Topic of Main Talk - People: The Sometimes Forgotten Piece of the Puzzle
As leaders, we often measure our success by how effectively we deliver business value. While this is important, true leadership also involves fostering growth—both for ourselves and for those we lead.
Growth is a personal journey, and a great leader understands how to identify what growth means for each individual and how to nurture it. In this talk, we'll reflect on our current approaches and explore practical steps to facilitate long-term growth for yourself, your team, and your company.
With over 16 years of experience in Software Engineering, Liyaqat has honed a unique blend of technical expertise and leadership, enabling him to build high-performing teams that consistently deliver significant business value while maintaining technical alignment.
As an Engineering Manager at AnyVan, he oversees teams spread across the U.K., Poland, and South Africa, ensuring seamless collaboration and innovation across borders.
Liyaqat’s career journey through the travel, telecoms, and FinTech sectors has profoundly shaped his perspective and management style, bringing a rich and diverse understanding to his current role.
Beyond his professional commitments, he actively contributes to the community, volunteering with the WeThinkCode programme and serving as an advisor for a local outreach school programme.
Peach PaymentsPeach Payments make online commerce and digital payment acceptance easier and more accessible across Africa.
We believe in the potential of Africa and aim to grow into more countries.
Based in Cape Town, South Africa, we work with small and large merchants in South Africa, Kenya and Mauritius to provide a complete toolkit to accept, manage and disburse payments through web and mobile.
Our merchant partners include your favorite food delivery services, whether you are ordering in or using a meal kit, travel services that can help you book your next getaway adventure and even your neighbor’s side-hustle e-commerce store. For these partners and their customers, we aim to provide brilliant experiences that make it as easy as possible to facilitate online payments.
MoonpayMoonPay believes in building a world where you own your digital future, giving you control of your identity, money, property and data.
We are the market leader in end-to-end solutions simplifying access to the crypto economy for 20M+ people across 180+ countries, and trusted by iconic global brands including wallets, marketplaces, exchanges and leading web2 enterprises.
RootRoot is a platform for modern insurance designed around data, flexibility and control. It allows for end-to-end digital insurance that streamlines product launches and digital engagement.
Our easy-to-use APIs handle compliance, regulatory, and reporting complexities. Our low-code platform, designed for software developers by software developers, simplifies workflow and fosters innovation. We prioritize the needs of developers, designers, actuaries, and data scientists to build modern insurance products. Our APIs, product data models, and low-code environment empower product teams to prototype and launch tailored experiences for customers.
Our mission is to bring insurance to the internet age and make it more accessible to all.
OfferZenOfferZen is an online job marketplace by developers for developers.
Our mission is to help people unlock their potential by helping them build awesome software.That's why we are connecting actively looking developers with exciting job opportunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands.
We flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to candidates with upfront salary information.
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