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This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on brands in a future where digital wallets are a gamechanger as the technologies of digital identity, crypto/blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) converge.

Born in 1994, Gen Z are the born free generation and they are redefining the world from work to play, opening challenges and opportunities that brands need to understand they want to stay relevant and thrive in the Gen Z world.

This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on agentic AI and how it is revolutionising business, especially on the continent.

The second episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on the informal economy, a key growth trend reshaping South Africa’s and Africa's economies. Often referred to as the grey economy, it is brimming with potential.

Afro-optimism, or more specifically, the African growth mindset is a greater sense of optimism that, despite challenges such as electricity and water that the continent faces, is in stark contrast to a growing Western degrowth mindset of pessimism about the future, and Africa.

“We can talk about AI all we want to, but the foundations of AI are about how you can harness the power of digital to transform the continent in the way we want it to transform.”.

At the recent Effies SA, hosted by the Association for Communication & Advertising (ACA), the Grand Effie was awarded to Halo, for its campaign for its client, Pineapple.

This exclusive #BizTrends2024 interview is with future thinker and Flux Trends partner, Bronwyn Williams.

This exclusive #BizTrends2024 interview is with Ndeye Diagne, the managing director West, East and Central Africa at Kantar.

In conversation with Rutendo Nyamuda on his new appointment as CEO of the Loeries. Preetesh also discusses his approach to innovation and leadership within the organisation and the importance for CEOs - as the face of a brand or company - to be seen in the media.

In conversation with Rutendo Nyamuda about the upcoming BizTrendsLIVE event, in partnership with Ster-Kinekor, taking place on Thursday 30 January, 2020 at the Mall of Africa IMAX Theatre.

In conversation with Rutendo Nyamuda on how corporates and government need to collaborate with startups if they want to progress and remain competitive in the future.

Ellen Fischat, the founder of Story Room, chats with Rutendo Nyamuda.

Tebogo Mabye was dreaming of success, even while living on the streets. His hometown, Hillbrow, is synonymous with poverty, crime, and constant police sirens – but also a community who refuses to give up. “There is a hustling spirit,” Mabye says. Though he wasn’t ashamed of being raised in shelters, Mabye wanted more out of life. Read Tebogo Mabye's full story here....

Richard Monday, Opera Software, Vice President Africa, chats with Rutendo Nyamuda at the 2019 AfricaCom conference & trade expo in Cape Town.