Lukonga Lindunda is a Startup Ecosystem Builder, Executive Director and Co-founder of BongoHive Group of Companies, in Zambia, which includes BongoHive Innovations, an award-winning innovation and technology hub changing the landscape of innovation and entrepreneurship in the region, BongoHive Consult, a digital transformation and innovation consulting firm, and Hive Co-working, a shared workspace facility.

Lukonga Lindunda is a Mandela Washington Fellow and has 14 years of experience working with entrepreneurs and development partners. He began his career providing technology assistance in educational projects and programmes by building sustainable and affordable ICT infrastructure and support systems across Zambia with Education Development Center Inc. and VVOB vzw. In 2011, he founded BongoHive with three colleagues after noting a gap in the support young entrepreneurs needed to bring their innovative business ideas to life outside the usual corridors of innovation in South, West, and East Africa.

Since then, Lukonga has steered BongoHive to nearly 1500 Startups and MSMEs and has personally spearheaded public and private partnerships with local and global firms to leverage the ecosystem work that BongoHive does. Lukonga’s vision goes beyond the private sector and Zambia, having realised the interconnected path of the regions development and the complexity of creating a viable support network for entrepreneurship and innovation development.