WE INVITED OYIN ADEBAYO FOUNDER AND CEO OF NIYO GROUP. WE SPOKE ABOUT HER JOURNEY AND THE GENDER GAP THAT EXISTS IN THE TECH. WE EXPLORED THE NEED FOR MORE BLACK WOMEN TO GET INTO TECH AND THE CHALLENGES THAT EXIST.
Brief on Oyin:
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 three brands: Niyo Hair and Beauty, Niyo Dapp and Niyo Bootcamps. 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 Bootcamp exists to empower black women to pursue their business ideas and career aspirations through technology-driven boot camps. She has just trained 560 black women to become full stack developers, data engineers and VR and AR engineers through the “black codher” and “black disruptor” boot camps, the projects under Niyo Bootcamps and is set to empower a further 500 women this year. Some of her women have secured roles in KPMG and many more. Niyo Dapp is a blockchain platform set to reward content creators in the beauty sector with NFTs and reward their users with the physical products they wear in their favourite influencers’ content.
