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MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisDoctor of Stars & Teacher of AI | Yabebal Fantaye, PhD | 10 Academy & Tenacious Intelligence Corp.Elvis speaks with Dr. Yabebal Fantaye, a cosmologist-turned-AI educator and co-founder of 10 Academy, about transforming African talent into global AI professionals through intensive boot camps. From analysing the universe with 10,000 supercomputers at Berkeley to building Ethiopia's AI workforce pipeline, Yabebal shares his remarkable journey from pursuing a Nobel Prize in physics to democratizing AI education across 21 African countries. They explore 10 Academy's intensive 3-month programs that transform beginners into job-ready AI engineers, as well as their ambitious AI4E project, targeting 1 million Africans with AI literacy. Yabebal reveals how generative AI is collapsing trust barriers for A...
2025-08-271h 44
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisAI Sniff Test I The People in Services-as-Software I David Cushman I HFSElvis speaks with David Cushman, Executive Research Leader at HFS Research, about how to separate hype from reality in agentic and generative AI and what a shift toward Services-as-Software means for people, providers, and clients. They explore where AI hits first in services, especially CX/BPO, why headcounts haven’t collapsed yet, and how value migrates toward human-AI teams and enterprise agents that actually do work.About David Cushman:David is Executive Research Leader at HFS Research, where he focuses on generative & agentic AI, automation, and the future of enterprise operations. He also serves as...
2025-08-201h 33
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisAI in World Football | Ethiopia’s Moneyballers | Wondwesen ZewdieElvis speaks with Wondwesen Zewdie about what happens when data, algorithms, and national identity collide on the football pitch. They explore R&D Group’s “Moneyball” contribution to professional football analytics with artificial intelligence, and the Ethiopian outsourcing association’s (EOA’s) approach to regional and global networking in the Global Business Services sector.From data-driven solutions in one of Africa's fastest-growing economies to the geopolitical forces influencing AI's future, this conversation covers insights about innovation, strategy, and global interconnectedness. About Wondwesen Zewdie:Wondwesen Zewdie is the Managing Partner at R&D Group, a pi...
2025-08-061h 27
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisLife after AGI | Georgina HutchinsonElvis speaks with Georgina Hutchinson, Associate Partner at Dalberg Data Insights and former Senior Advisor at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Georgina has spent years at the intersection of technology, policy, and governance, working to democratize AI for the public good.In this episode, they explore what life could look like in the company of artificial general intelligence (AGI). From AI consciousness to job creation in the Global South, from digital public infrastructure to the ethics of AI-enabled decision-making. This conversation digs into the messy, exhilarating, and uncertain terrain of the post-AGI era.
2025-07-301h 35
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisComputer Scientist by Trade, Teacher at Heart | Scaling Kenya‘s Technology Talent | Jente RosseelElvis speaks with Jente Rosseel, founder and CEO of Elewa, a Nairobi-based technology and education company working primarily with startups and SMEs across Europe, the UK, and South Africa. Jente shares his journey from Belgium to Kenya, detailing how Elewa bridges the gap between ambitious startups and cutting-edge technological solutions through innovative apprenticeship programs, managed talent accelerators, and professional development.They explore how Elewa evolved from an EdTech startup into a dynamic group that provides comprehensive technology services, including product design, software development, and ERP systems integration. About Jente Rosseel:Jente Rosseel is the...
2025-07-231h 45
Vi är överalltRättvis förlustDagens avsnitt gästas av Johan Tegnelius och vi pratar om förlusten mot Mjällby, valet av Erik Flataker i startelvan, banderollen mot Elvis, vad AIK behöver för att vinna guld, kommande Europalottning och en del annat. Trevlig lyssning!
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2025-07-2148 min
Vi är överalltDet är dagsDagens avsnitt gästas av Jalle Hinderson och vi pratar om den tuffa bortamatchen på söndag mot Mjällby, Elvis van der Laan till Groningen, Erik Flataker på plats på Karlberg, startelvan, gulddrömmar och mycket mer. Trevlig lyssning!
