– Panel Speaker
Brian Afande is the Co-founder and Managing Director of BlackRhino VR, an award winning Kenyan based Extended Reality (XR) agency; they specialize in creating bespoke Virtual & Augmented Reality content and solutions that are adaptable and relevant to the African market with a global appeal. As an early African XR adopter, Brian holds a peculiar vision of designing, democratizing and demystifying what Extended Reality (XR) and new emerging technologies will look like and how they will impact communities. He believes that democratizing access to these technologies is a key ingredient to building awareness around the potential of what the youth in Africa can achieve. Through creating synergies,partnerships and collaborations Brian aims to equip the African youth to be the XR innovators and inventors of the future.