On a Saturday morning in early May, sales professionals gathered at a tech hub in Lagos with their laptops and notebooks. The event was called Quota and Code, a one-day, hands-on AI skills training workshop designed for enterprise sales teams. By the end of the day, every attendee had built functional websites and AI agents they could deploy in their jobs the following morning.
The organiser and lead trainer behind this AI adoption workshop is Akanni Isaac, a Lagos-based enterprise technology professional whose initials, fittingly, are AI. Over the past five years, Isaac has managed enterprise relationships across Africa for one of the world’s largest cloud communications platforms, working with banks, telecoms, and retailers as Customer Growth Manager for Africa. His career arc, from Mid-Market Account Executive to regional Customer Growth Manager in roughly four years, has earned him multiple top-performer awards.
But Quota and Code is not part of his day job. It is a side mission he built to close a gap he could no longer ignore.
Building an AI Training Curriculum Born From a Real Skills Gap
The idea for Quota and Code emerged from a pattern Isaac kept noticing across the clients and colleagues he worked with every day. Professionals in African enterprises understood AI tools were reshaping their fields. They had read the articles, attended the webinars, and heard the predictions. But almost none of them received structured, practical AI training they could apply immediately, especially within the context of sales or business development.
