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Saxophonist Judy Brown delivers electrifying Afro-fusion and Nu-Disco performances, blending jazz mastery with high energy stage production for unforgettable corporate and live event experiences.
  • Saxophonist
Sonja Kruse is an inspirational speaker and adventurer whose 351 day Ubuntu journey across South Africa reveals powerful lessons on empathy, connection, and the transformative impact of human kindness.
  • Inspirational Speaker
Team building expert and DJ entertainer Mark Dio strengthens leaders with high performing teams while delivering energetic event entertainment that elevates awards evenings, launches, conferences and corporate celebrations.
  • Mobile DJ
High-performance coach and resilience speaker John McGrath helps athletes and leaders unlock peak performance through discipline, mental fortitude, and holistic mind-body conditioning grounded in lived experience.
  • Peak Performance
Broadcaster, breathwork practitioner, and communication speaker Niki Seberini helps leaders and teams reduce stress, build confidence, and communicate with clarity, presence, and impact.
  • Mental Wellness
Alternative pop rock band The Graeme Watkins Project delivers high-energy, genre-blending live performances that redefine South African pop rock with edge, originality, and festival-ready impact.
  • National Artists
Youth orchestra and conference entertainment ensemble African Youth Ensemble showcases young violinists delivering uplifting, culturally rich performances that combine musical excellence with powerful social impact.
  • Youth Orchestra
Communication keynote speaker Vinh Giang transforms leaders and teams through powerful storytelling, illusion, and practical frameworks that elevate influence, confidence, and high-performance communication.
  • Communication Entertainer

Deon Basson is an extreme endurance athlete and a seasoned executive and board member operating at the intersection of AI, leadership, and human performance. With more than 35 years of experience in technology, strategy, and high-pressure decision environments, his career has spanned technical roles, sales, sales leadership, executive leadership, CEO and Chairperson responsibility.

This breadth gives him a full-spectrum view of how AI strategy translates into commercial and organisational reality. He serves as Chairperson of Spatialedge, the largest AI company in Africa, and is the founder of reCInate, a structured communication framework built to strengthen leadership judgement when complexity, data overload, and time pressure are high. His work centres on a critical truth: AI changes systems quickly, but people still make the decisions that determine success in complex, fast-moving, and high-stakes organisational environments.

His perspective is shaped by what he calls The Munga Mindset, drawn from competing in The Munga, a five-day, 1,148-kilometre ultra-endurance mountain bike race across extreme and unforgiving terrain in South Africa. Riders must make continuous decisions while fatigued, uncertain, and under sustained
stress, where small mistakes compound rapidly and consequences escalate quickly over time. This mirrors AI-driven environments, where leaders face accelerating information, incomplete visibility, competing priorities, and constant change.

In both contexts, outcomes are shaped by the same capabilities:

  • mental clarity, emotional control, disciplined judgement, and the ability to adapt without losing direction or strategic intent.

Deon works with leaders and teams navigating AI transformation to improve how they think, decide, and align under pressure. His focus is not on technology alone, but on the human decision-making that sits around it. He integrates systems thinking, data awareness, and emotional intelligence to help leaders
remain clear, consistent, and effective when stakes are high and conditions are uncertain and evolving.

Through this work, Deon shows organisations how structured communication and sound judgement ensure that AI investments translate into real performance, rather than confusion or misalignment. When pressure increases and the margin for error narrows, it is the quality of human decisions and alignment that determines whether AI delivers its promised value. His work reinforces the principle that while AI can enhance capability, leadership clarity and communication remain the decisive factors in sustained success over time and at scale.

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  • Munga Mindset
Cricket legend Allan Donald shares world class fast bowling insights, elite performance lessons and leadership perspectives shaped by a record breaking Proteas career and global cricket excellence.
  • Cricket Legend
Change catalyst, author, and inspirational speaker Desiree-Anne Martin empowers audiences with lived-experience insight on trauma, addiction, mental health, and the power of resilience and hope.
  • Inspirational Adversity
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Jeremy Olivier delivers polished, contemporary live performances, blending jazz musicianship and pop sensibility to create engaging, feel-good music experiences.
  • Variety Singer
Marketing strategist and digital storytelling expert Lebo Lion equips brands and entrepreneurs with actionable strategies for authentic growth, digital transformation and high impact audience engagement.
  • Social Media
Broadcast journalist, radio host, and MC Kieno Kammies is known for fearless questioning, impactful interviews, and values-driven conversations that influence public debate and real-world outcomes.
  • Digital Innovation

Manteca is Durban’s hot Afro-Caribbean Salsa band. The Band has been moving hips and lighting up dance floors around the various salsa and live music venues in KZN and JHB since 2009.

