I had the opening panel at Glovo Kenya’s Future of Commerce Summit on yesterday morning, and I could not have asked for three better-matched panelist to discuss the future of digital commerce in Kenya from their respective perspectives.  Willy Kimani left the biggest supermarket chain in the country to build

The opening slide of Caroline Mutuku’s keynote at Glovo Kenya’s Future of Commerce Summit yesterday said more in one sentence than most companies do in a strategy document. “We are building the largest marketplace in Kenya to give you access to anything in minutes.” Not the largest food delivery app.

Most Kenyan businesses have met AI as a chatbot in a browser. Somebody in marketing uses it to draft copy, somebody in finance pastes figures into it, and the board has a vague sense that “we are doing AI”. That is not deploying AI. It is renting a very clever