Standard Group Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Paul Melly
Was the Second to the podium who once sat as a financial market regulator an introduced his keynote with the resignation of Steve Jobbs. Starting by saying that leadership is the core pillar of everything. How will you feel being in a forest without a navigating instrument. Leadership is the compass. Leadership and vision march together. Giving scenarios of Kenya he said that if you knock your competitor knock him dead. His regard on technology he said that its advancing very much and no control over. Think beyond your silos and be creative he encouraged the participants to shy away from googling impact. The realm of innovation is the university we expect to see that. In is last word he gave a view on politics and said that joining politics changes your thinks to politics and you become short sighted..
Praised Kenya as birth of m-pesa. That is now an international brand. Focusing on ICT he said that its the transforming agent of the global economy and Thus a needs to integrate business with ICT since its the foundation of stabilization of economy and that ICT affects all sectors of economy. Its the main contributor of economic growth through the impact of efficiency and communication. Is the only product in the world that interact with the unbanked attracting to a tune of 14Million users. Through the ict His company was introducing new product dubbed cloud computing that reduces the infrastructure cost.. Fibre to the homes together with other players. Tele-presences. Tele-medicine. ICT being embraced by kenya wildlife services giving examples of population control senses and geographical positioning systems M-pesa is more than a technology. In his parting shot he categorically stated that "the world is changing and we must be prepared to change".
, Uchumi Chain of Supermarkets CEO Jonathan Ciano
Termed has the turn around CEO. Jonathan Ciano of the Uchumi supermarkets and alumni of Nairobi university. Started by explain his area of field by posing the question what business are? Business depend on strategy, culture and leadership. They all start on the same platform and work together to embrace both transformation and transactional. Leadership works together with teamwork clearly differentiating it from a group: teamwork he say its an objective taking you forward. Any leader must love life,be a celebrator sees beyond horizons and gives hope. Picking from a Chinese proverb he states that "never pray for what you don't want". Leaders share themselves they add value and communicate effectively. He adds to say that condusive culture breeds good leaders. Leaders turn forces to alliances and they identify the economic drivers challenging the audience the said if you don't measure what you are doing then you cannot be able to do what you want. Leaders employ communication and visiting the business.
and Kenya Wildlife Services Director Julius Kipng’etich and Brand Kenya Chief Executive Mary Kimonye.
Information and Communications Permanent Secretary, Dr Bitange Ndemo: who are passive users of technology he questions.... Africa seems to be the intended answer, cross cutting on the govt efforts one the information sector announcing the latest breakthroughs of the govt with the new products such as the e governance open data and linkage of optic fibre. And the closure of fake phones was the topic to end the day.
PhD-Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Carroll School of Management John Gallaugher who spoke on leveraging Mobile, Social Media, Entrepreneurship, and Business Education. giving an example on m-Farm – for inspiration, start learning about the winner of the 2010 Nairobi IPO48 event targeted at using mobile devices to empower African farmers.m-Farm – for inspiration, start learning about the winner of the 2010 Nairobi IPO48 event targeted at using mobile devices to empower African farmers.. This year's conference saw 100 papers being presented which includes: Safeguarding Kenya's business hub status. The duty and action of corporate social responsibility from the perspectives of Vedanta. The consequence of mobile number portability in Kenya and its usage factors. The impact of foreign direct investment FDIs on economic growth and development in Kenya by a friend of mine Kim Musau. Human capital and economic growth in Kenya. Synergies between formal and informal business community. Transformation of capital market authority through asset securitization. Business Benefits of social networking in gaining leverage among the media houses in Kenya. Digital divide. Investigating selected organisational variables leadership performance intent and organizational performance in Kenya public enterprises. The glaring reality. last was a funny one the performance of initial public offerings from the Nairobi stock exchange.
Can't wait for the 3rd conference next year for more insight in business and management across the world. .
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