The Futurists 2025Â
South Africa's biggest Trends showcase,
held on 21st January 2025 in Johannesburg.
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The 2025 Speaker Lineup
We compiled the finest panel of speakers in the country to speak about past, current and future trends.Â
Dion Chang:Â Dion is the Founder of Flux Trends. He is a business strategist, trends columnist, keynote speaker and professional cage rattler. Bronwyn Williams: Bronwyn is one of the best-known futurist and economists in South Africa. Tumelo Mojapelo: A newcomer in the futurist world Tumelo is fast becoming known as a razor-sharp analyst.
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The Futurists 2025
It was time for our annual 'The Futurists' event – the most informed and exciting way to kick off the year for entrepreneurs.
This time around, we asked, 'What could the Future hold?'
In the first quarter of 2025, a year after pivotal elections for our young democracy, entrepreneur community Heavy Chef and trends analysis company, Flux Trends cast a lens on what to expect going forward.
Dion Chang, Founder of Flux Trends, presented the much-anticipated 2025 edition of the Flux Trends annual flagship report, The State We’re In, designed to give you a diverse “tasting menu” of what the near and midterm future has in store for us all.
This report, Stepping into the Void, explored how the world and South Africa were becoming accustomed to the newly elected leadership and examined our current and future state.
This keynote was followed by Futurist and Partner at Flux Trends, Bronwyn Williams, who shared scenarios exploring future possibilities arising from these trends for entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Finally, our 2025 panel included Flux Trends Foresight Lead,Tumelo Mojapelo, who examined our confidence about the future. This session encouraged attendees to claim and use their agency to move from places of no or low confidence to places of full or high confidence in the face of uncertainty and complexity. It also provided entrepreneurs with tools to understand where they were and how to get to where they wanted to be while leading themselves and their teams into the void.
Event Details:
- Date: Tuesday, 21 January 2025
- Time: 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
- Start Time: 6:00 pm South Africa Time / Central Africa Time.
- Venue: Sandton, Johannesburg.
Partners:
- The Futurists events are brought to you by Flux Trends and Heavy Chef.
- Heavy Chef events are brought to you by Paystack, South Africa Future Trust, Daily Maverick and Workshop17.
- Support is provided by Quicket, Workshop17, Sir Fruit, Happy Culture and Backsberg and Sally-Anne Creed.
- Heavy Chef is proud partners with xneelo, Whipping the Cat and Global Citizen.