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2025-07-1744 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisHow Challenger Destinations Can Win | AI Strategy for Ethiopia | Beruh YayehyiradElvis speaks with Beruh Yayehyirad Kitaw, Director of Technology at MMCY, a global talent company based in Addis Ababa. MMCY operates at the intersection of technology outsourcing and business process outsourcing, providing talent across tech and customer support. Beruh describes MMCY's journey from a purely tech-focused firm to a hybrid organisation, their use of AI agents in recruitment and talent management, and Ethiopia’s potential as a challenger among outsourcing destinations. He explores practical lessons learned from implementing AI, ethical considerations, and the changing landscape of software development careers.Topics covered:MMCY's hybrid approach: tech and BP...
2025-07-172h 01
MeliaCRED: Conversations with Elvis"We're Just Probability Machines" | Building Ethiopia's Outsourcing Empire | Samuel MussieElvis speaks with Samuel Mussie, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Mereb Technologies, about Ethiopia's rapid transformation into a software outsourcing destination and the double-edged impact of AI on junior developers. As the CTO at Mereb Technologies, Samuel is passionate about turning complex tech challenges into seamless, user-friendly solutions for global partners, leading a talented team that has grown from startup to a company with 40 employees, expanding rapidly to 60 people.Topics covered:Ethiopia's software boom: from zero to outsourcing hub in 5 yearsThe "surfboard vs swimming" dilemma: AI tools vs foundational coding skillsWhy junior developers...
2025-07-091h 28
MeliaCRED: Conversations with Elvis"Intelligence is beyond memory" | Channelling AI for Good | with Kaleab Mezgebu | AI | EthiopiaElvis speaks with Kaleab Mezgebu, co-founder and CEO of MinabTech in Addis Ababa, about practical applications of AI in Ethiopia. Kaleab shares how MinabTech developed HaHuJobs, an AI-driven employment platform, and discusses the role of AI in addressing employment, data classification, and efficiency. They explore Ethiopia's economic development, sociopolitical challenges, and the realistic limitations of AI in driving meaningful change.Topics covered:Practical AI implementation at MinabTechEmployment in Ethiopia (HaHuJobs)Data aggregation and classificationTechnological growth vs. human developmentScepticism of AI replacing human intelligenceEconomic and sociopolitical context in...
2025-07-021h 25
MeliaCRED: Conversations with Elvis"I think we are the right amount of worried." AI and Jobs in Africa, with Rahul SrivatsaRahul Srivatsa is the Managing Director of Techno Brain GBS. We spoke about the transformation of business process outsourcing (BPO), the automation threat to contact centres, and what workforce planning could look like across Africa in the ear of artificial intelligence (AI). Topics covered: How BPO operations may change with AI; the geographic diversification of global business services post-COVID; the different levels of customer support roles that may survive the AI transition; real-time accent neutralization and language translation breakthroughs; from individual BPO to AI agent management - the future workforce model; enterprise AI adoption challenges vs consumer-level c...
2025-06-271h 42
MeliaCRED: Conversations with Elvis"Be a First Mover with this Stuff!" Leapfrogging into AI, Barrett NashA discussion with Barrett Nash, founder of InfiniteUp, about building AI-powered business tools, the democratization of artificial intelligence, and strategic career planning for the AI era.Topics covered:– Building "thick wrappers" vs simple AI integrations– The symbiotic relationship between humans and AI– GPT-4.5's breakthrough in multilingual capabilities– Why coding as a career path may become obsolete soon– Call center transformation through real-time language translation– Five-year career plans for different age groups– Consciousness – emerging awareness or sophisticated mimicry?– Natural language as the new programming interfaceAbout:Barrett Nash is a...
2025-06-181h 11
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisOutsourcing Our Brains! Is there a Cost to AI Convenience?A discussion with AI strategist Johan Steyn about education disruption, the future of coding careers, and Africa's evolving business services sector.Topics discussed:– Why traditional universities may become irrelevant within a decade– The transition from coding skills to AI collaboration capabilities– Africa's demographic dividend and the Business Process Outsourcing industry transformation– Critical thinking in an age of AI-generated content– The coordination challenges in AI safety and developmentAbout Johan Steyn:Johan is often referred to as Africa's leading AI commentator. In 2019, ...
