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Embracing New Tech: How do leaders stay at the forefront?
The role of continuous learning, collaboration, AI, big data and how to fall in love with the problem.
DATE: 15 April 2025
TIME: 10:00-11:30 GMT
Your April MINDSPARK contributors:
ED GREIG
Ed Greig is the Chief Disruptor at Deloitte. The team he leads works with new technologies to deliver tangible benefits as quickly as possible to Deloitte’s clients and within the firm itself.
Despite working with the coolest tech around, from digital realities to robotics, the team’s strict mantra is “Fall in Love with the Problem, not the Solution”. They do this by focusing on creating a coherent end to end user experience, by thinking big, starting small and testing often, recognising that the real problem is bringing about cultural change enabled by technology, never about just implementing a technology solution.
Ed was a farmer and butcher before he joined Deloitte in 2009 as a graduate and has since worked across every industry and with clients ranging from global multi-nationals to start-up social enterprises. He’s the proud father of awesome Mini-Disruptors, Osip and Nina.
DR. ELIZABETH MKOBA
A Lecturer and Researcher at the School of Computational, Communication Science and Engineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Tanzania. Elizabeth has expertise and experiences in various areas, including Ethics in AI, AI Governance, Digital technologies development and implementation, Cybersecurity Governance, Corporate Governance, Risk Management, and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG). Her research interests encompass AI Governance and Ethics, Cybersecurity Governance and Risk Management, IT Project Management Audit & Assurance, ESG and Sustainability, and emerging technologies applications in various sectors.
Elizabeth holds several board positions, including CRDB Bank Burundi, Association of Commonwealth Leadership Conferences, Commonwealth Study Conference Global Alumni Inc., UK, and The Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conference Africa (CSC Africa) and a Deputy Chair (CSC Africa). She is an Expert Mentor for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation’s Inspiring Minds Mentorship Program for the global young researchers of Mathematics and Computer Science in Germany and Austria, and a mentor for PhD and Master’s students at the NM-AIST. Elizabeth is a member of professional organizations including the IEEE Computer Society, USA; DAMA International – The Global Data Management Community, USA; ICT Commission, Tanzania; International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), Canada; Project Management South Africa; Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA); South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT).
She has been a Global Alumni Member of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Global Leaders Commonwealth Study Conference, UK, since 2007. She obtained her BSc. in Computer Science from Osmania University, India (1997); MSc. in Computer Science from Central South University, China (2003); MBA in International Marketing from the Open University of Tanzania (2008); and PhD in Information Technology Management from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2018). Additionally, she completed three-years Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2020).
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