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Gift Lubele is a Cape Town AI keynote speaker, founder of Auraa.Africa, Director at Rinku Connect, 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; Director at Rinku Connect; AI Lead at YIEDI; co-founder of Kudoti. The Voice of AI in Africa. He speaks on emerging-market AI, generative AI for SMEs, African creative AI, revenue data, corporate ESD programmes, ESG, 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 Director at Rinku Connect. 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 co-founder of Kudoti. 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 Director at Rinku Connect, an AI-powered business intelligence product for Africa. 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 co-founder of Kudoti, a waste-tech company. 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). Industry talks include AI for Emerging Markets: What Silicon Valley Misses; Generative AI That Ships for SMEs; Building African Creative AI (Data, Rights, and Real Products); From Dashboards to Decisions: AI and Data That Grow Revenue; AI Inside Corporate and ESD Programmes; Sustainability, ESG Data, and Operational AI; and Agentic AI in Banking and Financial Services. 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.