The Innovator Trust has announced the speakers and panelists for the 2025 edition of the Women in Tech (WIT) Awards, an unflinching look at how women are rewriting the code of Africa’s digital economy. To be hosted on 20 November 2025, under the theme “Shaping her Growth. Code It. Shape It. Scale It.”, this year’s event honors women who are leading with intellect and innovation and who are engineering inclusion.
The Youth Panel will have a discussion under the theme: The AI Code for Africa’s Next Generation promising raw, creative, and unfiltered insights from an impressive lineup that will explore how the next generation is coding, designing, and curating the stories of Africa’s digital rise. This is the continent’s creative resistance – informed, bold, and global.
Meet the founders, innovators and creatives on the Youth Panel:
Faith Mangope (Broadcaster & Founder, FMTALI)
Kim Jayde (Entrepreneur & Media Personality)
Amahle-Imvelo Jaxa (Content Creator & Youth Advocate)
Thabile Makhoba (SMME Alumni & CEO, Makhoba Professional Services)
Serisha Barrat (Co-founder & CEO, Lawyered Up)
Guiding the day’s conversations is panel moderator, Nozipho Tshabalala, award-winning conversation strategist, global moderator, and CEO of The Conversation Strategists. Known for her depth, composure, and incisive questioning, she’ll navigate the day’s powerful dialogues with precision and purpose. Supporting her on stage is Barbara Moagi, engineer, broadcaster, and founder of Becoming Boldly, whose warmth and wit will keep the energy high and every transition seamless.
The message from the Innovator Trust’s Women in Tech Awards 2025 is unmistakable: Africa’s digital future is female-built. These women demonstrate that intellect, innovation, and integrity are the new infrastructure of growth. They are shaping industries, mentoring generations, and ensuring that the next evolution of technology speaks with an African accent and a woman’s voice.
