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We are happy to announce that Callie will be joined on stage by the other two partners of Design Partnership, Adrian and Yatish. Established in 1994, Design Partnership is a business-led agency, focused on strategy, design and build in the retail and services market  Design Partnership is acutely aware of the fact that business is increasingly looking to design to help differentiate its product, services and enhance customer experience and that if realized correctly, design can add tremendous value to business and customers alike. The intersection of creativity and commerce is where they choose to focus their attention at DP. It is to this end that their primary aim is to connect people with product by translating their client’s business intention to the customer experience. With clients such as Famous Brands, Nandos, Edcon Group, JD Group, Shoprite-Checkers, Standard Bank and Toyota, the past 20 years has seen the company grow its business to over 100 people, spread across all div...

BRIAN STEINHOBEL Brian Steinhobel was born in Johannesburg on 6th January 1960. He was drawn to Art at a very early age and started creating in many diverse ways as a young boy. Cutting the legs off the dining chairs at home to place as the seat into a wooden Box Kart was one of the first occurrences of Brian being in a spot of trouble for thinking “differently” and “out of the box”. At the age of 8 Brian unwittingly created his first piece of proper Industrial Design by scribbling the shape of a chair on the side of a large block of foam obtained from a factory near to his home. He then cut a curvilinear chair out of it with a bread knife and used this chair until the end of his schooling. Brian spent his 12-years of schooling at King Edward VII Preparatory and High school in Houghton Johannesburg. Here he completed Matric with distinction in Art also having won the top Art Award in the school for three consecutive years. At school Brian developed a deep affinity to Art encouraged by ...

[ BOOK NOW ] TIME SPEAKER THEME 9:00 Ian Fraser & Astrid Ascar Intro & the current state of business 9:25 Dave Nemeth It is no longer business as usual 9:50 Brian Steinhobel From SUPER Yachts to SUPER Cars to SUPER - Market Trolleys. 10:15 BREAK 10:40 Al Stratford Innovation and applying design thinking 11:05 Robbie Stammers Design thinking & Fast Company as world leader. 11:30 Gareth Cliff How he disrupted normal broadcasting. 11:55 Callie Van Der Merwe Design Thinking in everything 12:00 - 13:00 LUNCH 13:05 Alon Lits Uber - Africa Journey 13:30 Rick Treweek 3D Printing, Robots and the change in your business 13:55 BREAK 14:20 Thabang Skwambane Doing things differently 14:45 Robbie Brozin How Art,Design and Peri-Peri can change the way the World thinks of Africa 15:00 Ian Fraser & Astrid Ascar Overview & their conclusio...

We are really proud to be associated with, and have as our media partner Radio Today. We decided to share a little bit more info about this iconic brand. Radio Today - the community radio station that delivers RADIO TODAY 1485 AM in Johannsburg  & nationally on DStv AUDIO CHANNEL 869 Streamed on the worldwide web on - www.1485.org.za and www.1485.mobi Radio Today, which is 19 years old this year, is a community radio station, which broadcasts, in English to the mature listener in the greater Johannesburg area. Radio Today broadcasts from its studios in Parktown North, situated in the beautiful surrounds of the GardenShop, and is a Section 21 company whose beneficiaries are JAFTA (Johannesburg Association for the Aged), NOAH (Nurturing Orphans of Africa for Humanity), CHOC (Childhood Cancer Foundation) and the Salvation Army.We reach probably the most commercially viable niche market in the country. Our listeners are people at their peak, the majority of them commanding highly i...

Thabang Skwambane Managing Director FCB  Thabang is the recently-appointed Managing Director of FCB Joburg, the flag- ship agency within the FCB South Africa group. A well-known social entrepreneur and businessman, he has a flair for successfully combining capitalist and philanthropic principles. He has no formal marketing or advertising experience, but left a successful career in merchant and investment banking at Standard Bank to co-found Kaelo, a wellness company focusing on HIV and Aids. Thabang is also a shareholder of Threefold Creative, a multimedia and technology business that brings together a multi-disciplinary team of highly-talented creatives to deliver audio, visual and sensory experiences. In addition, he is the chairman and founder of The Lonely Road Foundation which enables rural communities to take care of orphans and vulnerable children. Born and raised in exile before returning to finish his schooling and attend university in Cape Town in 1989, Thabang recently c...

Alon Lits, General Manager, Uber Johannesburg and Durban Alon Lits joined Uber as its first General Manager in Africa in August 2013. Alon began his career in the leveraged finance division of Investec Bank Limited, where he provided debt and preference share financing solutions to public and private companies in South Africa, as well as Africa’s largest private equity funds. Before joining Uber, Alon interned with the emerging market focused private equity fund - LeapFrog Investments - focusing on investment opportunities throughout Africa. He holds an MBA from INSEAD where he was part of the leadership teams of both the Private Equity and Africa Clubs.