Day 1 Speaker Gallery
Leona Archary
Head of Agriculture Division, Bigen Group s
Thoko Didiza
Minister of Agriculture,
Rural Development and Land Reform
Roelf Meyer
Director, In Transformation Initiative
Chris Venter
Aggrey Mahanjana
Group Managing Director, NERPO Group
Gloria Serobe
Founder & Executive Director, WIPHOLD
Tommie van Zyl
Chief Executive Officer, ZZ2
Chris Burgess
Editor-in-chief, Landbouweekblad
Mmboneni Muofhe
Deputy Director-General, Department of Science & Innovation
Tavonga Siyavora
Program Manager – New Market Entry, John Deere
Willemien van Asselt
Director of International Strategy, Topsector Agri & Food
Erik de Vries
Director, Agri Technovation
Francois van der Merwe
CEO, CAN-Agri
Jaco Maass
General Manager, SHIFT - a BKB Business
Cobus van Coller
Farm Libanon, Viljoenskroon
Dr Michael Bradfield
Livestock Consultant
Benoit le Roy
Water Shortage South Africa
Russel Luck
SwiftVee
Chris Schutte
Sonfin
Day 2 Speaker Gallery
Toby Shapshak
Editor-in-Chief &
Publisher, Stuff
Nate Heinrich
Director, Precision Ag,
John Deere
Asif Valley
National Technology
Officer, Microsoft
Sabelo Mabena
Executive Head of Department - Cloud & Hosting: Product Development, Vodacom
Dr Blessed Okole Research Group Leader: Agro-Processing, Advanced Agriculture & Food Cluster, CSIR
Pepper
Nedbank humanoid robot
Professor Sue Walker Institute for Soil, Climate & Water, ARC
Peter Leppan
Director EMEA, Proagrica
Rod MacKinnon Regional Value Add Partner, eLeaf
Dr Chamunorwa Togo General Manager, Bio Economy, The Innovation Hub
Fanie Coetzer
Sales Engineer Security, GEW, HENSOLDT
Rudie Raath
Chief Digital Officer, Datacentrix
Hardus Swanepoel DotModus
Dr Thulasizwe Mkhabela
Group Executive, Impact & Partnerships, ARC
Dr Moses Azong Cho Research Group Leader, Precision Agriculture, CSIR
Dr Santosh Ramchuran
Research Group Leader: Bioprocess Development, CSIR
Matome Ramokgopa General Manager: Southern Africa, Enza Zaden
Priaash Ramadeen & Estelle Lubbe
Co-Founders, The Awareness Company
Dr Cynthia Motsi
ARC
Denene Erasmus
Editor Farmer’s Weekly
Day 3 Speaker Gallery
Rozanne McKenzie
Master of Ceremonies
Pieter Geldenhuys
ITSI
Bruce Whitfield
Panel Facilitator, The Money Show, 702
Prof Roelof Botha
Joint Managing Director, GOPA Group SA
Prof Elmien du Plessis
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, North-West University
Prince Mashele
Wandile Sihlobo
Chief Economist, Agricultural Business Chamber
Chris Venter
Jeremy Maggs
Panel Facilitator
Johann Barnard
Chief Digital Officer, AFGRI Group Holdings
Pragnesh Desai
CEO, Galileo Asset Managers
Dr John Purchase
Chief Executive Officer, Agricultural Business Chamber
Brenda Tlhabane
Founder, Temo Ya Tlhabane Holdings
Kobus Pienaar
Technical Manager Foodsecurity, Woolworths
Rudie Raath
Chief Digital Officer, Datacentrix
Theo Vorster
Galileo Capital
Panel Facilitator
Russell du Preez
Founder, RussellStone Group
Jannie Stockenström
Co-Head of Investments, WIPHOLD
Stephan van der Walt
Managing Director, Pallidus Group
Chris Burgess
Editor, Landbouweekblad