Adrian Maguire

CEO, Fatti

Adrian Maguire founded Fatti in 2013 following a long career in the tele-communication and innovation industry.  He is the CEO of Fatti and an active solutionist. Fatti is a company that specializes in Behavioural Insights and Real – Time Shopper Intelligence. The Fatti location engine gathers, monitors and manages behavioural information across various public spaces such as Shopping Centres, Luxury Ocean Liners, Theatres, Stadiums, Schools, Universities, Warehouses and Service Stations. Adrian has over 30 Years’ experience in tele-communication services. His career started at Grintek Telecom where he pioneered various telecom solutions, then moved to GTS and Smart Village where he deployed Africa’s first open-access fibre and PLC networks. Five years after starting Fatti, Adrian has gained valuable data-driven behavioural intelligence in numerous industries.

Cecilia de Corral

Director of Design /Build

Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm

Cecilia de Corral is the Director of Brooklyn Grange's Design/Build arm. Prior to becoming Director of Brooklyn Grange’s Design/Build arm, Cecilia held various roles with the company, including that of farmer, maintenance gardener, and project manager. She believes that the development of green spaces in the city is crucial to the development of ecological communities. In addition to spearheading the design of various projects, Cecilia oversees an amazing team that manages all client-based projects, from green roof construction, to indoor plant installations, to the maintenance of various sites across our city.

Cecilia has co-taught Green Roof Ecology at The New School since 2016 alongside Timon McPhearson, facilitating student conversations around our local ecological communities.

Corniel Van Niekerk

Associate Director: Strategy

Deloitte Consulting

Corniel is an Associate Director at Deloitte Consulting within the Strategy & Operations business unit focusing specifically on Consumer Services. Corniel has a sound understanding of business, strategy and finance, and a broad exposure to working with different cultures internationally in various competitive industries. He is highly skilled in corporate strategy development, financial analysis for investment decisions, stochastic / risk modelling, capital spend and efficiency reviews, portfolio optimisation and cost rationalisation and reduction. Corniel is the digital leader for Deloitte Consumer sector and has a passion to assist clients in developing sound functional growth strategies.

David Donde

Founder

Truth Coffee Roasting

David Donde is the founder of Truth Coffee Roasting, multiply accoladed as the World’s best Coffee Shop. He is a pioneer in Speciality Coffee, regularly judging internationally. He speaks locally and internationally on Coffee, Marketing, Branding, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and his true love, Useful Disruption

Devi Sankaree Govender

Investigative Journalist

Devi began her career in journalism at the age of 20, when she landed a freelance position at the SABC while completing a BA degree at the University of Natal. She quickly moved from presenting music shows and reading the news, to presenting and producing a controversial talk show for national public broadcaster, Lotus FM. With an Honours degree in Drama, and a Higher Diploma in Education behind her, Devi's most memorable interview on radio was when she interviewed former President, Nelson Mandela in 1998.

Devi's television break came in 1996 with SABC 1's Eastern Mosaic. While keeping her radio and television career on the boil, Devi joined the Sunday Times in 1998 as Feature’s Editor and weekly columnist – her column ran for 16 consecutive years. In January 2002, Devi joined South Africa’s news and actuality television show, Carte Blanche. Devi’s passion for investigative stories has seen her work on many stories which went on to make headlines. These include: her investigations into State Capture and Eskom’s R600 million prepayment to Gupta-owned Optimum Mine. With an MBA in her corner, Devi is also an energetic board member.

While chasing crooks, Devi is inherently still a wife and mum to an international public speaker and Junior Golf Olympian.

Doug Stephens

Retail Futurist

Doug Stephens is one of the world’s foremost retail industry futurists. His intellectual work and thinking have influenced many of the world’s best-known retailers, agencies and brands including Walmart, Google, Home Depot, Disney, BMW, Citibank, and Intel.  Doug is also listed as one of retail’s top global influencers by Vend.com.

Prior to founding Retail Prophet, Doug spent over 20 years in the retail industry, holding senior international roles including the leadership of one of New York City’s most historic retail chains.

Doug is the author of two groundbreaking books - The Retail Revival: Re-Imagining Business for the New Age of Consumerism (2013) and Reengineering Retail:  The Future of Selling in a PostDigital World (2017) Doug is also the nationally syndicated retail columnist for CBC Radio and sits on the advisory boards of the Dx3 Digital Conference and the David Sobey Centre for Innovation in Retail & Services at St. Mary’s University.

His unique perspectives on retailing, business and consumer behavior have been featured in many of the world’s leading publications and media outlets.

GG Alcock,

Founder of Minanawe Marketing

Author KasiNomics, Third World Child, Kasinomic Revolution

GG Alcock, founder of Minanawe Marketing,  Author KasiNomics, Kasinomic Revolition & Third World Child.  Born white in apartheid South Africa but raised & bred as a Zulu man , GG was raised in a mud hut in one of the most poverty stricken and violent parts of Kwazulu Natal, Msinga.  GG’s activist parents raised their two sons in a hut with no running water, electricity or modern conveniences, instead growing up like young Zulu’ boys herding and hunting. 

GG has been at times a shebeen owner, political activist, community worker, African adventurer and entrepreneur.  

GG’s passion and current focus is on Kasinomics, the invisible matrix at the heart of South Africa’s informal economies and the people who live in them. Living and doing business in African marketplaces requires an ethos uniquely suited to the informal, to the invisible, to the intangible, GG shares some of the secrets to doing business & entrepreneurship in these informal spaces.

Gugulethu Mfuphi

Senior Anchor

CNBC Africa

Gugulethu Mfuphi, an award-winning broadcaster, is a well-versed orator, with experience in front of the camera, behind the microphone and addressing an audience. This skill, together with her sound grasp of financial markets, economic data and current affairs issues and the impact that this has on the business community, makes her the perfect candidate to speak to industry analysts, political leaders and C-suite executives from across the globe.

