Sorochi Van Sickle, PhD is a healthcare investor, researcher, and value creation professional based in the San Francisco Bay Area, but originates from Nanka, Anambra State.

She is also the founder of TokataHQ, a media and advocacy platform pushing for Igbo to be supported across the digital platforms and technologies people use every day.

The exclusion of Igbo from major technology products already has real consequences: it limits how people can use their language online, makes Igbo content harder to search and translate, and reduces the reach of Igbo artists and creators.

TokataHQ works through advocacy, partnerships, media, and language-resource development to expand Igbo support across AI, speech recognition, text-to-speech, voice technology, and other digital platforms.

The goal is to strengthen Igbo’s place in technology today, help preserve the language for future generations, and make sure Igbo is not left behind as technology evolves.

Chiadika Eleh is an engineer and disability advocate based in the San Francisco Bay Area, but hailing from Nibo, Anambra State. She holds a BSE and MSE in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and throughout her academic and professional career, she's stayed focused on one thing: access.

That focus led her to co-found See-Rynge, a liquid measurement device designed specifically for the visually impaired community, during her Senior Design Capstone at Penn. It shows up daily in her work as a software engineer at Google too, where she ensures her team's interfaces are accessible to everyone who uses them.

Eventually, she extended that work beyond engineering and found a cause close to home in Anambra State: putting white canes, assistive academic devices, and mobility training directly in the hands of visually impaired students at Nnamdi Azikiwe University. That work became the catalyst for her nonprofit, Human Baseline Initiative, which she's since grown into a wider push to close healthcare and accessibility gaps for underserved communities across Nigeria.

Chiadika will soon begin her MBA at Stanford, which she hopes to shape around that same pursuit: expanding access for the people who need it most.

Tobechukwu Osakwe is a software engineer and founder based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with roots in Abacha village in Idemili North, Anambra State. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, with a minor in Mathematics, from Florida State University, and a single thread runs through everything he builds: making software that quietly does its job.

He started coding at seven, and by high school he'd created Angel, a production-ready backend framework for the Dart language, complete with its own ORM, GraphQL support, and templating engine. He later joined Google as a software engineer, working on a cross-platform UI framework that powered surfaces from Android and iOS to Google Nest, Google TV, and Wear OS. Today he's the founder of Regios Technologies, Inc., the company behind Regios Discounts, a Shopify app built on Shopify Functions that he launched in 2023 as a solo, bootstrapped founder and has since grown with a team behind it.

Beyond the product, Tobechukwu creates educational content on entrepreneurship and software, sharing the lessons of building a company in real time. He also makes music, and he's currently learning Igbo, reconnecting with the language of the place his family comes from.