Ade Abayomi Olufeko (b. 1980) is documented as a Nigerian-American technologist, designer, and interdisciplinary systems practitioner whose work spans digital infrastructure, cultural archiving, and embodied martial arts discipline. His record reflects a consistent investigation of how human, technical, and physical systems organize, adapt, and endure.
A Builder of Foundations
Olufeko’s early professional work during the consolidation of global internet infrastructure involved broadband architecture, enterprise systems reliability, and digital transformation across telecommunications and financial platforms. Engagements with major institutions during the late dot-com period positioned him inside the structural evolution of persistent network systems.
These environments established a working philosophy centered on resilience, efficiency, and information continuity principles that later reappeared in his cultural and educational initiatives. His founding of Visual Collaborative in 2007 extended this systems thinking into archival space, creating a long-running platform that documents interdisciplinary voices across art, technology, and social development.
Embodied Systems: Martial Discipline
Parallel to his technical career, Olufeko pursued long term martial arts study as a practical framework for embodied systems. His foundational training in the Moy Yat Wing Chun lineage, centered in New York City, emphasized geometry, economy of motion, and perceptual timing principles that informed his technical approach to problem solving and system design.
His training expanded to include Tai Chi, Five Elements Qigong, and Wudang internal arts under the Zhang Sanfeng lineage in China, as well as Aikido Ryu Takeru and the sword-drawing practice of Musō Shinden-ryū Iaido in Tokyo, Japan. Today, most of his martial students are in West Africa, where instruction integrates community resilience, mental discipline, and preventative health practices, paralleling his global mentorship of postdoctoral and PhD researchers in the Humanities.
Martial arts function as structured research into human performance under constraint, reflecting the same efficiency, feedback, and adaptability principles that guide his approach to technical and social systems bridging physical self mastery with measurable health and communal outcomes.
Convergence
Across both domains, Olufeko’s work demonstrates a recurring thesis: Edurable systems emerge from alignment
between structure and flow.
Recognition
- 2003 – IBM Gerstner Award, United States
- 2018 – NABF Youth Entrepreneur Achievement Award
- 2019 – Special Recognition Award, Grand Finale Judge, University of Lagos PAADC Design Competition
Speaking Engagements & Lectures
- 2025 – World Trade Point Federation, CIFTIS, Beijing, China
- 2023 – Global Alliance for Trade in Services, Beijing, China
- 2019 – Columbia University, New York City, USA
- 2019 – Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- 2018 – TEDx Lagos, Muson Centre
- 2018 – Rotary Club of Lagos, Ikoyi
- 2018 – London Business School, United Kingdom
- 2018 – The Funding Space, Victoria Island, Lagos
- 2018 – Sycamore Africa (Formerly Toogedar), Lagos
- 2018 – WordPress Technology Conference, Lagos
- 2018 – Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
- 2018 – NABF (Nigerian American Business Forum), Tampa, Florida, USA
- 2017 – World Economic Forum – Abuja Global Shapers
- 2017 – TEDx Ikeja
- 2017 – Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences, Algiers, Algeria
- 2017 – Oxford University, United Kingdom, OAC
- 2016 – WeThinkAfrica, Lekki, Lagos
- 2016 – Covenant University, Ota, ICT e-Governance Conference
- 2016 – Lagos Business School, Business Conference, Technology & Infrastructure Panel
- 2015 – American Chemical Society, Summer Institute
- 2015 – Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
- 2014 – Harvard Business School, 16th African Business Conference
- 2013 – United for Kids Foundation, Washington D.C., USA
- 2013 – Social Media Week, Video Art Network, Lagos
- 2011 – America Meets North Africa Conference (New York Chorus Ensemble & Harlem Arts Alliance)
- 2006 – Macromedia Flash Group, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Interviews
- 2025 – CNBC Africa
- 2022 – ARISE TV
- 2022 – Berendzen Bond Podcast, Houston, Texas (Episode 90)
- 2021 – Never An Afterthought Podcast by Afolabi Imoukhuede (Episode 27)
- 2019 – The Omenka Pod
- 2018 – Voice of America, Upfront Africa, Washington D.C.
- 2018 – Spice TV on DSTV
- 2018 – Soni Irabor Live
- 2018 – African Music Law, Podcast feature
- 2018 – Ebonylife TV
- 2018 – NABNTV, Mini Documentary
- 2017 – Smooth 98.1FM Radio, Victoria Island
- 2017 – TVC News, Lagos
- 2015 – Voice of America, Washington D.C.
- 2013 – SaharaFM Radio, New York City
- 2013 – Impact Africa Radio by VoiceAmerica
- 2013 – The Africas Amplified Podcast Series
- 2007 – AIT (Africa Independent Television)
Selected Press & Features
- 2022 – The Sun News Online
- 2020 – Business Day Newspaper
- 2018 – London Business School
- 2018 – BellaNaija
- 2018 – New Telegraph, Career Retrospective
- 2018 – PM Express News
- 2018 – Punch Newspapers
- 2018 – Vanguard Newspaper
- 2017 – African Music Law
- 2017 – Diaspora Quarterly Magazine
- 2017 – Vanguard Newspaper
- 2016 – Pambazuka News
- 2015 – Ladybrille
- 2015 – The Guardian
- 2012 – MADE Lifestyles Lagos, Vol. 4
- 2008 – NewWebPick Issue No. 37
Education, Academia & Internships
- Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul – Computer Science & Multimedia
- St. Gregory’s College, Lagos
- Camden, North Minneapolis
- Helmbridge Study Centre, Surulere
- Hinshaw and Culbertson, Minneapolis (Law + Technology Intern, 1997)
Affiliations, Past or Present
- Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Lagos, Nigeria
- International Moy Yat Ving Tsun Federation
- Society for Neuroscience – Washington, D.C.
- St. Gregory’s College Alumni Foundation Inc., Miami, Board of Directors
- Adobe Software Prerelease Groups
- NPF Supernumerary
- IACP
Group Exhibitions
- 2015 – VANITY, Visual Collaborative, Lustine Center, Gateway Arts, Hyattsville, Maryland
- 2013 – ENCORE, Visual Collaborative VII, Modern Contempo, Columbia, Maryland
- 2013 – Brave is Beautiful, Hudson Terrace SM Foundation, New York, NY
- 2012 – Visual Grandeur Series, Washington, D.C., USA
- 2011 – Black White + Monochrome & Color, Wonderland Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 2008 – Visual Collaborative, Miami, Florida, Undercurrent Arts Gallery
- 2007 – Visual Collaborative, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Center for Independent Artists
Solo Exhibitions
- 2014 – Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Boston, MA
- 2014 – The Urban Marketplace, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- 2013 – United For Kids Foundation, Passion Ball Civic Center, Lagos, Nigeria
- 2011 – Queens Gambit Series, Multiple Locations, Queens, New York City, USA
The Immutable Archive
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