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Nyandia Gachago, ACIM, co-founder of AI creative agency, Minty Lime based in Nairobi Kenya, discussed the transformative impact of AI on brands in this week's episode of the MarTech Unravelled podcast. Nyandia is passionate about all things AI and how it can integrate into our businesses and personal lives. We started the conversation by first understanding what AI looks like in the context of her work, demystifying the often futuristic and out of reach notion that some may have. Nyandia explains that AI is here to make our everyday lives more efficient. In her work running an agency, she highlighted the vast benefits AI has had in servicing clients.
She cited the ability to deliver work in a shorter amount of time, leading to speed to market, added clarity and variety in creative ideas, precision in measuring outcomes amongst various other benefits. She went on to give an example of a marketing strategy which ordinarily took up to 2 months to complete, however with AI this has been shortened to afew weeks given the vast amount of data available. At any given time at her agency, Nyandia is running several AI tools for various tasks including reporting, idea refinement, infographics, presentations and even CGI images. Her toolbox includes tools like ChatGPT , Google's Gemini, DeepSeek AI , Grok , Canva AI, Napkin AI , and Runway ML. Additionally in her personal life as a mother, Nyandia mentioned how she leverages AI to create menus for her kids, shoppings lists and recipes.
Listen to the full episode for more insights.
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In this week's episode we talked to Frans Riemersma, Founder of MartechTribe. The topic of the day was "The MarTech Stack - Designing & Driving value from your organisation's stack". Frans Riemersma is a leading MarTech expert, researcher, and speaker who helps brands optimize technology stacks. He has co-authored several key MarTech reports on composability and GenAI including the infamous MarTech Landscape map in collaboration with Scott Brinker - VP Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot. Frans is a lecturer at a Dutch Business School and University, where he shapes industry insights through research, consulting, and speaking at global events. We covered the topic of composability, how to audit an organisation's stack to get maximum value for the customer, department collaboration when it comes to martech stack ownership and future trends to keep an eye out for in this space.
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Anne Nyachomba, a Certified Customer Experience professional with 19 years of experience across a variety of industries is our guest this week on MarTech Unravelled. This week, we tackle the topic of "Customer Experience (CX) Design". Anne has worked in Banking, Insurance, Data, Technology, Non-Profit, and Public Health sectors, leading impactful CX strategies across Africa and Asia. She also serves on the CXPA Africa Advisory Regional Council and was named among the Awesome Women to Follow in CX 2 times -(2024) and CX for Tech (2025). We delved into the intricacies of CX, its impact on the organisation's bottomline, guiding principles to building unforgettable CX and how to continuously adapt to one's customer.
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In this week's episode we covered a somewhat misunderstood and sometimes overlooked area of MarTech. We covered "Brand's role in MarTech". This week's guest is a seasoned brand and story telling professional with over 15 years building transformative brand narratives and driving growth for businesses across Africa and the United States and is the former VP of Brand and Product Marketing at Cellulant, a Pan-African FinTech Company. Divine Muragijimana, Founder of Savoir Faire - a global marketing and branding consulting firm, started off by driving home the importance of branding in martech, emphasizing that a brand is the heartbeat of a business, encompassing purpose, mission, vision, values, and culture. We then tackled the issue on why investing in brand is sometimes given a back seat, the importance of localisation of storytelling gleaning from her vast experience building a fintech brand that spanned several countries, what trust as a key element in brand building looks like and the future of storytelling for differentiation.
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In this episode of "MarTech Unravelled, my guest Odd Morten Sørensen tackles the age-old question "What is MarTech?" Odd is a Marketing Operations professional with 20 years of strategic and operational experience specializing in Marketing Technology, Automation and Operations. After several years on the customer side he has now gone back to consulting through his new agency PlayMOps. We tackled this topic from various angles including misconceptions that leaders have around MarTech, skill sets necessary to thrive, the technology ownership conundrum, marketing operations and key trends to take note of.
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In this week's episode, Rutger Katz, Founder of Neon Triforce a boutique consultancy in the Netherlands, discussed the application of the Lean methodology in marketing. He begins by highlighting the three core components of this methodology: Purpose, Process, and People. Purpose involves building the right products and experiences, Process focuses on efficiency and eliminating waste, and People emphasizes team empowerment and realistic KPIs.
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Rasmus Houlind, Keynote Speaker and Author of Hello $FirstName - Profiting from Personalisation & Chief Experience Officer at Agillic (An Omnichannel Marketing Automation Platform based in Denmark), discusses the complexities of personalization in marketing. He defines personalization as matching content with customer insights. Tune in to hear more!
