Lukonga Lindunda on Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship Through Technology

thank you glad to be here

great all right so let's start with uh the personal journeys kind of gives a more human face to the discussion we're about to get into so let's talk about who lukonga is your journey and how you got to where you are today

yeah uh it's quite a long story i was born and raised in dollar

okay

on the copper belt um So I went to school there.

One of the interesting bits that changed my life was when my mom came back home with a computer.

I was in grade 8 at that time.

It was a desktop.

You may know the name.

It's a compact Presario.

You may not know the name.

You may not know the

name.

But it was running Windows 95 at that time.

And I had the opportunity to just play around with it, break it apart.

And it made me realize that there was something interesting that I could pursue.

Initially, I wanted to do accounting.

And when we got this computer, I thought to myself, you know.

Is accounting really? Yeah.

It sounds like your aha moment.

Yes.

It was a big aha moment.

And

it got me thinking that I could pursue a career in tech.

Okay.