Topic: Future of Industries

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”.

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.

Sameer built his first edtech company in university. It was an online tutoring service which was later bought by a Mark Zuckerburg backed institution. He furthered his studies in Toronto and then went off to work for Google at Europe, Middle East and Africa Headquarters in Dublin where he initially worked in digital marketing.

Sameer went on to found the Life Design School which is used by Google employees in more than 50 countries. Over 10 000 Googlers joined in the past six months. He’s now the MD of O School, where he helps companies like Soundcloud and Facebook, design their organisations for the Future of Work.

Design Thinking Principles…
around organisation design, systems design and people development
innovation
Talent Hiring, Engagement and Retainment…
for the next workforce and the future of work
The Future of Education…
and how to prepare your workforce
Turning your Company into a School
Why it matters for the next decade

Human Capital Business Enabler and Strategist
Founder of ClarkHouse Human Capital, “To Rise by Lifting Others”, his core belief and the foundation of Clarkhouse Human Capital. Having a local and international background in transactional and payments Banking industry, facilitated his in-depth understanding of the finance industry.

Together with a passion for people and relationships, enabled him to work in the Human Capital environment. Roy works closely with professionals who want individual, expert career advice, as well as certain NGO’s and upcoming entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance on leadership and strategy.

Helping businesses be innovative by using Future Focused Human Capital methodologies. Roy has worked closely with numerous CEO’s,CFO’s, CIO’s and COO’s throughout Southern Africa, building professional teams and advising on future talent trends.Roy holds a B.com Economics degree from UNISA and has a PDM in Human Resources from Wits Business School.

Keynote Topics:

What is the Problem? The Future of Talent

Why HR and Corporate Innovation are mutually Exclusive Yes, Exclusive

Diversity. The key to success in the 4th Industrial Revolution

Culture. Why is it so widely spoken about, but so misunderstood?

Gender Transformation. Lessons for my daughter. Powerful and
Emotional

Courage or Comfort. What is your Leadership Legacy?Powerful
and Emotional

High Performance Teams

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.

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

Ronak Gopaldas is a political economist, “pracademic”, writer and speaker.
His work focuses on the intersection of politics, economics and business in
Africa. He is a currently a Director at Signal Risk and a Fellow at the Centre
for African Management and Markets at the Gordon Institute of Business
Science. He was previously the Head of Country Risk at Rand Merchant
Bank.

A prominent voice in print, radio and television in both the local and
international media, Ronak has made frequent appearances on the likes of
CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera and CNBC Africa, and publishes regular opinion and
analysis pieces. He has spoken at several the world’s top universities and at
leading Africa-focused policy and business conferences as a moderator,
panelist and keynote speaker.

In 2019, he was selected as part of a cohort of emerging African leaders for
the prestigious Tutu Leadership Fellowship. Ronak is also an alumnus of the
Asian Forum on Global Governance as well as the young African Leadership
Initiative. In 2016, he delivered a powerful TEDx talk entitled Embracing
Africa: Beyond the Binaries.Ronak has a BCom degree in Philosophy, Politics
and Economics (PPE) with Business French as well as a BCom (Hons) in
Financial Analysis and Portfolio Management from the University of Cape
Town (UCT). He also holds an MSc in Finance (Economic Policy) from the
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London

Keynote Topics:

• Reimagining Africa – the five policy puzzles shaping Africa’s future
• Politics in an era of disruption – understanding the political tsunamis
  shaping the new world order