Meet Our Speakers

Vishal Mishra is an AI Strategist and Digital Transformation Leader with 18+ years of experience driving innovation at the intersection of product, science, and engineering. He specializes in architecting end-to-end AI strategies, leading large-scale AI programs, and building scalable machine learning and cloud-native systems. Vishal has a proven record of delivering measurable business impact, enhancing organizational AI maturity, and guiding leadership teams toward digital excellence and “Digital Transcendence.”

David Patariu is a Privacy Law Specialist (PLS) attorney and IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP). He is the legal representative for the Mitigating Unauthorized Scraping Alliance (MUSA) and is a Senior Associate in the Technology and Innovation Group at Venable LLP. His law practice focuses on helping technology companies navigate the changing privacy, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity regulatory landscape. David has also worked in-house at Yahoo, Instacart, and Verizon Media—on governance, ad tech, search, AI, and international compliance matters.

Maele Masibi is an award-winning digital transformation leader with a proven track record of driving innovation in the financial services sector. With deep expertise in AI, customer experience, and intelligent automation, Maele has led groundbreaking initiatives at First National Bank (FNB), that have redefined how customers interact with the bank. During his tenure at FNB, Maele played a pivotal role in conceptualizing and launching an enterprise-grade Natural Language Processing (NLP) Dialog Management Platform across retail and commercial banking contact centres. This first-of-its-kind solution used advanced Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and customer feedback loops to direct calls based on customer intent—yielding a remarkable R42 million in business value over three years and earning recognition as one of FNB’s Top AI Innovations of 2018. Building on this success, Maele led the second phase of the program, expanding the platform into FNB’s digital channels to drive scalable self-service. This strategic move delivered an additional R19 million in cost savings and increased containment rates by 20%, earning him a second Innovation Award in 2021. Passionate about customer-centric design and scalable technology, Maele continues to champion digital transformation that delivers measurable business impact and elevates customer engagement.

Kelechi Enyioha is a Digital Transformation Leader at Nigeria LNG, where he drives enterprise-wide adoption of AI, data analytics, and automation across a 5,000+ workforce. He leads the Digital Execution & Centre of Excellence team, delivering AI assistants for HR, Learning, Operations, HSE, and technical engineering, alongside large-scale RAG initiatives using Azure AI Services. Kelechi is also the founder of PandaHealth, a healthcare workflow platform integrating AI-assisted clerking, drug-interaction checks, and clinical risk assessments for pharmacies and PPMVs across Nigeria. With over 15 years of experience spanning AI strategy, digital architecture, process optimization, and change management, he focuses on building trustworthy, workflow-embedded AI assistants that deliver measurable business value. He is passionate about Africa’s emerging AI workforce and ecosystem.

Ken Turner is an AI consultant, instructional designer, and author of The Prompt Cookbook. With a Master’s degree in Educational Technology and a background in corporate learning and development, Ken specializes in helping organizations adopt generative AI tools through strategic guidance, hands-on training, and change enablement. His work focuses on making AI accessible, practical, and aligned with business goals—particularly through prompt engineering and agentic AI collaboration. Ken is passionate about equipping teams to work smarter with intelligent systems, combining human insight with machine potential.