SDT to focus on African life assurance industry at 2009 conference
SDT, the life assurance specialist in the JSE-listed SilverBridge group, is to focus on strategic opportunities in the African life assurance market during its industry conference at the Emerald Casino Resort on October 1 and 2.
SDT's popular conference, titled "Strategic Insight Into Life Assurance Opportunities on the African Continent", features a star-studded lineup of speakers, headlined by Grant Driver, a renowned business coach and international speaker. Driver will speak on "What now? How to survive and thrive in the global meltdown."
Other speakers and their topics:
• Professor Niek du Preez, CEO of Indutech, and Bernard Katz, business engineering services manager at Indutech, will speak on "Innovation: Part of your every-day business.”
• Jaco Swanepoel, CEO of SilverBridge, will address: Convergence of products in financial services: A look at what can be done and has been done in the world."
• John Turnbull, MD of Hollard partner The Best Funeral Society, will speak on "Micro-insurance: The balance between regulation and micro-insurance."
• Business consultant Johan Reyneke will look at: "Marketing in insurance - taking service to your customer: differentiated needs, differentiated solutions."
• Magnus Rademeyer, managing director at AfriGIS, will investigate how cellphone technology is being used to bring products and services to clients.
• Colleen Velleman, head: management consulting and support at Ones&Zeros, will examine how business and IT can be aligned through enterprise architecture.
• JC Oberholzer, chief systems architect at SDT, will present his views on "Technology trends and their possible implications on the financial services industry."
• Johan Oosthuysen, product executive at SDT, will examine the Gartner Hype Cycle and map it against the vision SDT has for its flagship solution, Exergy.
"The African market is opening up in an unprecedented manner, and all involved in the life assurance market should know precisely how to address the opportunities," says Lee Kuyper, commercial executive at SDT. "Although a closed event, all interested life insurers are invited to register and attend the event at Emerald Casino Resort, Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng. Attendance is free, including accommodation at the Emerald Hotel on the Thursday night. Delegates will be given unparalleled insights into the opportunities that the African continent presents."
• To attend the conference, visit http://www.sdt.co.za/life or e-mail conference@sdt.co.za
