Summit Theme
Prosperity and Leadership for the East African Coast
Aje Telo Summit brings together entrepreneurs, investors, executives, business leaders and innovators to build the business community of the East African Coast through conversations, partnerships and opportunity.
Register Your InterestBuilding the rooms where opportunity moves.
Aje Telo creates convening platforms that bring people, enterprise, capital, culture and market opportunity into the same ecosystem — then extends those relationships beyond the room.
From storytelling to the infrastructure around opportunity.
Aje Telo began by creating trusted conversations. Today, that experience is expanding into platforms that convene communities around business, investment, leadership and culture — with a clear path from conversation to commerce.
Our work is increasingly focused on designing the environments in which people discover opportunities, form relationships, build partnerships and participate in the systems shaping what comes next.
Aje Telo Summit
A recurring business and cultural convening connecting local enterprise, investors, new market entrants and professional communities around scalable opportunity.
The Summit combines talks, curated B2B connections, opportunity discovery, hospitality and culture — then continues through content and commercial follow-up between editions.
Hela Storytellas
Hela Storytellas began in 2023 as intimate peer-to-peer conversations about money, enterprise and financial literacy. It became the proving ground for Aje Telo's approach to human, useful and culturally relevant business conversations.
Small rooms. Honest conversations.
Peer-to-peer financial literacy and business discussions established the intimacy and trust at the heart of Hela.
A larger business ecosystem.
Partnership with Global Exhibitions Inc. helped Hela move into larger exhibition environments, audiences and commercial networks.
A proven convening format.
Edition Six, hosted alongside China Trade Week Kenya, brought together speakers, business audiences, culture and entertainment at scale.
2023–2025: Building the conversation.
A look back at the early journey of Hela Storytellas — the people, ideas and experiments that shaped the platform and informed what Aje Telo is building next.
Hela stays. The world around it gets bigger.
Aje Telo Summit builds on what Hela proved, while expanding the focus from conversation into opportunity, investment, market access, culture and commercial follow-through.
The Conversation
Hela Storytellas remains the signature talks format: stories, financial literacy, leadership, markets and practical business insight.
The Convening
Aje Telo Summit becomes the wider environment where communities, businesses, investors, opportunities, hospitality and culture meet.
The Deal Engine
Africa Is A Planet supports opportunity intelligence, B2B connections, market access and deal structuring — helping promising relationships move beyond the room.
Conversation creates possibility. AIAP helps structure what happens next.
Africa Is A Planet is the opportunity and deal-structuring engine associated with Aje Telo Summit. It supports the work between convenings: identifying prospects, matching stakeholders, developing market-access pathways and helping commercial opportunities progress.
We believe communication shapes participation. But participation becomes more powerful when the right people, ideas and opportunities are brought into the same system.
Aje Telo is increasingly focused on building those systems — spaces where trust becomes relationship, relationship becomes opportunity, and opportunity can become prosperity.
Bring the right people into the room — then build what comes next.
Aje Telo works with venues, businesses, investors, institutions and community partners to create platforms around opportunity, leadership, culture and market access.