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Be authentic and Stay authentic. Award-winning actor, comedian and philanthropist Siv Ngesi takes us on a journey of how he is using his influence to solve one of the world's biggest challenges for women being period poverty. He begins with sharing who he is, his mom's influence and what it will take to solve global challenges and the role of South Africa.
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Melvyn Lubega is an actuary by training, an experienced technology entrepreneur and investor who has built businesses that serve customers around the world. He founded Baobab Group in 2015 which now has employed 2000 people. He is most notable for building GO1, a leading technology platform used by 17,000 organizations and governments in over 66 countries. He has also founded a logistics company that works across Africa, leveraging on technology to address gaps in the logistics industry. 

GO1 became SA's first unicorn  valued at +$2 billion attracting investments from Salesforce ventures and Microsoft amongst other tier-one international investors. One of his passions is rooted in solving economic, social and challenges using disruptive technologies. He has recently been appointed as South Africa's new lead of Digital Service Unit by The Presidency which will drive the implementation of the roadmap for the Digital Transformation of Government.
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CEO and owner of DeNic Cabinets under the the holding company 'Cabinet Connections, Dipuo Phakathi is a qualified engineer who has experience in both the mining sector and banking industry. An inspiration to women through her tenacious character and strong will of taking up space in male dominated industries! She walks us through her journey with Denic Cabinets, how what started as a side hustle to get her desired walk-in wardrobe closet turned into her main source of income with the assistance of two men who believed in her and her previous employer Standard Bank through the "What's Your Next?" campaign. 
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Meet @lebogangrasethaba a filmmaker, Director and Partner at @eggfilms who’s fashionably known for directing some of the most successful campaigns in advertising, documentaries, and has reaped prestigious awards such as the Creative Circle Awards, a number of Loeries and an @iemmys award for Home. He walks us through his driving force, projects that he’s passionate about, his journey and where it all began!

@lebogangrasethaba is a firm believer of thematic films which challenge the status quote of traditional constructs based on historic events. He has led projects extensively on the African continent including in countries such as Zimbabwe, Zambia, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Cote d'voire and Western Sahara.

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Alon Lits a founding partner of October Health, providing Business to Business with mental wellbeing services aimed at improving employee engagement both top down & bottom up through the use of detailed insights and analytics  to drive change in working environments that is more scalable, impactful and accessible. He also shares his journey as the very first UBER employee in Africa aka "the first UBER Black driver in Africa".
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