Dr. Harold Mayaba
“Purpose. Hope. Resilience.”
Nelson, New Zealand
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Dr. Harold Mayaba is an Agri-Food and Market Consultant, AI Systems Builder, coach, and speaker specialising in purpose, hope, and resilience. He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from Lincoln University, New Zealand, and brings expertise in agribusiness, consumer behaviour, market intelligence, and practical decision-making.
Drawing from a personal journey of overcoming hardship, including homelessness while pursuing his education, Dr. Mayaba inspires audiences to rise above adversity and live with purpose. Known as “The Lion Hugger,” he empowers individuals, businesses, schools, and communities to build resilience, recognise opportunity, and unleash the lion within.
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Keeping Humans in the Loop: Team Topologies for AI-Enabled Decision-Making
Many organisations are experimenting with AI agents, but few have clearly defined how human teams should work with them. This session looks at how Team Topologies can support better human-AI collaboration by clarifying interaction patterns, reducing overload, and improving trust in decision-making. Rather than focusing on hype, the talk will explore how teams can use AI in a way that strengthens learning, accountability, and the fast flow of value.
How AI Is Reshaping Market Insights and Consumer Behaviour
AI is changing how organisations understand people: what they want, how they decide, and how quickly their preferences shift. This session looks at how AI is transforming market insight, customer understanding, and behaviour analysis, while also raising important questions about bias, interpretation, and overconfidence in data-driven systems. It is a talk about what happens when software, data, and human behaviour meet, and why teams need both technical capability and human judgment to make sense of it all.
How AI Is Reshaping Market Insights and Consumer Behaviour
AI is changing how organisations understand people: what they want, how they decide, and how quickly their preferences shift. This session explores how AI is transforming market insight, customer understanding, and behavioural analysis, while also raising important questions about bias, interpretation, and overconfidence in data-driven systems. For developers and product teams, this is not just a marketing story. It is about how software, data, models, and human behaviour come together to shape products, decisions, and user experiences in the real world.
How AI Is Reshaping Market Insights and Consumer Behaviour
AI is changing how organisations understand people: what they want, how they decide, and how quickly their preferences shift. This session explores how AI is transforming market insight, customer understanding, and behavioural analysis, while also raising important questions about bias, interpretation, and overconfidence in data-driven systems. For developers and product teams, this is not just a marketing story. It is about how software, data, models, and human behaviour come together to shape products, decisions, and user experiences in the real world.
From Prompt to Production: How Teams Can Use AI and LLMs Practically
AI is easy to demo, but much harder to use well in real work. This session explores how teams can move beyond one-off prompts and start applying AI and LLMs in practical ways that improve workflows, decision-making, and productivity. Rather than focusing on hype, this talk looks at what makes AI useful in day-to-day environments: clear use cases, human oversight, process design, and realistic expectations. Attendees will leave with a grounded understanding of where AI helps, where it creates friction, and how teams can move from experimentation to reliable value.
From Prompt to Process: Practical AI That Actually Helps Teams
AI is easy to demo but much harder to use well in real work. This talk explores how teams can move beyond one-off prompts and start building practical AI workflows that support decision-making, reduce repetitive work, and improve delivery without creating confusion or overdependence. Attendees will leave with a grounded view of where AI and LLMs genuinely help, where they fail, and what makes adoption useful in real teams.
From Prompt to Process: Practical AI That Actually Helps Teams
AI is easy to demo but much harder to use well in real work. This talk explores how teams can move beyond one-off prompts and start building practical AI workflows that support decision-making, reduce repetitive work, and improve delivery without creating confusion or overdependence. Attendees will leave with a grounded view of where AI and LLMs genuinely help, where they fail, and what makes adoption useful in real teams.
From Hype to Flow: Making Agentic AI Work in Real Teams
Agentic AI is creating excitement across industries, but many teams are still asking the practical question: how do humans and AI agents actually work well together? This session explores how organisations can move beyond hype and use Team Topologies thinking to design healthier interaction modes, clearer responsibilities, and faster flow of value. Drawing on practical examples and grounded insights, the talk will examine where AI agents can genuinely support teams, where friction often appears, and how leaders can build team structures that improve collaboration, reduce confusion, and create real impact.
From Consumer Signals to Smarter Decisions with AI and Power Platform
AI is changing how organizations understand customers, detect market shifts, and make decisions, but real value comes when insight is connected to action. This session explores how AI, Power Platform, and Microsoft technologies can help teams turn consumer signals into practical business outcomes through better workflows, faster response, and smarter decision-making.
Rather than focusing on hype, this talk will look at how organizations can use AI in a grounded and practical way to improve visibility, support decision-making, and respond more effectively to changing customer needs. It will also highlight the importance of governance, human judgment, and adoption when introducing AI into real business environments.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of how AI-driven insight can support enterprise decision-making, where the opportunities are, and what organizations should pay attention to if they want to move from experimentation to real impact.
From Consumer Insight to Supply Chain Action: AI for Smarter Enterprise Response
Consumer trends now change at speed, and enterprises need faster ways to respond. This talk will show how AI can connect customer signals with planning, supply chain decisions, and operational execution, helping businesses improve responsiveness, efficiency, and customer value.
From Automation to Intelligence: Using AI to Improve Decision-Making
Automation improves speed, but AI has the potential to improve judgment, prioritisation, and business response. This session looks at how organisations can use AI not just to automate tasks, but to support smarter decisions through better visibility, pattern recognition, and actionable insight. Attendees will gain a practical understanding of where AI adds value, where caution is needed, and how to connect intelligence with real business outcomes.
Designing Practical AI Workflows: From Idea to Real-World Use
This workshop is designed for professionals who want to move beyond theory and think more practically about how AI can be embedded into business workflows. It will guide participants through the key building blocks of useful AI adoption, including identifying the right use cases, designing human-in-the-loop processes, reducing implementation friction, and thinking carefully about governance, adoption, and organisational fit. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a clearer framework for evaluating and designing AI-powered workflows that are realistic, useful, and aligned with business needs.
AI, market intelligence, consumer behaviour
This article explores how AI is transforming the way businesses gather market insights and understand consumer behaviour. It looks at how AI helps organisations move faster, detect patterns earlier, and make more informed decisions, while also raising important questions about interpretation, bias, and the human role in turning data into useful insight.
AI, Consumer Trends, and Smarter Enterprise Decisions
Consumer expectations are changing faster than ever, and businesses that fail to read those signals risk falling behind. In this session, we will explore how AI can help organizations turn consumer trends into smarter decisions across forecasting, inventory planning, customer engagement, and business strategy. Designed for Dynamics 365 F&SCM partners, consultants, architects, and business leaders, this talk will show how AI is moving beyond hype into practical use, helping enterprises respond to shifting demand, improve agility, and create more customer-driven value.
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