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Join a free virtual summit designed to inspire, equip, and empower the next generation of African women to build successful careers in motion design.
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Empowering the next generation of African women to thrive in motion design.
The Women in Motion Design Summit is a free virtual event created to inspire, equip, and empower the next generation of African women to build successful careers in motion design.
Bringing together leading professionals, inspiring speakers, and ambitious women from across the continent, the summit provides a unique opportunity to learn industry-relevant skills, gain valuable career insights, and connect with a supportive community of creatives.
Whether you're a student, stay-at-home mum, entrepreneur, freelancer, or someone looking to learn a valuable digital skill, this summit is designed to help you take your first step into motion design.
This is more than an event, it's the beginning of a movement to raise a new generation of African women who will create, innovate, lead, and shape the future of motion design.
This summit is for you if you are —
A woman interested in building a career in motion design
A beginner with little or no design experience
Looking to learn a valuable digital skill
Interested in freelancing, remote work, or creative entrepreneurship
A business owner looking to elevate your brand through motion design
A smartphone user eager to begin your motion design journey
A PC user who wants to create professional motion graphics using After Effects
Here's what we'll cover throughout the 14-day summit.
The Women in Motion Design Summit is designed to give you both the mindset and the practical skills needed to build a successful career in motion design.
Learn from Industry Leaders
Gain valuable insights from four accomplished women who have built successful careers in motion design. You'll learn how to:
- Break into the motion design industry as a woman
- Build a successful and sustainable career
- Understand the business side and how to earn from your skills
- Build meaningful relationships through networking and collaboration
- Develop the mindset and habits of top-performing designers
- Create exceptional work that attracts brands and opportunities
- Navigate challenges and grow with confidence
Practical Motion Design Training
Learn directly from experienced instructors through hands-on training create professional projects on a smartphone, and professional motion graphics using Adobe After Effects on a PC. You'll learn how to:
- Create engaging promotional videos
- Design compelling explainer videos
- Animate modern user interface (UI) designs
- Create storyboards and styleframes for animation projects
- Build a professional portfolio that attracts clients and employers
- Collaborate effectively with other creatives
- Apply industry best practices to your creative workflow
Motion Design Challenge
At the end of the training, participants will take part in a motion design challenge giving them the opportunity to apply everything they've learned, showcase their creativity, receive feedback, and compete for exciting prizes.
The summit gives you the opportunity to learn, grow, and build a successful career in motion design.
Learn from experienced industry professionals
Gain practical, in-demand motion design skills
Build confidence to start your creative journey
Connect with ambitious women and industry experts
Grow your professional network
Discover career and freelance opportunities
Build a portfolio that stands out
Join the Motion Design Challenge and win exciting prizes
Femi Maven
Award-winning motion graphics designer, creative educator, and founder of Maven Mint Academy.
With years of experience in motion design, Femi has collaborated with startups, fintech companies, SaaS brands, and businesses across various industries, delivering engaging visual experiences that help brands communicate their stories effectively.
Passionate about developing the next generation of creative professionals, he has built one of Africa's growing motion design communities through Maven Mint, empowering over 50,000 creatives through training programs, workshops, and educational initiatives.
He is also a respected public speaker, committed to inspiring, mentoring, and equipping creatives with the skills, mindset, and opportunities they need to build successful careers.
As the convener of the Women in Motion Design Summit, Femi's vision is to empower the next generation of African women with the knowledge, confidence, and community to thrive in the motion design industry.
The Speakers Are a Surprise, for Now.
We're not revealing the full lineup just yet. What we can tell you is this: industry-leading motion designers and creative professionals will be joining us to teach and share exactly how they built their own careers.
Every session here is built to get you doing, not just watching. You'll be learning alongside women who understand exactly where you're starting from not people who already have it all figured out and forgot what it felt like to begin.
You'll get real mentorship from someone who has actually taken people through this process and watched them land clients, not theory pulled from a textbook. And you'll leave with something concrete: a skill, the start of a portfolio, and a plan for what comes next.
This is your chance to stop watching other people build creative careers online and actually start building yours.