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Turning African creative potential into a global economic powerhouse
African creativity already shapes global culture. Creative Universe is building the leaders and businesses that can turn that influence into sustainable enterprises, African-owned intellectual property, skilled jobs and global opportunity.
About Creative Universe
African creativity shapes what the world watches, wears, hears, plays and shares. The talent is visible. The businesses behind it are often undervalued and underfunded. Creatives need leadership, business capability, technology, networks, markets and investment. When their businesses grow, they create work, develop intellectual property and open opportunities for others.
Creative Universe serves leading creators, distributors, producers, investors, policymakers, and academics working across the “creative universe”: gaming, game development, virtual reality, immersive media, film, television, animation, fashion, music, digital content, design, advertising, photography, visual art, content production and creative technology. It also brings together the investors, sponsors, industry partners, policymakers, researchers, platforms and audiences needed to help those businesses grow.
Date
13 November 2026
Location
Henley Johannesburg campus, 1 Witkoppen Rd, Paulshof
Duration
10:00-17:00
Cost
Free
Meet your host:
Thato Moraka - CEO & Founder, Leaders in Motion Academy
Thato Moraka brings more than 20 years of experience in media and broadcasting. A strategic marketer by expertise, he has developed campaigns for leading brands including Coca-Cola and South African Tourism, and has built cross-border partnerships with Ghana, Botswana and Lesotho.
For 13 years he has led Gateway Media as Founder and Creative Director. He previously served on the board of the Gauteng Film Commission and currently serves on the South African Women in ICT Forum. A sought-after speaker on the creative industries, he addresses audiences both locally and internationally.
Thato has represented South Africa on promotional missions to the Black History Festival in Ohio, USA, as well as to Ghana and Nottingham, UK. In August 2024 he joined a trade mission to devcom and Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, supported by the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), to attract investment into South Africa’s emerging gaming industry.
A committed champion of South Africa’s creative economy, Thato is passionate about youth development and education. He continually seeks new ways to address the country’s challenges and to harness the power of storytelling in building the African brand. A Henley Business School alumnus, he is the host of the Creative Universe Summit.