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