The Advertising and Media Association of South Africa hosts Google + Woocommerce (CPT)
Thu Aug 10, 16:00 - Thu Aug 10, 18:00
RED & YELLOW CAPE TOWN
ABOUT
About Jonathan AndrewsJonathan Andrews is an Agency Relationship Manager at Google South Africa. As a youngster Jono dreamed of a hard-hitting career in journalism and upon completion of his Bachelor’s degree at UCT he moved to Grahamstown where he attended Rhodes and achieved a post-graduate diploma in Journalism and Media Studies.
After graduating and eager to see the world, he travelled to Canada and the UK for three years where he managed to talk himself into jobs as diverse as working as a short-order cook, house-painter, call-centre agent and data-base administrator. When he returned to South Africa, ambitious to kick-off the media career he'd always hoped for, he faced a crossroads: commercial features writing for a daily broadsheet or online content development for an inbound travel company. He chose the latter and that was the start of a digital career that has spanned nearly 13 years. Jono has led digital performance media teams at iProspect and Ogilvy, and in 2012 he completed an MBA at UCT’s Graduate School of Business. His role at Google sees him working with creative and media agencies to build a robust digital ecosystem that benefits both agencies and their clients in a transformative way.
About Mark Forrester
Mark Forrester is a South African digital designer turned online entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of WooThemes - a business that he started with 2 strangers, whilst all living in different countries. WooThemes is most famous for WooCommerce - the fastest growing ecommerce platform online.
In 2015, Mark sold his business to Automattic and is now seeking new opportunities & adventures.
Follow his blog here: http://mark.blog/about/
Mark will be sharing his story of how a simple desire to earn annuity income as a web designer, set him out on a serendipitous journey into open commerce - equipping and enabling developers and entrepreneurs around the world. All the while powered by a remote team - a future of work he is passionate about.
OneDayOnly.co.za are on board and will be giving each guest a R150 voucher and a branded shopper bag to shop their site for some of SA's biggest daily deals. On the night OneDayOnly.co.za will also be giving away some amazing prizes - you won't want to miss this
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