The Exponential Enterprise in the Age of AI: Executive Awake Session
Tue Sep 22, 12:30 - Tue Sep 22, 18:30
Gallagher Convention Centre
ABOUT
AI is already changing your organisation. The question is whether you are leading it.
The Exponential Enterprise in the Age of AI: Executive Awake Session is a closed-door executive decision session for senior leaders who need clarity on AI strategy, value creation and transformation execution.
This is not another AI event.
It is not a product demo.
It is not a technical workshop.
It is not a generic panel discussion.
It is a focused executive environment designed to help leaders move beyond AI awareness and isolated experimentation — and into clearer decisions about where AI creates real value, where transformation stalls, and how organisations can move from ambition to execution.
On Tuesday, 22 September 2026, senior decision-makers, transformation leaders and enterprise executives will gather at Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand for a high-level conversation on AI strategy, business value, leadership, execution and the future of exponential organisations.
The session is led by Fabrice Testa, author of Super-Entrepreneurship Decoded, with strategic contributions from Craig Terblanche, Myles Hopkins, Alexa Terblanche and Liezel van Rooyen.
Early Access Pricing is available until 30 June 2026, subject to seat availability.
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Reserve your seat early. Seats are limited to preserve the quality, depth and peer-level engagement of the room.
OVERVIEW
The Exponential Enterprise in the Age of AI: Executive Awake Session
A closed-door executive decision session for leaders who need clarity on AI strategy, value creation and transformation execution.
AI is already changing your organisation. The question is whether you are leading it.
This Executive Awake Session is designed for senior leaders who need to move beyond AI awareness and into clear strategic decision-making.
This is not another AI event.
It is not a product demo.
It is not a technical workshop.
It is not a panel of generic opinions.
It is a focused executive decision environment created to help leaders understand where AI creates real enterprise value, where it creates noise, and how organisations can move from short-term AI initiatives to sustained transformation.
Date: Tuesday, 22 September 2026
Time: 12:30–17:00
Networking: Executive networking cocktails from 17:00
Venue: Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand, Johannesburg
Format: Closed-door executive decision session
Dress Code: Business / Executive
Seats: Limited
WHY ATTEND
AI is moving fast. Executive clarity matters more than ever.
AI is no longer a future conversation. It is already reshaping industries, operating models, workforces, customer expectations and competitive advantage.
For many leadership teams, the challenge is no longer whether AI matters.
The harder questions are:
How fast should we move?
Where should we invest?
How do we protect the core business while building the future?
Where does AI create real value?
Where does it create distraction, noise or risk?
How do we move from experimentation to execution?
What must leaders decide now?
This session is designed to help executive leaders gain the context, clarity and confidence needed to make better AI and transformation decisions.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Designed for senior decision-makers
This session is designed for executives and senior leaders responsible for strategy, transformation, innovation, technology, people, growth and enterprise execution.
It is especially relevant for:
CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, COOs and CHROs
Strategy, innovation and transformation executives
Heads of AI, digital, data and technology
Business leaders responsible for growth, operating models and enterprise change
Board-level influencers and decision-makers shaping the future direction of their organisations
This is best suited to leaders who are responsible for strategic direction, investment decisions, transformation priorities or enterprise-wide execution.
WHAT YOU WILL GAIN
Three outcomes from the session
Context
Understand how AI and exponential change are reshaping enterprise value creation, operating models, leadership priorities and competitive advantage.
Clarity
Gain a practical view of where AI can create business value, and where it may create unnecessary complexity, distraction or risk.
Decision confidence
Leave with a stronger leadership lens for what to prioritise, what to test, what to scale and how to move forward with confidence.
You will also gain insight into why AI initiatives often stall before they become enterprise transformation, and participate in high-quality executive conversation with leaders facing similar strategic decisions.
SPEAKERS & CONTRIBUTORS
Led by experienced voices in exponential transformation, AI strategy and enterprise execution
This Executive Awake Session brings together leaders with practical experience across exponential entrepreneurship, enterprise technology, AI-enabled transformation, business agility, customer value realisation, innovation systems and execution.
This is not a generic AI panel. It is a curated executive conversation designed to help leaders understand where AI creates value, where transformation stalls, and how organisations can move from ambition to execution.
