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Your Host

Katlego Maboe Photo by Michael le Grange

Awarded the Golden Horn for Best TV Presenter at the 2016 SAFTAs, Katlego Maboe has grown year-on-year into a well-known TV presenter, singer, voice-over artist, MC, model and actor. Trilingual Katlego hosts the SABC3 show Expresso and Strictly Come Dancing. He speaks fluent Afrikaans, English and Setswana. He completed a B.Com degree in Chartered Accountancy at the North West University in 2007. Appointed a HOPE Cape Town Goodwill Ambassador in 2014, Katlego is regularly involved in philanthropic projects that focus on education and health, such as his ongoing community work with HOPE Cape Town and riding the Cape Town.

About TED and TEDx

TedxStellenbosch

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TEDspeakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

What does the x stand for? x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, selforganized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, selforganized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

TEDxStellenbosch is a unique community in South Africa’s oldest university town that celebrates world-changing ideas A curated line-up of speakers and storytellers from across disciplines take to the stage to inspire an audience of between 400 and 500 thinkers and doers. The annual gathering sees a collision of great minds, whether young or old, although always with a sense of wonder and curiosity.

The sparks ignited and the relationships started allow ideas to roll beyond the one day event. The ideas shared from the stage are only one component. It is the community that develops around the event that is the true magic of TEDxStellenbosch.

Now it is your turn. Plant the seed of an idea wherever you can, and water it with passion and energy, so that it may one day sustain us all.

The team

Photo by Lani van Niekerk

Monica Were, Andria Theron, Simoné Raubenheimer, Didintle Kgasi, Melissa Kroese, Moira Lotz, Karin Hammond, Gcinile Dlamini, Toni Nobre, Coba Kellerman, Tanya Steenkamp.

ABSENT: Carl Pretorius – TEDx license holder

SPEAKERS AILEEN HLONGOANE

Aileen Tsakane Hlongoane hails from Kwa-Ndebele , Mpumalanga Province.

Aileen, who holds an LLB degree from UP and is an admitted attorney, is currently practicing at Fivaz incorporated attorneys in Centurion. She is passionate about community development, particularly uplifting young girls.

She subscribes to the philosophy that: “I am because you are and since you are, therefore I am.�

MOSIDI MODISE

World Economic Forum Global Shapers Stellenbosch Hub. With a vision to create multiple agripreneurs, one community and one country at time, she co-founded GrowthShoot which empowers young farmers to build great businesses.

Through the Global Shapers Hub she aims to be a catalyst for social change and community building, through Hub-led projects and collaborative opportunities with other organisations in the Cape winelands region .

Aileen Hlongoane is the founder and president of Pledge a Pad (PAP) NPC (non-profit company). The PAP team works selflessly and tirelessly to collect, distribute sanitar y pad to underprivileged girls. They also conduct workshops to educated young women about personal hygiene, with particular emphasis on the menstrual cycle.

Her journey in life has allowed her many great opportunities - running her own awardwinning guesthouse at 20, finishing off an MBA at 25. She is passionate about working at Allan Gray, assuming a role that gives her a chance to lend her experience as an entrepreneur to be an intrapreneur. Mosidi has a great passion for social upliftment and is the Cofounder of GrowthShoot Inc as well as the curator of the

JOHAN SNYDERS

His role moved towards research and development in socket technology. He was a part of a team that created a new socket manufacturing framework which changed the materials and time frames involved in prosthetics fitment.

Seeing the potential of this socket technology in South Africa, he came back to SA and opened Icexpress Prosthetics.

Johan started Jumping Kids Prosthetic Fund to fund high end solutions for amputee children so they could attend mainstream schools, play sports and lead an active lifestyle.

MICHAEL STEVENS

going into property investment.

Meeting Johan in the build-up to London 2012 introduced Mike to Jumping Kids and a competition he won to work for a nonprofit of his choice brought him into the team.

