Dear fans of 27dinner,

Hope you are ready for another excellent event for our March dinner!

Date: Tuesday 27 March
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: Grilled rib eye steak OR (veggie option) Butternut panzerotti with sage cream

Dessert: Apple tarte tatin with cinnamon cream

Speakers:

Christo Davel

22seven on Twitter

Christo Davel is the CEO of 22seven, the recently launched new generation money management tool. This isn’t the first thing he has launched. He has done some other stuff too, like study to be a dentist, owned a panel shop and run an online bank.

Visit the site here for more.

Topic:

Christo will be talking about money, feelings and why most of us are seriously doff when it comes to our finances.

Helga Vorbek-Letowt (Mantaray – South Africa)

Helga have 13 years’ experience in the usability industry having worked in the UK as a usability consultant and user experience architect within agencies as well as e-commerce portals. She returned to South Africa seven years ago and started Mantaray a usability and user experience design agency specialising in digital channels and mobile (Mobile apps, Mobile internet, WAP, WIG & USSD) with a skew towards m-commerce, e-commerce and banking. Some of their more recent clients include Absa Bank, Google, Nokia, Standard Bank and MTN.

Free Stuff!

Marc Ashton, Editor of Finweek Magazine, will be giving away a R3000 investment portfolio on the night. Each guest will also receive the latest copy of Finweek magazine, and is privy to a 35% subscriptions discount coupled with a copy of the Freakonomics DVD.

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

Twitter

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

Twitter

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"

Dear fans of 27dinner,

This is the last Johannesburg dinner for 2011 and we have planned an awesome event for you! We have secured a world class speaker in Richard Mulholland who will be delivering a talk entitled "The Death of the Career", and are in the process of nailing down one or two others. If you know Richard, you know you can't miss this talk! If you haven't seen him speak do yourself a favour and put this event in your diary.

27dinner is also pleased to announce that BOS Ice Tea, the proudly South African ice tea range, will be attending this month’s event to mix up a cocktail storm! Currently unleashing their contemporary coolness in restaurants and bars, beautifully packaged, ticking all the health boxes and bursting with natural flavour, BOS will be showcasing their recently launched range of designer cocktails, with names like the BOS Boomslang, BOStardo, BOSbaby, and the alluring “InniBOS” – Gin stirred with fresh cranberry juice, a squeeze of lemon and MONIN Rose petal syrup, served tall with a can of BOS Apple and fresh coriander.

Date: Monday 28 November
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: Roast leg of lamb OR (veggie option) Aubergine and ricotta cannelloni

Dessert: Chocolate ice cream parfait...

Our Sponsor:

A special thank you to our sponsors for this months event! Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops processor technologies and supports global initiatives to continually advance how people work and play.

Speakers:

Richard Mulholland
Twitter

Richard kicked off his career as a rock n roll roadie, operating lights for bands such as Iron Maiden and Def Leppard. From there he started SA's largest presentation firm, Missing Link and co-founded 21Tanks, SA's first perspective lab.

Richard is a highly regarded speaker. When not addressing many of South Africa's top corporations, he guest lectures on courses for The Cape Graduate School of Business (GSB), and the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS).

As well as blogging on richmulholland.com, Richard is a columnist for Longevity and Destiny Man magazines.

He has a tattoo of your Mum on his left bum cheek...!

Topic:
The Death of the Career

Our next speaker, Alexandra Fraser joined Invenfin, an early-stage venture capital firm wholly owned by Remgro in 2009, after completing her Masters in International Business and Emerging Markets (cum laude), at the University of Edinburgh’s Business School. Her degree focused on finance and technology management, with her thesis analysing the Venture Capital Industry in South Africa.

Alex is involved in managing and assessing new investment proposals for Invenfin, using her technical and business background to achieve this. She is passionate about entrepreneurship and frequently speaks and guest lectures on entrepreneurship and venture capital to students.

Alex will be joining us for a talk on "Why would a VC choose to invest in ice tea?"

Venue: Crowne Plaza Rosebank
Price: R150 pp
Directions: http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/cp/1/en/hotel/jnbrb/transportation?start=1
Seats available: 150

Main Meal Chicken Option:
Chermoula Marinated Chicken Breast, Basmati Rice & Seasonal Vegetables

Main Meal Veg Option:
Butternut Ravioli with a Basil Pesto Cream

Dessert:
Chocolate Crème Brulee

Dear fans of 27dinner

The time has come around again for another dinner! After the success of May’s dinner we wanted to keep the awesome coming and so we hope we are able to achieve it again this month!

A special thank you to our sponsors for this months event! Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops processor technologies and supports global initiatives to continually advance how people work and play.

We recently heard news of a perfect opportunity to bring you some insightful and valuable content. So below let us introduce you to our to amazing speakers:

Eric Edelstein: After 4 months in San Francisco, is back in South Africa and will be joining us to tell us "Why he lived in Silicon Valley for the last 4 months, and what he discovered?"

“Eric Edelstein is a Cape Town based serial Internet Entrepreneur. In 2003, Eric co-founded Search Marketing Agency Clicks2Customers.com (which spun off Affiliate Network TrafficSynergy.com and Website Builder Yola.com). In 2008 Eric co-founded T-shirt Crowdsourcing community springleap.com. His current venture, the Crowdsourcing Social Network evly.com, launched in 2010. evly is a Social Media Platform that helps brands and other organisations to interact, involve and engage their customers and community with idea generation contests, and allows them to build a far larger fan base in the process. Eric has a B.Com from Natal University, and a Post Graduate in eCommerce from Unisa. He blogs far too little at EricEdelstein.com, but spends far too much time on linkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook!”

Dean Oelschig , Creative Director at Halo Brand Led Communication Agency. He will be sharing some of his insights on “The role of traditional advertising in the digital era”.

“Dean is a lover and occasional defender of advertising. He strongly believes in integration, a media neutral approach and the power of brands. Has worked on campaigns for City of Joburg, Montecasino, Suzuki Automotive, Sony Ericsson and Medscheme. Eternally searching for light bulb moments.”

We will be offering a sit-down dinner again so once you register, please make sure you select from the chicken or vegetarian options in the email notification.