🦾Jepson Taylor

I build stuff that doesn’t exist, an AI explorer. 
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I watch the watchers, I direct the learners. 

I am passionate about machine learning. My life's mission is to further the boundaries of what is possible with data science. I spend as much time as I can working with deep learning, NLP, and all forms of data science. I currently have a passion project I am managing where I am combining the power of genetic programming with deep learning to automate network design. I think there is a trend happening in data science where human expertise and creativity are being replaced by powerful new methods (i.e. deep learning, big data). 

I am most well known for my machine learning work with the data science community and with HireVue. With the community, I enjoy posting opinions on jobs and tutorials on ML methods. I also enjoy speaking and presenting to all types of audiences. 

I've enjoyed working across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and customer success. This wider POV has helped shape the way I think about innovation, from the innovation farm to the customer's table ;)

CEO/founder VEOX

VEOX Inc is revolutionizing the AI industry by creating an AI-driven algorithm factory, compressing decades of progress into moments. Our technology automates AI science research, continuously improving algorithm efficiency and outperforming human-made algorithms. VEOX is not just building another AI company; we're catalyzing an explosion of technological advancements that will reshape the entire tech landscape. Join us in accelerating intelligence beyond human limits and leading the next wave of AI breakthroughs.

Jepson Taylor

CEO / Co-Founder @ Skywalk Innovations | Technical Innovation

I’m the CEO & Chief Innovation Architect at Skywalk Innovations, partnering with forward-thinking organizations to define their future desired state and build the bridge from today’s landscape to tomorrow’s breakthroughs.

With 10+ years at the helm of Skywalk, I’ve spearheaded 50+ innovation initiatives and launched 6 startups (5 still thriving, 50+ team members). I’m equally at home sketching high-level strategy or diving into GenAi use cases and business models, and I invest 20–30% of our revenue into R&D, so we’re always pushing the envelope on AI, CloudNative, Video-streaming, and beyond.

What I Do

Vision & Roadmapping: I lead Technology Radar workshops to spot white-space opportunities, then co-create a metrics-driven roadmap, complete with compliance by design.

Modular Architecture: Our modular-first approach lets you introduce new capabilities (LLMs, payment rails, IoT feeds) without costly rewrites, accelerating time-to-value.

Tiger Teams & Stage-Gate Sprints: We embed cross-disciplinary squads (engineers, product managers, domain experts) into your organization, running rapid prototyping cycles, customer co-creation workshops, and “innovation retrospectives” to continuously tighten the flywheel.

Ecosystem Orchestration: As proud AWS partners, and through alliances, we combine domain access with delivery excellence, de-risking complexity and expediting adoption.

How We’ve Delivered

Public Sector Digitization: Helped a government financial services division drive 40,000+ monthly user engagements through a new digital platform.

Professional-Services Modernization: Integrated our bespoke BPM engine into a facilities-management operation, automating resource allocation and approval workflows to reduce manual handoffs by 45% and accelerate service delivery.

Telecom Billing Re-Architecture: Rebuilt a telco’s core billing engine to support six distinct channels and daily product launches.

Global SaaS Expansion: Partnered with a U.S. enterprise to launch a new platform serving global customers alongside their legacy services.

PropTech Innovation: Designed a seamless home-buyer journey that facilitated 30,000 property sales.

Why Work With Us?
We don’t do one-off pilots, we build enduring innovation engines. If you’re ready to map your future state with crystal-clear metrics, assemble the right teams, and execute at velocity, let’s connect.

👉 Book a no-obligation strategy session:
https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/415f8af9b5554ef384261c2804571094@skywalkinnovations.co.za/meetingtype/SVRwCe7HMUGxuT6WGxi68g2?anonymous

Tyrone Adams

I’m building an Africa-first, globally relevant company — on purpose.

Growing up, I struggled to find founders who looked like me, with my background, building world-class businesses. That gap gave me fear and fuel: fear because the path felt undefined, fuel because I refused to believe we don’t belong on the global stage.

In year three, we landed our first global client. It wasn’t just revenue — it was proof. Proof that excellence travels. Proof that the stage is real. And proof that Africa doesn’t need permission.
Since then, my mission has stayed the same:
take Africa to the world — and make it undeniable. Africa 3.0.

