Judith Okonkwo
Founder, Imisi 3D
- Twitter: @judithoko
Biography
Judith Okonkwo is the founder of Imisi 3D a creation lab in Lagos, Nigeria building the African ecosystem for extended reality technologies (AR/VR/MR), and connecting XR communities across the continent. The lab provides learning opportunities and access to XR resources for creators and enthusiasts, while supporting engagement and adoption by the wider community, and consulting and creating content for clients. In 2018 she set up AR/VR Africa a continent wide XR community initiative, which held 2020’s largest African XR event, a continent wide hackathon. Imisi 3D’s most recent VR film production Lagos At Large made the Forbes list of the Top 50 XR Experiences of 2019.
Judith is also the creator of the Oriki Coaching Model™ and a co-founder of We Will Lead Africa. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Judith sits on the Board of the European Organisation Design Forum; and is a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council for Virtual and Augmented Reality.
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The future is ours to create, what will you do?