"It is time to close the funding gap for Black female-led start-ups the world over," says entrepreneur Temie Giwa-Tubosun, whose company LifeBank delivers life-saving medical supplies to remote areas in Africa. Today, LifeBank operates successfully across the continent, but Giwa-Tubosun knows that barriers to funding prevent many other brilliant...

Temie Giwa-Tubosun’s talk starts as it ends: with a chilling proposition to try to fathom the exact value of a human [Nigerian] life. It all comes down to a number - and the math checks out, as she shows her workings. She walks the audience through two case studies and unearths the scourge of mothers who die at childbirth. Her talk will leave yo...