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#BizTrends2025: Bronwyn Williams - Stepping into the Void: Confidence Amidst Uncertainty

In a recent episode of BizTrends 2025, hosted by Dubs on Bizcommunity and brought to you by RAPT, renowned futurist economist and business trends analyst Bronwyn Williams laid out a bold vision for navigating the choppy waters of the year ahead. The interview, themed “Stepping into the Void: Confidence Amidst…

12 Feb 26 min

#BizTrends2025: Twyg's Jackie May - Sustainable fashion, a possible trend?

Twyg founder and editor, Jackie May, discusses sustainability in the fashion industry in this exclusive interview with Marketing & Media Editor Danette Breitenbach.

5 Feb 36 min

#BizTrends 2025: Google's Alex Okosi – Africa, an opportunity more than a challenge

Alex Okosi, the managing director at ‪@Google‬ Africa, who while he takes great pride in the fact that Google has trained over 6,500,000 Africans over the last four to five years in digital skills, is very aware of the many unique challenges the continent faces, from the high cost of…

4 Feb 24 min

Birdwatching at The Loeries: The Energy Episode

Episode 3 is the Energy Episode with special guests Kagiso Tshepe, executive creative director at Grid Worldwide, Roanna Williams, chief creative officer and co-founder of Boundless, Fran Luckin, chief creative officer of VML, Preetesh Sewraj, CEO of The Loeries and Brandon Govender, digital & integrated executive creative director at Joe…

11 Oct 2024 1 hr 27 min

Birdwatching at The Loeries Episode 2: The Emotion Episode

Birdwatching at The Loeries Episode 2 is the Emotion Episode and features special guests Neo Segola, head of creative at Le Pub, part of the Publicis Group, Sharleen James, chair of the ACA and marketing practice lead at Accenture Song, Tebogo Skwambane, WPP country manager, Terry McKenna, executive creative director…

11 Oct 2024 1 hr 18 min

Birdwatching at The Loeries Episode 1: That 5 percent difference and more

Birdwatching at The Loeries Episode 1 focuses on that five percent difference, with special guests Wayne Naidoo, CEO of the Duke Group, Marc Algranti from Algranti Music and Nkanyezi Masango, chief creative officer from Dentsu Creative.

10 Oct 2024 1 hour

#BizTrends2024: Lizelle Strydom and Mithum Singh talk digital adoption in the call centre

At the moment, the Apple Vision Pro is probably the hottest topic in tech. Full disclosure, I hate VR. Actually, let me qualify: I don't like the idea of putting screens very close to your eyeballs in a headset or a pair of goggles that blocks humans off from the…

1 Feb 2024 21 min

#BizTrends2024: Yesh Surjoodeen, MD HP Southern Africa, explains how PCs can win in 2024

The PC market is going through a time. They're losing market share to the Mac. Losing mind share because of a technology gap that is growing because they are relying on 3rd party suppliers like Intel and AMD. Who better than Yesh Sujedin, MD for HP South Africa to explain…

31 Jan 2024 18 min

#BizTrends2024: Wayne Toms, GhostDraft CEO, talks about AI convergence in CCM

There’s a line in Redemption Song that goes “have no fear for atomic energy” and it speaks to a post-World War II mistrust of science. We’re in the moment right now with AI. GhostDraft has been automating customer communications since 1984 and the current CEO Wayne Toms thinks that 2024…

31 Jan 2024 32 min

#BizTrends2024:Nishen Hariparsad, BME’s GM for Tech and Innovation on the blasting industry’s role in emission reduction

You may think that emissions in mining are a problem and you'd be right because mining uses stupid amounts of energy. But curbing those emissions starts with the blasting process. So Nishan Hariparsad, general manager for technology and marketing at BME knows a little something about blasting and how the…

31 Jan 2024 22 min

#BizTrends2024: Bronwyn Williams

Technoptimism, not Accelerationism - How to make friends with Machines

17 Jan 2024 27 min

#BizTrends2024: Ndeye Diagne - Africa at a Crossroads

Threads of Gold, Finding Sustainable Growth in a High Potential Continent

16 Jan 2024 18 min

#BizTrends2024: Dali Tembo - Culture as Commodity: How Culture Shape Brands and How it Became our Biggest Export

This exclusive #BizTrends2023 interview is with the CEO and co-founder of The Culture Foundry Company, Dali Tembo. Tembo chats to Bizcommunity Marketing & Media editor, Danette Breitenbach on the shifting African narrative, the role of culture and how culture is proving to be a powerful tool for brands to connect…

15 Jan 2024 25 min

#BizTrends2024: Mike Saunders - The Future of Humancentric Digital & Data

This exclusive #BizTrends2023 interview is with Mike Saunders, CEO of Digitlab. In this interview with Bizcommunity Marketing & Media editor, Danette Breitenbach, Saunders shares insights from his latest publication, Human Centric, a framework for building a Business that will thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

12 Jan 2024 37 min

#BizTrends2024: Nicola Cooper - TrendScape 2024: Navigating the Future of Fashion, Society and Tech

This exclusive #BizTrends2023 interview is with the award-winning strategic forecaster, Nicole Cooper. In this interview with Bizcommunity Marketing & Media editor, Danette Breitenbach, Cooper shares trends on the future of fashion, society, and technology as well as retail from her new exclusive insights report.

11 Jan 2024 28 min

#BizTrends2024: Mike Sharman - From earned virality to purposeful purpose

The first of our exclusive #BizTrends2024 interviews is with Retroviral founder and chief creative officer, Mike Sharman. In this interview, Sharman chats to Bizcommunity Marketing & Media editor, Danette Breitenbach on the trends he sees will be relevant in 2024, from earned virality to purposeful purpose.

10 Jan 2024 27 min

#Loeries2023: Birdwatching E5: Camilla Clerke, Deshnie Govender, Gaby de Abreu, Fumani Khumalo - On Brand

Special guests: Camilla Clerke, Executive Creative Director of Ogilvy South Africa, Cape Town; Deshnie Govender, Head of Marketing Sub-Saharan Africa, TikTok; Gaby de Abreu, Group Executive Creative Director, Switch and Fumani Khumalo, Senior Art Director at VMLY&R South Africa. In this episode, we speak to three leading creatives and one…

10 Oct 2023 44 min