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SUMMARY:Tech Leadership Meetup with Karel Verhoeven (CTO at Lesaka Technolo
 gies Inc)
LOCATION:Lesaka Technologies Inc (EasyPay)
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  people going\n\nJoin us at our next in-person Tech Leadership meetup.\n\n
 There will be drinks and snacks to kickoff the evening.\n\nThe event will 
 be hosted at the Lesaka Technologies Inc's offices - EasyPay\, Tygerberg O
 ffice Park\, 163 Uys Krige Drive\, Drankenzicht\, Floor 1.\n\nThe agenda f
 or the evening will be as follows:\n17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival: Drinks and sn
 acks.\n18:00 - 18:05 - Introduction and house rules.\n18:05 - 19:00 - Main
  speaker - Karel Verhoeven.\n19:00 - 19:30 - Networking and wrap up.\n\nTo
 pic of Main Talk - The rise of the context lake: The next evolution of dat
 a architecture\n\nWith over 10 years of experience across data\, analytics
 \, and executive leadership\, I currently serve as Chief Technology Office
 r (Enterprise) at Lesaka Technologies Inc. Alongside this\, I am Co-Founde
 r of Huppi\, a fintech startup building smarter financial tools for entrep
 reneurs navigating multi-currency environments.\n\nMy career has been shap
 ed by the intersection of data and real business impact. As Director of En
 gineering: Machine Learning and Director of Data and Analytics at Teya\, I
  led teams building ML pipelines and data infrastructure at scale. I also 
 served as Head of Data at Rauva\, a digital banking platform for entrepren
 eurs.\n\nI hold a Hons BComm in Operations Research from the University of
  Stellenbosch and bring deep expertise in statistics\, data modelling\, an
 d Python. I'm passionate about combining data\, technology\, and entrepren
 eurship to build solutions that genuinely move the needle — whether scalin
 g enterprise operations or building something new from scratch.\n\nThank y
 ou to our sponsors OfferZen\nOfferZen (https://www.offerzen.com/) is an on
 line 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 opp
 ortunities from over 1000 companies in South Africa and the Netherlands. W
 e flip the normal recruitment process on its head – companies reach out to
  candidates with upfront salary information.\n\n---\n\nTech Leadership res
 pects your privacy and will not share your personal information. However\,
  please note that we use public platforms such as meetup.com and X.com\, w
 here any information you share may be accessible to external parties.
URL:https://www.meetup.com/tech-leadership-meetup/events/315762495/
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