Tools for Social Impact
Yaw Annor Acheampong is a Ghanaian AI developer, entrepreneur, and the Founder & CEO of Anaase Technology, where he is building African AI; an artificial intelligence platform designed to understand, speak, and serve African languages and communities. His work is driven by a simple belief: Africa should not only use artificial intelligence but also build it. He is focused on developing speech recognition, language models, and AI solutions for African languages, making technology more accessible and useful for millions of people across the continent. Currently, Yaw is leading the development of multilingual AI systems, creating African language datasets, and contributing to research that improves speech recognition for low-resource languages. His goal is to ensure that African languages, cultures, and knowledge are represented in the future of artificial intelligence. At the Social Impact Marketing Summit & Awards 2026, Yaw will share his journey of building African AI, the lessons learned from developing AI for underserved communities, and why locally developed AI is essential to Africa’s future.
Co-Founder & COO, Addis AI
Panel Discussion: AI for Good; Leveraging AI Tools for Social Impact
Kalkidan Demille is the Co-Founder and COO of Addis AI, a company building voice-first AI infrastructure for African languages. She leads the company’s operations, partnerships, market strategy, and product deployment, working across technical and commercial teams to bring voice AI into real-world use. Addis AI has developed speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and large language models for Amharic and Afaan Oromo. The company’s latest release introduced 28 production-ready voices, delivering a level of naturalness and expressiveness that exceeds any major AI platform currently supporting these languages. Today, the platform serves more than 150,000 users, supports over 1,500 developers, and has processed over 20 million API calls. Kalkidan works with governments, nonprofits, enterprises, and development organizations to deploy voice-first AI solutions that reduce language, literacy, and accessibility barriers across sectors including agriculture, education, customer service, and public services. Her work focuses on ensuring African languages are fully represented in the future of AI.
Founder, Joyed App
Panel Discussion: AI for Good; Leveraging AI Tools for Social Impact
Tolulope Abikoye, known to many as Tolu, is a powerhouse when it comes to business growth. With over 15 years of experience under her belt, she’s worked across fintech, energy, public sector, commerce, and regtech, consistently delivering results that matter. But beyond the numbers and titles, Tolu brings heart, vision, light and grit to every room she steps into. She currently leads strategic sales, where her bold partnership initiatives have boosted customer retention and delivered remarkable wins. Whether it’s go-to-market strategies, digital payments, or stakeholder engagement, Tolu doesn’t just tick boxes, she raises the bar. Before this role, she led a team that didn’t just meet revenue targets but they surpassed them as well. By driving expansion across Africa and other emerging markets, she helped extend financial inclusion, grow revenue, and tailor solutions that brought in new markets. Her work has always gone beyond the boardroom, reaching people, communities, and underserved industries. That same passion for people led her to build JoyeDapp, a digital health app supporting women experiencing postnatal depression. In a world that often overlooks maternal mental health, Tolu chose to do something about it. And she didn’t stop there. She’s also developing another tech venture focused on creating inclusive solutions with long-term social impact. Tolu is the kind of woman who finds market gaps and turns them into missions. She’s an advocate for women entrepreneurs, a strategist, a founder, a builder, and a believer in people, in purpose, and in doing business with impact. She’s not just building a business, she’s building bridges between innovation, inclusion, and impact.
Founder, The Smile Outreach Foundation | P.E.R.I.O.D
Panel Discussion: AI for Good; Leveraging AI Tools for Social Impact
Bidemi Adedire is a communications and idea strategist who builds communications for movements across Africa and the Global South. Her work challenges the single story told about the continent, replacing it with narratives of progress, agency, and everyday excellence. She builds the function from the ground up, setting strategy and doing the work: building the plan, running the channels, shipping the content, and tracking what moves. She leads communications at GivingTuesday Africa, where she authored the Hub’s multi-year strategy. In 2025, that work earned press coverage with a combined reach of over 3 million across 16 countries, part of a giving movement now spanning more than 20 African nations. Outside that role, she founded Africa’s first association for podcasters and voice artists, now home to 1,000+ creators across 20+ countries and the African Podcast and Voice Awards. She also founded The Smile Outreach, an adolescent-health and women’s-empowerment nonprofit that has reached more than 20,000 young people across Nigeria through programmes including Hand-to-Mind, Voices Against Violence, and the PERIOD. Initiative. She is based in Abuja, Nigeria.
Canva Africa Community Lead
Session: Leveraging Canva to strengthen storytelling, campaigns, reports, and donor communications.
Benjamin Teschemaker Minnow is a Community Leader and ecosystem builder driving Canva’s growth and engagement across Africa. As the Community Lead for Canva Africa, he leads strategic programs including the Canva Creators and Canvassador initiatives, empowering creatives, educators, and entrepreneurs to leverage design for opportunity and income. With a background in Information Technology and a passion for digital skills development, Benjamin has trained and mobilised thousands of young people across the continent, helping them use Canva to build businesses, grow brands, and increase productivity. He works at the intersection of community, education, and technology building structured programs that turn digital access into real-world impact. Benjamin is passionate about democratizing design, strengthening African creative ecosystems, and creating scalable opportunities for youth across the continent.
Founder & Chief Technology Officer (CTO), AI4Africa
Session: How African NGOs Can Launch an AI-Powered WhatsApp Assistant in Minutes to Engage Donors, Volunteers, and Sponsors
Ayobami Akinlolu-Ojo is an expert AI Engineer, Fullstack App Developer & Enterprise AI Architect serving as the Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of AI4Africa. Fundamentally driven by the mission to power African digital transformation through deployed software solutions, he specializes in designing Multi-Agents AI systems, intelligent AI agents, and business automation pipelines. Ayobami bridges the gap between complex LLM architectures and practical AI implementation, empowering startups, nonprofits, and enterprise corporations to optimize workflows and deploy custom software frameworks designed specifically to meet the unique operational and structural landscapes of African markets.
Africa’s premier Social Impact Marketing Summit returns — bigger, bolder, and more urgent than ever. In November 2026, we’re going all-in on AI: the tools, the strategies, and the mindset your nonprofit needs to thrive in a new age of social impact.