Silas Adekunle

"Let's build something that truly works not just for the few but for everyone."

"AI is moving fast we need outcomes not just dialogue."

"If the next majority are left out the world misses out on what its young brilliant minds including Africa has to offer."

"If governance is shaped only by those who already holds power it isn't governance but infringement."

"I grew up in Nigeria and moved to the UK with my family when I was 11. I did my GCSEs and A Levels in Kent where I developed a real interest in the sciences. Moving into robotics seemed like the ideal way to combine physics, biology and maths in one subject, so I went on to study robotics at UWE here in Bristol."

"Having spent time researching robotics undergraduate courses up and down the country, I was impressed by a video of the work being done in the labs here in Bristol – especially what was being done here with legged robots. That was what I specialised in while studying the degree course."

"At the end of my first year, myself and another student created a program to take robotics into local schools. Robotics is the perfect combination of the STEM subjects – Science, Technology, English and Maths – which younger students might not think to combine. The program expanded to four schools in Bristol in four years."

"Coming up with an idea, presenting it to people and getting them to say “yeah we believe in this” was nothing but entrepreneurship."

"In the fundamentals of robotics, the more freedom of movement you have, the more expressions the character can have."

"To build a great brand, you have to explain why everything looks the way it does."

"Success is the fire and how big you can make it burn."

"At the end of the day the key to a good pitch is to put yourself in the shoes of the person you’re talking to at the fund."

"The story stays the same but how you tell it changes as you progress further and further up."

"But you should never do anything that puts your entire company at risk. You need to contain your risks."