Meet Tasneem Karodia, the co-founder/COO of Mzansi Meat Co. who has a love for flying aeroplanes, rock climbing and changing the world by evolving our food systems in Africa. Tasneem has played an instrumental role in creating structure throughout the organisation and getting the company...
“Do you use Snapper or ZapScan?” I’m told people often mix these up. Something that you can’t mix up though, is the very tangible success that scan-to-pay online payment apps like Zapper and SnapScan have had in South Africa. Dewald Müller is Head of Customer Success...
We’re sitting at the Behaviour Tech event watching Yellowspot’s AI program called Sens determine Boris Johnson’s mood as he delivers his resignation speech. He always looked to me like a yellow Orangutan; one that didn’t quite make it to the traditional flaming orange hue due...
Mark Berry Peters was a world renowned photographer and war journalist, who worked for Newsweek for over twenty years, with just as many cover photos to boast about. His remarkable life story absolutely floored the audience. But we were curious to know what happens to...
Don’t get me wrong; the title of this piece is more of a ‘note to self.’ I realise not everyone is as in the dark as I am about what’s happening in the gaming industry, but even for those in the throes of it all,...
We had an amazing and diverse mix of female AI specialists speak at our AI Trends event - from Africa to China and back again, here are a few takeaways worth pondering over. Catherine Stretton, Chief Digital & Innovation Officer, Deloitte Africa Presenting Deloitte Africa’s tech trends...
When you’re attending a Data Masterclass, you better bring your A-brain game, because if, like most of us, you think ‘data science’ is just collecting a bunch of information and then learning something cool about it, you’ve just barely scratched the surface. The unusual global pandemic...
Zachariah George is the Managing Partner at Launch Africa Ventures - Africa's leading Early-Stage VC Fund. In January 2020, he was recognized as one of the Top 4 Most Influential Persons in Technology in Africa by Les Echos (the Financial Times), and he is also...
Global bike brand Specialized's Bobby Behan and Strove's Sales and Business Development Manager Joshua Fillmore talked to Innovation City MD Michelle Kleu about all things sports tech at Innovation City at our event on Thursday 9th June: Bobby Behan, Specialized Innovation City co-founder Stephan Ekbergh says entrepreneurs...
Neil Schreuder, Chief Strategy Officer of the Shoprite Group and MD of ShopriteX, the Shoprite Group’s tech and innovation hub, calls the team 'humble baked beans salesmen,' but the group’s impressive stats say otherwise: Shoprite has become Africa’s largest retailer worth R168bn, with 1.12bn customers...