KinaLabs

KinaLabs bridges the gap between technology and domain expertise in organizations with AI and ML solutions to drive innovation and social impact. 

Guided 300+ global leaders through AI transformation, focused on equipping professionals for effective AI integration.

Creators of AgriLink Nexus, is an AgriTech innovation hub focused on empowering farmers with data-driven tools for sustainable agriculture.

Offer scalable, intuitive tools and that support collaboration between tech and frontline experts. 

Our comprehensive AI implementation engine includes:

- AI Consultation

- AI Strategic Assessment Framework

- Executive training and Implementation workshops

- Strategic AI Leadership support

Founder

FOX Academy 

Here are core Areas Covered in the Course

✅ 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: Where traditional farming wisdom meets AI innovation

✅ 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰: Transform every acre into a smart, data-generating powerhouse

✅ 𝐀𝐈 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: Cutting-edge tools that are reshaping farming forever

✅ 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬: Turn your farm into an intelligent, data-driven ecosystem

✅ 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 & 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Learn from pioneers who've already transformed their farms

✅ 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: Shape the future of sustainable farming

TAKE the course: https://www.foxacademy.jp/course/ai-powered-precision-farming-for-sustainable-agriculture

Instructor

Global Alumni 

"AI-Driven Leadership: Strategies for the Future" offered by Stanford Online alongside Professor Melisa Valentine delivered in collaboration with Global Alumni 

In this course you will:

- Explore the AI-driven decision-making process and its real-world industry applications.

- Understand how implementing AI technologies will support specific business objectives, improve operational efficiency, drive innovation, and accomplish strategic goals.

- Gain the ability to design, organize, and assess the development of algorithmic capabilities.

I encourage those who want to learn more about this and other offerings to check the following link: https://online.stanford.edu/courses/xgal0002-ai-driven-leadership-strategies-future

Course Facilitator | AI-Driven Leadership: Strategies For The Future

AgriLink Nexus

Creating AgriLink Nexus felt like assembling an all-star team, not for a heist, but for something even more rewarding—transforming agriculture. 

I wanted a place where farmers wouldn’t just work harder, they’d work smarter. 

A platform where tech meets tradition, where agriculture isn’t just a profession, it’s a shared purpose.

Here’s how we brought AgriLink Nexus to life:

✦ Collaborative Knowledge Sharing 
Farmers, enthusiasts, and experts came together to share tried-and-true techniques. It’s like having a library of agricultural wisdom, filled with real advice, real solutions, and real results. Every member contributes, ensuring that this collective knowledge only grows richer over time.

✦ AI-Powered Crop Management 
Enter CropSmart AI—an intelligent assistant. With tailored crop calendars & specific support, our AI takes care of the heavy lifting, optimizing tasks so farmers can focus on what they do best. It’s smart, efficient, and makes farming simpler for everyone involved.

✦Creating the AgriLink Knowledge Hub 
Think of it as a vault of optimized practices and preserved knowledge. The AgriLink Knowledge Hub is where everything comes together, shared and strengthened for future generations. It’s more than a resource; it’s a legacy for today’s farmers and tomorrow’s.

And the impact? It’s powerful:

✦ Boosted productivity with AI-driven crop management that’s transforming how we farm.
✦ A connected community of agri-urbanites and collaborators, sharing insights and working together toward a common goal.
✦ Sustainable agriculture in action, with urban farming practices that support local food production and reduce environmental impact.

AgriLink Nexus isn’t just another platform—it’s a movement. From urban farming initiatives to hands-on community events like our Harvest Festivals, we’re growing smarter, together.

Ready to make an impact?

Join AgriLink Nexus

Tanzania AI Community

Board Member

Vision 2030 Fund

✦  The Vision 2030 mission is to effect a food independent region while reducing poverty and hunger wherever we invest. ​
✦  Vision 2030 is an African pre-seed and seed stage social innovation fund for agriculture, food, and 
water startups. 
✦ Vision 2030 invest into cutting edge, adaptable, affordable, and profitable interventions that confront Africa’s agriculture inefficiencies.

University of Chicago

Over the past 2+ years, I’ve had the privilege of serving as an Instructional Assistant for the AI & Data Science for Leaders program at the University of Chicago. 

