THE ROOM
Not a faculty of lecturers. A room of operators.
The Safari is taught by the people who built the rails, wrote the rules, and ran the companies. Faculty are practitioners first: founders, regulators, investors and operators drawn from the live ecosystem, with Ali Hussein Kassim as resident strategist holding the journey together.
Ali Hussein Kassim
Africa's pre-eminent fintech strategist. Conceived and leads The FinTech Safari.
Twenty-five years at the intersection of policy, technology, marketing and capital in Africa: advising policymakers and regulators, building fintechs, chairing industry associations, and sitting on the boards that shape how 1.4 billion people access money.
Current roles
- Chairman, Association of FinTechs in Kenya
- VP, Eastern Africa, Africa FinTech Network
- Non-Executive Director, Old Mutual Investment Group
- Chair, Board of Trustees, KICTANet
- Board Member, Africa, Global Impact FinTech Forum
- CEO, AHK Growth Partners
- Strategy Advisor, Kenswitch
- Strategic Advisor, Afripesa
- Board Advisor, ASSNTURE
- Founder and Publisher, #AliTalksTech (87,000+ daily readers)
We teach the ecosystem, not the org chart.
The faculty model
No two cohorts meet exactly the same room. Faculty are matched to the tier and the moment, and are drawn from the categories that make up the ecosystem itself.
The operators.
Founders and senior leaders of fintelcos, payment infrastructure, banking-as-a-service platforms, and agency networks, teaching from inside live companies.
The regulators.
Central bankers and digital-finance supervisors, including the CBK regulatory masterclass on the Explorer track.
The capital.
Investors and managing partners with active African fintech books.
The builders of credit and data.
The people designing how the continent lends, and how it reads risk.
Confirmed faculty are announced per cohort, in collaboration with Founding Category Partners.
Become faculty
Faculty seats are part of the Founding Category Partner and Faculty Host offers. If your organisation operates inside one of the ten categories and your people teach by doing, there is a place in the room.
Open the conversation.