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SUMMARY:Ep 1: Upskilling and Building Talent in an AI World
DESCRIPTION:  \nOur opening session for 2026 takes on the talent question head-on: \n“If AI can do the work\, how do we ensure people still learn how the work works?” \n  \nJoin us for the first Insights Event to hear from two leaders who are actively shaping the answer: \n✨ Trenton Birch\n       Futurist & Founder\, Future School AI \n✨ Su Little\n       Digital Marketing & AI Skills Trainer\, Little Digital \n  \nWhether you’re a graduate finding your feet\, a specialist navigating a rapidly changing discipline\, or a senior leader thinking about your team’s capability over the next three years\, this is a conversation you need to be part of. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n📅 Date: Thursday\, 2 April 2026\n🕚 Time: 11 AM\n📍 Platform: Zoom Livestream \nRegistration is free \n  \n  \nREGISTER NOW\n  \n 
URL:https://iabsa.net/event/ep-1-2026-upskilling-and-building-talent-in-an-ai-world/
LOCATION:In-person Event\, The Forum at the Campus\, Bryanston\, Sandton\, Gauteng\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Ep 2: Staying Human: Influence in Gen AI
DESCRIPTION:  \nAs AI rapidly reshapes marketing\, media\, and content creation\, the influencer marketing industry is entering a new era of intelligent augmentation. From AI-assisted creator discovery and campaign reporting to synthetic influencers and AI-generated content\, the technology is already embedded within the workflows of brands\, agencies\, and creators alike. \nHosted by the IAB SA Influencer Marketing Committee\, this webinar explores the evolving relationship between automation and authenticity — asking not whether AI belongs in influencer marketing\, but how the industry can use it responsibly\, ethically\, and strategically. \nThe session will unpack how AI is changing influencer workflows\, where human creativity and emotional intelligence still matter most\, and what South Africa needs to do to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving global landscape. Through perspectives from agency leaders and creators working directly within the space\, the conversation will address AI-assisted content creation\, creator authenticity\, disclosure obligations\, synthetic influencers\, AI ethics\, and the future standards required to protect trust within the creator economy. \nKey themes include: \n\nAI as a co-pilot within influencer marketing workflows\nThe balance between automation and authentic storytelling\nAI-generated creators\, disclosure\, and ethical considerations\nThe future of creator and agency skillsets\nHow South Africa can proactively shape AI standards within influencer marketing\nThe IAB SA Influencer Marketing Committee’s commitments around disclosure\, AI literacy\, and industry guidance\n\n  \nOur panel of speakers: \n✨ Casey Mantle\n       Head of Digital @ Special Effects Media \n✨ Thato Rampedi \n       Founder @ Rampedi Media\n \n✨ Amanda Hoosen\n       Digital Marketing Director @ WPP Media \n  \nJoin our panel as they examine what professionals need to do to stay relevant\, effective and competitive in the AI arena. \n  \n  \n📅 Date: Thursday\, 28 May 2026\n🕚 Time: 11 AM\n📍 Platform: Zoom Livestream \nRegistration is free \n  \n  \nREGISTER NOW\n  \n 
URL:https://iabsa.net/event/ep-2-2026-from-artificial-automation-to-human-augmentation-staying-human-influence-in-gen-ai/
LOCATION:In-person Event\, The Forum at the Campus\, Bryanston\, Sandton\, Gauteng\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Ep 3: The Next Chapter of Marketing - What really matters?