Fabrice Testa
Lead Speaker | Serial Tech Entrepreneur | Keynote Speaker | Best-Selling Author of Super-Entrepreneurship Decoded
Fabrice Testa is a serial tech entrepreneur, international keynote speaker, best-selling author and thought leader known for helping ambitious leaders turn bold ideas into world-changing ventures.
Over the past 30 years, Fabrice has founded multiple companies that created hundreds of jobs and generated over €100 million in revenue. His entrepreneurial track record includes innovating disabled-friendly touchscreens, digitising toxic cinema prints and producing solar panels using raw sand.
For South African enterprise leaders, Fabrice’s authority matters because he brings the perspective of someone who has not only studied disruption, but built through it. His experience helps executives think beyond AI pilots and incremental improvement — towards scalable value creation, new business models and the leadership decisions required to compete in an exponential age.
As a keynote speaker, Fabrice speaks on Super-Entrepreneurship, the Age of Exponential Acceleration, innovation trends and future transitions. He is the author of Super-Entrepreneurship Decoded and creator of the Crazy Method™, a practical approach for helping game-changers materialise radical ideas.
Fabrice has been featured in leading media outlets including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Insider and Jack Canfield’s Success TV.
Craig Terblanche
Founder & Chief ExO Entrepreneur, ExoGroup | Leadership Consultant & AI Strategist, ExoFutures & ExoGroup PEF
Craig Terblanche brings more than three decades of pattern recognition across digital transformation, ICT strategy, enterprise technology, advisory, entrepreneurship and exponential organisation design.
He is the founder and chief ExO entrepreneur of ExoGroup, where he has helped shape an ecosystem focused on AI-enabled transformation, exponential growth, digital business acceleration, training, advisory and scalable impact. Craig played a pioneering role in establishing OutSystems in South Africa, with ExoGroup building the African market and partner ecosystem from 2012.
Craig has advised financial institutions, ICT companies and enterprise clients on sourcing strategy, bid strategy, mergers and acquisitions, commercialisation strategy, go-to-market strategy and business transformation. He has also participated in platforms including GovTech, ITWeb, CIO Challenge, IDC Summit, Tech4Africa, Topco AfricaTechWeek and the Microsoft CIO Council.
Craig is also the author of The AI Advantage: A Practical Guide for Non-Tech Leaders, helping executives understand AI strategy, business value and practical adoption.
At the session, Craig brings a strategic leadership lens on how organisations connect AI strategy, platform execution and scalable business transformation.
Myles Hopkins
Artificial Intelligence & Value Architecture Trailblazer | Business Agility Strategist | Founder & CEO, BeYond Agile
Myles Hopkins brings a sharp, execution-oriented lens to enterprise transformation, helping leaders anticipate change, adapt with confidence and build organisations that can thrive in fast-moving markets.
He is recognised as a pioneering voice in Artificial Intelligence, Value Architecture and Business Agility, with a strong footprint across Africa and active involvement in global agility and transformation communities.
Myles is involved in the Business Agility Think Tank, overseen by the Agile Business Consortium, where he has co-authored white papers on AI and Agility and Adaptive Strategy. He is also part of a team developing a white paper and playbook on how AI is forcing change management to change.
He has contributed to Africa Squad, with a focus on AI in Africa, and co-authored the white paper Africa’s Compute Manifesto: Building the Engines of Digital Power.
At the session, Myles brings the lens of value architecture, adaptive strategy and execution discipline — helping leaders connect AI transformation to measurable enterprise value.
Alexa Terblanche
Innovation Advisor | Author of AI-Powered Business and Growth | Helping African Leaders Harness Exponential Technologies
Alexa Terblanche brings a strong customer-value and execution lens to AI-enabled business transformation.
She is a strategic business and customer success executive with 19 years’ experience driving growth, customer success and high-performing teams across technology, services and enterprise environments. Alexa is recognised for transforming customer relationships into strategic partnerships, elevating service delivery and building empowered teams that deliver measurable business outcomes.
As Managing Executive at ExoSystems, Alexa leads strategy, operations and customer value realisation across sales, customer success, service delivery and finance. Her work focuses on aligning technology outcomes with executive-level business priorities, strengthening governance, scaling strategic partnerships and enabling teams to deliver exceptional customer value.
