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Saturday 17 · May 2026 · 2pm

Build Lagos · Spring 2026. A Saturday afternoon for people who ship

Half a dozen working engineers, designers and operators from across Lagos share what they're building, what broke, and what they'd do differently.

When
Saturday 17 · May 2026 · 2pm
Doors
Doors 1:30pm · Talks start 2pm
Where
Co-Creation Hub
The afternoon

Four hours. Six talks. Zero panels.

1:30pm
Doors
Coffee, pastries, shake hands.
2:00pm
Chika Obi — Rewriting a payments gateway
with Chika Obi
2:30pm
Ifeoma Nwosu — Dashboards that feel like yours
with Ifeoma Nwosu
3:00pm
Tunde Adeyemi — 0 → 400 users in six weeks
with Tunde Adeyemi
3:30pm
Break
More coffee. Meet your neighbours.
4:00pm
Amaka Eze — Hiring backend engineers in Lagos
with Amaka Eze
4:30pm
Kunle Ade — Three outages, one lesson
with Kunle Ade
5:00pm
Fatima Bello — Catching fraud with boring SQL
with Fatima Bello
5:30pm
Drinks
Sponsored by Paystack.
Speakers

Six operators. One afternoon.

Chika Obi

Chika Obi

Staff engineer, Flutterwave

Rewriting the payments gateway in Rust. Will talk about what we learned (and what we didn't).

Ifeoma Nwosu

Ifeoma Nwosu

Design lead, Paystack

On why most African fintech dashboards feel the same — and the small moves that make one feel yours.

Tunde Adeyemi

Tunde Adeyemi

Founder, Ogún

Took an internal tool public. 0 → 400 users in six weeks with no ads.

Amaka Eze

Amaka Eze

Head of engineering, Fez

On hiring backend engineers when you can't pay SF rates and you don't want to.

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Kunle Ade

Staff SRE, Moniepoint

The three outages that taught us what 'reliable' actually means.

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Fatima Bello

Data scientist, Kuda

How we caught ₦2B in fraud before it shipped — mostly with boring SQL.

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Good to know.

Will talks be recorded? +
Yes. We publish the recordings two weeks after the event on YouTube and our newsletter.
Is there parking? +
Paid parking next door at UNILAG sports complex. Uber is easier.
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