Matt is a Fulbright scholar who completed his PhD in computational biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He focused on network analysis, multi-objective optimization, and the advanced simulation of high-dimensional systems in the context of DNA nanotechnology. From there Matt has developed powerful predictive analytical methods for application to Big Data. He co-founded the data-science start-up, Tenji and is also the Lead Technologist of Open Data Durban, a civic technology non-profit that leverages modern technologies to democratize

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Annabel is the CEO and founder of Strider Technologies, a leading fintech, insurtech and edtech consulting enterprise. She is rated as one of the top females in technology in Africa. Although Annabel is a mechanical engineer with a background in nuclear materials, she decided to move into the exponential technology space when she realized that she has a passion for building systems that educate people and create impactful solutions that serve society.  She most recently founded Brave, a business that

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Matt Marx is the co-founder of iosiro, a blockchain cybersecurity startup. Before entering the world of entrepreneurship, he was an ethical hacker and helped a number of publicly listed companies around the world improve their cybersecurity. In 2015, he won the global Security Researcher of the Year, and now speaks frequently at international conferences. Matt has served as a security consultant to the European Commission, and lead the team that won the 2015 DEFCON password cracking challenge; a global hacking

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Tim is the CFO of Aerobotics – a company focussed on using drones to map citrus fields across the globe, to provide farmers with realtime reliable data that is accurate to the level of individual trees, to usher in the new era of exponential farming. Tim is a chartered accountant, and after his Deloitte articles joined Uber as the operations lead for Sub-Saharan Africa. Tim is intimately acquainted with exponential growth of startups having been responsible for scale at Uber,

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