TEDx Antananarivo

Workshop: “MEGASEEDS™: creating value from eco-business models”

Creating value from eco-business models.

MEGASEEDS™ seeks to be one of the leaders in social enterprise in Madagascar. Composed by young Malagasy social entrepreneurs, MEGASEEDS™ wants to expand its new vision, based on how we have a unique way of adding value to our products. With MEGASEEDS™, we wish to develop a new agribusiness model that benefits all parties because it is aimed to be lucrative, sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Our guest speaker for this workshop is Dr. Sheila Ochugboju. Dr. Sheila is a TED fellow like Andriankoto Ratozamanana, our MEGASEEDS Inc. CEO. Both are passionate about changing Africa. She will be working soon for the African Technology and Policy Studies (ATPS) network and will coordinate research and communication in science and technology innovations across 23 countries. Her wish is that Madagascar through MEGASEEDS™ joins the network of ATPS as the first private sector business to open the 24th national chapter in Africa.

Sheila Ochugboju at TED conference

Her experience at the GWIIN helped identifying innovative ways of getting ideas to market.

Two films are going to be projected as part of our very first TEDx event in Madagascar.

  1. ”Caught in the crossfire: between life and forest conservation (Ituri forest, DR Congo)” by Corneille Ewango, a fervent animal conservation activist, who participated at the TED global 2007: “Africa the next chapter”
  2. “Mobilizing capitals for state-building”, by the economist Ashraf Ghani during the TED talk at Oxford in July 2005.

Our workshop is going to be held at the Urban Café Antsahabe on Tuesday April 7th, from 9:30 a.m. until noon.