Legal Thought Leaders
Featured Speakers
Our distinguished speaker lineup is currently being finalized. Stay tuned as we unveil South Africa’s foremost legal and judicial leaders.
Phetheni Nkuna
Phetheni Nkuna is an admitted attorney (South Africa) with a focus on employment law. She is a Director in the Employment Law practice, and she is Chief Operating Officer, where she oversees several operational portfolios and works closely with the Chief Executive Officer to drive the firm's strategy. Phetheni holds LLB and LLM, Certificate in Advanced Labour Law, and a Post Graduate Diploma (MBA) degree from GIBS.
Chief Operating
Officer,CDH
Sarah McKenzie
Sarah has represented parties in many domestic and international arbitrations (including under the auspices of the ICC, ICSID, AFSA, the Chinese Arbitration Association, as well as under the UNCITRAL and other ad hoc arbitration rules) and at various Courts in the South African court system (including the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal, and various divisions of the High Court).
Partner, Webber Wentzel
Candy Musekene
Candy Musekene is a South African qualified attorney with over 6 years of post-qualified experience, specialising in Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance, technology law, intellectual property, and digital platforms. As Legal Manager at MTN South Africa, I provide strategic legal counsel on emerging technologies, digital policy, and regulatory innovation, helping shape Africa’s digital transformation.
Legal Manager, MTN
Noémi Muya
Noémi Muya is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, a business leader, and a founder operating at the intersection of law, strategy, cross-border commerce, and women’s leadership. She has been named as Africa’s Top 30 Leading Women 2025 by Crest Africa and nominated for the Women in Law Excellence Award 2025 by Wone Global. Noémi is the Founder of For Women in Law (FWIL), a pan-African platform dedicated to mentoring, developing, and amplifying women in the legal profession. Through FWIL, she designs and leads legal career workshops, mentorship programmes, leadership dialogues, and institutional L&D initiatives, while building strategic partnerships with universities, corporates, and professional bodies. In 2025 FWIL was nominated for Outstanding Collaboration by the African Legal Awards
Founder of For Women in Law (FWIL)
Raphael Segal.
With over 17 years at Avantedge Group and recent entrepreneurial success at Contract Corridor, my career has been propelled by strategic leadership in service delivery across various sectors, including legal, medical, and technology verticals. At the core, my mission is to streamline operations and enhance customer relationships through innovative solutions. My expertise in CRM and software project management has been pivotal in driving manufacturing process improvements and IT strategy. As part of the team, we have successfully re-engineered business processes to achieve operational excellence, embodying a synthesis of business intelligence and technology to foster business development.
Director, Legal Interact
Subashnee Moodley
Subashnee Moodley is by profession an attorney, conveyancer, and notary public holding BA(LAW) and LLB degrees from the University of KwaZulu Natal. She started practicing as an Attorney in 2000 and specializes in property and commercial law. She is currently a Senior Partner and also the immediate past Chair and Managing Partner at Livingston Leandy Inc in Durban, a firm whose history goes back more than 134 years. Subashnee’s passion for empowering and mentoring young leaders and professionals has resulted in her involvement in numerous boards and organisations including Business Engage and the 30% Club of SA, Woza Women in Law and the Woza Leadership Academy, South African Institute of Black Property Practitioners, Black Lawyer’s Association (BLA), South African Women Lawyers Association (SAWLA), NADEL (National Association of Democratic Lawyers) and Women in Property.
MD, Livingston Leandy Inc
Professor Charles Maimela
Professor Charles Maimela is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Johannesburg (UJ). He is a Professor of law in the areas of Medical law and African Customary law and has published extensively in these fields of law. He has also written on AI and the Law in how it shapes Curriculum Transformation of the teaching and research of Law in Universities today. Professor Maimela holds an LLB, LLM and LLD all from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He has taught at three South African Universities before joining UJ on 1 September 2025. Professor Maimela is the former Editor of De Jure Law Journal and serves on the editorial board of the South African Journal for Human Rights (SAJHR). Furthermore, he is currently serving as Deputy Chairperson for the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) for the Research Outputs Evaluation Sub-Panel for Social Sciences and is a member of the Council on Higher Education (CHE) on the Review Panel for Higher Education Qualifications Framework.
UJ Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law
Kume Luvhani
Kume Luvhani is a recognised leader in South Africa's technology sector, known for driving large-scale digital transformation, building high-performing teams and delivering solutions that create measurable business Value. She is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Vaxowave, a technology company partnering with global cloud
providers to deliver enterprise-scale solutions across industries. Since its inception in 2018, Vaxowave has achieved double-digit annual growth and was honoured with the Digital Transformation of the Year Award at the 2025 Nedbank Topco Empowerment Awards.
Kume began her career in banking, spending nearly a decade across Finance and Technology, where she shaped strategic direction and led critical operational initiatives. At 29, she became one of the youngest directors at a major South African bank, cementing her reputation as a strategic, results-driven leader in complex environments.
Co-Founder and Director at Vaxowave
Dr Nomalanga Mashinini
Nomalanga Mashinini is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Law at the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she was appointed in August 2022.
She holds a Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree from the University of Pretoria (2022), awarded for a thesis titled "The Recognition of Image Rights in the Context of Memes Shared on Social Media", and a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education with distinction from Rhodes University (2023).
Her research and teaching specialisation is image rights. She examines how social media and artificial intelligence drive the exploitation of people's identities, with particular attention to deepfakes, post-mortem personality rights, prompt injection attacks, sharenting, malicious communications, and AI regulation.
Her research dissemination extends to the podcast 'Image Rights by N Mashinini', a creative output that has reached listeners across 87 countries and 370 cities in its three seasons.
WITS Senior Lecturer | School of Law
Carina Wessels
Carina is a seasoned executive with experience in the mining and financial services industries. She is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, a fellow and past president of the Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa, as well as past president of the Corporate Secretaries International Association.
In addition to acting in an advisory capacity, she has extensive non-executive director and audit committee member and chair experience serving in both public service and commercial companies over the past 23 years. She currently serves as NED for the Institute of Directors South Africa.
Carina is a respected thought leader, with a broad range of academic and other publications and a regular speaker internationally.
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