Breaking Business Boundaries with 4Sight Automated Intelligence
Join 4Sight and Microsoft on the 2nd of October 2025 at the Microsoft offices, for an exclusive event showcasing how Agentic AI and intelligent automation are breaking business boundaries!
Reshaping the way businesses operate, make decisions, and grow
- from the factory floor to boardroom vision.
Real-world use cases
AI for business is not the same as general use of AI for research and content searching. Come and see over 30 use cases, deployed with some of our customers and vendors, and see the ROI / successes - demonstrating how leading organisations are already leveraging intelligent automation to unlock agility, efficiency, and innovation.
What You Can Expect
Rooted in our 4AI strategy, this event brings together thought leaders, technology experts, and business innovators to unpack how autonomous, adaptive AI-powered solutions are transforming real-world operations across industries and sectors.
We start with an overview by Microsoft South Africa Chief Solutions and AI Transformation Officer, Ravi Bhat and Tertius Zitzke, Group CEO of 4Sight - explaining the value of Agentic AI in your business. This will be followed by 3 streams: 4AI solutions in Business Applications, 4AI Solutions in Data & AI and 4AI Solutions in Digital & App Innovation, focusing on People, Sales, Operations, Finance and Innovation/Product solutions.
"Innovation begins with mastering and automating the simple, repetitive processes that too often bog down business growth."
Tertius Zitzke, Group CEO, 4Sight
Don’t miss this opportunity to see how 4Sight and Microsoft are helping enterprises build intelligent, adaptive solutions that move business forward — faster, into the future.
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📅 Save the Date: 2 October 2025 | 📍 At Microsoft | Hosted by 4Sight
Tertius Zitzke
Group Chief Executive Officer, 4Sight Holdings
Tertius Zitzke is the Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of 4Sight Holdings Limited since November 2019. As a visionary and forward-thinking leader, Tertius has been recognised for his contribution to the ICT sector and continues to inspire the next generation of business leaders. He has a proven track record of successfully implementing technology solutions that improve efficiency, productivity, and profitability for customers.
Tertius is spearheading the future investment focus of 4Sight Holdings into AI technologies. This strategic move complements the company’s existing expertise in automation, data analytics, cloud computing, and industry 5.0 solutions. 4Sight’s AI advancements are driving digital innovation across various sectors.
Ravi Bhat
Chief Solutions & AI Transformation Officer @ Microsoft | BCom, CA, MBA
With over three decades of experience in the technology industry, he is driven by a passion for innovation, people leadership, and purposeful transformation. In his current role, he combines deep financial expertise, strategic business insight, and technical depth to help organisations shape and execute impactful transformation strategies.
Together with his team, Ravi enables customers to accelerate their AI transformation journeys through hands-on expertise and strategic guidance. He was recognised among the 100 Most Influential African Leaders in Technology and Telecommunications (2024) by Africa Tech Festival and Connecting Africa and he serves on the Leadership Council of #AfricaTechFestival for 2025, contributing to the continent’s digital future.
Charl Amin
Director of Enterprise Partnerships, Microsoft South Africa
Charl Amin has 22 years of experience mainly in technology, consulting services and market development across Africa, Middle East, UK and Europe. She has worked for the last 4 years within the Microsoft ecosystem with clients to digitally accelerate their businesses through codeveloping new business models and products using cloud and AI technologies.
Nick Botha
Chief Partner Officer, 4Sight Holdings
Nick Botha leads 4Sight's Indirect Business Model through the Channel Partner (CP) Cluster with a clear mission: to build and empower a global partner ecosystem that drives digital transformation across Africa, Central Europe, and the Middle East. He helps the partner ecosystem and their customers with their journey of Digital AI Transformation.
With a career rooted in strategic growth and partner enablement, Nick is the architect behind 4Sight’s partner-driven expansion model. His leadership has been instrumental in scaling the company’s footprint through collaborative engagements, innovative sales strategies, and a relentless focus on delivering real-world value through emerging technologies like 4AI. His emphasis on persistence, community-building, and strategic alignment has fostered a culture of resilience and high performance within the partner network.
Lionel Moyal
Channel Partners Lead - Africa Region, Microsoft
Lionel Moyal is the SI and Channel Partners Lead for the Microsoft Africa Region. As a member of the leadership team at Microsoft South Africa, he has been responsible for building and growing a thriving partner channel, including Systems Integrators, ISVs, Startups, Channel Partners and Global Partners.
Lionel has a diverse range of business experience in the technology space. He is passionate about technology and innovation, startups and growth businesses. He is an advocate for responsible digital transformation through technology and people-driven organisational change and aligning digital transformation initiatives with corporate governance as per King IV.
Andy Sherring
Founder and CEO, NextGenOpX
Andy is an industry-leading integrated operations expert. His unique, comprehensive approach is built around an intimate understanding of operations and organisational culture from 40 years’ mining industry experience, including senior management roles with major mining companies. He led the design and delivery of Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s ground-breaking Operations Centre in Perth, which integrated the planning and execution of the mining, rail and port ops, adding $2bn/yr value.
He subsequently developed a comprehensive solution for Integrated Operations, and established NextGenOpX’s unique business model. Recent engagements include: the successful design and implementation of a fully integrated operating model for Sasol Mining; the design of Rio Tinto Iron Ore's Future Operating Platform; and the global integration of the Komatsu and Joy Global mining businesses. He is the author of a best-selling book titled ‘Don’t Digitise Your Rubbish’, which is the mining industry’s definitive book about integration and using it as a vehicle for transformative change.
