Podcast appearances and mentions of brett loubser

“If I played you a track of music, could you tell if it was composed by a human or an artificial intelligence,” Tencent Africa CEO Brett Loubser asked an auditorium of people at the Standard Bank National Arts Festival's digital conference, Creativate. Amazingly, nobody could. How AI and machine learning are being adapted for the most personal of skills – creativity – offer not only a fascinating look at how it is being achieved; but an equally intriguing insight into how AI could work in fintech. He spoke to Stuff Studio's editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak. Read more on Stuff Studios.

Brett Loubser is the CEO of Tencent Africa Services, and is responsible for the operations of JOOX - a popular music-streaming app - in Africa. He has been working in the mobile industry since 1997, and has worked for a number of mobile companies including Nokia, MTN and Samsung electronics. He joined the Tencent family with WeChat in 2013 and during his tenure, the company has been responsible for a number of innovative and groundbreaking work on the continent. The overall theme is “Why tech is key to accelerating economic growth in South Africa."

Brett Loubser is the CEO of Tencent Africa Services, and is responsible for the operations of JOOX - a popular music-streaming app - in Africa. He has been working in the mobile industry since 1997, and has worked for a number of mobile companies including Nokia, MTN and Samsung electronics. He joined the Tencent family with WeChat in 2013 and during his tenure, the company has been responsible for a number of innovative and groundbreaking work on the continent. The overall theme is “Why tech is key to accelerating economic growth in South Africa."

We are talking AI with Brett Loubser - and bot was this a rabid hole of AI and music, the role of consciousness, our ability to adapt and whether we should be sacred or not.

CliffCentral.com — The Futurology team brings you one last batch of interviews with amazing speakers and guests from the Singularity University Summit. The Bretts talk to Brett Loubser about the SingularityU experience, discuss the future of mobility with Carlo van de Weijer, and have an out of this world conversation with Adriana Marais about being an aspiring Martian.

CliffCentral.com — The Futurology Team recently attended the SingularityU Summit in Johannesburg and had the privilege of interviewing many amazing people with a view of the future around things like Disruption & Exponential Technology. While they prepare the episodes from SingularityU, here's a previous episode, where the Bretts spent time with Brett Loubser of WeChat, discussing the book 'Sapiens' by Yuval Noah Harari.

CliffCentral.com — The Futurology team have Brett Loubser in studio... yes another 3-Brett get together, to talk about sapiens - what does that mean? Well, listen to this episode and find out. Prepare to have your mind blown!

CliffCentral.com — The Futurology Team chats to Lee Naik and Brett Loubser - two experts on the topic of where data has come from and where it's going to. They explore how humanity has stored and used data in the past, going as far back as rock paintings... all the way through to what the future holds for data when it comes to Quantum storage and real time data streamed from billions of IoT sensors. A complicated topic which is the basis of everything that is happening in digital, artificial intelligence and the future of life or death. Now THAT is deep!

In this episode As CEO of WeChat Africa, Brett Loubser’s role is to leverage the WeChat platform to the greatest extent possible in Africa. However, the market conditions in this continent are completely different from China. A focus on a chat app didn’t make sense for Africa, given the significant competitor products. Instead, Brett and his team focused on ‘the absolute power of the platform.’ In this episode of FinTech Insider, Brett shares great examples of how working with partner companies has proven to be such a great business model. “Our first major push into showcasing the power and potential of WeChat as a platform was the launch of Cliff Central,” Brett says. “We worked with a very bright young chap by the name of Gareth Cliff, who is one of the biggest media personalities in South Africa. At the time, he was the most popular radio DJ on the biggest free-to-air radio station in the country. He was looking to launch something of his own, and so we launched a digital radio station along with him on our platform. And that worked incredibly well because, not only was there the obvious benefit of partnering up with somebody who had a huge personal brand in South Africa, but also the benefits of showcasing digital radio being delivered on a chat platform was stopping people in their tracks.” Enjoy FinTech Insider? You’d make our week by telling a friend about us and leaving us a review on iTunes. The post Ep223 – WeChat Africa CEO Brett Loubser on the Power of the Platform appeared first on 11:FS.

In this episode As CEO of WeChat Africa, Brett Loubser's role is to leverage the WeChat platform to the greatest extent possible in Africa. However, the market conditions in this continent are completely different from China. A focus on a chat app didn't make sense for Africa, given the significant competitor products. Instead, Brett and his team focused on ‘the absolute power of the platform.' In this episode of FinTech Insider, Brett shares great examples of how working with partner companies has proven to be such a great business model. “Our first major push into showcasing the power and potential of WeChat as a platform was the launch of Cliff Central,” Brett says. “We worked with a very bright young chap by the name of Gareth Cliff, who is one of the biggest media personalities in South Africa. At the time, he was the most popular radio DJ on the biggest free-to-air radio station in the country. He was looking to launch something of his own, and so we launched a digital radio station along with him on our platform. And that worked incredibly well because, not only was there the obvious benefit of partnering up with somebody who had a huge personal brand in South Africa, but also the benefits of showcasing digital radio being delivered on a chat platform was stopping people in their tracks.” Enjoy FinTech Insider? You'd make our week by telling a friend about us and leaving us a review on iTunes. The post Ep223 – WeChat Africa CEO Brett Loubser on the Power of the Platform appeared first on 11:FS.

In this episode FinTech isn’t disrupting the financial industry in Africa – it’s building it across the continent. And because it’s being building without much legacy, by default it’s digital as a platform. In this episode of FinTech Insider Insights, we’ll shine a light on some great FinTech stories coming out of Africa, including approaches and ideas that incumbent institutions will find incredibly useful. Our guests Gerhard Coetzee, Lead Financial Sector Specialist at CGAP Lesley-Ann Vaughan, M-PESA Co-Creator Ron Webb, Director of Financial Services at Safaricom Brett Loubser, CEO at WeChat Africa “I’m extremely excited by how we’re going to see an increasing daily relevance of payments in people’s lives,” Ron says. “P2P transactions have been hugely important, and have been the bedrock of what M-PESA became. But you only send money P2P to your relatives, or people that you’re supporting, on a periodic basis. But you do merchant payments every single day – and many of them – and the increasing use of e-value in those day-to-day payments will increase daily relevance and create even more opportunity.” 11:FS blog posts mentioned in this podcast Banking APIs Aren’t about Tech or Banking 11 Banks and FinTechs Doing APIs Better Than You Did you learn something from this podcast? If so, please share the knowledge and tell a friend about FinTech Insider and leave us a review on iTunes. Thank you! The post Ep222 – FinTech Out of Africa appeared first on 11:FS.