Tag: Q&A

African storytelling the focus now that Trace TV is available on Huawei Video

Thanks to its new partnership with Huawei Video, Trace TV will bring more African stories to the fore, according to Valentine Gaudin-Muteba.

How the Amazi Group’s female empowerment goes beyond beauty

We speak with Divya Vasant, CEO of the Amazi Group, to find out how it approaches female empowerment in SA’s business sphere.

Getting more women involved in STEM requires all parties to buy in

In light of next week’s International Women’s Day, we speak to SYSPRO’s Sandra Fragam, about getting more women involved with STEM fields.

Steps Uber South Africa is taking to innovate its platform locally this year

Following its Innovation Day, we recent spoke with Uber South Africa GM, Frans Hiemstra, about how innovation will inform 2021.

TikTok testing Q&A feature for creators to chat with followers

The new TikTok feature will be made available to creators who have more than 10 000 followers on the platform.

B2B business forum and digital accelerator, Sw7, out of pilot and eyeing local firms to help scale

Launching late last year, a tough 2020 sees Sw7 exit a successful pilot phase and begin the process of curating post-revenue B2B SaaS businesses.

Local artists have used lockdown to upskill themselves, says Spotify

We recently spoke to Spotify MD for MEA, Claudius Boller, about the impact and trends the music streaming platform discovered during lockdown.

Diversity and inclusion only happens if it’s woven into the company culture

We spoke with Lenovo’s marketing director for MEA, Claire Carter, about its diversity-focused initiatives and why inclusion should be a central pillar.

Why African Bank is training data scientists and making them a key part of its workforce

African Bank executive for Credit and Data Science, Vere Millican, explains the value of data scientists and why the institution has looked to the likes of EDSA to assist.

Microsoft SA answers our most pressing questions about its digital skills initiative

Following last week’s webinar, we asked Microsoft SA a few more questions on how it plans to deliver on its global digital skills initiative locally.

Why innovation is more important than ever for local firms

While most firms are concerned with COVID-19 and lockdowns, Lenovo’s Julian Pienaar, says innovation should still be front of mind.

The cyber risks organisations should be safeguarding against during lockdown and COVID-19

We speak to risk advisory cyber leader at Deloitte South Africa, Eric McGee, about how COVID-19 has accelerated the need for better remote working solutions, and the added risks this has created.

Why Dimension Data chose to consolidate its sub-brands and what that means moving forward

Dimension Data CEO, Grant Bodley, offers us insight into the company’s move to a monolithic brand, potential job losses and giving clients what they need.

The rise of loyalty program fraud and how businesses can avoid it

Deven Govender, principle commercial optimisation specialist at Merchants SA, unpacks this growing trend and how to prevent it.

Local systems integration firm iOCO on the AWS partner network and what 2020 holds

Richard Vester, executive director and head of cloud at iOCO, unpacks the value that being a part of the AWS partner network holds.

How WeWork has performed in South Africa during its first six months

With six months under its belt, here’s how things are going for WeWork locally.

Mic Mann on SingularityU and why SA needs to access the Global Economy

We chat to SingularityU SA’s Mic Mann, who explains why the Global Economy will be vital to the country’s future.

Following this week’s leaks, Facebook livestreams its Q&A session to the world

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided that his Q&A sessions aren’t just meant for his employees and decided to broadcast one to the world.