Social Media Week Lagos

Join the discussion on how to use YouTube as part of your business from self promotion, distribution to content discovery and reach. Participants will also hear about recent updates to YouTube and get to share in an active Q & A session.

Learn from creators and businesses of different sizes, what it takes to successfully run a business on YouTube!

• Using YouTube to expand your business
• YouTube for different kinds of businesses
• What's new with YouTube

If taking ah-mazing pictures using only your phone sounds attractive to you, this masterclass is just perfect for you to learn how to do that. For a long time, the myth held that to achieve really good photography on mobile, you needed to have a really high-end (we mean so expensive that it can pay your house-rent or buy your car) phone. Well, not anymore. From shooting for Hugo Boss, Lacoste, CapitalSquare, Steve Harris and others over the last 2 years, we have earned our stripes.  Sign up for Smartphone Photography Workshop and learn from the pros!

Produced by Senpai collective, a community of creative minds building the future with technology, Creatives In Tech Meet Up is a casual talk and meet up about building a digital brand on social media,  being a creative in tech and starting a startup. The 200+ memeber Senpai Collective is a rich diverse community that will bring a fresh perspective to the SMW Lagos program. 

Video accounts for about 70% of all consumer internet traffic today according to Cisco. More and more companies are making use of video because of its increased convenience and efficiency. High quality video production technologies are also now more affordable and more accessible to consumers.


In this session  attendees will learn how to script, film and edit basic videos like client testimonials and 'about us' videos that can be hosted on their website or on their social media platforms. Video has the power to bring users closer to customers and other stakeholders by increasing brand visibility and developing stronger endearment through video.


At this 3-hour skillshare workshop participants will learn:

• Conceptualising
• Creating a script or a storyboard
• Filming
• Editing (With Adobe Premier Pro)
• Exporting a video

The Marketplace: Make Money Through Your Creativity will show you how to create awesome designs on Printivo and earn a royalty each time our customers make use of your designs.
Printivo’s design marketplace lets you upload your design and texts to our print products and you earn 15% of the value of the order each time a customer make use of your designs. It’s your digital design shop and It’s 100% FREE for designers to use!
During this event you will learn how Printivo is enabling designers to build up a portfolio and gain recognition as well as how we are helping designers to earn a commission for their creativity. We believe that a good design should be shared and earned and that is why we want to empower people to be enabled.

• Attendees should come with Laptops, Smart Phones or Tablets as there will be a practical session, also attendees should have at least basic graphic skills.

Movies and all forms of visual storytelling, have always been more than just a tool for entertainment. Over the years, film has been used as a tool for social re-engineering, promoting themes which form the notions and opinions of viewers. Film often forms the first impressions people have for other societies and cultures and  when utilized skillfully, has proven to be a huge tool in social development.


The current state of our nation and society, is heartbreaking. There is a crisis of fitting the identities of the individual (ethnicities) within the constructs of the community (nation). Internally, there are so many lines that divide. This is evident oftentimes in the manner in which harmless conversations on social media rapidly degenerate into a hate filled back and forth, which often play along the prejudiced lines of tribe, religion and societal status. 


Nollywood has a huge role to play by emphasizing storytelling as a tool for nation building. Telling the right stories and promoting positive themes, can provoke necessary discussions among individuals, in homes, offices and streets. Passing the right information will go a long way in correcting wrongly held views and notions, while promoting a society that is more accommodating, and tolerant to the individual as well as the society as a whole.