Nerushka Bowan
Brett St Clair
Michael Cowen
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
Michael Cowen
Areas of Expertise
Keynote Speaker
Facilitator
Digital Business Strategist
Michael Cowen, an ex-Digital Agency, ex-Digital Management Consultant, now turned Explorer of The Future. Michael helps business to shift the thinking and to redefine their underlying operating system within a digital economy.
Today’s world demands a different operating system. The old one has been disrupted by exponential technology at exponential speeds. It’s no longer business as usual! Exponential thinking is required within this new digital economy.
Michael helps business understand how to transform and disrupt themselves.
Keynote Topics
1. Digital Economics
The underlying operating system is being redefined and requires a massive shift in thinking. This goes beyond #ThinkingDigitally and building a digital business. These are built on an operating system that governs how we do things. You need to start with understanding the change in the operating system and #ShiftYourThinking into a post capitalistic world.
2. #ShiftYourThinking: Disrupt Yourself before you become irrelevant
You need to change your business, the results that you are getting, and how you scale your business tomorrow requires you to think digitally.
Why? Because we are now in the digital economy, where we see:
• How you scale your business is defined by how well you embrace technology, converting inefficiencies process through technologically driven automation.
• Driving towards zero margin costs through digital dematerialization. Data feedback loops growing your business through real insights and understanding as opposed to strategic assumption.
• The speed of change defines your ability to compete rather than the uniqueness and differentiation of who you are and what solutions you offer.
3. The 3 Steps to Digital Disruption
Based on this two-sided strategy, we see three key steps to the digital transformation process. We all know how hard digital transformation is and you need to keep the structure practical and simple we see 3 key steps:
a. Refine the Core
b. Refocus the Core
c. Reinvent The Core and who it serves
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