Global Conferences Need African Speakers. Here's How They'll Find You.

​Global conferences are not closed to African speakers. They have a process — and this episode gives you an insider's view of exactly how it works.

​Speaker Economy: Africa is a monthly LinkedIn Live series by Heard In Africa. We bring global industry experts, event professionals, and speaker managers into honest conversations about how the speaking and events industry actually works — on this continent and beyond.

​ABOUT THIS EPISODE

​Olayide Babayemi is a conference producer whose work has shaped the speaker programmes of some of Africa's most internationally visible technology and innovation events. She brings to this conversation a practitioner's perspective on how global stages are built — how speakers are found, how selection decisions are made, and what preparedness looks like from the inside.

​This is not a conversation about what is missing. It is a conversation about what is possible, and what you need to have in place to be ready when the opportunity arrives

​WHAT WE WILL COVER

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​→ How conference producers actually find and select speakers

​→ What a speaker's digital presence communicates to an organiser

​→ What patterns emerge across global selection processes

​→ What preparedness looks like from a practitioner's perspective

​→ Africa's growing presence on the global conference stage — and what accelerates it