Seed Nigeria effectively assembled its landmark inaugural top, Seed G3 2026 (Growth · Grit · Global), on October 14– 15, 2026, at the Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Collecting over 200 service creators, business executives, equity capital financiers, and policymakers, the two-day hybrid top marked a double turning point: hosting the first-ever G3 conference while commemorating 10 years of Stanford Seed’s transformative effect in Nigeria.
The conference was anchored on the style, “Resilience to Relevance: Scaling African Enterprises for Global Markets.”
Providing the opening welcome address, Omololami (Lola) Ajani, President of the Seed Nigeria Network, reviewed the decade-long journey of the Stanford Graduate School of Business effort in Nigeria and the extensive power of peer entrepreneurship.
“African business have enormous durability in browsing intricate operating environments marked by facilities spaces, currency volatility, and moving policies,” Ajani specified.
“However, we must ask ourselves: must survival constantly be our biggest accomplishment? Seed G3 2026 is developed to press us beyond survival mode, to construct institutionalized business efficient in contending worldwide, bring in institutional capital, and scaling sustainably.”
Ajani highlighted that the network has actually grown to over 200 members, making up magnate actively developing tasks, fixing structural issues, and driving financial advancement.
She challenged participants to utilize the power of the network more intentionally, promoting much deeper business cooperations and cross-border collaborations instead of relying entirely on private effort.
Structure on the opening required, Day 2 of the conference included top-level keynotes and masterclasses concentrated on institutional development and brand name equity. Julius Agenmonmen, Group Managing Director/CEO of Brandlife Group and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Seed Nigeria, provided a keynote address stressing the shift from regional endurance to worldwide market importance.
Agenmonmen worried that worldwide scaling needs robust brand name equity, tactical discipline, and institutionalised governance structures that outlast their creators. Drawing from years of marketing and management experience, he kept in mind that African brand names need to make worldwide trust through constant worth shipment, quality, and customer-centric style.
The top likewise included contributions from popular organization and environment leaders, consisting of Hakeem Belo-Osagie, Chairman of Metis Capital Partners; Senator Tokunbo Abiru; Dr. Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy; and Innocent Ike, Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc.
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Founding Partner at Future Africa, likewise contributed viewpoints on endeavor style and capital development. Martin Giese, Stanford Seed professor and Managing Director of XPRENEURS Incubator, provided the keynote session, “Sell to Scale: Building the Revenue Engine for Global Growth,” sharing insights on the sales abilities and earnings systems needed for sustainable organization growth.
Beyond plenary sessions and masterclasses, Seed G3 2026 included dynamic company exhibits showcasing ingenious items, services, and development services from member business. Devoted capital sessions and Investor Deal Rooms supplied growth-stage creators with chances to engage straight with personal equity partners, investor, and institutional loan providers, developing opportunities for financial investment conversations and prospective collaborations.
Through its inaugural edition, Seed G3 strengthened the value of peer knowing, tactical partnership, and access to capital in assisting African business develop the structures and abilities required to contend in international markets, while commemorating a years of Stanford Seed’s deal with Nigeria’s organization neighborhood.
Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha
Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is likewise the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the distinguished University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead author on the air travel desk, Ifeoma is accountable and in charge of the 3 weekly air travel and take a trip pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She likewise overseas and modifies all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has actually composed numerous investigative, functions and newspaper article in air travel and company associated problems and has actually been severally chosen for award in the classification of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; among the Nigeria’s the majority of distinguished media awards events. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the distinguished Nigeria Media Merit Award under the ‘Aviation Writer of the Year’ Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist classification. She has actually gone through numerous journalism trainings by different distinguished organisations. Ifeoma is likewise a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.
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