Speaker Profile: Nasir Yammama
Creative Technologist & Entrepreneur, Founder Verdant Agri-Tech

The next generation of African entrepreneurs have been making a huge mark on the continent and Nasir Yammama has been a major contributor to that effort.
He is a Creative Technologist and Entrepreneur who founded Verdant, an Agri-Tech value chain company. Verdant offers innovative solutions to farmers and other stakeholders for improved food production using novel technologies. His professional interests include design, enterprise, renewable energies, and agriculture. Nasir has had mentoring from renowned entrepreneur and chairman of Virgin Group, Richard Branson, after winning 1st place at the British Council’s Enterprise Challenge competition. He was recently named one of Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30 Rising Stars to watch.
To watch Nasir give his talk on an idea in tech that he thinks could change the world go to: tedxmaitama.com/tickets/
