Standout Enterprise Festival and Digital Awards is the Standout African Leaders, Enterprise and Showbiz Summit, which is going to be an annual socio-digital global summit to celebrate and explore leadership enterprise, youth productivity and the pros/cons of the creative industry business.
Due to COVID-19 and social distancing restrictions, the 2020 edition will be held online, and streamed across various channels online.
The Standout Summit is billed to hold on August 29 and 30, 2020.
For this year’s edition, Guests Speakers include: Jimi Tewe (Life Coach and Entrepreneur), Germany’s Romy Stangl (Social Activist and Influencer), Bankole (Banky W) Wellington (Media Mogul, Entrepreneur, Youth Influencer and Minister), Nigerian-Canadian, Ehi Ade-Mabo (The Mindset Surgeon), America’s Danielle P. Jeter (Entrepreneur, Media Personality and Founder, Wim Global), Nigeria’s Kayode Joash (Entrepreneur Coach and Founder, my Double Double global), Stephen Akintayo (Real estate investor, wealth coach and founder, GText global), Nollywood Actor Adedimeji Lateef, South Africa’s Florence Musengi (Business coach, entrepreneur and author), Netherland’s Lencola Versevelt (Business executive and Corporate Leader), Promise Amahah (Serial entrepreneur and Agribusiness Expert), Simi Drey (Media entrepreneur and OAP, the Beat 99fm) and the host/convener is Pat Obilor (Author, media entrepreneur and Partner, Sparkles Media Limited).
Obilor said: “The first time I had the inspiration to establish and host standout global awards/summit, I felt small and afraid but a part of me wanted to achieve it and I wanted to know what it feels like to create something beyond my immediate locale. My succour is that, if I can do it, anyone else can.”
As part of the annual event, there is the Standout Afro-Global Awards (Standout Afro-global leaders, enterprise and Showbiz accolades), also known as SALES Awards, which is organised to celebrate people and uplift brands.
Obilor added: “For the talented youths, we also have the #StandoutAfricarealityShow which is an annual talent and reality show contest that is held online to discover new talents and empower their gifts with a token that motivates them to become more. It is a giveback initiative of the Standout With Pat, #Standoutenterprisefestival and the #Standoutglobalawards brands. The talents and skills exhibition will focus on Music, Dance, startup Pitch, Acting/Spoken Word and Presenting/Public speaking. For this year, our Judges are actor, Adedimeji Lateef, Musician, Daniella Orji, Africa’s business investor – Stephen Akintayo, America’s DP Jeter and the founder, Ms. Pat Obilor.”
