Olushola Akande

Olushola Akande is an industrial automation and robotics expert with a wealth of experience in the design, development and configuration of automation and robotics-related systems using various technologies and tools such as PLCs, VFDs, HMIs, SCADA, DCS, sensors, actuators, microcontrollers and development boards. He is the CEO of Showlight Technologies Limited, an industrial automation, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) training and servicing company in Lagos, Nigeria. He is a consultant to many industries in the area of automation and also an instructor in the field of industrial automation at various technical training centers. In 2021, he joined the Schneider Electric team to work on a large-scale project (Dangote Oil Refinery) for their Integrated Control and Safety Systems (ICSS) installation which includes high-integrity PLCs, HMIs, SCADA, and DCSs. He is currently working as an application engineer on the same project. His passion is to drive industries to achieve greater result by doing work more accurately with less effort of human control.