ACCRA, Ghana– The continental phase is set for a historical event as the 19th edition of eLearning Africa 2026 prepares to kick off from June 3– 5, 2026, in Accra.
Co-hosted by Ghana’s Ministry of Education under the patronage of the Honourable Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, this year’s top is set to be one of the largest conversations on digital learning, development, and educational technology on the continent.
The three-day top-level assembly is expected to bring in over 1,500 delegates from more than 80 countries, uniting 25 ministerial delegations and over 280 professional speakers.
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As stakeholders come together to map the future of African human capital, Edugist highlights 20 prominent speakers and believed leaders whose sessions will redefine learning environments throughout the continent.
1. Hon. Sarjoh Aziz-Kamara (Sierra Leone)
Serving as the Deputy Minister of Technical and College for Sierra Leone, Aziz-Kamara brings more than twenty years of public sector and United Nations functional experience to the top.
He has actually been a critical force in driving policy reforms for college and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
A strong advocate for gender inclusivity, he actively champions initiatives that increase the registration of ladies and women in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Farming, and Mathematics) disciplines.
2. Hon. Mohammed Adams Sukparu (Ghana)
A dynamic legislator and Member of Parliament for the Sissala West constituency, Hon. Sukparu operates at the crossway of legal oversight, job management, and neighborhood infrastructure change.
Beyond his parliamentary responsibilities on the Judiciary and Public Accounts committees, he acts as the Vice President of the African Parliamentarians’ Network on Advancement Evaluation (APNODE).
He utilizes his platform to promote data-driven governance, educational access, and youth empowerment throughout West Africa.
3. Dr Ronda Železný-Green
A world-renowned digital changemaker and the CEO of datocracy, Dr. Železný-Green, has over 20 years of experience covering five continents.
Renowned for her commitment to “Epistemic Justice,” her work empowers marginalised populations to end up being primary architects of their digital futures.
Especially, she spearheaded the advancement of data.org’s Accountable Data Management course, an initiative adopted by the governments of Nigeria and India to upskill over 3.1 million civil servants in ethical information governance.
4. Olusola Amusan (Nigeria/USA)
A modern software engineer and polymath, Amusan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vesti, an AI-powered super-app simplifying financial and legal migration pathways for over 150,000 users worldwide.
Having actually formerly led large-scale technology and labor force projects for giants like Microsoft, AWS, and the World Bank, Amusan’s instructional endeavors include founding Curators University and Blackshore, Africa’s first AI-native hardware company.
5. Assoc. Prof. Joshua Valeta (Malawi)
As the inaugural Director of Open, Distance, and e-Learning (ODeL) within Malawi’s Ministry of Education, Dr Valeta is driving an enthusiastic, nationwide structural overhaul.
He presently leads a transformative initiative to scale tablet-based learning across all public schools in Malawi by 2029.
A member of the Worldwide Referral Group for Technology for Education (GPE), his work focuses on developing resistant facilities to meet United Nations Sustainable Advancement Goal 4 (Quality Education).
6. Prof. Eric Appau Asante (Ghana)
Prof. Asante is an Associate Professor of Educational Innovations and the Establishing Director of the E-Learning Centre at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Innovation (KNUST).
A licensed Quality Matters Planner and customer, he is the author of Maximising E-Learning in a Constrained Ecosystem.
His work concentrates on establishing robust quality-assurance and blended-learning structures customized to resource-limited scholastic environments.
7. Prof. Karen Ferreira-Meyers (Eswatini)
Based at the University of Eswatini’s Institute of Correspondence course (IDE), Professor Ferreira-Meyers has actually spent over 20 years pioneering online pedagogy in Southern Africa.
An early adopter of the Moodle knowing management platform, she has trained thousands of teachers across the continent.
Her current work concentrates on operationalising AI integration workshops within the classroom by means of the university’s Artificial Intelligence Academy.
8. Lovetta Bangura (Sierra Leone)
A civil engineer, YALI alumna, and EdTech systems practitioner, Bangura addresses how digital knowing platforms act in infrastructure-constrained environments.
Through her management at EasySTEM and partnerships with UNICEF and the Peace Corps, she has actually effectively handled last-mile digital releases throughout six districts in Sierra Leone, developing offline-compatible learning tools and AI-enabled gender-based violence prevention resources.