Carl Sandrock
Head of Data Science, Traction
Carl Sandrock spent 15 years at the University of Pretoria researching the interface between computers, process control, and human interaction. During this time, he developed modeling tools for nonlinear process simulation, with a particular emphasis on stochastic simulation. He supervised numerous postgraduate projects in collaboration with industry partners, including Sasol, Sappi, and Anglo Platinum, focusing on leveraging process models to enhance control, deepen understanding of process behavior, and augment process engineering expertise with algorithmic knowledge discovery.
He is a co-author of the SHGO optimization algorithm, which is integrated into scipy.optimize. Additionally, he contributes to the development of the Psibyl Model Predictive Controller. Currently, Carl serves as the Head of Data Science and AI at Traction, where he applies process control principles to brand management and expands his expertise into artificial intelligence.
Ian Mackay
Associate Director, PWC South Africa
Ian Mackay is deeply passionate about Business Development, Operational Efficiency, Operations Management, Project Specification, Project Delivery, and fostering satisfied, repeat clients. With extensive experience consulting across nearly 40 cities in regions including South East Asia, South Africa, Africa, the USA, the UK, Europe, and South America, he excels at building rapport and creating sustainable, efficient, and profitable solutions to business challenges, engaging effectively with stakeholders from the CEO level to the production line.
Werner Grundling
Managing Director, NextGenOpX
Werner is the Regional Partner and MD Africa for NextGenOpX, overseeing project delivery of business-wide solutioning projects, integrated operations platform implementation, and PMO services. He has 25 years' experience at Anglo American Platinum in both strategic and operational roles, in South Africa and internationally.
Werner has led various successful strategic turnaround and transformation programmes, which have delivered sustainable cultural change and major value improvement. These have included cross-functional enterprise optimisation, spanning conventional, mechanised, open pit and processing operations. He places a particular emphasis on sustainable cultural change and value delivery. A systems-thinker, who can translate abstracts and concepts into practical solutions to optimise the business model, and develop programmes that deliver results.
Percy French
Divisional Engineering Manager, Sibanye Stilwater
Percy, is the divisional engineering manager for control and Instrumentation at Sibany Stillwater Platinum division. He holds an NH. Diploma in electrical engineering light current and process control. He has 34 years’ experience in the South African mining, metals as well as Iron and Steel manufacturing industries. In his professional life, his passion is to develop and enhance automated systems and process control optimization. Over the last 25 years, he was involved with the design, construction and optimisation of various Mining related operations, spanning from Shaft winder system, Compressed air, PGM Concentrators, smelting and refining.
He is part of the local technical schools tutor program as it also fits in with what he enjoys the most, which is model engineering of live steam locomotives, developing electronic circuits and coaching cross-country running. He enjoys vegetable gardening as a hobby as well as middle and long-distance road running.
Microsoft South Africa
Microsoft South Africa is the regional headquarters for Microsoft’s operations across West, East, and Central Africa, based in Johannesburg. As a hub of innovation and energy, the office reflects Microsoft’s commitment to empowering every person and organization to achieve more. The team partners with both public and private sectors to drive digital transformation, build essential 21st-century skills, and support inclusive economic growth across the continent
With a focus on cloud computing, AI, and business applications, Microsoft South Africa plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of work and technology in the region.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-za
NextGenOpX
NextGenOpX is a global management consulting firm that specialises in integrated operations to help organisations unlock untapped value, improve productivity, and prepare for digital transformation. Their unique NextGen Integrated Operating Model simplifies and systematises operations, enabling transformational change and delivering measurable results, often unlocking 20–30% additional margin.
They work closely with leadership teams through a co-design approach, ensuring solutions are practical and aligned to business realities, while their focus on operational empathy ensures they understand and address on-the-ground challenges. With a strong track record in industries like mining, particularly across Africa, NextGenOpX helps companies integrate functions such as supply chain, asset management, and process engineering to achieve sustainable performance improvements.
PwC
PwC South Africa is a leading professional services firm providing expertise in assurance, tax, consulting, deals, legal, risk, and people & organisational services. By combining deep sector knowledge across industries such as mining & metals, financial services, energy, retail, telecommunications, and government, PwC helps organisations tackle critical challenges like business model reinvention, sustainability (ESG), risk, and value creation.
Their strengths lie in both tech and human capability, leveraging innovation through their Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) and alliances, while emphasising ethical conduct, diversity & inclusion, and corporate responsibility. PwC aims to help clients in South Africa and across the continent outthink, outpace, and outperform through transformation, insight, and purpose-driven leadership.
Traction
Traction offers a modern, emotionally-driven approach to brand tracking and insight. Rather than relying on traditional static metrics, their platform captures real-time consumer sentiment, emotional response, and the impact of campaigns to understand what moves customers. Clients receive live, actionable feedback on how their branding, messaging, and creative assets are performing—allowing them to see “why people buy (or don’t)” and to trace brand shifts to specific moments or marketing choices. Brand Traction’s dashboard is intuitive, grounded in human emotion, and built to empower marketers to defend budgets, prove results, and orchestrate growth with insights that matter.
Zutari
Zutari is a leading infrastructure engineering and advisory firm with over 90 years of experience shaping communities across Africa and the Middle East. The company focuses on six core markets - energy, water, transport, built environment, resources and sustainability - delivering solutions that are both locally relevant and globally aligned. From planning and design through to delivery and long-term advisory, Zutari partners with clients to create infrastructure that drives economic growth while protecting the environment.
Recognised for its innovation, Zutari was the first Africa-headquartered firm to achieve ISO 19650 certification for Building Information Modelling. With projects delivered in more than 55 countries, the firm combines technical excellence with deep local insight to co-create fit-for-purpose solutions that have lasting impact.