Johannesburg, November 2024 – COOi Studios a leading digital transformation acceleration partner to South Africa’s largest corporates is set to participate at Africa Tech Festival 2024, which will take place November 11th to 14th at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). The company will share its intellectual property that explains their exponential growth despite the pandemic that erupted seven (7) months after opening its doors. 

COOi Studios Founder Sandiso Sibisi, took to the EQL lounge stage on, 12^th November at to share COOi’s framework for how they have built a super team that has won them cutting edge technology and design projects. “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 use of big data to create value has been a key focus for COOi Studios, where they are helping mines use data to improve health and safety in real time, they are also helping financial service providers create better customer experiences using multiple data sources. On the panel Big Data Evolution at the AI Summite which took place , 13^th November at 12:20 Sibisi shared how large corporates can use data from various original equipment manufacturers (OMEs) and readily available external sources to gather insights and exploit them into meaningful actions automatically. 

“We work with large corporate and by nature have a plethora of data sources, many are struggling 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.

Sixty percent (60%) of COOi Studios revenue is from helping clients move from ideation to execution. Sandiso, joined by Lebogang Gwala, Senior Design Research Analyst will take the Africa Tech Centre Stage 14^th November 11:50, where they will share their methodologies and tools on how they are helping corporates embed design thinking in tech and company culture. 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. 

Sandiso and Lebogang will be joined by other COOi team members, Sandile Khumalo a Senior Strategy Analyst and Thato Khoza a Senior Experience Design Analyst. COOi Studios is committed to helping its mix of clients in financial services, health, resources, telecommunications to navigate this digital transformation in the new era. 

“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

COOi at Africa Tech Fest – Topics covered

10-14 November 2024

Building Blocks: A Founder’s Guide for Hiring the Right Team

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 2:45 PM to 3:30 PM · 45 min. (Africa/Johannesburg)

Bluebell – Level 3, CTICC 2

EQL: Lounge

COOi Representative: Sandiso Sibisi

Panel: Big Data Evolution: Exploring Trends and Innovations Shaping Tomorrow

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 12:20 PM to 1:00 PM · 40 min. (Africa/Johannesburg)

Nerina – Level 1, CTICC 2

The AI Summit: Practitioners

COOi Representative: Sandiso Sibisi

From Ideation to Execution: Embedding Design Thinking in Tech and Company Culture

Thursday, November 14, 2024 11:50 AM to 12:05 PM · 15 min. (Africa/Johannesburg)

AfricaTech Centre Stage – CTICC2 Exhibition

AfricaTech: Centre Stage

COOi Representative: Sandiso Sibisi & Lebogang Gwala