This experience has been all about helping 150+ business leaders bridge the gap between AI theory and impactful, real-world strategy.

Now Here’s a sneak peek at what we cover:

✦ Leadership & Data as a Competitive Edge: Leaders learn how data-driven strategies create business advantages, setting them apart in a competitive landscape. Something that is more important that you can imagine.

✦ AI Transformation: We dive deep into what it takes to build and lead AI-powered teams, exploring the nuances of AI and ML implementation.

✦ Real-World Applications of AI as a Service: Through hands-on use cases, participants get firsthand experience with the business potential of AI, from predictive analytics to automation.

Core Skills: A.I. decision science | Data Strategy | GenAI | Business Transformation

I should say, helping leaders adopt and leverage these skills has been a rewarding journey—because in today’s world, knowing how to lead with AI is as essential as the tech itself. 

Ready to see where this knowledge can take you? Reach out

AI & Data Science for Leaders | Instructional Assistant

Accenture

Accenture Strategy & Consulting - Data & AI | A.I Decision Science

Tokyo University of Agriculture

It’s kind of like being handed the keys to the Sahara desert... and asked to make it bloom.

When Tokyo University of Agriculture approached me to work on a project in Djibouti, there was no hesitation. I was all in. No blah blah Just To Do it.

Imagine this: a $4.5 million project, 30+ researchers, and the goal? To uncover the greening potential in one of the most challenging climates on earth. The stakes were high—500,000+ lives potentially impacted by climate risk.

What happened next?

✦ Built deep learning models for land surface fault detection using geospatial images (think satellites and drones working overtime).

✦  Developed simulations to locate underground water sources—essential for semi-arid areas like Djibouti.

✦ Trained 10+ young scientists in applied AI for agriculture, turning knowledge into real-world solutions.

Oh wait, did we make a difference? Yes. We. Did!

Safe to say, Djibouti has a future in climate resilience...

And that is when you see Emerging Tech making the impact we want to see.

P.S. My tech stack? ArcGIS, Python, R, drones, and a whole lot of determination.

Want to learn more? Pack your bags for Djibouti. I might just show you around.

Research Scientist | Machine Learning | Geospatial Analysis

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 | 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

It’s kind of like being given the keys to explore, innovate, and create real-world impact.

During my 5 years as a PhD and MSc Applied Data Scientist in Tokyo, I focused on applying data science and emerging technologies to make a difference for low-resource communities.

Here’s how it unfolded:

✦ Emerging Tech for Good 💡

Leveraged data science and deep learning to improve production processes for underserved communities, resulting in 5+ research publications that shared our insights globally.
Leading International Research 

✦ As principal investigator
I led a collaborative research project with 3 universities, securing $140,000+ in grants from META, NODAI, and the Japan Government. This work resulted in 5+ publications and 10+ conference presentations, bringing our advancements to the global stage.
Mentorship and Global Collaboration 

✦Guided 5+ graduate students in data analysis and research, while annually leading 20+ undergraduate students in an intercultural exchange program between Japan and Tanzania, fostering cross-cultural partnerships and learning.

These years were about more than research; they were about using data science to drive meaningful impact, mentoring the next generation, and building international connections. 

It was an experience I’m excited to bring into every new challenge ahead.

Applied Data Scientist l Research Scientist Gained as a PhD and MSc

Plant Biodefenders

A biotechnological start up producing a patentable organic biopesticide to fight Fall Army Warm , Tomato and cotton pest – a major threat to food security in Africa and economic stability. 

✦  Leading all strategic developing and partnership

✦  Planning and lead research of integration of emerging technology to enhance farm usage of biopesticide

✦  Resource (fund) mobilization and planning for growth and expansion 

✦  Impacted more than 13000+ farmers of maize, tomato, fruits, vegetable - mainly women

Co-Founder - Strategy

"𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙄, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙝𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙩𝙮 & 𝙪𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙨"

As an AI Strategy Advisor & Stanford Online AI Leadership Facilitator, I guide organizations through this complexity to successful AI transformation & implementation, having generated $440M in value for Fortune 500 companies while revolutionizing agricultural communities through data-driven solutions.

My proprietary technical-to-Business AI Framework ensures implementations deliver concrete ROI across regulated environments, like reducing food waste by 50% in retail chains and scaling climate resilience initiatives that impacted 500,000+ lives.

