Lifestyle Brands and Cultural Innovation in Africa | Magatte Wade, Tiossan
Channel: MIT Venture Capital & Innovation
Date: 2017-06-21

TED Global Africa Fellow Magatte Wade provides a spirited talk on what the continent of Africa needs, what it doesn't need, and what the future can look like. Mark Weber of the MIT Media Lab gives the introduction.

The MIT Venture Capital + Innovation Conference is held annually in February at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Thank you to our lead sponsor IBM Research, as well as Solvay, Wilmer Hale, Finnegan, The MIT Industrial Liaison Program, the MIT Startup Exchange, and Startup Hub Boston. Visit http://www.mitvcconference.com/.

Magatte Wade was born in Senegal, educated in Germany and France, and launched her entrepreneurial career in the San Francisco Bay Area. Magatte is a serial-entrepreneur and passionate advocate of positive change in business, gender roles, and Africa. Magatte is a Forbes “20 Youngest Power Women in Africa”, a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum at Davos, a TED Global Africa Fellow and a "Leading Woman in Wellness” award winner by the Global Wellness Summit (she later got invited to join the Board, where she now serves). Magatte also serves on the Advisory Board of the Whole Planet Foundation, of Whole Foods Market.