Jakobi Yzelle

Speaker

Jakobi Yzelle received the Top Overall Engineering Student reward from NMU in her graduation year. She started her career in 2004 at Kentron (a division of Denel) and was trained in various design disciplines in the electronic and communications industry. 

She moved to SABC in 2005 and started a career in Broadcast. During her tenure at SABC she received a SABC Technology Award and was nominated for the annual ICASA ICT award in the Most Promising Junior category. 

She joined Questek in 2010 to lead Broadcast sales and solutions where her focus was on Digitization & Video Over IP.

She moved to Accenture Business Consultancy as a Senior Manager, Media Subject Matter Expert and an Account Sales Lead. During her time, there she was involved in Naspers’ Customer Experience Programme, Campaign Management roll-out, Cost Reduction Initiative and Digital Platform Strategies.

Jakobi returned to Questek in 2017 where she is responsible for the Enterprise and Education division. Her most recent projects include NMU’s Technology re-fresh, Wits’ Smart Classroom, Old Mutual Insurance’s complete ICT upgrade, TUT’s Video Conferencing solution across 13 regions, TUT’s Engineering Department’s Virtual Reality training venue, St Peter’s College Collaboration and Hybrid venues, and UPs Libby Humanoid.

Presentation:
Smart Classrooms |  Day Two

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