Pieter Geldenhuys

As a conceptual thinker, he constructed various models to understand the impact of technology on the future. In his academic capacity he has taught Strategic Technology & Innovation Management as well as E-business & Internet strategy at a MBA level for the better part of a decade. His current tenure is at the UNISA Graduate School of Business Leadership. He is the driving force behind the country's first year-long post-graduate Programme in E-commerce, and is a keen commentator in the public space with dozens of television appearances and more than a 100 radio appearances under his belt in his weekly programme "The Internet Paradigm Shift" on South Africa's Radio Sonder Grense. He has co-authored an academic handbook on E-commerce Management, and is currently doing research for a new book, called Cybersphere.

As entrepreneur he has launched a number of successful ventures in the E-commerce and Mobile commerce space, and acts as Technology Strategist for a number of promising ventures. On the other side of the scale, he also acts as E-commerce strategy coach and technology gatekeeper for various Top 100 firms. As a futurist, his comments on the future impact of technology on organisations, countries and societies are highly regarded in academic and business spheres. He is also a passionate speaker that has the rare gift of using the future of technology to intrigue and inspire audiences wherever he goes. He constantly lives in the future, because that is where he will spend the rest of his life anyway.