9. Djérambété Sylvain (Sahel Area)
A global expert operating at the intersection of education, technological innovation, and environmental policy, Sylvain specialises in developing digital systems adjusted to the volatile socio-economic truths of the Sahel.
His work concentrates on crafting inclusive, data-driven governance tools that empower schools, teachers, and youths to remain resistant amid regional environment shifts and structural barriers.
10. Latirr Carr (The Gambia)
Task development specialist and founder of the Xalimba Academy for the Arts and Sciences in The Gambia, Carr uses his school as a live research centre for foundational literacy services.
Teaming Up with Leap Knowing, his group develops tailored, technology-enabled knowing approaches developed for sub-regional scale.
11. Eric Balangtaa (UNICEF Ghana)
With 15 years of experience in inclusive innovations, Balangtaa formerly collaborated the UNESCO-Korean “ICT Changing Education in Africa” effort, which actively formed Ghana’s nationwide ICT in Education policy structure. He presently heads UNICEF Ghana’s Digital Education Portfolio.
12. Abeer Alyazji (Belgium/Palestine)
A professional in Skills and Good Employment at Enabel, Alyazji collaborates the Digital Abilities Working Group for the worldwide Digital for Advancement (D4D) Center.
She leverages over 15 years of experience with the UNDP and numerous higher education organizations to develop scalable, AI-enabled employment services for displaced populations.
13. Dr Leslie Casely-Hayford (Ghana)
A social development specialist with 30 years of research and policy execution experience under her belt, Dr Casely-Hayford acts as a trusted advisor to Ghana’s Parliament on education sector analysis.
As Director at Associates for Modification, she leads significant multi-country research jobs focused on equitable education funding and scaling pedagogical innovations in delicate or crisis-affected settings.
14. André Chateau Akue Asseko (France/Gabon)
A Partner Teacher at IMT Nord Europe, Dr Asseko is a certified e-learning designer who mixes thermal engineering and products processing sciences with active digital pedagogy.
He specialises in creating hybrid engineering coursework that incorporates collective AI tools, interactive video media, and peer-learning platforms like Perusall.
15. Ferdinand Eruka (Nigeria)
Serving as the Learning Development and Technology Supervisor at LEAP Africa, Eruka brings over a years of corporate training, gamification, and digital knowing style to the table.
His proficiency centres on Knowing Management System (LMS) governance, monetisation, and discovering analytics platforms optimised for African youth demographics.
16. Emmanuel Choge (Kenya)
A technical professional education specialist, Choge spearheads regional education-to-employment efforts in East Africa.
His work focuses on greening TVET programs, carrying out dual training systems, and creating market-aligned curricula that match technical skills with real-world public and economic sector needs.
17. Iryna Atamanenko (Europe/Africa)
A Regional Operations Expert at Harrison Assessments International, Atamanenko utilises over ten years of cross-cultural coaching experience to deploy data-driven psychometric analytics.
Her work focuses on talent acquisition, full-cycle HR services, and the application of Paradox Technology to develop organisational resilience and prevent workplace burnout.
18. Valuable Mia Akidi (Uganda)
A telecom engineer at the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), Akidi supports infrastructure compliance, rural connection expansion, and e-waste management systems.
She is the innovator behind “The Audio Sonification Assistive System for the Blind” and actively projects for ladies’s registration in engineering disciplines through MEMPROW.
19. Dr Rob Branch (USA)
A Professor of Learning, Style, and Technology at the University of Georgia, Dr Branch is a towering scholastic figure who has actually supervised over 130 graduate students.
He is the author of Instructional Design: The ADDIE Approach and co-editor of the Educational Media and Innovation Yearbook. His research study emphasises using diagrams to break down complex, conceptual relationships in STEM classrooms.
20. Eugenia Agyeiwaa Boadi (Ghana)
A petroleum engineer turned management coach, Boadi is the CEO of Geagle Consult and Training Institute (GCTI).
She is the founder of KidsAtHome Educational Centre and the STEMSheCan initiative, which concentrates on breaking gender stereotypes and motivating girls to pursue high-impact technical professions.
As these 20 speakers demonstrate, the upcoming eLearning Africa 2026 summit is not merely about importing hardware; it has to do with localising digital sovereignty, breaking pedagogical limits, and engineering localised software services capable of preparing Africa’s thriving youth population for the tasks of the next century.
Edugist will offer live, on-ground protection from the Accra International Conference Centre throughout the occasion.