About The Speaker
Desmond Koney
I am the founder and CEO of Complete Farmer Inc. Complete Farmer is an end-to-end platform connecting industries with commercial precision agriculture produce on demand to meet their production needs and specifications. Complete Farmer's aim is to digitize the agriculture value chain in Africa to make it more competitive and efficient. I am a mechanical engineer and product designer with interests in process optimization, product development and strategy development and implementation and challenging old norms to problem solving. With a firm believe that better products and processes improve livelihood with a contrarian and pragmatic approach. I like to explore possible design solution to Africa’s pressing challenges. I am also interested in mechanical product design, IoT, Artificial intelligence, agriculture and renewable energy.