COOi Studios, a premier digital transformation accelerator for South Africa’s leading corporations, will share its innovative approaches at Africa Tech Festival 2024. This festival is scheduled from November 11 to 14 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre [CTICC]. Despite launching just seven months before the pandemic, COOi Studios has achieved remarkable growth. It attributes this to a unique framework for team-building and digital strategy.
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On November 12 at 14:45, COOi Studios’ founder Sandiso Sibisi will speak at the EQL Lounge. He will reveal insights into building a high-performing team essential to the studio’s success.
“As a founder you start a business because you have a great idea, and you just want to get on with it. We as founders never signed up to be people managers! I will be sharing with founders how they can build a super team! People are integral to any business. So it’s important that founders sharpen their people and culture skills set” explains Sandiso Sibisi, Studios Director at COOi Studios.
The studio has also focused on leveraging big data to drive value, particularly in industries like mining and financial services. On November 13 at 12:20, during the Big Data Evolution panel at the AI Summit. Sibisi will discuss how large corporations can harness data from various sources for real-time insights. This will enhance health, safety, and customer experiences.
“We work with large corporate and by nature have a plethora of data sources. They struggle to gather insights and develop meaningful actions. Our role is to help them navigate this big data and gain value from it. On the panel I will share some use cases in financial services and mining” says Sandiso Sibisi.
Design Thinking Insights
“On November 14 at 11:50 am. Sibisi and COOi’s Senior Design Research Analyst, Lebogang Gwala, will present methodologies on embedding design thinking within corporate tech environments.
At COOi Studios, our approach is rooted in human-centered, customer-centric principles that guide every phase from idea cultivation to concept development. We’re passionate about using service design to drive innovative product development, enabling our clients to stay agile and responsive to their customers’ needs, says Lebogang Gwala, Senior Design Research Analyst at COOi Studios.
Joining the lineup will be Senior Strategy Analyst Sandile Khumalo and Senior Experience Design Analyst Thato Khoza, who will discuss how COOi Studios assists clients across financial services, health, resources, and telecommunications sectors in navigating the digital transformation landscape.
“At COOi Studios, we are aware of the many problems large corporates are trying to solve with speed and at scale and having dabbled in a few technologies, our aim is to help Digital Transformation Leaders achieve the best mix of technologies for their enterprise, applying today’s cutting-edge technologies to the most appropriate business use cases,” concludes Sandiso.
