The conversations.

The subject keeps changing: tech careers, then freelancing, now AI. But it's been one conversation since that first stage: how people here orient toward what's coming and turn it into opportunity. I keep getting asked back into that room. Lately the conversation is about AI, and that's where I think the leverage is.

2026AI & Technology Masterclass — panelistYouthConnekt Africa MRU Forum, Bintumani Centre · convened with the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Sierra Leone & UNDP SL · youth delegates from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Côte d'IvoireUNDP SL · MIN. YOUTH AFFAIRS
2026AI for Start-ups — instructor, three weeksOrange Digital Center, Sierra Leone · AI-enabled entrepreneurship for 30 founders — 17 working presentations by the closeORANGE DIGITAL CENTER
2025AI for Digital Freelancing — co-trainerInternational Trade Centre, READY Salone (KOICA-funded) · 60+ freelancers, 20+ women · alongside ITC's Martin LabbéITC · KOICA
2025AI for Corporate Productivity — trainerEcobank Sierra Leone · bank staff and department managers on leveraging AI tools in corporate workflowsECOBANK SL
2025Digital freelancing & the gig economy — panelistREADY Salone monthly meetup, back at my alma mater, Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, where my own freelancing started in second yearLIMKOKWING
2024–25Weekly product education series — instructorChristex Foundation · 15+ workshops, 30+ teaching hours, 350+ participants — product frameworks, and sessions on leveraging AI tools before that was the fashionable subjectCHRISTEX FOUNDATION
2022Why young people should get into tech — TEDxThe talk that set the question the rest kept answering: how do you orient when the tools outrun the institutions?TEDX · WALLACE JOHNSON ST
The AI & Technology Masterclass stage at the Bintumani Centre, YouthConnekt MRU Forum
ai & technology masterclass · mru forum
Teaching the AI for Start-ups course at Orange Digital Center, flipchart at hand
ai for start-ups · orange digital center
Co-training the ITC digital freelancing course with Martin Labbé
with itc's martin labbé · ready salone
Running the AI for Corporate Productivity training at Ecobank Sierra Leone
ai for corporate productivity · ecobank sl
On the panel at Limkokwing University, mic in hand
limkokwing · the alma mater
On the TEDx Wallace Johnson Street stage, mid-talk
tedx · wallace johnson street
A full workshop room at Christex Foundation
teaching workshops · christex foundation
The AI for Start-ups founders on presentation day
ai for start-ups, presentation day
Answering on the masterclass panel, YouthConnekt MRU Forum
youthconnekt mru forum · bintumani centre
The career-paths session at Limkokwing, packed to the back wall
career paths in tech · limkokwing

“Sometimes the tool is AI. Sometimes it's a Google Form. The skill is matching the right tool to the right problem, and not waiting for permission to start.”

The next chapter of this conversation is adoption. Say hello if your team is having it

Start aconversation.

Hiring, building, or just curious: I read everything.

theodorerogers10@gmail.comWorking remote — GMT
Get in touch
Send a message

One person, end to end.