2025-06-161h 09
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisMartin Hecker: AmaliTech and the Digital Skills Accelerator AfricaAfter a long career at the Boston Consulting Group, Martin Hecker created AmaliTech, a social business that specializes in exporting digital services from Africa to the world. Martin also created the DSAA, a club that funnels German development aid funding to global business services firms that set up offices in Africa.
2023-04-1752 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisMartin Hecker: AmaliTech and the Digital Skills Accelerator AfricaAfter a long career at the Boston Consulting Group, Martin Hecker created AmaliTech, a social business that specializes in exporting digital services from Africa to the world. Martin also created the DSAA, a club that funnels German development aid funding to global business services firms that set up offices in Africa.
2023-04-1752 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisJacques Nyilinkindi: Objectivity's software developers serve global clients from RwandaSoftware development is one of the most complex and best-paying jobs that can be offshored. This is what put the Indian IT-enabled Services sector on the global map. Yet a global talent shortage still exists. As ever more young Africans now enter digtal labour markets, ever more young software developers become available to the world. In this conversation, I speak with Objectivity's Jacques Nyilinkindi about the changes and opportunities in Kigali's technology ecosystem.
2023-02-2737 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisJacques Nyilinkindi: Objectivity's software developers serve global clients from RwandaSoftware development is among the most complex and best-paying jobs that can be offshored. This is what put the Indian IT-enabled Services sector on the global map. Yet a worldwide talent shortage still exists. As ever more young Africans now enter digital labour markets, ever more young software developers become available to the world.In this conversation, I speak with Objectivity's Jacques Nyilinkindi about the changes and opportunities in Kigali's technology ecosystem.
2023-02-2737 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisGodfrey Zvenyika: Deriv, an online broker, serving the world from KigaliGlobal Business Services (GBS) companies come in many shapes. Deriv is an online brokerage firm that turned Kigali, Rwanda, into one of its global delivery locations. I spoke with Godfrey Zveynika, the Country Manager, about Kigali as Deriv's decision for its Africa office, about Rwanda as a possible destination for other GBS firms, about Kigali's eco-system of digital services exporters, and about the pros and cons of different African countries for building service export clusters in the coming years.Show less
2023-02-201h 02
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisGodfrey Zvenyika: Deriv, an online broker, serving the world from KigaliGlobal Business Services (GBS) companies come in many shapes. Deriv is an online brokerage firm that turned Kigali, Rwanda, into one of its global delivery locations. I spoke with Godfrey Zveynika, the Country Manager, about Kigali as Deriv's decision for its Africa office, about Rwanda as a possible destination for other GBS firms, about Kigali's eco-system of digital services exporters, and about the pros and cons of different African countries for building service export clusters in the coming years.
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2023-02-201h 02
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisGary Bennett: Tek Experts and the future of Rwanda's services exportsAre you a Rwandan graduate, looking to start your career in IT services? Are you a Global Business Services firm, looking for a new delivery location in Africa? Are you a government official, seeking to facilitate a digital services export cluster in your country? Are you an international development partner, hoping to support future-oriented job creation in an African metropolis? If you ticked yes on any of the above, please take a few minutes to listen to Gary Bennett speak about Kigali's emerging hub of services exports.
2023-02-1147 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisGary Bennett: Tek Experts and the future of Rwanda's services exportsAre you a Rwandan graduate, looking to start your career in IT services? Are you a Global Business Services firm, looking for a new delivery location in Africa?Are you a government official, seeking to facilitate a digital services export cluster in your country?Are you an international development partner, hoping to support future-oriented job creation in an African metropolis?If you ticked yes on any of the above, please take a few minutes to listen to Gary Bennett speak about Kigali's emerging hub of services exports.
2023-02-1147 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisVivens Uwizeyimana: Umurava as Kigali's supplier of digital work to the worldKigali is home to a tight-knit ecosystem of up-skilling and work-readiness programs, tailored to the Global Business Services (GBS) sector. Firms interested in coming to Rwanda to export IT-enabled services, or firms interested in importing digital services through the internet from Rwanda might find this conversation interesting. In it, I speak with Vivens Uwizeyimana, founder and CEO of Umurava, a talent marketplace and workforce outsourcing platform. This is the last of our "ecosystem conversations," before we hear from the global companies who recently set up their offices in Kigali.
