Impact x Technology x Finance

Large Scale Youth School-to-Work Transition Papers [Program Case Study & Impact Evaluation]

Selected Work in Progress

Using Gen AI for Collaboration: Limits and Possibilities within Impact Ecosystems (2025), Information and Organization [WIP: Draft]
B. Otegbade, IP. Hallerbach, D. Matielo de Carvalho, M. Barrett | AI, collaboration, ecosystems, affordances, public good

A deep learning approach for Maize Lethal Necrosis and Maize Streak Virus disease detection (2024), Machine Learning with Applications [Paper]
T. O'Halloran, G. Obaido, B. Otegbade, I. Domor Mienye | Deep learning; convolutional neural networks

"Diversity Accelerates our "Everyone a Changemaker Future" (2022), Social Innovations Journal [Paper]
B. Otegbade, K. Clewett, L. Garcia Duran | Equity; proximate leaders; social entrepreneurship

"Impact Brain: An Architecture for Social Impact Understanding" (2022) [Paper]
B. Otegbade, IP. Hallerbach, D. Matielo de Carvalho

Generative AI Use in the Global South. [WIP: Draft]

"The Future of Work" | The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Kanyinsola Obayan Arigi, Lauder Institute | INTS 5930: African Futures | Mar 2024

"Generative AI and Social Impact Collaboration" | University of Cambridge
Prof. Michael Barrett, Cambridge Judge School of Business and Cambridge Digital Innovation | Oct 2023

Others:
"Peer Networks for Diaspora Movement Building", Madrid, Spain (ADSEN, Sep 2023)

"Every Teacher a Changemaker" (2021 - ) brings a new paradigm to teacher-student norms: empower educators to empower students to become Changemakers.

• United States, [ETACH US] countrywide with Title I (low-income neighborhood) schools. Designed with John Gamba, [Penn GSE] and Michelle Blanchet, [The Educators Lab]. Collaboration with American Federation of Teachers and First Book.
• Coming soon: Nigeria with the National Open Univesity of Nigeria; Indonesia with Muhammadiyah; and the United Kingdom.

"The Global African" (2023 - ) [tgafrican.com]

• Global network cultivated through semi-formal small rooms.
• Early investments in technology and IP through MStreet Ventures.
• Youth and innovation ecosystems, universities, government leadership.

Bunmi Otegbade is a global impact leader in technology and sustainable finance. He is currently a Global Senior Director at Ashoka, where he leads product, revenue and go-to-market architectures, knowledge production for peer networks, AI Governance, and strategic institutional partnerships in North America.

Bunmi is also a venture investor (25 portfolio companies), both debt and equity, in fast-growing technology firms in life sciences, deep tech, clean energy, and inclusive financial technologies in emerging markets with a focus on Africa. His interests range from innovation policy and technology transfer to the financial market institutions that drive inclusive economic development in emerging markets.

He holds a Master’s in Public Policy (MPP) from Princeton University, and a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Baylor University.

Key

• Impact means Society-wide, irreversible change at global scale, for the good of all.
  
• Tech means Tech transfer for equity, Generative AI for Collaboration for Good, applied Machine Learning
  
• Finance means Early bets that advance human potential through creative alternative financing mechanisms: climate finance in EVs ($0.5M debt), venture investing (25 companies), venture finance (raised for $75m VC)
  
• Networks means network theory and 300 global diaspora network of networkers