Theme: DISCOVER

At the core of the theme, DISCOVER, is the quest to tell the untold stories of the Ondo community and her culture. Blessed with a plethora of intriguing ideas and a profusion of energy, we seek to help young people discover themselves and tell their own stories.
We believe there's a need to discover what has been lost in time and a demand to understand what has been misunderstood. We are interested in exploring ideas that would trigger a ripple effect, leading to the rediscovery of the hidden potential of the youths and the emergence of a confident society. We want to see the phoenix rise again and her children become better.
Conversations around at TEDxYabaStreet: Discover, will explore ideas around technology, business, and entertainment. We hope that these conversations would birth a community of enlightened, young and vibrant changemakers across the broad spectrum of professionals in our society.

Tetfund hall
medical village, off laje road, Ondo, Ondo state
Ondo, Ondo, 340110
Nigeria

Babajide Akeredolu

Director at PPIMU

Babajide is the Directory General (DG), Performance and Project Implementation Monitoring Unit of the Ondo State Government, the first subnational delivery unit to be recognized by the African Development Bank (AFDB) centre for Excellence. A former technical consultant at Worley Nigeria Limited, he is a public policy enthusiast & strategic communications expert. He studied Chemical Engineering at NJIT where he served as President of the African Student Association. He holds two masters’ degrees in Chemical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University, Canada respectively. Over the years, he has employed the use of innovative technologies to train over 500 people on applications of robotics and drone technology for social good and advancement through the Nigeria Flylabs SouthWest Hub, an out outfit he helped cofound. He also cofounded Emerging Communities Africa (ECA), an NGO that is currently partnering with the European Union.

Bukola Aladesulu

Writer

Bukola Aladesulu is a promising and pragmatic, award-winning change maker and Social entrepreneur. She's a Writer and a Poetess who loves to inspire young minds with her writing, she's an advocate for youth development, leadership and organizing, she's passionate about helping young adults become independent individuals in the fast changing world and she plans to achieve this through Teenovation, a youth-led start-up and developmental organization aim at creating value, building result-driven and innovative young adults. She's also the Co-founder of Writers Hangout initiative, a community of creative Writers with thousands of members built to bring together different skills, tribes and people, to talk and bring about innovative ideas on how we can advance writing and arts. She became an author at age seventeen (17) after publishing her first book titled BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE. She later became the Badagry ambassador for Bright Future Book Club of the TOS initiative at the Club Launch.

Joy Tony

Founder, DURIAN

With close to a decade of active service and experience in the social enterprise sector, Tony Joy is passionate about rural development. And as the Founder of Durian (durian.org.ng), she supports marginalized groups such as rural people—especially women and girls in Nigeria—to gain marketable skills and in turn, lead better lives. Due to her commitment in shaping better economic and social systems, Tony has received multiple awards, an induction into the prestigious Ashoka Fellowship and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society. She continues to engage with women living in rural communities, training and supporting them through Durian, to actively be change agents; to lead the process of change as they create rural communities of the future that are circular, creative, and empowered by rural women. Tony Joy is one of those in Nigeria leading the conversation on what development for rural communities truly means.

Justinah Ajayi

Film maker

Justinah Oluwadara Ajayi is a registry staff at the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo and a graduate of Agricultural Extension and Management from the Federal College of Agriculture, Akure. She is a filmmaker, with several certifications from Mount Zion Institute of Christian Drama, who has employed the use of media to re-orientate the society about their perception of Persons with Disability. She is the President of Exceptional Grace Ministry International; Founder and Initiator of Exceptional Grace Initiative for Disability Advocacy; and Convener of the Gracious "Me" Campaign. Through the activities of these organizations, she has been able to reach over 2000 adults and children living with disability, sensitizing them on purpose discovery and maximization; catering to their basic needs; provision of food and mobility aids such as wheelchairs and crutches; and seeking to empower them with skills for financial independence. She loves singing and traveling.

Mosobalaje Akinola

EdTech innovator

Akinola Mosobalaje is an experienced EdTech innovator, problem-solver, and leader with a background in information technology and education. He has experience in managing teams of various sizes, motivating them towards success, and developing potential into realized skill sets. Akinola never gives up on an opportunity to advance himself or others around him and is continuously challenging the status quo in the Nigerian educational system through viable tech solutions. This culminates in his 2019 appointment as the Nigerian representative for ICT University, USA (serving developing nations) and his EdTech innovation award by Adeyemi College of Education for giving the institution a pride of place on the global map through technology solutions. Akinola's greatest passion is to see the integration of technologies with education in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa as a tool for sustainable development.

Oluwapelumi Awe

Public Speaking Coach, Ideator

Oluwapelumi Awe is a creative master of ceremonies, voiceover artist, public speaking coach, thought leader and ideator, he holds Bsc (hons) in Economics education from Obafemi Awolowo University. Oluwapelumi Awe is a master of ceremonies with a unique sense of engagement, creativity and humour. His style of anchoring events has been regarded by many as the 21st century way of hosting events. He has anchored events in top-class event centres like Eagles Square, Abuja (The centre for presidential inauguration in Nigeria), Great Eagle Centre, Ekiti State and many more. He is the lead trainer at World Class Speaking Academy which is a centre where impactful and confident speakers are trained and raised. For over 5 years now, He has facilitated training on Presentation Skills, public speaking, team-building, sales, customer service, effective communication and so on for different companies and organizations.

Peace Odili

Ecosystem Orchestrator

Peace Odili is a Legal Practitioner with over seven (7) years of experience at the bar. She is the Executive Director at Emerging Communities Africa (ECA), a non-profit organization catalysing technology growth and innovation to solve social and entrepreneurship challenges in emerging communities across Africa. Peace is dedicated to creating sustainable initiatives with community wide impacts. Her core strength is in Public Administration and Project Management. She was the Programs Manager for the Nigerian Women Techsters program, an initiative of Tech4Dev focused on building digital literacy in 2,500 women across underserved communities in Africa. Her interest in technology process optimization led her to facilitate reforms in the Ondo State Bureau of Public Procurement where she once served as the Special Assistant to the Governor of Ondo State on Public Procurement.

Thompson Ogunsanmi

Scaling Specialist, IITA

Thompson Ogunsanmi is an agribusiness specialist, partnership facilitator, and value chain development expert with expertise in Scaling agricultural innovations. He started his career with Stanmark Cocoa Processing Limited and currently works as a Scaling Specialist with International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA). He has worked in both short and long-term assignments with international organizations and has been involved for over 20 years in scaling agricultural innovations, partnership buildings, and developing strategies, supporting supply chains of many private/multinational companies in Nigeria, and other countries. He is very vast in market linkages, value chains development, scaling strategies, brokering business relationships, sustainability; business development in emerging markets; advocacy and facilitation of business environment initiatives; inclusive finance; Public Private Partnerships between companies, female/male farmers, governments and NGOs.