Our Keynote Speaker

Ken Njoroge is a Kenyan entrepreneur, investor, and technology business builder with over two decades of experience building and scaling businesses across Africa. He co-founded Cellulant in 2003 and served as Group CEO, transforming the company from a mobile content business into a pan-African payments infrastructure operating across 35 markets, serving 62 banks and 400 corporates.

He has led major digital transformation projects, including Nigeria’s government e-wallet platform, which enrolled 17 million farmers, and Ecobank’s digital platform across 35 markets. Today, Ken focuses on financing and supporting the next generation of African entrepreneurs and fintech businesses.

His expertise spans entrepreneurship, business growth, fintech, digital transformation, innovation, founder transitions, and emerging technologies such as AI. He has been recognised by The Africa Report, EY, and Endeavor for his contributions to African entrepreneurship and innovation.

Ken Njoroge

Chief Executive Officer

Pani Africa

Our Keynote Speaker

Ken Njoroge is a Kenyan entrepreneur, investor, and technology business builder with over two decades of experience building and scaling businesses across Africa. He co-founded Cellulant in 2003 and served as Group CEO, transforming the company from a mobile content business into a pan-African payments infrastructure operating across 35 markets, serving 62 banks and 400 corporates.

He has led major digital transformation projects, including Nigeria’s government e-wallet platform, which enrolled 17 million farmers, and Ecobank’s digital platform across 35 markets. Today, Ken focuses on financing and supporting the next generation of African entrepreneurs and fintech businesses.

His expertise spans entrepreneurship, business growth, fintech, digital transformation, innovation, founder transitions, and emerging technologies such as AI. He has been recognised by The Africa Report, EY, and Endeavor for his contributions to African entrepreneurship and innovation.

Sitoyo Lopokoiyit

Chief Executive Officer

M-Pesa Africa

Our Keynote Speaker

Ken Njoroge is a Kenyan entrepreneur, investor, and technology business builder with over two decades of experience building and scaling businesses across Africa. He co-founded Cellulant in 2003 and served as Group CEO, transforming the company from a mobile content business into a pan-African payments infrastructure operating across 35 markets, serving 62 banks and 400 corporates.

He has led major digital transformation projects, including Nigeria’s government e-wallet platform, which enrolled 17 million farmers, and Ecobank’s digital platform across 35 markets. Today, Ken focuses on financing and supporting the next generation of African entrepreneurs and fintech businesses.

His expertise spans entrepreneurship, business growth, fintech, digital transformation, innovation, founder transitions, and emerging technologies such as AI. He has been recognised by The Africa Report, EY, and Endeavor for his contributions to African entrepreneurship and innovation.

Sitoyo Lopokoiyit

Chief Executive Officer

M-Pesa Africa

FOREWORD

Scaling Uganda’s Fintech Future

Uganda’s fintech sector continues to grow, with more companies building solutions, more people using digital financial services, and closer engagement between fintechs, financial institutions, regulators, investors, and development partners.

The question now is how we turn that growth into businesses that can scale, compete and endure.

This is at the center of the 8th FITSPA Annual Fintech Conference, under the theme “Scaling Fintech Innovation for Inclusive Growth and a Resilient Digital Economy.”

Scaling a fintech requires more than a good product. It requires customers, capital, skilled people, reliable infrastructure, partnerships, trust, and a regulatory environment that supports responsible growth.

This does not rest with fintechs alone. Banks are looking for new ways to serve customers and work with technology companies. Regulators are responding to new products, risks and business models while protecting consumers and the financial system.

Investors need businesses that can grow and generate returns. Development partners want their investments to strengthen markets and institutions. Technology and telecommunications companies provide much of the infrastructure the sector runs on.

The conference brings these groups together to discuss what the sector needs to grow.

Over two days, we will discuss capital, regulation, infrastructure, interoperability, emerging technologies, trust, talent and access to markets. We will also consider what it takes for Ugandan companies to enter and compete in other African markets.

Our keynote speaker, Ken Njoroge, will share lessons from building and scaling a technology business across African markets.

Since 2019, the conference has brought together more than 5,000 participants. As we meet for the eighth edition, we're focusing on what comes after the conversations: businesses finding customers and capital, partnerships being formed, stronger engagement between industry and regulators, and solutions reaching more people.

Uganda has a growing fintech sector. Our task is to help more businesses move from innovation to scale.

A Big thank you to all our partners, members and sponsors that have made this year's conference possible.

We look forward to welcoming you to the 8th FITSPA Annual Fintech Conference.

Zianah Nyiramanza

Managing Director

Financial Technology Service Providers Association (FITSPA) Uganda