The band is currently an 8 piece line up consisting: Raul Vasquez (a bona fide Salsa Dance Champion and instructor) on male vocals, Nosihe Zulu on female vocals, Avikaar Maney on Alto sax, Johan van der Molen on Tenor sax, Daniel Sheldon on Trumpet, Alberto Chemane on percussion/kit, Monks Legget on Bass and Avinash Maney on keys and Guitar.

Our repertoire includes some traditional and folkloric Afro Caribbean songs (Anabacoa, RanKanKan, La Esencia del Guaguanco) as well as some more contemporary tunes (Havana, Despacito, All of Me) and some Latin favorites (Oye Como Va, Labamba, Guantanamera) and some Latin versions of our own South African favorites (Pata Pata, Ntjilo Ntjilo, Meadowlands).

Manteca | Salsa band

We have a crew of Salsa dancers that can be brought in to share and activate your Dance floor as well as some professional Dancers who can lead your guests in a fun and interactive Salsa line dance (a fantastic ice breaker) and do some dance Demo features and even lead a class on the beginner steps of Salsa.

The band has evolved over the years varying between a 13 piece and an 8 piece line up featuring a culturally diverse array of individuals with a passion for the intense rhythmically charged art form of Afro Caribbean music (a fusion itself of European classical and African musical traditions).

Durban’s hot-blooded, authentic, cooking Afro Cuban Salsa Band. Continuing the evolution and journey of Salsa and making it a part of Durbans Rich Cultural identity.

The band has over its existence featured at many corporate, cultural and sport events with even a favorably reviewed show at the local Rhumbelow Theatre.

Manteca (meaning Fat or Grease) loves fusing ideas of Music, Dance, Art, Architecture, Culture and Fashion (even inspiring a range of “Manteca Shirts” by Designer KMK).

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  • Salsa Band

Richard Poplak is an award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker. He has become one of the most widely read and controversial political journalists in South Africa, editing at large for the Daily Maverick. Poplak has reported from over 25 developing countries, for the Financial Times, Atlantic Monthly, The Guardian, among others. He was recently part of a team that won the prestigious Global Shining Light award for investigative journalism.

Richard has worked as a freelance journalist and writer since 2005. His work has been anthologized numerous times, and he frequently appears on Al Jazeera, BBC, CBC, and elsewhere as a commentator on topics that range from world events to sport: he is considered a go-to voice on the burgeoning Sino-African relationship; on South African politics; and on international cycling.

Richard Poplak is a former Rockefeller Fellow, and a recipient of the Bookmark Award for the best journalist in South Africa. He is also a contributor in the innovative global investigative journalist collective Deca Stories.

Richard Poplak | Current Affairs

As a member in the Gupta Leaks team, Richard Poplak helped break one of the biggest stories in South African media history. The journalistic consortium won the Taco Kuiper Investigative Journalism award, Vodacom Journalist of the Year, and was cited for a Nat Nkasa Bravery in Journalism award. In 2019, the team won the prestigious 2019 Global Shining Light award, the highest honour in investigative journalism.

Before Richard Poplak became a journalist, Richard trained as a filmmaker and fine artist at Montreal’s Concordia University (1992-1995) and has produced an directed numerous music videos, television commercials, and documentary films. He is the co-director of a documentary feature film on the public relations firm Bell Pottinger, called Influence, which is premiering in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020.

Keynote Topic

INFLUENCE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS PUBLIC RELATIONS COMPANY

Synopsis

The feature-length documentary film INFLUENCE charts the recent advancements in weaponized communication by investigating the rise and fall of the world’s most notorious public relations and reputation management firm: the British multinational Bell Pottinger.

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  • Current Affairs

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