Akil Wade
Founder & AI Event Builder — AfricAI
Akil Wade is the founder of AfricAI and mAIstro, where he helps founders, technologists, creatives, and business owners explore practical uses of AI. His work sits at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and creative collaboration, with a focus on making AI useful in real-world workflows.
With a background in video production, marketing, entrepreneurship, and online education, Wade brings a cross-disciplinary perspective to how creative and business teams can work with emerging tools. Through AfricAI, he creates spaces for people to test ideas, share knowledge, and build practical AI systems.
At SACC, Wade will join AI + Animation - Enhancing Creativity Without Replacing It and Meet the Producers, sharing insights into how AI can support creative work in animation while keeping artists, producers, and human collaboration at the center.