Accra Digital Centre hosted the Youth Tech Summit organised by Nova Impact on Friday, November 7, 2025, where key figures emphasized the essential, complementary roles of cybersecurity and innovation in shaping Ghana’s, Africa’s, and the world’s technological landscape.
The summit, themed “Leading through Innovation, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation”, aimed at preparing students, young professionals, and entrepreneurs for an AI-driven global age.
Divine Selase Agbeti, Acting Director-General of the Cyber Security Authority, addressing the topic “Building a Secure Digital Future: Empowering Youth to Lead Ghana’s Cybersecurity,” stated that “the future is not waiting—it is calling you.”
He challenged the youth to take ownership of leadership in the digital sphere, urging them to embrace continuous learning, fearless innovation, and ethical conduct.
To secure the nation’s digital future, Mr Agbeti issued a three-fold challenge: to be CyberSmart, CyberSkilled, and CyberResponsible.
He emphasized, “Be CyberSmart,” by mastering basic cyber hygiene like creating strong passwords, utilising two-factor or multi-factor authentication, acting prudently on social media, and safeguarding personal data.
He encouraged participants to be cyberskilled and consider careers in cybersecurity, noting that both technical and non-technical paths are available, spanning ethical hacking to Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), AI Governance, or Cybersecurity Law.
He also urged the youth to be cyber-responsible, which involves using technology to solve national problems like misinformation, cyberbullying, and online scams, not to perpetuate them, stressing the necessity of ethical awareness and collective responsibility for a trustworthy online ecosystem.
Angela Kyerematen-Jimoh, Founder and CEO of BrainWave AfricaTech and a seasoned global technology leader, spoke on “Future-Ready: Fostering Youth-Led Innovation in the Age of Emerging Technology.”
She defined innovation as the “new currency of progress” but asserted that “innovation doesn’t begin with technology—it begins with mindset.”
According to her, successful innovation must be built on curiosity (to ask ‘what if?’), courage (to learn even when systems say no), and collaboration, declaring that “the future will not be built by individual brilliance, but through collective intelligence.”
She further implored young innovators to actively shape the narrative around Artificial Intelligence (AI): “We must be designers of the algorithms that will define our future. Because if you don’t shape AI, AI will shape you.”
Ms Kyeremanten-Jimoh also challenged the common myths of entrepreneurship, stating that one no longer needs a million-dollar lab to build solutions.
“All you need is access to knowledge, a laptop, and the will to learn,” she said.
She concluded by redefining entrepreneurship not as “about owning a company but about owning your potential.”
