Our final Heavy Chef event of 2012 featured three of the most talked about E-commerce sites in South Africa – Zando, Kalahari.com and Yuppiechef. As always, Fred kicked off the evening with the now famous Heavy Chef story, and introduced the speakers for the evening; Kate Jansen, Marketing co-ordinator at Zando, Jenna Bloch, Head of Marketing at Kalahari.com, and Andrew Smith, co-founder and Managing Director of Yuppiechef. Read Further
Tiffany Shlain is the founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and creator of the Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change short film series. Her films and work have received over 50 awards and her feature documentary entitled “Connected” has been highly praised by The New York Times, among many other publishers. Known for her fascinating TED talks, Tiffany has recently released a TED book entitled, “Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks, from the Let it Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change series.” She has also been recognized by Newsweek as “one of the woman shaping the 21st century”. Heavy Chef got the chance to chat to Tiffany about her views on how technology is impacting our lives and what the future holds for women in power over the next decade. Read Further
Former Head of Development and Systems Integration at Mweb, Roderick Lim Banda is now Chair of ICT Portfolio Committee at Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Roderick has great passion for research collaborations, skills development and business architecture. He believes that software programming is the key to job creations. His TEDx Cape Town presentation was formed around his vision of creating software factories. We ask him about his thoughts on the South African IT sector, and how digital will improve in our country in the next few years. Read Further
Creative Director of Closed Loop Marketing, Sandra Niehaus, has a phenomenal record when it comes to conversion optimization projects. She has worked with brands such as Hewlett-Packard, and is also the co-author of the book, ‘Web Design for ROI‘. We ask Sandra about her golden rules for conversions, as well as how it is possible to over-optimize a website. Read Further
Last night we had a full house in Johannesburg at Deloitte. Mike Sharman took to the floor to introduce a topic he is renowned for – viral. The owner of Retroviral, a digital communications agency, explained how clients commonly ask for campaigns to ‘go viral’. But the truth is there is no way to ensure this happens – viral is indefinite. Read Further
We chat to the winners of the Startup Knight Competition, Kishan Kalan and Steven Ellis – the founders of Easy2Map. The competition was run by Byte Orbit and Ching Payments which offered the winners software development to the value of R100 000 and ongoing mentorship. Find out what they would advise for products entering the competition next year, as well as their plans to scale Easy2Map. Read Further
Noise is increasing, especially through social media channels, and therefore the need for a cause is becoming more essential. Fred explains how cause is the common factor shared by many successful teams, individuals, entrepreneurs, leaders, visionaries, programmers and disrupters. Video courtesy of WordCamp Cape Town 2012.
Ken Banks is the founder of kiwanja.net, an organisation merging technology and anthropology. For the last 20 years, Ken has left his home in the UK to focus on mobile technology projects in Africa that create positive social and environmental change. He has also been acknowledged by National Geographic and BBC as a leader in his field. We speak to Ken about his fascinating inventions which have improved African countries tremendously, and hear about how his path led him to our continent. Read Further
Elan Lohmann is the name behind SleekGeek SA – the platform that encourages healthy living and a fitter lifestyle. Elan has plenty of experience in the digital space, having managed News24.com and more recently been the Manager Director of Avusa. Elan has since quit his job to follow his dream full-time – transforming lives through social media – two things he knows best. We talk to him about how digital and healthy living have meshed to make his vision a reality. Read Further
Fiona Ross is part of the Virgin Group Global Brand Team who are responsible for defining the brand purpose, developing innovative new Virgin businesses and expanding the Virgin brand into new markets. She joined the team in 2006 as Head of Brand for South Africa, and also serves on the Virgin Unite Africa Board and is part of the advisory team for the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship. We chat to her about representing a brand that falls into many industries, dealing with criticism, and we learn of the wise words spoken to her by Sir Richard Branson. Read Further
Derrick Kotze is the CEO of mLab, an incubation laboratory that offers support to entrepreneurs and start-ups for creating innovative mobile solutions. We talk to Derrick about the incubation process for technology based businesses, the requirements needed from these entrepreneurs, and we hear about some of the best examples and success stories that have been created through mLab. Read Further
This month we celebrated another successful Heavy Chef event with the Founder and Creative Director behind The Jupiter Drawing Room – Mr Graham Warsop. The focal point was the importance for digital agencies to win international awards – something Graham knows a lot about, as the winner of 17 Cannes Lions, 27 London International Statues and 70 Medals at the New York Festival. Read Further
Leading up to our event tonight, we chatted to our guest speaker, Graham Warsop, founder of The Jupiter Drawing Room, about what we can expect later this evening. Graham discusses his favourite awards, how awards are measured, and what agencies should consider before entering their work. Read Further
Gareth van Zyl is the Editor of ITWeb Africa, a site that provides analysis and insights into the continent’s changing telecoms and technology industry. We get a chance to talk to Gareth about his experience working in digital in Middle Eastern Asia, and we find out his predictions for the South African technology market, which includes new payment methods to help improve the country’s data revenue. Read Further
Head of Juice Content, a division of Primedia Online, is Athar Naser. Juice Content aims to deliver content across digital platforms and create custom written material, as well as strategize and manage social media platforms. We speak to Athar about their content marketing differentiations, building an online audience, and their new involvement with SCNET. Read Further
Steven Markovitz is one of Africa’s greatest producers of documentaries, short films and festivals. With over 20 years of experience, Steven is the founder of production company, Big World, and is also the producer of the short film, Inja/Dog which received an Oscar nomination in 2003. Steven’s latest project is Rollaball – a film that focuses on men in Ghana with Polio who play soccer. He recently pitched his project on Kickstarter in the hopes of getting funding to produce the movie. We chat to him about crowdsourcing, funding and why coming from South Africa may be a disadvantage. Read Further
Graham Brown is an industry analyst, business author and public speaker based in the UK. He is also the Director of mobileYouth – a research advisory firm founded in 2001. Their aim is to connect the youth with companies in order to provide helpful customer insight. We spoke to Graham about the great work that mobileYouth is doing and how he thinks the youth will impact technology in the future. Read Further
South African born Vinny Lingham has an impressive résumé, being the founder and CEO of Yola, co-founder of SiliconCape.com, previously the founder and CEO of the global search marketing firm incuBeta and its subsidiary Clicks2Customers. He is also a board member of ChessCube, SkyRove, and Personera. Vinny was once on the marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq-listed companies ValueClick and Yahoo. Now, his latest venture is Gyft, which he explains to us, as well as talking about the contrasts between Silicon Cape and Silicon Valley. Read Further
Arthur Goldstuck and his team at World Wide Worx, together with Fuseware, explore the findings of the South African Social Media Landscape for 2012. For more information on these statistics, click here. Read Further
If you are unsure about the comparisons when it comes to Skype and Google+ Hangouts, look no further. We chat to Brett St Clair, Head of New Products Sub Sahara at Google. With 17 years of experience in mobile media, marketing and advertising all over the world, Brett offers us valuable explanations about the benefits of Google+ and Hangouts. Read Further
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