Nerushka Bowan
Brett St Clair
Graeme Codrington
Nerushka Bowan
Areas of Expertise
Legal Tech & Innovation
Keynote Speaker
Facilitator
Nerushka is an emerging technology law specialist, legal technology innovator and speaker. She is a consultant trainer at the Blockchain Academy and a co-chair of the Johannesburg chapter of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (the largest association of privacy professionals in the world). She was recently listed on
CryptoCoin.News as one of 20 African women to watch in Blockchain and Crypto. She has a background as a technology & privacy lawyer for an international law firm and has worked on data privacy matters for both local and international clients. Nerushka has work experience in both London and Melbourne.
Her business development experience includes managing a client portfolio in the technology & innovation sector, rolling out campaigns on tech-related topics and creating thought leadership publications. She is also involved in the development of innovative legal technology products and awareness and upskilling of lawyers about the future of law, and advises legal tech startups. Emerging technology is an evolving concept and currently includes artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, blockchain, 3D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology and quantum computing. Nerushka uses her unique experience and forward looking mindset to identify future risks and ask the legal and ethical questions brought about by emerging technology and packages these topics into stimulating and thought-provoking workshops and presentations.
She regularly speaks to corporates and at events, publishes blogs and articles, and is regularly interviewed and quoted in media on various technology-related topics. During September 2017, she was invited to speak at a large tech conference, PluralsightLIVE, in Salt Lake City, USA. Her clients include the South African Reserve Bank, Standard Bank, FirstRand, ITWeb, DLA Piper, Synthesis Technologies and the Blockchain Academy.
Keynote Topics
1. Every business is a digital business
2. Breaking down blockchain
3. Artificial intelligence: the robots are coming
4. Hackers gonna hack
Graeme Codrington
Areas of Expertise
Futurist
Global Trends Expert
Strategy
Innovation
Graeme Codrington is an expert on the future of work and the disruptive forces that are shaping it. As an author and researcher, his insights and analysis are sought after by business schools and CEOs around the world, with five degrees, four best selling books and a full-time research team at his company, TomorrowToday, to back it up.
Graeme works as a Board advisor, strategist, and as a keynote presenter and facilitator, using multimedia, a gently rebuking humor and an engaging style to make his insights accessible and inspiring. He works across multiple industries at numerous meetings and events in more than 20 countries every year. He was recently inducted into the Professional Speakers Association “Hall of Fame”.
Keynote Topics
Build the Future Now
- How to keep and engage your customers – and staff – in a world of digital integration.
The new digital companies that have become household brands in just the last decade have tapped into some core values of the digital age. Learn how every company can – and must – do the same in order to be successful in the future.
Achieve Remarkable Things
- Get More Productivity, More Innovation, More Meaningfulness and More Competitiveness.
We are living in a New Age of Discovery where exponential advances in technology are fast enabling the impossible to become possible. Successful companies and individuals will be those that are bold enough to think big, challenge conventional thinking, fail fast and implement innovations that do remarkable things.
Tomorrow’s World Today
- The disruptive forces shaping the world right now, and how we should respond.
- The mega-forces shaping the world right now, and what we should be doing about them.
This presentation or workshop provides a future-focused leadership toolkit, along with a compelling picture of the near future. It will inspire and inform in equal measure, and leave your team excited about the future while at the same time knowing what each of them can do to help you get there.
Future-Fit Leadership
- Understanding what it means to be an Adaptive Leader.
Future-Fit Leadership clarifies the changing context for leaders and explores the problem of ‘what to do next’ in order to be an effective and successful ‘future-fit’ leader in tomorrow’s world.
Brett St Clair
Areas of Expertise
Keynote Speaker
Panellist
Digital Expert
Brett has over 20 years of experience in the global digital landscape. Brett has over 10 years of Silicon Valley experience where he worked to build African successes at Admob (world’s largest Mobile Advertising Network), Android, Youtube, Google and Google’s Cloud Computing across Africa where he mastered the secrets of Silicon Valley. Brett StClair is passionate about Power of Scale and how businesses can use Digital Technology to build businesses that want exponential growth.
Keynote Topics
1. Digital is the Path to Innovation
Key is to understand where the Digital disruption is coming from, what key technology trends are causing this exponential disruption. To compete you need to understand what these organisation look like and how they operate, with Brett’s 10 years of experience working in Silicon valley businesses across Africa he shares this key insight. Finally the only way to remain relevant to your customers ever changing needs you need to begin to innovate, in the final step Brett suggests some new ways of working that need focus during your digital transformation journey. Brett’s insight after rebuilding Barclays Africa’s Digital business means he has real life examples of what goes tight and more importantly what has failed
2. The Power of Scale
How to unlock Scale across your organisation, Scale is not about the size of a market or number of servers and staff, it is really about doing far more with far less. The only way to build a business that can grow exponentially is to reorganize for scale. Organising your business to be able to deliver far more Marketing@Scale , HR@Scale, Operations@Scale, Finance@Scale, etc. to meet the demand of the new economies. This Keynote will help you build a business that can grow exponentially, ie double every 18 months
3. The Era of IOT is really about Selfies
The world of Digital used to be the domain of Silicon Valley, now with over 50 billion Devices planned to be connected by 2020 this means the opportunity of a Massive Connected and interoperable world exists for every business across the globe. It is now about leveraging technologies like Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence to build Internet of Things Platforms to create Delightful Customer Experiences