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AI Learning Accelerator

The Forum, Campus
Johannesburg

Agenda

Future

is

Human™

Learn the Language

Registration
Step off the screen and into the room. Arrival, registration and coffee
Mark Watt
Partner | Heidrick & Struggles
08h30 - 09h00
Opening Keynote
Why the Next Digital Growth Engine Belongs to Africa
Across the African continent, there’s a restless generation who won’t wait for permission. Who refuse to let headlines of AI fear and hype dominate the conversation. In this opening address, Lincoln Mali explores why the continent’s ingenuity, resilience, and youth are the driving forces behind the next digital revolution.
Lincoln Mali
CEO, Lesaka Technologies
09h00 - 09h45
Keynote 1
Mastery of three new literacies for the AI economy
Tech transformation requires more than tools, it demands new literacies. Amy introduces the three essential intelligences shaping the AI economy. Mastering them will define the next generation of leaders.
Amy Fane Hervey
Founder | Architech
09h45 - 10h30
tea Break
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10h30 - 11h00
Masterclass 1
Identity Before Technology: Your Leadership Foundation for the AI economy
Your through line connects who you are, what you value, and how you lead. Identify your personal leadership compass for the AI era. The foundation for building your AI Think Tank.
Amy Fane Hervey
Founder | Architech
11h00 - 12h00
Lunch
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12h00 - 13h00
Masterclass 2
AI Fundamentals to 10x your Productivity
AI fluency for non-technical leaders. Build your own tool stack tailored to exactly the way you work and think so you can 10x your output. Demystify jargon, explore live examples, and learn which AI tools actually matter for your specific work. We guarantee you'll walk away speaking the language of AI confidently so no one can ever intimidate you with it again.
Amy Fane Hervey
Founder | Architech
13h00 - 14h30
TEA BREAK
14h30 - 14h45
Masterclass 3
Build Your Own AI Think Tank™ (1/2)

A Think Tank that never sleeps. Every executive pays for strategy consultants. Research teams. Subject matter experts. People who think on your behalf. What if you could build that entire team yourself? Trained on your business, your industry, your way of thinking and have it working for you 24/7? That's exactly what you'll do.


Your AI Think Tank™ thinks the way you think. Using Claude Skills and Cowork You'll learn the architecture that transforms AI from a generic tool into a thought partner. How to encode your expertise into a three-layer system that captures what you know, how you decide, and how you communicate. Zero coding required.

You'll set up your project, create your knowledge files and install your first agent skills. By the end of this session, you'll have a functioning AI Think Tank™ (strategist, researcher, analyst, marketer, communications director, contract reviewer) trained on your business and ready to work. Uniquely yours.

Amy Fane Hervey
Founder | Architech
15h00 - 17h00
 
Closing
Networking & Drinks
Join us for drinks at The Forum, with beautiful lighting, music, and space to connect with fellow leaders. A relaxed end to a high-performance day.
17h00 - 19h00

Build the Machine

Registration
Step off the screen and into the room. Arrival, registration and coffee
Mark Watt
Partner | Heidrick & Struggles
08h30 - 09h00
Recap Day 1
Mark recaps the key breakthroughs from Day 1 distilling key lessons on building with AI and helps you convert inspiration into clear action steps for the day ahead.
Mark Watt
Partner | Heidrick & Struggles
09h00 - 09h30
Masterclass 4
Build Your Own AI Think Tank™ (2/2)

Yesterday you built it. Today you sharpen it. Refine your Think Tank until it sounds like you, reasons like you, and handles real work (proposals, board papers, strategy memos, stakeholder comm, contract analysis). Then stress-test it live on your actual problems. The problems you're taking back to the office on Monday.
 

You'll see how this becomes the first node in an AI workforce and what to build next to create compound leverage. One Think Tank becomes two. Two becomes a system. A system becomes an unfair advantage. You won't just leave with a tool. You'll leave with a team. And the architecture to scale it.

Amy Fane Hervey
Founder | Architech
09h30 - 11h30
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tea Break
11h30 - 12h00
keynote 3
Lead like a human
As technology accelerates, leadership must evolve from control to connection. In this provocative and award winning global keynote, leadership expert Adam Pacifico unpacks the principles of courageous, human-centred leadership, trust, empathy, and psychological safety, that enable teams to thrive alongside machines.
Adam Pacifico
Partner | Heidrick & Struggles
12h00 - 13h00
Lunch
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13h00 - 14h00
KEYNOTE 4
The Behavioural Edge: Embedding Human Psychology into AI Products
Discover how behavioural economics principles (friction, nudges, motivation) can be designed into AI systems to make them more intuitive, ethical, and impactful.
Shalia Naidoo
Head of Behavioural Economics Standard Bank
14h00 - 15h00
masterclass 5
Reinventing Leadership for the AI Economy
For nearly a century, we've assessed leaders the same way; psychometrics, structured interviews, backward-looking data. But AI is changing this. TA shares the new way of assessing leadership for the AI economy and demonstrates with a live simulation of how the best leaders cope in the face of overwhelming pressure of disruption.
TA Mitchell
Global Leadership Principal
Heidrick & Struggles
15h00 - 16h00
closing
Where Do We Go From Here?
You've built the literacy, leadership and AI leverage. Where do we go from here? Participants share what shifted and what they're doing differently on Monday.
Adam, Mark & Amy
16h00 - 16h45

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