2023-01-2325 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisVivens Uwizeyimana: Umurava, Kigali's suppler of digital work to the worldKigali is home to a tight-knit ecosystem of up-skilling and work-readiness programs, tailored to the Global Business Services (GBS) sector. Firms interested in coming to Rwanda to export IT-enabled services, or firms interested in importing digital services through the internet from Rwanda might find this conversation interesting. In it, I speak with Vivens Uwizeyimana, founder and CEO of Umurava, a talent marketplace and workforce outsourcing platform. This is the last of our "ecosystem conversations," before we hear from the global companies who recently set up their offices in Kigali, exporting digital services to the world.
2023-01-2125 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisHassan Tha Kreator: filmmaking in Nigeria and RwandaAcross the world, many people's dream job is located somewhere in the creative economy. Making films and creating video content has become much more accessible over the past few years, and as the digital realm brings the world closer together, collaborations across borders can emerge in creative fields that were hitherto limited by geography. In our conversation, Hassan Tha Kreator tells me about his journey as a young filmmaker from Nigeria to Rwanda. We speak about the vast differences between these two countries, the future of African filmmaking, and how the strengths of different countries can complement each other a...
2023-01-1831 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisHassan Tha Kreator: filmmaking in Nigeria and RwandaAcross the world, many people's dream job is located somewhere in the creative economy. Making films and creating video content has become much more accessible over the past few years, and as the digital realm brings the world closer together, collaborations across borders can emerge in creative fields that were hitherto limited by geography.In our conversation, Hassan Tha Kreator tells me about his journey as a young filmmaker from Nigeria to Rwanda. We speak about the vast differences between these two countries, the future of African filmmaking, and how the strengths of different countries can complement...
2023-01-1831 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisPépita Uwineza: PesaChoice, work, culture, and change in Rwanda and AfricaImagine you're a global business services firm, thinking of setting up a new delivery center in an African country. Your first problem will be to decide on the right country. The next problem will be to figure out how to manage the local workforce. What are the labor laws, customs, and skill levels in that country? PesaChoice is a human resources management platform that seeks to help incoming companies with this second challenge. As PesaChoice expands across the continent (currently in Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda), part of its service becomes helping incoming firms solve their first challenge...
2023-01-1541 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisPépita Uwineza: PesaChoice, work, culture, and change in Rwanda and AfricaImagine you're a global business services firm, thinking of setting up a new delivery center in an African country. Your first problem will be to decide on the right country. The next problem will be to figure out how to manage the local workforce. What are the labor laws, customs, and skill levels in that country? PesaChoice is a human resources management platform that seeks to help incoming companies with this second challenge. As PesaChoice expands across the continent (currently in Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda), part of its service becomes helping incoming firms solve their first challenge...
2023-01-1541 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisOriane Ruzibiza: Education First, and training Rwandan digital service exportersWhen Global Business Services (GBS) firms choose new delivery locations, they look for stable governance, conducive regulations, reliable infrastructure, and workers with the right skills. Rwanda already tops Africa’s charts on governance, regulations, and infrastructure. And the Government has now begun an initiative with international development partners to train a large pool of GBS workers. Oriane and I discuss Kigali’s GBS ecosystem, and she introduces EF’s English language training pilot, which is tailored to GBS agents and free of charge for any GBS firms.
2023-01-021h 04
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisOriane Ruzibiza: Education First, and training Rwandan digital services exportersWhen Global Business Services (GBS) firms choose new delivery locations, they look for stable governance, conducive regulations, reliable infrastructure, and workers with the right skills. Rwanda already tops Africa’s charts on governance, regulations, and infrastructure. And the Government has now begun an initiative with international development partners to train a large pool of GBS workers.Oriane and I discuss Kigali’s GBS ecosystem, and she introduces EF’s English language training pilot, which is tailored to GBS agents and free of charge for any GBS firms.
2023-01-021h 04
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisJoseph Semafara: SolveIT Africa, and Kigali's ecosystem of digital services exportsRwanda's progress over the past three decades has turned this small country into one of Africa's emerging technology hubs. Global Business Services (GBS) companies have recently set up delivery locations in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, and Joseph Semafara is a leading figure in providing these investors with a "soft landing." His company, SOLVEIT AFRICA, trains young graduates to become GBS agents. Together with other training providers in the Kigali ecosystem, Joseph works closely with the firms that are already in Rwanda, and with firms that are currently on the cusp of making Kigali their next delivery location.