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, the IAB SA Insights Series 2026 returns with Episode 3: The next chapter of marketing – what really matters\, hosted by the IAB SA Brand Council.  AI is no longer just changing how we execute marketing. It is changing what marketing actually is. \nAs agentic systems take on briefs\, generate creative\, personalise at scale and measure impact in real time\, the question facing brand professionals is no longer about efficiency. It is about what remains distinctly human – and why that still matters. \nEpisode 3 of the IAB SA Insights Series 2026 tackles this question head on. The IAB SA Brand Council will unpack how agentic AI is reshaping the discipline of marketing\, from the talent pipeline to the township economy to the evolving role of agencies. \n  \nJoin us as we explore: \n\nThe future of the marketing talent pipeline\, and how expertise is built when AI handles execution\nWhy South Africa’s informal economy is a missing dataset in AI-driven marketing\, and what that means for brands\nThe ethical and commercial obligations brands have toward underrepresented consumers\nWhere agencies genuinely add value as AI reshapes the creative production model\n\n  \nOur panel of speakers: \n✨Masego Motsogi\n      Managing Director\, M+C Saatchi Abel \n✨Sibusiso Mbingo\n      Founding MD and Chief Innovation Officer of Africa AI Growth & Innovation Group \n✨Geoff Masuta \n      Group Head Advertising\, MTN\n \n  \nJoin our panel as they examine what professionals need to do to stay relevant\, effective and competitive in the AI arena. \n  \n  \n📅 Date: Thursday\, 25 June 2026\n🕚 Time: 11 AM\n📍 Platform: Zoom Livestream \nRegistration is free \n  \n  \nREGISTER NOW\n  \n 
URL:https://iabsa.net/event/ep-3-the-next-chapter-of-marketing-what-really-matters/
LOCATION:In-person Event\, The Forum at the Campus\, Bryanston\, Sandton\, Gauteng\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Ep 4: Artifical Intelligence - How Taste and Judgement Create the Advantage
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, the IAB SA Insights Series 2026 returns with Episode 4: How Taste and Judgement Create the Advantage over AI. This event is hosted by the IAB SA Media Council. \nArtificial intelligence is rapidly changing how media strategies are researched\, developed\, activated\, optimised and measured. The same models and increasingly similar platform tools are now available to agencies\, brands and individuals across the industry. Access to AI is therefore unlikely to remain a meaningful competitive advantage for long. \nThe differentiator will be what people bring to the technology. \nIn media\, better output depends on the quality of the brief\, the strategic choices made before activation\, the signals selected\, the assumptions challenged and the judgement applied to what the machine produces. AI may generate hundreds of possible audiences\, channels\, scenarios or recommendations\, but it still requires human taste and judgement to decide what is relevant\, distinctive and right for the brand. \nThis panel explores how AI and human intelligence can work together to improve media strategy\, rather than simply making existing processes faster. \n  \nOur panel of speakers: \n✨ Kyle Oosthuizen\n       CEO at Blue Robot Group       \n✨ Graham Denesys \n      Chief Strategy Officer at the Dentsu Media Line of Business \n✨ Courtney-Lee Chapple\n      Director of AI\, Brave Group\n \n \n  \n  \n  \n📅 Date: Thursday\, 30 July 2026\n🕚 Time: 11 AM\n📍 Platform: Zoom Livestream \nRegistration is free \n  \n  \nREGISTER NOW\n  \n 
URL:https://iabsa.net/event/ep-4-artifical-intelligence-how-taste-and-judgement-create-the-advantage/
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SUMMARY:Bookmarks 2026:  Awards ceremony
DESCRIPTION:  \nMark your calendar now with the biggest night in the digital media and marketing industry: the 18th Bookmark Awards. \n  \nJoin us on Thursday 13 August 2026 at The Forum at the Campus\, Bryanston as we come together to award and celebrate those who raise the benchmark in digital excellence.  The award-winning digital publishers and creatives will once again showcase their digital mastery. \n  \nFurther details of finalists\, ceremony format\, dress\, etc. will be broadcast as and when they are made available. \n  \nBe sure to subscribe to our newsletter to receive these in good time and keep an eye open for updates on the Bookmarks website. \n  \n  \n  \n📅 Date: Thursday\, 13 August 2026\n🕚 Time: 6pm for 7pm start\n📍 Venue: The Forum at the Campus\, Bryanston \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://iabsa.net/event/bookmarks-2026-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:In-person Event\, The Forum at the Campus\, Bryanston\, Sandton\, Gauteng\, South Africa
