Toby Shapshak writes and speaks about artificial intelligence and innovation. Most eloquently about Innovation in Africa. Through a range of media, from newspapers to television and radio, he speaks regularly on the trends in AI, technology and innovation; and where they are going.

He explains how technology has fundamentally changed how we live and work, especially since the artificial intelligence burst into our lives.

Toby is the editor-in-chief of Stuff and is a senior contributor to Forbes on innovation. He is a columnist for Business Day.

His TED Global talk on how Africa how innovation is better in Africa has been viewed over 1,5-million times; and was featured in the New York Times. He believes Africa is a mobile-driven continent and is solving real problems, about which he has written for CNN, The Guardian in London, Quartz and for Forbes.

As well as TED Global in Edinburgh (in 2013), he has spoken four times at the South by South West (SxSW) conference in Austin, Texas. He has also spoken at Intel's IDF conference in San Francisco, The Guardian's, Activate: Johannesburg on innovation out of necessity, Germany's Zukunftskongress (Future Congress), Sweden's The Conference , AfricaCom in Cape Town, TEDxGateway in Mumbai, and the GSMA's Mobile 360 in Kigali.

A winner of the ICT Journalist of the Year, Toby was named in GQ's top 30 men in media and the Mail & Guardian newspaper's influential young South Africans. GQ said he "has become the most high-profile technology journalist in the country" while the M&G wrote: "Toby Shapshak is all things tech. He reigns supreme for everything and anything tech".

As a news and political journalist, he ran Mail & Guardian’s website when it was the first news site in Africa, shadowed Nelson Mandela when he was president, and covered the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

He has interviewed a range of tech industry luminaries, including Bill Gates and Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.