29th October (Welcome Cocktail)
30th October (Full Day)
31st October 2025 (Half day)
Education is at a turning point. AI, shifting demographics, and global challenges are outpacing traditional systems. B.O.L.D 2025 gathers top leaders in education, tech, policy, and business to tackle one critical question: What must we teach in a world we don’t yet understand?
From reimagining skills and credentials to rethinking the role of universities, B.O.L.D 2025 will explore bold ideas to shape the future of learning and work. Connect with world-class thinkers, employers, and innovators to spark dialogue and build actionable solutions for global change.
This will be the education event of the year. Join us for the B.O.L.D 2025 summit in Mauritius from October 29-31 2025, to spark dialogue, forge connections, and co-create bold solutions for the next era of learning and work.
Registration Fee
Guest Arrival, Welcome Refreshments & Networking Bingo
Ease into the evening with refreshments and Networking Bingo – a light, Interactive game designed to spark connections across shared interests, regions, and roles.
Opening Remarks
Host: Jeremy Ruiters, Dean of African Leadership College of Higher Education
Welcome to the BOLD Summit with reflections on the summit’s purpose, vision and what to expect over the next two days. Plus, a toast to bold ideas and new connections.
Cocktail and Snacks
Networking continues
Guests depart at their Leisure
No textbook prepared us for this. Today, we zoom out to explore how global forces – from AI to climate collapse to shifting power dynamics – are reshaping how we learn, work and lead. Through bold provocations, global voices, and radical questions, we ask, “If the world is off-syllabus , what kind of learning will get us through it?”
This is where we make space for the big picture – from education reform in Helsinki, to skills futures in Nairobi, to ethical AI in Silicon Valley.
Focus: Global trends, visionary thinking, and experiential solutions.
Arrival, Registration
Welcome Note by MC
Kagenza Sakufi Rumongi
Mission Curator (Governance) – ALU
Sketching the unknown
Topic: Why is the world off-Syllabus?
Veda Sunassee,
CEO of African Leadership University
Plenary 1
Theme: A decade of change, a future of possibility – charting the next frontier of learning, purpose, and human potential.
Moderators
Candice de Kock
LED Manager
Shaheen Beeharry
Learning Experience Design – ALU
Panelists
Brian Rosenberg
Visiting Professor Harvard Graduate School of Education
Tumelo Molope
Senior HR Director for Sub Saharan Africa – Colgate Palmolive
Simiso Shabangu
Education and Skills Development Division of the African Development Bank
Keith Lynip
Chief Product Officer – ALU
Scripting the syllabus
Tea & Networking Break
Plenary 2
Theme: Education for an Enriched Future – AI in Focus
Moderator
Stephen Naicken
Director of Academic Programmes – ALCHE
Panelists
Olfa Fdhila
Senior AI Program Manager – General Electric Vernova
Vidia Mooneegan
Global Head Shared Services Dayforce
Delali Vorgbe
Edtech Partnerships at Prevail Fund
Lunch & Networking
THE SOLUTION:
This session is fast-paced, collaborative, and hands-on– bringing global insights down to ground level.
Moderator
Kagenza Sakufi Rumongi
Mission Curator (Governance) – ALU
Facilitators
Jeremiah Essuman
Zone – Credential Collapse
Arnaud Nibaruta
Zone – AI-Sovereign Learners
Osaretin Jolaoluwa
Zone – Borderless Belonging
Tineyi Madungwe
Zone – Decolonize or Die
Jerome Alphonse
Zone – Collapse of Employability
Edwick Murungu
Zone – Collapse of Time
Goitseone Maikano
Zone – Neurodiverse Normal
Sevika Reetoo
Zone – Climate-locked Learning
Allan Bartolome
Zone – Algorithm Capture
Elizabeth Babalola
Zone – Institutional Trust Crash
Closing Reflections
Arrival, Breakfast & Connection Circles
Insights Session:
This session will unpack the latest findings from the Africa Workforce Readiness Survey, alongside key observations from ALU’s first 10 years, what’s working, what’s shifting, and what’s still missing in how we prepare young Africans for the world of work.
Speakers
Natasha Traynor
Chief Marketing Officer – ALU
Elizabeth Babalola
Dean – ALU Rwanda
Breakouts: Choose your track
Four rooms. Four bold topics. Two rounds.
These 45-minute deep dives are interactive and practical, and designed to get you thinking differently about what learning looks like when it breaks out of the classroom.
Facilitators: Missions-driven Majors
Jeremiah Essuman
Goitseone Maikano
Facilitators: Learning by Doing
Tineyi Madungwe
Elizabeth Babalola
Facilitators: Learning Beyond Walls
Osaretin Jolaoluwa
Edwick Murungu
Facilitators: Leadership in Action
Arnaud Nibaruta
Allan Bartolome
Tea Break
Plenary:
Moderated by Fred Swaniker, Founder of African Leadership University, this final session brings together students, alumni, faculty and staff to reflect on ALU’s first decade – a bold experiment that has challenged traditional models and redefined what African higher education can look like.
Speakers
Christopher Williams
ALU’s former President
Evelyne Ndabaneze
ALU Alumni Parent
Juliet Mashiri
ALU Alumni Student
Umar Kamani
Current Student – ALCHE
Gabrielle Harry
Current Student – ALCHE
Thank you
Lunch & Networking
Here’s to 10 years of transformation — and the next decade of greater impact and opportunities.
