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Ready, Set, Go Digital Africa

Overcoming Barriers to Digital Transformation: From Resistance to Adoption

Ready to understand why going digital keeps stalling, and what it actually takes to move yourself and your team from resistance to adoption?

The biggest barriers to going digital are not technological.

They are human. Resistance, doubt, and mistrust stop more digital transformations than any app ever has.

In this free webinar, three leaders from across Africa share what they have learned about moving entrepreneurs, teams, and organisations from hesitation to genuine adoption, drawing on neuroscience, digital banking, and hands-on transformation experience.

EXPERT PRESENTERS

MONICA BROWN

CEO of The AI Playground

Industrial Sovereignty Strategist and policy advisor working at the intersection of AI governance, technology, and African economic transformation. Her work helps governments and organisations move beyond digital compliance to genuine ownership of the tools shaping Africa's future.

CHESLYN JACOBS

CEO of GoTyme Bank

CEO of GoTyme Bank, Africa's first profitable digital bank, with 12 million+ customers. He has spent over a decade driving digital adoption at scale, bringing banking to underserved communities and onboarding millions of first-time digital banking users across South Africa.

NOMVUYO BENGANE
Event Host

Executive Director and DigiBiz.Africa Lead Coach at the Entrepreneurial Planning Institute, a published author of Unleashed Prosperity in Africa and founder of BizOil Institute. She has spent nearly a decade supporting entrepreneurs, particularly women-owned, township, and rural-based businesses, to grow through purposeful leadership and digital transformation.

EVENT THEME

Ready, Set, Go Digital Africa

Overcoming Barriers to Digital Transformation: From Resistance to Adoption

WEBINAR DATE

Friday 17 July 2026

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Why you should attend

Digital transformation keeps stalling, not because tools are unavailable, but because people are not ready.

Entrepreneurs and Practitioners face real barriers:

Survival stress that makes the brain default to familiar routines
Digital financial systems that feel risky without a good reason to trust them
Teams that comply on paper but never genuinely adopt
Supporting entrepreneurs resistant to digital adoption

This webinar does not start with the tools.

It starts with the humans who have to use them.

Two speakers with direct experience navigating these barriers will share what actually moves people from resistance to adoption.

What you’ll gain

This DigiBiz.Africa Open Webinar will leave you with a clearer picture of what is actually blocking digital adoption, and practical insight you can apply immediately, whether you are leading yourself, your team, or your clients through the shift.

By attending, you will learn:

Why resistance to digital tools is neurological, not personal - and what that means for how you lead adoption in your business
How to move your team from compliance to genuine ownership, so digital tools actually get used
What breaks trust in digital financial systems, why it happens, and how to evaluate the tools that are genuinely safe to use
What Africa's fastest-growing digital bank learned about building confidence at scale, and what that means for entrepreneurs
Practical steps you can take this week to shift your own and your team's relationship with digital tools

The DigiBiz.Africa Network provides an online platform for entrepreneurs, business owners and practitioners supporting them to share experiences, attend training sessions or join peer circles.

As you will join the webinar on the platform, you will also gain access to the shared event resources and will be able to participate in the pre- and post-event discussions.