2009 Online Speakers
Dave Duarte : Doing what you love with an online business.
UPDATE: Presented at Media24 Conference on July 28, 2008 and “tells media bosses that (the) future of advertising is in adding value, serving relevant contextual info” (RT amaclickclick)
Dave Duarte
Dave Duarte
Dave Duarte is a internet and mobile marketing specialist, and holds several senior positions in the academic, commercial, and non-profit sectors. He is MD and Partner at Huddlemind. The company consults to numerous multinational corporations to provide education and research as well as collaborative online learning platforms. He is founder and programme director of two Executive Education courses: Nomadic Marketing and Mobile Marketing at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate School of Business. He also lectures on the Executive MBA programme at UCT GSB, and runs undergraduate modules on Globalisation and Attention Economics that are attended by over 900 students each term. Dave’s non-profit appointments include: Dean of the Digital Media Faculty at The Maharishi Institute of Management (a free university founded by Taddy Blecher, and endorsed by international icons such as Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama). He is Public Lead for Creative Commons (CC) South Africa (CC is a non-profit that offers a set of free customizable digital licenses that have been applied more than 200 million times globally) His other projects include: Co-founder of the 27dinner (a free monthly event for the digital media and marketing community that runs nationally on the 27th of every month). Co-owner of Muti.co.za (Africaʼs first online social bookmarking application). Board Member of Ikineo (an interactive marketing firm with clients such as Nokia, Coca Cola, Glaceau Vitamin Water, Moet & Chandon, MTN, and more). Dave won the award for “Best Business Blog” at the 2009 SA Blog Awards. He was runner-up in the 2007 African ICT Achiever Awards. He is rated as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Media and Advertising in South Africa by Jeremy Maggs in “The Annual“. Contact details: Email: dave@huddlemind.com Blog: www.daveduarte.co.za Web: www.huddlemind.net Twitter: @daveduarte
Heidi Schneigansz : SEO
Heidi Scheigansz
Heidi Scheigansz
Heidi Schneigansz (eMarketing producer, Quirk eMarketing) is a 25 year old blogger, speaker and eMarketer who believes that that Social Media will fundamentally change the way we communicate. In her own words, her mission is to “convert ordinary people into geeks” through education. Although young, Heidi is well educated in various disciplines. She studied Graphic Design & Multimedia, went on to attain her Cape Wine Academy Diploma, honed her HTML & CSS skills, mastered the art of Web Project Management and User Interface Design & User Experience Design and finished off with a Programme in Marketing Management.Heidi displays a powerful mix of eMarketing brains and brawn. No stranger to the world of digital marketing, she initiated and managed the Online Reputation Management for Standard Bank and delivered integrated digital campaigns for their Personal Banking Division. She has recently joined Quirk eMarketing in their Johannesburg office as an eMarketing Producer. Heidi was featured in Mail&Guardian 300 Young South Africans. Contact details: Email: Snowgoose@quirk.co.za Twitter: @snowgoosesa
Justin Hartman : Afrigator / Gatorpeeps
Justin Harman (Finweek magazine)
Justin Hartman (Finweek magazine)
Justin Hartman is the Managing Director of Afrigator, a startup which he co-founded in April 2007 and later sold a stake to MIH Print Africa – a division of Naspers Limited. Prior to moving to Cape Town to work on Afrigator full time he was the Digital Innovation Manager of Avusa’s online and mobile excellence unit known as the iLab where he managed a small team of dedicated and enthusiastic Web 2.0 gurus. In August 2007 Justin joined The Times newspaper as the New Media Strategist and he was heavily involved in conceptualising and implementing the web-based strategies for South Africa’s first interactive newspaper. Justin also started a web development and hosting company in October 2003 which he ran for just over three years. This is where he really learnt his trade and during this time he was heavily involved in various Web 2.0 developments which included a South African search engine, a free blogging platform as well as two top site directories. Justin has worked in both the Media and Internet space since early 1997 with companies that include Media24, CareerJunction, True Love and FinWeek.