This forms the basis of her tasks and responsibilities as a Presenter on Kaya FM’s prime time, award winning business show - Kaya Bizz, and her experience as a Senior Anchor on CNBC Africa.

Jasper Eales

Creative Director / Co-founder

Sealand Gear

Jasper Eales, Co-founder of Sealand Gear is the imaginative mind behind the brand, he drives the brands’ focus to achieve refined, practical solutions, which are designed to last.

Born in Cape Town where mountains and ocean vividly connect, Sealand creates environmentally smart high-end Bags, Accessories and Apparel.

We reuse the structural properties and textures of waste material in a new context while mitigating the generation of waste and promoting sustainability.  We try to play our part for the environment and by supporting us you do too.

Jeremy Gardiner

Investec Asset Management

Jeremy is a regular voice in the media, at conferences and to the investment-related world at large, responsible for commenting on current affairs, economics and investment markets.

In his position, Jeremy is inundated with information from the world’s top analysts, on everything from politics to petrol.  Jeremy’s challenge is consolidating all this information and bringing it to you in an understandable format that you will find interesting and informative.

Jeremy has been with the firm for 27 years, during which time the business grew from a small Cape Town Asset Management firm to a significant global business managing clients assets of approximately R2.1 trillion*.

Jeremy also served on the board of Western Province/Stormers rugby from 2003 to 2005, a period in which their performance was particularly poor!

Although he studied accounting at the University of Cape Town and Economics at the University of Witwatersrand, Jeremy is neither an accountant nor an economist, but uses these skills to demystify what the accountants and economists are saying.

John Ryan

Stores Editor

Retail Week

John Ryan is a journalist and analyst covering retail design, strategy and marketing for a wide variety of magazines and journals. As Stores Editor of Retail Week, online editor of retail design magazine www.MInd-mag.com and European editor of VMSD, he has written about the sector for almost two decades. As well as occasional appearances on the TV and radio, he is a frequent speaker on conference platforms around the world.

He is also a consultant on store interiors, retail strategies and shopper profiling with clients ranging from Screwfix to Marks & Spencer, John Lewis to Tottenham Hotspur and L’Oreal, as well as Swedish store equipment manufacturer Itab.

In a previous life he was a retail buyer for C&A, a role he fulfilled for 13 years, working in London and Dusseldorf and then head of buying for department store group Bentalls.

Jonas Kjellberg

Serial Entrepreneur, Author and Investor

Jonas Kjellberg is an engaging digital transformation speaker, co-creator of Skype, author, and investor. As co-creator of Skype, Kjellberg worked as Managing Director (equivalent to a CEO in the U.S.), helping generate 90 percent of their revenue stream. Currently, Kjellberg runs Gear Up Ventures, a company that focuses on implementing the innovation and entrepreneurship model set out in his book Gear Up. Kjellberg also lectures on the subjects of entrepreneurship and “How to Create a Winning Sales Culture” in his keynote talks and at Stanford University and the Stockholm School of Economics.

Ludwick Marishane

Innovation Business Scientist & Thought leader

Headboy Industries Inc.

Ludwick Marishane is the founder & MD of Headboy Industries Inc and is SA’s youngest patent-filer after having invented DryBath® at the age of 17. In 2011, he was rated as the best student entrepreneur in the world, and that same year, Google named him as one of the 12 brightest young minds in the world. He holds a Bachelor of Business Science, majoring in Finance & Accounting, from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. In December 2013, the global TIME Magazine named him as one of the 30 people, under 30, who are changing the world…one of only 2 Africans on the list. Forbes Africa named him as one of the Top 30 under 30 Young African Entrepreneurs in 2013 & 2015, and in 2015 he was chosen as one of South Africa’s 21 ICONS for the curator’s youth-focused 3rd edition.

Magnus Lindkvist

Trendspotter and Futurologist

Magnus Lindkvist is a trendspotting futurologist and author who weaves together important current trends to forecast what life, society and business might look like in the future.

It is the fantastic timing, storytelling and politically incorrect humour that keep the audience laughing and talking well after his talk ends. He has given in excess of a thousand keynote speeches over the past decade to everyone from Fortune 500 CEOs and civil servants in the Middle East to anyone looking to be inspired and enlightened by trendspotting and future-thinking.

As a writer, Magnus Lindkvist is driven by a relentless curiosity about our mental space where the outside world collides with the human brain. His recent book Minifesto (2016) tells us why small ideas matter in the world of grand narratives. By sharing a vision of the future we can strive to surround ourselves with as many strange, conflicting ideas that we can in order to immerse ourselves in future possibilities and possible futures.

With a Master of Science in Business and Economics from Stockholm School of Economics and a degree in film production from UCLA, Lindkvist weaves together the worlds of quantitative insights with the imaginative storytelling of Hollywood. His talks are often described as ‘shows’ or ‘performances’; he calls it ‘intellectual acupuncture’ with the expressed intention of changing our minds with needles of insight, examples and observations.

Michael Hinshaw

President, McorpCX

President of McorpCX, Michael Hinshaw is recognized by leading analysts as a digital transformation and customer experience thought leader, and has been named to over a half-dozen “Global CX Thought Leaders” lists.

Co-author of the best-selling book Smart Customers, Stupid Companies: Why Only Intelligent Companies Will Thrive, and How to Be One of Them, he has been published and quoted in dozens of publications ranging from Harvard Business Review and Fast Company to American Executive, Forbes and Time. 

A Teaching Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at The Haas School of Business, he has consulted for and advised executives at companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Best Buy, Danone, lululemon and Staples.