Alexa has managed relationships with 40+ enterprise customers across 7 industries, supported SaaS and platform solution adoption, strengthened customer retention and helped increase utilisation, licence value and measurable ROI across enterprise solutions.
Alexa is also the author of AI-Powered Business and Growth: A South African Leader’s Guide to Innovation, helping African leaders understand how to harness exponential technologies for practical business growth and transformation.
At the session, Alexa brings the voice of customer value, operational execution and enterprise adoption — helping leaders connect AI strategy to practical business outcomes, people performance and sustainable growth.
Liezel van Rooyen
Strategic Facilitator | AI Strategy & Execution Advisor | Exponential Transformation Leader | Author of Pretotyping with AI
Liezel van Rooyen brings a practical experimentation and execution lens to AI transformation, helping leaders move from strategic intent to validated action.
She is an AI strategy advisor, innovation systems expert, digital educator and exponential growth architect with decades of experience across financial services, education, technology, business innovation and transformation. Her work focuses on helping organisations use AI, experimentation, Agile, Exponential Organisations frameworks and pretotyping to reduce risk, unlock clarity and build scalable impact.
Liezel is the author of Pretotyping with AI: Rapid Idea Validation Using Real-World Behavioural Signals, a practical guide for helping innovators test bold ideas faster using AI-powered methods and real-world behavioural evidence.
Her background includes work with Standard Bank, Nedbank, TotalEnergies, Maurice Kerrigan Africa and ExoGroup, with experience across enterprise strategy, smart-card innovation, digital payment solutions, business development, leadership learning, customer acquisition and low-code transformation.
At the session, Liezel helps connect AI ambition to execution discipline — supporting leaders to think practically about what to validate, what to scale and how to move from experimentation to measurable transformation.
Books, White Papers & Thought Leadership
Published thinking behind the conversation
This Executive Awake Session is supported by practical thought leadership from the contributors, including:
Super-Entrepreneurship Decoded
Fabrice Testa
The AI Advantage: A Practical Guide for Non-Tech Leaders
Craig Terblanche
AI-Powered Business and Growth: A South African Leader’s Guide to Innovation
Alexa Terblanche
Pretotyping with AI: Rapid Idea Validation Using Real-World Behavioural Signals
Liezel van Rooyen
Africa’s Compute Manifesto: Building the Engines of Digital Power
Co-authored by Myles Hopkins
AI and Agility
Co-authored by Myles Hopkins
Adaptive Strategy
Co-authored by Myles Hopkins
Together, these contributors bring global perspective, African enterprise experience and practical execution insight to one focused executive decision session.
ACCESS OPTIONS
Executive Priority Access — Early Access: R3,900
Available until 30 June 2026, subject to seat availability.
After 30 June 2026, the standard ticket price for the main session will be R4,900.
Includes:
Access to the main Executive Awake Session
Arrival networking and curated executive introductions
Full participation in the executive decision session
Executive cocktail networking from 17:00
Event follow-up communication
Need an invoice or group booking support? Please see the “Invoice & Group Bookings” tab.
VIP Executive Access — Early Access: R7,900
Available until 30 June 2026, subject to availability.
After 30 June 2026, the VIP Executive Access price will be R10,500.
Includes everything in Executive Priority Access, plus:
A private executive breakfast or dinner conversation with selected speakers and executive guests
Priority seating at the main session
Premium small-group engagement
A signed copy of Super-Entrepreneurship Decoded by Fabrice Testa
VIP breakfast and dinner sessions will be scheduled on 23, 24 and 25 September 2026, subject to availability and final confirmation.
After your VIP registration is confirmed, our team will contact you to confirm your preferred date and breakfast or dinner slot.
Need an invoice or group booking support? Please see the “Invoice & Group Bookings” tab.
INVOICE & GROUP BOOKINGS
Invoice & Group Bookings
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EARLY ACCESS & AVAILABILITY
Early Access & Availability
Seats are limited to preserve the quality, depth and peer-level engagement of the room.
Current ticket prices are Early Access rates, available until 30 June 2026, subject to seat availability.
After 30 June 2026, the ticket prices will increase as follows:
Executive Priority Access
Early Access: R3,900
Standard price: R4,900
VIP Executive Access
Early Access: R7,900
Standard price: R10,500
Early booking is recommended.