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Toby Shapshak writes and speaks about how innovation, especially fintech, is better in Africa. His TED Global talk has over 1,5-million views. He is editor-in-chief of Stuff Studios, a Forbes senior contributor and a Financial Mail columnist.
He has covered tech, mobile and Africa's tech and start-up ecosystem for 20 years, including for Forbes, CNN and The Guardian.
Named in GQ's top 30 men in media and Mail & Guardian newspaper's influential young South Africans, GQ said Shapshak "has become the most high-profile tech journalist in the country".
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Deepfake audio is very real and very dangerous, with Check Point's Sergey Shykevich – T2S2
Is what you’re hearing really real? Deepfake videos have gotten a lot of attention (especially after it happened to Taylor Swift) but more troubling are deepfake audio recordings, Sergey Shykevich, threat intelligence group manager at Check Point Software Technologies, tells Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. Read more on Stuff.
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Wheeling and dealing with Open Access's Gerjo Hoffman – T2S2
One of the most important new technologies in our renewable energy future is one you've probably never heard of. Called wheeling, it is the way that electricity is accounted for when you move it across the grid and you’re probably already using it, Open Access Energy founder Gerjo Hoffman tells Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. Read more on Stuff.
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Streaming over mobile is the new entertainment, with MTN’s Jason Probert – T2S2
Most of South Africa's youth don’t watch a TV set. Why should they? They have a mobile entertainment console in their hands that can access the new form of television: streaming. Jason Probert, general manager for digital services for MTN South Africa, tells Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak how he is making it easier and more cost-effective. Read more on Stuff.
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Building rockets with Workday's Sayan Chakraborty –T2S2
Before he sold his startup to Workday, MIT-trained Sayan Chakraborty worked at NASA’s famed
Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an engineer on interplanetary spacecraft; and later on the early commercialisation of GPS. He has seen many new new things in a storied career, including as vice-president of software development at Oracle.
As much as AI is a game-changer, he tells Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak, “every business nowadays is a talent business”. -
How mobile video use is evolving, with MTN’s Jason Lobel – T2S2
For many millions, a mobile phone is their only computer and their only screen. Jason Lobel, MTN South Africa’s head of video, wants to get streaming services to those people, he tells Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. Read more on Stuff.
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PayShap should be free, says TymeBank CEO Coen Jonker – T2S2
PayShap is the biggest thing to happen in banking in South Africa, if it is done right, says TymeBank’s co-founder and group CEO Coen Jonker. The new rapid payment method is
a “game changer” and the “key that will unlock the true digitisation of the cash economy,” he tells Stuff editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. Read more on Stuff.