Bode Maxwell-Akinyemi

Business leader, Change Agent, Project manager, Social entrepreneur, Technologist

Olabode (‘Bode) Maxwell-Akinyemi is a passionate Educator, IT Professional, Product Leader, Pan-African Campaigner of The New Education, Social and Tech Entrepreneur. He is the Winner of the United States' based BoomStartup Accelerator and the STRT Community Award 2021 for the Education Category and 2022 TIBA Lagos Ambitious Professional of the Year. Maxwell-Akinyemi has helped over 25,000 young African Professionals and people of color upskill or move completely into technology as a result of his burning passion to see Africa set a global position of unflinching relevance in Education, Technology, Business and Leadership. He is a certified Project and Product Manager with close to a decade of experience in Technology Education, Social Entrepreneurship, and product development, with broad-band knowledge of in-demand technology conversations from Data Science, Product/ Software Development, IoTs (Internet of Things), AI to Web 3. 'Bode currently works with the Vatebra team, an ICT company delivering cutting-edge software solutions in Africa, where he leads the effort of the Academy in training and deploying talents for both its technology team and other corporates across different business verticals as the Business Manager. 'Bode Maxwell-Akinyemi is passionate about leading the next generation of African Tech Talents, thereby bridging the cost of talent acquisition for startups and solving competency gap ahead of the predicted Africa's talent dearth by bootstrapping an ecosystem of promising techies at Font, a talent accelerator that helps young Africans learn in-demand skills through real-life portfolio and project based solutions. He’s a member of the World Economic Forum, Global Shapers Lagos Hub, TEDxOluyole Licensee, an Alum of Junior Achievement Nigeria, SDGs Advocate, a participant of the MIT Solve 2021 Global Challenge, an Ex-Ambassador for Theirworld, UK and an ardent volunteer for community works.

Technology, Education and Community

Digitalized education in a Third-world country as a way to attain modern independence

Growth Hacking, Product Management, Social Entrepreneurship, Technology Education

My best TEDx events I have been privileged to attend so far are TEDxLagos (Spring), TEDxIbara (Mastering Change),TEDxFUNAAB (Own The Future & A Way Forward), TEDxOluyole (Beyond Borders) due to the structure of these programs, Super amazing!

Acting and Film Making.