BizTrendsLIVE!2020 speakers announced and booking open

The culmination of the month-long trend features published via Bizcommunity's platforms, BizTrendsLIVE!2020, the first-to-market business event of the decade, will be an afternoon of intensive, popcorn-fuelled, thought-leadership in the comfort of a Ster-Kinekor IMAX theatre, followed by an elegant networking hour at which cocktails, mocktails and canapés will be served. The perfect wrap up to the January 2020 season.
Event: BizTrendsLIVE!
Time: Registration from 1pm. Presentation: 2pm - 5.30pm. Networking cocktails and snacks: 5.30pm - 6.30pm
Date: Thursday, 30 January 2020
Location: Ster-Kinekor IMAX Theatre, Mall of Africa, Midrand
Price: R250-00 per head, 15% discount for bookings of 5 or more
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Opening address by Wamkele Mene
Follow: @MeneWamkele- Former Chief Negotiator African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AFCFTA)
- MHM Consulting; (JHB and NYC)

Ndeye Diagne - Kantar
Follow: @ndeyelle- MD Kantar Francophone Africa & Ghana
- Afro-Centrist, Afro-Enthusiast, Afro-Disruptor
- Content Creator & Speaker
- Consumer Insights specialist, data storyteller and guru with a knack for trends and disruptive innovation
- Award Winner, Africa Market Research Association, 2019
- Post graduate degree in marketing & communication from French business School ISC, Paris
- Master's degree in English literature

Sylvester Chauke - Founder DNA Brand Architects
Follow: @SylvesterChauke- Founder DNA Brand Architects, 2018 Agency of the Year, one of the most innovative agencies in South Africa, working with some of the most revered brands on the continent
- 100 most influential young Africans, 2018 list
- The All Africa Young Business Leader of the Year, 2017
- TV personality on SABC The Next Brand Ambassador
- NBC Africa All Africa Young Business Leader of the Year
- BBQ Young Leader of the Year
- European Business Assembly Best Enterprise and CEO Award
- Oliver Empowerment Top Empowered Young Entrepreneur
- World Confederation of Businesses Business Leader Award
- Falcon Award for Excellence in Leadership
- Golden European Award for Quality and Commercial Prestige

Odette van der Haar - MD of Publicis Africa
Follow: @odette_roper- MD of Publicis Africa
- Consummate marketer, visionary leader, entrepreneur and innovator
- Former CEO, JWT Johannesburg
- Former CEO of the Association for Communication & Advertising (ACA)
- The Next Brand Ambassador, SABC 3 reality television show judge
- Legends of APEX award recipient, 2019

Bronwyn Williams - Flux Trends contributor, author and speaker
Follow: @bronwynwilliams- Flux Trends contributor, author and speaker
- Bizcommunity trend contributor
- Part economist, part marketer, with particular areas of expertise in Blockchain, technology, artificial intelligence, scientific marketing and the future of finance
- Degree in commerce and marketing management from University of Johannesburg
- Degree in Fintech from the University of Oxford
- Degree in Digital Branding from Vega Brand School
- Post-Graduate qualification in Economics, through the University of London, with a focus on post-cash markets
- Future Studies, University of Stellenbosch

Tosin Lanipekun - Executive director of Advertising Week Africa
Follow: @toscobot- Executive director of Advertising Week Africa
- Co-founder and Managing Partner Image & Time, a creative and advertising agency with offices in Lagos and London with a global and pan-African scope, client brands such as JP Morgan, HSBC and Xerox
- Bachelors and Masters degrees in Architecture from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
- Masters degree in Digital Media from London Metropolitan University
- D&AD member
- Member of the Institute of Leadership & Management
- Member of the Chartered Society of Design, UK

Heidi Brauer - Chief Marketing Officer, Hollard Insurance
Follow: @heidibeeee- Chief Marketing Officer, Hollard Insurance
- Chartered Marketer (SA)
- PRISM and Loeries Grand Prix award-winning marketer
- Former Executive Manager of Comair taking care of kulula.com, British Airways, SLOW lounges, Daddy's Deals, kulula credit card, jetsetters and Executive Club brands
- PRISA's Lifetime Achievement Award finalist 2017

Motheo Matsau - Deputy CEO, Ster-Kinekor Theatres
- Sales Strategy and new channel development Ster-Kinekor
- Former SuperSport Head of Marketing (SA/ROA)
- Former MultiChoice_DStv SA Head of Acquisition Marketing
- Launched DStv Walka in SA and Sub Saharan Africa
- GIBS MBA
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