With a Ph.D. in Engineering focused on Applied AI Integration to Increase Production & MSc in Agribusiness Management-Information Network, I bridge technical capabilities with executive priorities, ensuring AI initiatives align with business objectives from pilot to enterprise scale.

As the Founder of KinaLabs, I specialize in transforming AI potential into measurable business outcomes across Healthcare, Agriculture, Retail, and Environmental sectors, having guided 300+ C-suite executives through successful digital transformation at institutions.

𝘔𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯: Transform how organizations implement AI, ensuring measurable outcomes while improving human livelihood through sustainable innovation.

Connect with me to explore how we can transform your AI initiatives into measurable business success: https://www.kinalabs.org/

Denis Pastory ,Ph.D.

Wits Institute For Social And Economic Research (WiSER)

According to the World Bank’s Identification for Development (ID4D) Division, Fifty-six percent of people in sub-Saharan Africa – 472 million – are without any form of identification. The implementation of Identification Systems within this context is constrained by institutional voids that exacerbate the social risks of data misuse. These risks cannot be optimally mitigated by data protection laws alone, but require concrete, socio-technical implementations that make data abuse more difficult. In Nigeria, a reorientation of the National ID System - led by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) - to include those without feeder IDs, and a commitment to using the National Identification Number (NIN) as part of a Federated ID ecosystem without extensive inter-linking and centralization of citizen data are key to creating an inclusive ID ecosystem. However, in realizing the above premised objective, a critical challenge is devising a high-integrity and trust identification scheme that is appropriate to country’s peculiar socio-political context.

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Research ICT Africa

Public-private interplays in ICT infrastructure markets; Broadband Performance and Quality of Service (QoS) re-assessments; e-Governance and e-Government; Cloud computing adoption; Artificial Intelligence - data protection and privacy policy harmonisation; Digital Identification (DigiID)

Research Consultant | Pan-African Digital Policy Projects 

Portulans Institute 

Senior Fellow

African ICT Foundation

Associate | Research Council

Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University

Digital Business and Technology Management | Platform Business Strategy | Technology Policy Research & Consultancy

Technology Policy Fellow                        

The Center for Global Enterprise (the_c_g_e)

Helped Jobberman, Nigeria’s largest online jobs platform, design and implement online, skills-based learning programs for the next generation of entrepreneurs and current/future employees of digital companies in Africa. Involved 21 participants drawn from multi-sectors, 11 countries, 4 continents and 26 languages.

Digital Certification Strategy Team Lead, Jobberman Alpha Team Project       

Raymond Onuoha is a Technology Policy Scholar and Consultant. His research, consulting and teaching focuses on the institutional and policy challenges in the evolution of the digital economy and technology innovation in developing countries, with a specialization on Africa. His expertise covers the domain areas of digital transformation and innovation, internet governance and standardization, e-governance, digital identity, telecommunications policy and artificial intelligence (AI) policy. He also works as a Research Consultant with regional ICT policy and regulation think-tanks – Research ICT Africa (RIA), South Africa, IT4Change (India), and The Portulans Institute (Washington D.C., USA) - conducting multidisciplinary research on digital governance, policy and regulation and the facilitation of evidence-base to inform policymaking for improved access, use and application of digital technologies for social and economic development in Africa. Raymond was a Doctoral Fellow of the IDRC Award (2018), which aims to build emerging leaders in communications policy in the Global South, and a Young Scholar Fellow for the Communications Policy Research South Conference, which took place in Mozambique in 2018. The prestigious fellowship was for the completion of his Doctoral Studies at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance (NMSPG), University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, where his thesis interrogated the regulation of complex adaptive digital systems - optimizing competition and consumer welfare outcomes in developing digital markets for access and inclusion. He has consulted in the area of technology policy for global organisations including – The World Bank, African Union Commission (AUC), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), The Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), International Labour Organisation (ILO), The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation (BMGF), UNESCO, Association of Computing Machinery (USA), Microsoft Nigeria, Internet Governance Forum (IGF), The Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br), The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), The African School of Internet Governance (AfriSIG), and The Nigerian IGF (NIGF). Raymond is currently a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), South Africa - where he is assessing high-integrity and trust identification schemes across Africa.

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