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Dean Carlson
BrainFarm is a South African event agency and speaker bureau, that has the privilege of working with a long list of local and international clients in identifying and securing speakers for their events, as well as creating branded business conferences such as the Disrupt Summit which featured the likes of will.i.am, Malcolm Gladwell, Nick Goldman, Jane McGonigal, Lars Silberbauer, etc.
Show profile Hide profileBrainFarm is a South African event agency and speaker bureau, that has the privilege of working with a long list of local and international clients in identifying and securing speakers for their events, as well as creating branded business conferences such as the Disrupt Summit which featured the likes of will.i.am, Malcolm Gladwell, Nick Goldman, Jane McGonigal, Lars Silberbauer, etc.
BrainFarm, was founded by Dean Carlson who previously conceptualized, co-created and led the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit to become the largest multi-speaker business conference in the Southern Hemisphere with past speakers including Richard Branson, Al Gore, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Anderson, Ricardo Semler, Dan Ariely, Johann Rupert, Stephen Dubner, Graça Machel and Nouriel Roubini.
Dean first gained exposure to similar large-scale events over a decade ago during his involvement in organizing trips for South Africans to attend international seminars hosted by motivational speaker, personal finance instructor, and self-help author Anthony Robbins.
In 2005, he joined Primestars Marketing, a division of Primedia Unlimited where he arranged Vodcast seminars, which featured local and international speakers presented to local audiences in movie theatres throughout South Africa. During his time at Primestars, Dean was involved with the national launch of Unite 4 Health with Lance Armstrong as well as with numerous other events, which featured internationally acclaimed speakers such as Robert Kiyosaki, Blair Singer, and Jack Welch.
Previously a Smart Cities Ambassador for the Growth and Development Strategy (GDS) 2040 Mayoral Outreach Programme for the City of Johannesburg. This programme was headed by the Mayor of Johannesburg and charted the long-term strategic course of the City including some of the more significant, overarching decisions about priority actions that Johannesburg needed to take in order to accelerate economic growth and human development.
BrainFarm is a South African event agency and speaker bureau, that has the privilege of working with a long list of local and international clients in identifying and securing speakers for their events, as well as creating branded business conferences such as the Disrupt Summit which featured the likes of will.i.am, Malcolm Gladwell, Nick Goldman, Jane McGonigal, Lars Silberbauer, etc.
BrainFarm, was founded by Dean Carlson who previously conceptualized, co-created and led the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit to become the largest multi-speaker business conference in the Southern Hemisphere with past speakers including Richard Branson, Al Gore, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Anderson, Ricardo Semler, Dan Ariely, Johann Rupert, Stephen Dubner, Graça Machel and Nouriel Roubini.
Dean first gained exposure to similar large-scale events over a decade ago during his involvement in organizing trips for South Africans to attend international seminars hosted by motivational speaker, personal finance instructor, and self-help author Anthony Robbins.
In 2005, he joined Primestars Marketing, a division of Primedia Unlimited where he arranged Vodcast seminars, which featured local and international speakers presented to local audiences in movie theatres throughout South Africa. During his time at Primestars, Dean was involved with the national launch of Unite 4 Health with Lance Armstrong as well as with numerous other events, which featured internationally acclaimed speakers such as Robert Kiyosaki, Blair Singer, and Jack Welch.
Previously a Smart Cities Ambassador for the Growth and Development Strategy (GDS) 2040 Mayoral Outreach Programme for the City of Johannesburg. This programme was headed by the Mayor of Johannesburg and charted the long-term strategic course of the City including some of the more significant, overarching decisions about priority actions that Johannesburg needed to take in order to accelerate economic growth and human development.