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SUMMARY:Ep 5: The Augmented Agency - Global Best Practice in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:  \nOn Thursday 27 August\, the IAB SA Insights Series 2026 returns with Episode 5: The Augmented Agency – Global Best Practice in the Age of AI.   This event is hosted by the IAB SA Agency Council.  \nArtificial intelligence is moving rapidly from experimentation into the infrastructure of agency work. Across global markets\, agencies are using AI to support research\, strategy\, creative development\, content production\, media planning\, optimisation and measurement. \nThe central challenge is no longer whether agencies should adopt AI. It is how the industry should move from artificial automation to human augmentation. \nWhen AI started changing the agency model\, every market had to figure it out for themselves. Some moved early. Some moved fast. Some learned the hard way. \nAustralia and the UK are among the markets furthest along the journey. Their agencies have already been through the first wave of AI adoption. They have operationalised tools\, rebuilt workflows\, rethought skills and confronted the uncomfortable questions about what AI actually does to client relationships\, to creative value and to the people doing the work. \nSouth African agencies are navigating the same transition. The difference is that we don’t have to navigate it blind. \n  \nThis episode of the IAB SA Insights Series will close that gap when the IAB SA Agency Council hosts a global panel that brings together two of the most authoritative voices on agency transformation in the digital industry: \n✨ Gai Le Roy\n       CEO\, IAB Australia  \n✨ James Chandler  \n      Chief Strategy Officer\, IAB UK  \nBetween them\, they will unpack what is actually happening inside agencies in two of the world’s most advanced digital markets. Not the AI tools story. The transformation story. How agencies are redesigning their operating models\, their talent strategies\, their governance frameworks and their value proposition to clients. \nThey will also be honest about where implementation is going wrong: the mistakes agencies are making\, the gaps between AI’s promise and reality on the ground\, and what a genuinely augmented agency looks like in practice. \n  \nThe central question of the session is one every South African agency leader should be sitting with right now: \nWhat can South African agencies learn from markets that have moved faster and further on this journey? \nWhether you lead\, work in\, buy from\, or are building an agency\, this session will give you a clearer view of where the industry is heading and what you need to do to be ready. \n  \n  \nThe IAB South Africa Insights Webinar Series is brought to you in partnership with\nOrnico\, Everlytic and Special Effects Media South Africa. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n📅 Date: Thursday\, 27 August 2026\n🕚 Time: 11 AM\n📍 Platform: Zoom Livestream \nRegistration is free \n  \n  \nREGISTER NOW\n  \n 
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SUMMARY:IAB Global Content Creator Week: Insights Event
DESCRIPTION:  \nIAB Global Creator Week is made up of 17 events over one week taking place from 14 to 18 September. \nThe IAB Global Network is putting the creator economy under the spotlight across markets including South Africa\, the UK\, Brazil\, Canada\, Germany and Mexico. The focus is on what matters most right now: transparency\, measurement\, governance and innovation. \nFind out more about IAB Global Creator Week here. \nOur South African episode picks up exactly where the Insights Series webinar would have. We are getting into creator disclosure\, tax obligations and a regulatory landscape that is shifting fast\, with creators\, brands\, agencies and industry leaders all at the table. \nSouth Africa’s creator economy is entering a new phase of maturity\, and the standards we set now will shape it for years. Together\, we’ll discuss how collaboration and practical guidance can strengthen trust\, support professionalisation and lay the foundations for a more sustainable creator economy. \nThis is a rare chance to be part of that conversation\, locally and globally\, in a single week. \nOur speaker panel: \n✨ Amanda Hoosen Ramguthee\nAfrica Digital Director for The Coca-Cola Company at WPP Media \n✨ Jolene Roelofse  \n      Founder and CEO of Fluence Africa  \n✨ Pieter Groenewald  \n       Founder and COO of Nfinity Influencer \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n📅 Date: Wednesday\, 16 September 2026\n🕚 Time: 11 AM\n📍 Platform: Zoom Livestream \nRegistration is free \n  \n  \nREGISTER NOW\n  \n 
URL:https://iabsa.net/event/iab-global-content-creator-week-insights-event/
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SUMMARY:2026 Red & Yellow Student Showcase: Industry Night
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome meet the future giants of industry at the 2026 Red & Yellow Student Showcase: Industry Night\n  \nYou’re invited to get a first look at bold ideas\, brilliant portfolios and the emerging talent behind them. \nExperience creative magic and commercial logic in action\, meet some of this year’s Loeries award winners\, and connect with the next generation of creatives\, designers and digital innovators ready to make their mark on industry. \nLooking for your next hire\, collaborator or a fresh perspective? You’ll find them here. \n  \n  \n📅 Date: Thursday 26 November 2026\n🕚 Time: 6pm – 9pm\n📍 Where: Red & Yellow Creative School of Business: 97 Durham Ave\, Salt River\, Cape Town. \nRSVP here: Red & Yellow Creative School of Business | Showcase: Industry Night \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \n 
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