Fast Company South Africa

Fast Company inspires a new breed of innovative and creative thought leaders who are actively inventing the future of business. With engaging narratives as informative as they are entertaining, Fast Company motivates fans to think beyond traditional boundaries, lead proactively, and most importantly, embrace change. The South African edition will be along the same themes as the USA; initially 40% of the content will be South African and 60% will be from the USA. For the first time, the South African market will have the opportunity to read exclusive interviews with the CEOs of Facebook, Amazon, NIKE, Google and the top international and local trend-setters across a broad spectrum of industries. South Africans are crying out for a younger, hipper business title – and now they will have one!

Fast Company South Africa

Times are changing

Yale University creativity expert on how to turn your ideas into action

STARTUP TOOLBOX

Vilosha Soni: Making marketing deliver what people want

WHAT IS QUANTUM? • COMPUTING REVOLUTIONS ARE SURPRISINGLY RARE. DESPITE EXTRAORDINARY TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS FROM THE FIRST GENERAL-PURPOSE DIGITAL COMPUTER— 1945'S ENIAC—TO THE SMARTPHONE IN YOUR POCKET, BOTH MACHINES WORK THE SAME FUNDAMENTAL WAY: BY BOILING DOWN EVERY TASK INTO A SIMPLE MATHEMATICAL SYSTEM OF ONES AND ZEROS. FOR DECADES, SO DID EVERY OTHER COMPUTING DEVICE ON THE PLANET.

Meet DR LULU GWAGWA The Visionary Rebuilding Africa from the Ground Up

DR LULU GWAGWA CEO - VISIONARY PLANNER - SOCIAL ARCHITECT

THE FINTECH WAVE: South Africa's Financial Establishment Disruptors

Yoco: Building an Ecosystem for Small Businesses

Bank Zero: Rethinking the Architecture of Banking

TymeBank: Banking the Unbanked

The Next Horizon: Crypto and the Future of Finance

WORLD CHANGING IDEAS 2025 • A PERUVIAN CEMENT COMPANY INVENTS A NEW KIND OF SIDEWALK TO HELP GUIDE THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED. A NEW HEALTHTECH PLATFORM LEVERAGES AI TO ELIMINATE INEFFECTIVE COUNTERFEIT ANTIBIOTICS FROM GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS. AND COSTCO CEO RON VACHRIS TAKES HONOURS AS THE INAUGURAL VISIONARY OF THE YEAR. THOSE ARE JUST THREE OF THIS YEAR'S 100 WORLD-CHANGING IDEAS WINNERS.

SAFER FOODWARE FOR SCHOOL CAFETERIAS

A NEW TREATMENT FOR SPINAL INJURIES

AN INFLATABLE, DURABLE BIKE HELMET

COOL SHELTERS

A HYBRID RV

VISIONARY OF THE YEAR

TACTILE WAYFINDING

SOIL-POWERED LAMP

USING AI TO ELIMINATE COUNTERFEIT DRUGS

RECYCLING WASTEWATER

REPLACING SUGAR WITH PROTEIN

THE PRICE OF LIFE • GILEAD SCIENCES, THE LEADER IN HIV MEDICATIONS, HAS DEVELOPED A NEW DRUG THAT COULD EFFECTIVELY END THE DISEASE. BUT NOT ALL PATIENTS SEE THE COMPANY AS A HERO.

STARTUP FUNDING FAIL: Inside the Epic Failure of an African Startup Funding Initiative • Just as one can hail a ride at the tap of a button, a similar revolution has unfolded in logistics—where trucks can now be summoned to transport cargo across cities and borders. This innovation was spearheaded by an African startup incubated by Founders Factory Africa (FFA), a venture studio and accelerator that once held immense promise. Partnering with Standard Bank, the startup helped reshape cargo movement across the continent.

The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

FAST EVENTS

“HOW IS EVERYBODY DOING?” • THAT TIME A TWEET FROM ELMO SPARKED A NATIONAL THERAPY SESSION.