Matthew Buckland : Incubating online innovation : The 20FourLab Story
Matthew Buckland
Matthew Buckland
Matthew developed a passion for all things digital at an early age when, as a seven-year-old, he began programming on his first computer (a ZX Spectrum 48k). He founded and now heads 20FourLabs, an innovation division at 24.com, the country’s largest online operation. He has worked for online news publisher Mail & Guardian Online, BBC’s commercial website division in London, South African portal iafrica.com, M-Net’s Carte Blanche and Avusa (formerly Johncom) Publishing. He is a former chair of the local Online Publishers Association and a director of Creative Commons, South Africa and co-founder of award-winning editorial blog Thought Leader (a 2008 Webby Honoree) and blog aggregator amatomu.com. Matthew is a prominent blogger and his blog scooped “best business blog” at the 2008 SA blog awards. He also shared a stage with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in a talk on “Future Web Trends” in 2007. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rhodes University, with three majors in journalism, philosophy and history. Matthew is a new media graduate and knows no other medium! His favourite colour is still red. Matthew was featured in Mail&Guardian 300 Young South Africans.
Adriaan (Adii) Pienaar : The Experience Web : Why customer service can make or break a startup
Adriaan Pienaar aka Adii Rockstar
Adriaan Pienaar aka Adii Rockstar
Adii Rockstar (born Adriaan Pienaar) is an entrepreneur, the co-founder of the very successful online startup WooThemes and a general creator of Rockstar Awesomeness. Along with being a serial entrepreneur, he is also a designer & developer (CSS, PHP & WordPress), which has spawned his other company – a boutique design & development agency – Radiiate. At the young age of 25, Adii has revolutionized both his business and personal life. Back in 2007 somewhere, he decided to call himself a “rockstar”; so the rockstar-tag is very much a result of some subjective marketing on his side… Generally though he’s just Adii to all those who know him and it’s only online where the Adii Rockstar brand seems larger than life itself.** Adii designs because he loves the creative freedom it affords him, whilst development appeals to his more logical side. But it’s for business that he’s got a real passion for and it’s within that space, where he is trying to “design” & craft his own future. Due to Adii’s largely unique approach to both life & business, he is also currently authoring a book titled “Rockstar Business” which will be available in the second part of 2009. The book will be focussing on how to do business and how to revolutionize one’s personal life, as a Rockstar. Whilst the “rockstar”-tag is purely branding, the book will attempt to explain & democratize the concept as a more general one. Adii was featured in Mail&Guardian 300 Young South Africans. **Disclaimer: This is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, okay? Don’t take yourself too seriously, as I don’t even though I’m a rockstar…
Marlon Parker : Using Social Media to effect Social Change
Marlon Parker
Marlon Parker
Marlon Parker is a Social Entrepreneur and an Information Technology Lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) since October 2000. He obtained his Masters degree in Information Technology (Cum Laude) and is currently busy with his PhD at CPUT. He is often invited, by many organisations, companies, sectors in government and academic institutions across the country and internationally, as a guest speaker on ICT for Community Empowerment. Marlon also produced several research academic papers, supervises post-grad students and co-authored in a published book called “The social and economical impacts of e-commerce“. His passion for community development has influenced his research interests and he is currently working on a project titled “Using ICT as a change agent to empower citizens in a Community in Tension (CiT) ” of which the mobile service Advice Support Network was birthed.
Andrew Rens : Open Source Co-operative Creativity in the Knowledge Economy
Andrew Rens
Andrew Rens
Andrew Rens thinks and writes about the interaction of law, knowledge and innovation, and blogs his thoughts at www.aliquidnovi.org. Currently based in Cape Town where he is completing a three year fellowship as the Intellectual Property Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation, Andrew has worked in academe, private practise and the non profit sector. He was the founding Legal Lead of Creative Commons South Africa, a co-founder and former director of The African Commons Project, a charter member and director of Freedom to Innovate South Africa ,a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society , and a research associate at the LINK Center at the School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Andrew qualified as an attorney in South Africa, and was awarded a Master of Laws from the Law School at the University of the Witwatersrand where he where he subsequently taught Master’s courses in Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Space and Satellite, and Media and Information Technology Law, before spending several years in San Francisco, California. He works closely with Intellectual Property Law Research at the University of Cape Town, and will be teaching a Master’s course in Electronic Intellectual Property Law at the UCT Law School during the second term of 2009 (July to November).
Tyler Reed : Mobile is it.
UPDATE: Presented at Internetix on July 28, 2009. : RT pauljacobson : http://post.ly/1e4v – Tyler Reed is up next here in this Internetixvenue. Talking about what if your phone was a library.