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2022-12-2953 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisJoseph Semafara: SolveIT Africa and Kigali's ecosystem of digital services exportsRwanda's progress over the past three decades has turned this small country into one of Africa's newly emerging technology hubs. Global Business Services (GBS) companies have recently set up delivery locations in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, and Joseph Semafara is a leading figure in providing these investors with a "soft landing." His company, SOLVEIT AFRICA, trains young graduates to become GBS agents. Together with other training providers in the Kigali ecosystem, Joseph works closely with the firms that are already in Rwanda, and with firms that are currently on the cusp of making Kigali their next delivery location.In...
2022-12-2953 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisAdewale Yusuf: Alt__School Africa, and the future of school and work in AfricaAfrica is full of young people who see the internet as their ticket to a better life. Adewale Yusuf, a Nigerian tech entrepreneur, saw this continent-wide drive as an opportunity to connect African workers, mainly programmers, with global clients, mainly tech companies – all remotely. For this, he built TalentQL, a platform that acts as a wormhole – transporting African coders into the borderless realm of the global digital market. But he realized that more was missing than the mere connection between the supply and demand of digital work. Few applicants were ready to deliver the services that global clients needed. So, A...
2022-12-2448 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisAdewale Yusuf: Alt__School Africa and the future of school and work in AfricaAfrica is full of young people who see the internet as their ticket to a better life. Adewale Yusuf, a Nigerian tech entrepreneur, saw this continent-wide drive as an opportunity to connect African workers, mainly programmers, with global clients, mainly tech companies – all remotely. For this, he built TalentQL, a platform that acts as a wormhole – transporting African coders into the borderless realm of the global digital market. But he realized that more was missing than the mere connection between the supply and demand of digital work. Few applicants were ready to deliver the services that global clients neede...
2022-12-2448 min
World of Work podcasts by the ILODigital transformation in Rwanda: is it creating a new future of work?The global phenomenon of digitalization is increasingly going local. Worldwide, informal online platform work is growing, creating new jobs. Rwanda is a unique example. The central African country has seen increasing migration of young people from rural to urban areas. These young people need jobs—and both formal jobs, and more informal work in the gig and platform economy are providing opportunities. But how is this working? Many potential employees need to acquire new skills, including language skills. And can these trends create jobs that are decent and provide social protection? In this podcast, Elvis Melia of Meliacred, an expert at...
2022-10-1719 min
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisVili Lehdonvirta: "Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control" 2022 MIT PressThe University of Oxford is home to the Oxford Internet Institute. Behind the blue door of a townhouse, too many researchers from around the world scramble for desks as they try to makes sense of life in the digital era. In his room on the third floor, Vili Lehdonvirta saw something in the data that gave him an idea he couldn’t shake. So, he did what academics do, he wrote a book about it.
Lehdonvirta is Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research, and we spoke about his book, Cloud Empires, which, as of 27 September 2022, ca...
2022-10-051h 53
MeliaCRED: Conversations with ElvisVili Lehdonvirta: "Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms are Overtaking the State" 2022 MIT PressThe University of Oxford is home to the Oxford Internet Institute. Behind the blue door of a townhouse, too many researchers from around the world scramble for desks as they try to makes sense of life in the digital era. In his room on the third floor, Vili Lehdonvirta saw something in the data that gave him an idea he couldn’t shake. So, he did what academics do, he wrote a book about it.Lehdonvirta is Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research, and we spoke about his book, Cloud Empires, which, as of...
2022-10-051h 53
Podcast ALOHA BN MALLORCAAloha 36Entre tanta mujer, el atractivo, el Elvis, el irresistible Sergio Revert y la aburrida Bel Bestard presentarán y escucharán atentos entre rima y rima a la que no se quita el sayo hasta el 30 de mayo ella es Tania Baides hablara de looks festivaleros, Marga Melià de Raymond Chandler y en cine Ana Badenes entrevista a Joan Porcel del Microteatre...
2012-05-2400 min