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Gift Lubele is a Cape Town AI keynote speaker, founder of Auraa.Africa, and The Voice of AI in Africa.

Gift Lubele is an AI keynote speaker based in Cape Town. Founder of Auraa.Africa, the platform behind South Africa's first AI-generated amapiano album; co-founder of Kudoti; AI Lead at YIEDI. The Voice of AI in Africa. He speaks on emerging-market AI, the creative economy, sustainability, and agentic banking.

Gift Lubele is a South African AI and data analytics leader from Tembisa, working at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and African creative culture. He is the founder of Auraa.Africa — the AI music platform behind South Africa's first AI-generated Amapiano album — and a co-founder of Kudoti, an award-winning waste-tech company that has tracked more than 2 million kilograms of recyclable material across the continent. He currently serves as AI Lead at YIEDI (Youth Innovation Entrepreneurship Design Institute), where he helps shape enterprise- and supplier-development programs through AI and data. He is a TEDx speaker, a contributor to Leadership magazine, and an active member of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Johannesburg Hub.

Gift Lubele is a South African AI and data analytics leader from Tembisa, working at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and African creative culture. He is the founder of Auraa.Africa — the AI music platform behind South Africa's first AI-generated Amapiano album — and a co-founder of Kudoti, an award-winning waste-tech company that has tracked more than 2 million kilograms of recyclable material across the continent. He currently serves as AI Lead at YIEDI (Youth Innovation Entrepreneurship Design Institute), where he helps shape enterprise- and supplier-development programs through AI and data. He is a TEDx speaker, a contributor to Leadership magazine, and an active member of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Johannesburg Hub. He is based in Cape Town and booked nationally as an AI keynote speaker — The Voice of AI in Africa. The four official 2026 talks are AI for Emerging Markets, The AI-Creative Economy, AI-Driven Sustainability, and Autonomic Banks. IBM, Nedbank, Standard Bank, and Mr Price, where they appear on this site, are YIEDI programme rooms, not personal keynote clients. The October 2021 TEDxUniversityOfSouthAfrica talk is on the circular economy, not AI. Booking: info@giftlubele.com. The rate card is sent privately after enquiry.