Speakers

Oyinkansola Adebayo is the founder of Niyo, a group of multi-award-winning companies that specialize in using technology to economically empower black women. This organization currently has three brands: Niyo Hair and Beauty and Niyo Bootcamps. Niyo Hair and Beauty is a technology-driven afro hair and beauty platform that services over 1000 clients through her one stop AR/AI powered salon across the UK whilst economically empowering hairstylists through an academy to get accredited. Niyo Boot Camps exist to empower women to pursue their business ideas and career aspirations through technology-driven boot camps. She has just trained over 650 black women to become full stack developers, data engineers, and VR and AR engineers through the “BlackCodHER”; and “Black Disruptor” boot camps, the projects under Niyo Bootcamps, and is set to empower a further 1000 women over the next year. Some of her women have secured roles in KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Accenture and many more. Her work has been recognised in BBC News, The Voice, Metro, Black Beauty and Hair Magazine, Nottingham Post, and many more. She has also won many awards including Great British Fashion & Beauty Entrepreneur of the year, MBCC Entrepreneur of the year, and Female Innovator of the year. She is a TEDx Speaker and has also spoken at Women In Tech Festival, Vodafone UK, KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Northrop Grumman, Metaverse Summit, Credit Suisse, Africa Tech Week, Birmingham Tech week, and many more world renowned institutions.