Oyinkansola Adebayo

Oyinkansola runs Niyo, a group of multi-award-winning companies that specialise in using technology to economically empower black women to be builders in the tech industry. This organisation currently has two brands: Niyo Hair and Beauty and Niyo Labs. Niyo Hair and Beauty is a technology-driven afro hair and beauty ecosystem that services over 1000 clients across the UK and abroad whilst economically empowering hairstylists through an academy to get accredited. Niyo Labs exists to empower black women to pursue their business ideas and career aspirations through technology-driven boot camps and gamified education. She has just trained 1000 black women to become full stack developers, data engineers and VR and AR engineers through the “black codher” and “black disruptor” boot camps. Some of her women have secured roles in KPMG and many more. She has also won many awards including Barclays Entrepreneur of the Year, Great British Fashion & Beauty Entrepreneur of the year, MBCC Entrepreneur of the year and Female Innovator of the year. She has spoken at Women In Tech Festival, Vodafone UK, KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Africa Tech Week, Birmingham Tech week and many more. She has a BA in Economics and Management from Nottingham Business School and an MSc in Development Economics. She is particularly passionate about addressing poverty, especially amongst black women and using disruptive and high-value tools to transform the lives of black women across the world by helping black women secure employment opportunities that would have been just a dream without the skills and tools we would have provided them.