Life after an electric vehicle and a Tesla power wall

Andreas Cambitsis is the CEO of Business Science Corporation. He’s previously worked as a strategy consultant for the Boston based Monitor group before co-founding the Cyest Corporation (now the holding company of BSC). In this episode we explore life with an electric vehicle in South Africa, some …

Energy trends of the future

Andrew Taylor is an experienced energy professional, entrepreneur and the Group General Counsel for a prominent South African Independent Power Producer, Pele Energy Group. In this episode we explore the impact of climate change, recent innovations in battery storage from Elon Musk & Tesla, and oth…

How Sun Exchange is transforming solar energy with purpose driven investing

This episode gives an entrepreneur’s perspective of renewable energy disruption.  Abraham Cambridge is the Founder and CEO of Sun Exchange a peer to peer, solar panel, micro leasing platform. Started in 2015 it now generates over 1 Gigawatt hours of energy via solar. During this conversation we exp…

Pricing and predictions of renewable energy in South Africa

In this episode we gain insights from Daniel Zinman, a senior Transactor within the renewable energy space at RMB.  We discuss the South African Renewable energy landscape and explore Eskom’s current challenges. We also look at the pricing of alternative energy, the impact of politics, and predicti…

A CEO’s journey from coal to green energy

Mxolisi Mgojo is the CEO of Exxaro Resources & President of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa. Exxaro is a publicly listed company and trades on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE). In this episode we explore Exxaro’s journey to sustainable energy, the unbundling of Eskom, and the social …

South African regulators leading the charge in disruptive innovation

Arif Ismail is the Head of Fintech at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB). The SARB Fintech unit exists to monitor new innovations like crypto assets, ICOs, peer to peer lending and more. These innovations are increasingly coming from non-traditional players. In this episode we explore crypto ass…

Funding and Fintechs in the South African context

Dominique Collett is a Senior Investment Executive at Rand Merchant Investments (RMI) and the Head of AlphaCode. RMI is the holding company for several premier financial services companies and AlphaCode is a startup incubator and accelerator. In this episode we explore the South African entrepreneu…

Blockchain - The art of the possible

Etienne Nel is the Co-Founder and CEO of ZAR X, an African stock exchange. Lorien Gamaroff is the Co-Founder and CEO of Centbee, a cryptocurrency payments and remittance company. In this episode we explore blockchains and distributed ledgers, why centralized systems are subject to risk, and how blo…

The Libra effect: discussing its impact on SA central and commercial banks

Hemash Kala is a Blockchain Lead at Rand Merchant Bank who has been tasked to help assess the impact of blockchain technology on the existing banking business model. In this episode we explore the mechanics of Facebook’s Libra currency, how Libra competes against tradition payment systems, and its …

Technology convergance: IOT, data and AI: what happens when these forces converge

Annabel Dallamore is the Founder and CEO of Strider, a leading AI company building technology to assist with automation and data processing. Gerald Neves is the Founder & CEO of SovTech, a leading software development company in Africa. In this episode we explore the different types of AI, human bi…