PROGRAMME

TIME

CLOUD IN PRACTICE 2022

Hilton Hotel: Sandton, 24 November 2022

7:15

Registrations & Coffees in Expo

8:15

WELCOME

Matt Knight, Project Director: Commercial, SAICA

8:20

TRANSFORMATIVE BUSINESS:

GROWTH, OPPORTUNITY, DIGITAL TAX

This session will explore the opportunities that await small businesses and accountants. We’ll consider where the economy is right now, the long way it still has to go, and the optimism needed to move it forward. This session will also look to update you on what digital tax information needs to be considered for your business – both now and in the future.

Colin Timmis, Country Manager South Africa, Xero

Piet Nel, Project Director: Tax, SAICA

Willem Haarhoff CA(SA), Nomadic Remote Working #futureAccountant, DoughGetters Accounting

9:00

OPPORTUNITIES & LEADERSHIP IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY

Entrepreneur and Chef, Miles Kubheka, shares his ingredients for achieving success in a South African small business.

Miles Kubheka (aka Vuyo), Entrepreneur, Author and Founder of Wakanda Food Accelerator

9:30

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK

VENUES & STREAMS

BALLROOM:

LEADERSHIP

Stream MC:

Wadzanai Mabuto CA(SA)

Senior Lecturer: Department of Accounting,

University of Johannesburg

LI-DUBA ROOM:

TECHNOLOGY & TOOLS

Stream MC:

Uwais Asmal CA(SA)

Executive Head of Advisory Services

Outsourced CFO

10:15

DATA ANALYTICS & TECH INNOVATION

The Invigilator App is a business success story that offers a solution to balance authentication of students during assessments and invasion of privacy. It has overcome problems like accessibility, data security, and connectivity. It’s Co-Founder – and last year’s winner of SAICAs Top 35 Awards – will discuss the business growth and how it continues to use analytics and new data to drive innovation and its own growth into new tertiary markets.

Nicholas Riemer CA(SA), Co-Founder and Director, The Invigilator App

A TIME FOR NEW LEADERSHIP IN FINANCE

This presentation will look at the future of work and the trends shaping the evolving practice and business workplace, and how you can be prepared for the coming change.

Pierre Badenhorst, Director: Accountants & Partners – Small Segment, Sage

Milton Segal CA(SA), Executive Director: Standards, SAICA

10:50

A CUSTOMER-CENTRIC STRATEGY THAT ADAPTS TO MARKET CHANGES & OPPORTUNITIES

In this session, we’ll look at the exciting evolution of myFanPark: how the move from B2C to B2B has opened up additional new, innovative products and enhanced the Group’s real-time engagement with brands, consumers and their traditional market base. Also hear about how they are breaking new tech ground in the South African e-commerce and traditional retail space.

Joy Des Fountain, CEO, Creator Collective Group

THE FUTURE OF ACCOUNTANCY

A look at how a new generation of accountants are combining machine learning, multi-country financials localisation, pay-as-you-go and cloud tech to drive their finance and client engagement.

Earl Steyn, Founder, Draftworx

11:35

HOW BUSINESSES CAN LEVERAGE DATA TO DEVELOP STRATEGIES FOR EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT AND GROWTH

African born raid-hailing firm, Yassir, has grown to over 3 million people and 40,000 partners in all its markets. Tim Kiluba, formerly Head of Core Operations at Uber and also a CA(SA), discusses the risks and opportunities in growing business throughout Africa, and the essential role that data plays in strategic growth.

Timothy Kiluba CA(SA), General Manager, Yassir

ASSESSING THE RISKS OF A NEW CLIENT

Client considerations and risks. Controlling relationships through engagement letters.

Richard Minns, Account Manager (EMEA), Ignition

Tzippy Subotzky CA(SA), Partner: Howard Joel and Company

12:15

NETWORKING LUNCH

13:00

RECRUITMENT & RETAINMENT

Former Top 35-er, Grant Greeff interviews an experienced panel to understand the tips, tricks and tools for a good recruitment and retainment strategy for Practices and SMBs.

Grant Greeff CA(SA), Chief Revenue Officer, SearchKings Africa

Patricia Stock CA(SA), CEO, AfricaRAS

Mandy Muchnick CA(SA), CFO, Panda

ARE WE TOO RELIANT ON TECHNOLOGY?

Let’s explore the role of technology within practices and some of the pitfalls when choosing a piece of technology and considering the humans behind the product and code.

Myrin Bock, Product Manager, Caseware Africa

Tzippy Subotzky CA(SA), Partner: Howard Joel and Company

13:40

THE ROLE OF ENTERPRISE & SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT (ESD) IN SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE SMEs

“ESD is purposed to create an environment for the creation of sustainable partnerships between Corporate South Africa and black entrepreneurs to enable access and transformation of the value chains.” In this session, we’ll unpack that, discussing how SME development can be measured, the concerns around ESD fund management models (Quick Returns v Sustainable Business), and the increasing role of tech for entrepreneurs.

Hiten Keshave CA(SA), Founder, The Unconventional CA

Thato Mohono, Founder, MaH Quests Enterprises

Sanjay Soni CA(SA), UCA Director and BEE Specialist

HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE CLOUD

In this panel, we will discuss how the inevitable adoption of cloud-native technology impacts businesses by improving processes and automating operational efficiency, thus promoting healthier financial growth. This session will help unlock the bottleneck in Payroll & HR. Do join if you have a cloud strategy or are considering one.

Heinrich Swanepoel, Head of Sales, PaySpace
Debra Marais CA(SA), Group Chief Information Officer, Altron Limited
Lauren du Plooy, Director, Rae & Associates

14:20

MINI NETWORKING BREAK

14:40

NAVIGATING BURNOUT

This session will look at how to lead through times of uncertainty whilst managing your own health and well being. It will also look at how an increasing real-time digital age opens up doors for understanding and managing healthy and well being.