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This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on brands in a future where digital wallets are a gamechanger as the technologies of digital identity, crypto/blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) converge.

Born in 1994, Gen Z are the born free generation and they are redefining the world from work to play, opening challenges and opportunities that brands need to understand they want to stay relevant and thrive in the Gen Z world.

This episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on agentic AI and how it is revolutionising business, especially on the continent.

The second episode of RAPT BizTrendsTV focuses on the informal economy, a key growth trend reshaping South Africa’s and Africa's economies. Often referred to as the grey economy, it is brimming with potential.

Afro-optimism, or more specifically, the African growth mindset is a greater sense of optimism that, despite challenges such as electricity and water that the continent faces, is in stark contrast to a growing Western degrowth mindset of pessimism about the future, and Africa.

“We can talk about AI all we want to, but the foundations of AI are about how you can harness the power of digital to transform the continent in the way we want it to transform.”.

At the recent Effies SA, hosted by the Association for Communication & Advertising (ACA), the Grand Effie was awarded to Halo, for its campaign for its client, Pineapple.

This exclusive #BizTrends2024 interview is with future thinker and Flux Trends partner, Bronwyn Williams.

This exclusive #BizTrends2024 interview is with Ndeye Diagne, the managing director West, East and Central Africa at Kantar.

John Sanei, CEO of Future-Collective tells us more about the agency. Mandy Phiri of Times Media chats about The Times Press Challenge.

Digitlab CEO, Mike Saunders discusses the report: The Future State of Retail.

TakeALot CEO, Kim Reid, chats to us about the recent annoucenment of R1 Billion investment from Tiger Global.

Johan Walters from Digital Narrative comes in to talk about Augmented Reality. Dave Duarte joins us to talk about digital leadership and all cool things digital.

Daniel Marcus and Jonty Fisher come in to talk about the IMC Conference. Richard Mullins from Acceleration talks about the Digital Ignition Symposium.

Rich Simmonds new book, Mug and Tweet, Andrew Human chats about The Loeries African Roadshow and Craig Rodney from Cerebra tells us about POPI.