He is a trustee, Jumping Kids operations manager and is currently studying Social Entrepreneurship at GIBS in order to develop Jumping Kids into a social enterprise capable of dealing with the issue of childhood amputation in South Africa.

A leg fracture as a teen made Johan Snyders choose prosthetics as a career. Upon graduating he opened a prosthetic rehabilation facility in the Middle East. There he worked with international manufacturers such as Ossur, a leading international prosthetic component manufacturer, who offered him a job.

This took him around the world and allowed him to gain experience manufacturing basic and high end prosthetic solutions.

At the age of 12 Michael was electrocuted by high voltage lines, leading to third degree burns to 70% of his body. Both his legs were amputated - one above knee, one below knee.

Michael attended King Edward VII School, completed a degree in marketing and PR at UJ before doing a post graduate in business administration at WITS business school. He managed a BMW dealership for a number of years before

SPEAKERS SIHLE TSHABALALA

Sihle Tshabalala, co-founder and CEO of Brothers for All/Up for All, is an ex-offender. During his time in prison, he became a key member of the Group of Hope programme (a prisonerinitiated project), and decided to spend his life helping others avoid the mistakes he had made. Since leaving prison, he co-founded Brothers for All and taught himself how to code.

He has become a key voice in his community. He teaches

CHRIS BERTISH

Chris is a professional Stand Up Paddler and holds the South African Open Ocean SUP 24-hour Distance World Record. In his popular Inspirational talks, Chris doesn’t just talk about what he does (believe it or not, he’s not one to brag about his achievements). Instead, he talks about why he does it. Because like every successful sportsperson, team-leader, businessperson or entrepreneur, Chris knows

Computer Programming/ Coding, Entrepreneurship, Digital Marketing and Graphic Design to high school drop outs, teenage moms, unemployed youth, exoffenders and offenders. He has presented at the Durban AIDS conference, spoken widely on TV and radio and was awarded 2014 LeadSA’s Hero of the month, 2015 LeadSA’s Future Leader, Mail and Guardian 200 Young South Africans and 2015 Spark Changemaker.

that it’s the reasons why we do something that determine how we do it – or whether we do it at all. Chris has become a sought after global speaker.

There’s an authenticity to this material that makes people sit up and listen.

Chris is not a full-time professional athlete; he’s a regular working guy. He was running his own small business while he did the tough training.

Chris is living proof that if you truly believe in something and work hard at it, you can achieve anything.

STUDENT COMPETITION WINNER

We launched a competition on the Stellenbosch University campus to find the perfect local candidate. We set out to find a student with exceptional leadership qualities and, most importantly, a new idea or initiative. After opening the floor to nominations, we let our Facebook community read through the options and vote for their favourite idea. More than a thousand votes later, we had our winner.

Today, the nominee with the most votes will share the floor with our other speakers to explain his/her winning idea with us.

MILES KUBHEK A

The IT graduate turned gastronomist is the founder, owner, and believer behind the renowned Vuyo’s brand.

Miles has always had the desire to make a meaningful mark on the world and in 2012 became the first person in the world to create a business based on a TV advert. The advert was about character “Vuyo” who starts off selling wors rolls from a food cart and then makes it “beeeg”.

Miles innovatively opened the first Vuyo’s restaurant in Braamfontein, serving fast-casual food, including gourmet-style South African staples. This restaurant, b ecause of its location, was a baptism of fire and misjudgement.

He closed the Braamfontein store, and started using the dashing food trucks we see today. He now has another restaurant on the famous Vilakazi Street in Soweto and four food trucks.

PROGRAMME 08:30-09:45 Registration 10:00-11:00 Session 1 Aileen Hlongoane Mosidi Modise 11:00 Break

11:30-12:45 Session 2 Johan Snyders & Mike Stevens Sihle Tshabalala 12:45-13:45 Lunch

13:45-14:30 Session 3 Chris Bertish

Student Competition Winner

14:30 Break

15:00-16:00 Session 4 Miles Kubheka * Meticulously chosen TED.com videos can be expected as well.

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