WEBINAR
Digital Transformation Congress (DTC)
22 – 23 July 2020 Time: 11-12pm
Overview
Now, more than ever before, the business world is fast evolving and changing at a very rapid pace. Businesses are always on the lookout for innovative ways to remain competitive and relevant as the world becomes increasingly digital. Technology has in many ways proven to be the modern, forward-looking and advanced tool for businesses to achieve exponential growth at a short time and increase revenue in multiple ways.
Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to create new business processes, modify or discard existing processes, culture, and change customer experiences to meet dynamic business and market requirements. It transcends traditional roles like sales, marketing, and customer service etc. It enables organisations to rethink old operating models, be able to experiment more and to become more agile in responding to customers.
Speakers
Andrew Bourne
Andrew is Zoho’s Business Development Manager for the African region and is based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Georgie Midgley
Georgie Midgley has been the CEO of M4Jam since 2016
Andrew Tawanda Chatikobo
Head : Digital Channels and Product at Nedbank
Terry Kelly
CEO- Digital Data Bank
Dr Happy Sithole
Center Manager – National Integrated, Cyber-Infrastructure System, CSIR
Dr Dieter Veldsman
Human Capital Director, Momentum Metropolitan
Angus Brown
CEO – CentBee
Sessions
Day One – Wednesday July 22, 2020
10:00-10:05 Welcome Address
10:05-10:35 Keynote Presentation: Why Does Digital Transformation Matter?
Digital transformation is not about technology alone. It occurs at the intersection of people, business and technology – and is guided by a broader business strategy. A digital business can innovate quickly and scale up innovations to deliver the products and services that customers value.
● Increased efficiency
● Improved customer experience
● Increased profits
● Keeping up with the competition
10:35-11:00 Using Gig Technology to Transform Business in an Increasingly Disruptive Environment
When we refer to the Gig Economy, it is distinctively different to the definition known by the rest of the world. As with the challenges we face, digitally transforming businesses and lives through gig technology requires a unique approach in Africa
● Engaging with local communities can increase economic development
● How technology has changed informal markets
● How taking up the opportunities of the 4IR can improve productivity, efficiencies and drive down costs, whilst retaining employment
Georgina Midgley – CEO – M4Jam
11:00-11:30 Creating a Successful Digital Transformation Strategy
It’s important to create a digital transformation strategy rooted in reality. By laying out carefully planned digital structure, organisations can examine their ideas critically and take practical steps towards reaching their transformation goals. A combination of strategic and practical elements will help organisations develop the structure and processes needed to successfully execute their digital transformation.
● Clear objectives
● An integrated approach
● Buy-in-from leaders
● Adaptability
● Skills focused
Andrew Bourne – National Sales Manager – Zoho
11:30 – 12:00 Break
12:00-12:30 – Presentation – Making Digital Transformation Work For Your Business
Getting digital transformation right can help your business to achieve a range of benefits like competitive edge, improved processes, reduced costs, closer relationships with customers and also create new opportunities.
Organisations like Amazon, Netflix, Uber and AirBnB are excellent examples of how a traditional business model can be transformed using disruptive technologies. They have been able to harness the successive waves of innovation – the faster processing, better networking, increased bandwidth, cheaper technology, and diverse devices– to both enhance their offerings, improve their back-office systems (accounting, HR, payroll, customer relationship management (CRM), logistics etc,) and create new opportunities and move into new markets.
12:30-13:00 Summary and Questions – End of Day One
Day Two – Thursday July 23, 2020
10:00-10:05 Welcome Address
10:05-10:35 Digital Future Readiness – How to Prepare for the Opportunities and Challenges of Digitilisation
As data production and networks continue to expand, a key challenge facing all organisations is preparing for the opportunities and challenges associated with data-driven innovation
● How to enable evolving data networks to remain flexible, robust and secure
● How to identify and filter the required information from the data generated from IoT
● How to ensure the correct balance between extraction of value from data and potentially prohibitive security protocols
10:35-11:00 Building a Data Driven Organisation
Data-driven organizations are committed to gathering data concerning all aspects of the business. By enabling employees at every level to use the right data at the right time, data can foster conclusive decision-making that becomes part of the companies’ competitive advantage.
● Best strategies to unlocking the value of data
● The challenges of becoming data-driven
● Update your business model based on data and provide tracks for continuous optimization
● Identifying the right technology
11:00-11:30 Powering Digital Transformation For Large Enterprises
One of the biggest challenges for large enterprises is expensive, slow-moving, legacy incumbents. The success of digital solutions depends on implementing the right technology at the right time to meet specific business requirements. Well-established large enterprises can embrace platforms as well. Seeing that an effective platform can provide efficient demand and-supply matchmaking to the stakeholders, the principles can be applied in many business areas; from logistics to HR and procurement to innovation.
11:30 – 12:00 Break
12:00-12:30 The Impact of Blockchain Technology on Digital
Transformation Digital transformation can be a complex challenge for any enterprise but the integration of IoT with blockchain makes it much easier. Considering the number of partners (internal, external, or both) involved in any given business process, a system in which a multitude of electronic parties can securely communicate, collaborate, and transact without human intervention is highly agile and efficient.
● Data privacy and security
● Processing and validating secure international trade transactions
● Securely tracking the title to goods anywhere within a supply chain
12:30-13:00 Summary and Questions – End of Day Webinar