Dear fans of 27dinner,

We would like to welcome you to the first event of this fantastic new year! We hope you all had a safe and pleasant holiday season and are ready to rock 2012 with us. We have some phenomenal speakers lined up and can't wait for this to event to happen!

Date: Friday 27 January
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Cost: R150 (Cash and Cards accepted at registration on arrival)
Place: The Crowne Plaza, Rosebank
Directions here
Food Please make your meal selection from your confirmation email.

Main: Chicken Saltimbocca OR (veggie option) Penne pasta with tomato & basil

Dessert: Strawberry and crème frache tart

Speakers:

Simon Dingle

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Simon is CEO of business design firm Massive Gap and a partner at new media broadcasting company Split Infinitive. He is also technology editor of Finweek Magazine and hosts a weekly radio show called (tech)5 on national radio station 5FM in South Africa.

Simon believes that everyone has the capacity for genius and that technology presents a powerful way of unlocking a more intelligent society. His mission is to show people what can be done with combination of clever tech and critical thinking.

Visit his blog here for more

Topic:
TBD

Yossi Hasson

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A self-confessed computer fanatic from the age of 11, Yossi has been involved in the IT industry for over 10 years and is in the vanguard of the cloud computing business revolution. At 17 he launched a social networking site for matriculants, matric2000.co.za which grew to just under 3,000 matriculants in under 9 months. At 22, Yossi left his job and promising career to co-found SYNAQ and in 2004 launched the first cloud based open source email security platform in Africa. In 2010 SYNAQ was ranked by AllWorldNetwork as the 6th fastest growing company in South Africa and today is the leading provider of business class cloud based messaging and communication services for small to medium businesses - processing in excess of 500 million mails a month. In March 2011, Yossi successfully negotiated an acquisition deal with Internet Solutions to acquire a signifcant stake in SYNAQ to better position SYNAQ for its’ ambitions of global expansion.

Yossi has an MBA from GIBS (graduated 2009 cum-laude) where he did his dissertation on the role that Social Media has in building the brand for a start-up company. In addition to this, Yossi is a member of Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) and Endeavor South Afica and is passionate about inspiring young people to build global technology businesses from South Africa.

Topic:
A talk on "Lessons learned building (and selling) a multi-million rand business"

The Venue

Signed up: 117

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Andrew McHenry Consultant ROROTIKA / ARBALEST