Brandon T. Bande

Brandon T. Bande

Brandon T. Bande is a Zimbabwean technology advocate, AI enthusiast, and community builder with a background in Telecommunications Engineering. Active in Africa’s technology ecosystem since 2020, he champions technology education, developer communities, and inclusive access to emerging technologies. 

A former organiser of Google Developer Groups (GDG) Harare and a former Zindi Country Ambassador, he has helped grow Zimbabwe’s developer ecosystem through conferences, workshops, hackathons, mentorship, and university-based communities, contributing to over 20 talks and workshops across six countries. He is currently involved with the Young AI Leaders initiative in Gweru under the International Telecommunication Union’s AI for Good initiative. 

His interests span open-weight language models, AI agents, edge AI, data sovereignty, and AI for African languages, explored through projects such as Fung.ai (privacy-conscious enterprise AI) and Vision-SL (language technology for underrepresented African languages). 

Brandon believes Africa’s future in AI must be shaped by Africans, and works to help young people move from consuming technology to building, researching, and responsibly deploying it. 

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  • Organization
    Midlands State University
  • Profession
    Business Analyst
  • Young AI Leaders Community

    Hub Leader
    April 2025 – 2029
    Gweru Hub
    Africa
    Zimbabwe

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