Ajay Lalu

Co-founder and director, Consumption Information Real Time (CIRT) and Q-Hop. He is a certified IOT professional and chartered accountant who is a serial entrepreneur who has founded several successful companies, including the Black Lite Group. Lalu has showcased CIRT's solutions at the world's largest IOT conference, IOT Solutions World Congress, Barcelona, 2019, and regularly comments on technology developments. He has done a $60m exit. A guest lecturer at the Gordon School of Business on digital innovation and strategy, he has been involved in technology innovation since 2018 and international speaker on Bid Data and AI. Lalu is committed to changing the lives of ordinary Africans through his involvement in various NGOs, such as Greenpeace Africa and the Distell Development Trust. He is greatly involved in initiatives aimed at developing SMMEs and tech start-ups, based on his life experiences.