What I do, in practical terms: I build and back teams thats focused on raising the bar — strengthening the operating rhythm, the standards, and the systems that allow a business to scale without losing its soul.

I’m looking to work with:
- Bold founders building serious, long-term companies (not quick flips).
- Leadership teams who want to operationalise strategy and raise the execution bar.
- Organisations ready to modernise how work gets done — with accountability and measurable outcomes.
- Partners and clients who believe in Africa’s potential and want to build globally from here.

If you’re building something that should be world-class — and you’re ready to match ambition with execution — let’s connect.

(And if you’re a young builder from Africa reading this: you don’t need to see many examples to become one. Sometimes you become an example.)

#AfricaTech #Founder #Leadership #Execution #Innovation #Scale #Operations

CEO @ Skywalk Innovations | Technical Innovation

If it was easy everyone would do it, I'm reminded daily of how gruelling business building can be.

I have to often remind myself of all the good we have done, and I don't mean awards, I mean things like:

- 13 years of paying vat, income and corporate taxes giving back to the economy 
- 13 years of performance appraisals, helping individuals grow their careers 
- 13 years of paying salaries that support families 
- 13 years of paying suppliers for work delivered for us
- 13 years of making money with partners 
- 13 years of internships to create entry level jobs
- 13 years of peer groups supporting each other
- 13 years of mentorship/coffee sessions with others, giving back whatever was given to me.

I have to remind myself that there is a bigger mission, there is an opportunity to create real impact and on top of it to build a business that lasts, something great, something to be proud of. This journey hardly gets easier, it just takes a different shape each time, with different demands, requiring of you to keep adapting. 

It's hard for a reason, no matter what the over night success builders or the AI agents will destroy your business tomorrow promoters say. Measure success in the way that makes sense to you, otherwise, you just set yourself up for disappointment.

Fall in love with the mission, as Bezos would say, be stubborn on the Vision and be flexible in the details.

#entrepreneurship #journey #reflection #13years

Last year, I told my team something very clearly:

This is the wave we cannot afford to miss. Since around 2023, it’s been obvious that something fundamental was changing.

At the same time, South Africa’s economy has been largely stagnant. GDP growth is low. Budgets are tight.

Corporations continue to spend on software, but most of that spending goes to a small handful of global players. Meanwhile, small and mid-sized businesses are trying to serve their customers better, faster, and more efficiently. Many of the tools available to them are priced in dollars and simply out of reach for the local market.

So we made a call at Skywalk.

Over time, we would transition from pure services into building our own platforms that can compete locally against global software providers.

Our mission from day one has always been the same: Build Africa 3.0. Show the world what happens when African talent focuses on a single direction to solve real problems.

That journey led us to what I call the Agency 2.0 model.

The idea is simple:

Give organisations, big or small, a platform that lets them harness the power of modern AI and LLMs in a way that is localised, affordable, and actually usable in their day-to-day operations. Not hype. Not demos.

But something that lets a team show up to a knife fight with a gun. We explored many directions along the way:
- wealth management workflows
- digital workers
- internal AI tools

But we kept coming back to the same core idea:

Businesses need a way to do more with less, in a way that fits how they already work.

That’s what led us to build FlowSync. Initially, it started as an internal platform.
We used it to handle operational work that we simply couldn’t hire more people to do. The launch was slow, to be honest.

We started with just two clients and quickly realised the platform needed more capabilities to support customer workflows truly, not just become another piece of software in the stack. So we kept building.

Fast forward a few months, and we’ve now closed three new pilot customers, each with the potential to expand significantly in scope. It’s still very early.
But one commitment I made to myself during this transition was to share the journey openly with others building in the same space.

So this is the 9-month update. More lessons to come as we keep building.
And I’m curious to hear from others, how are you approaching this wave?

#Africa #Technology #Skywalk #BuildInPublic #AI

I think, like most people, we are all trying to figure out what our strategy will be to leverage this GenAi wave to our benefit. 

Listening to a few podcasts and conversations I have held, there are many that are either all in and looking to Ctrl+Alt+Delete their old operating model, and then there are others that are playing the wait-and-see game. I thought I would share some questions or perspectives I have used when thinking about what this means to me:

1. Top-level questions

- Is this core technology a disruption to my business model?
- Is this core technology a disruption to my capabilities?
- Is this core technology able to open up new markets I never considered exploring before because of cost/capacity or other reasons?
- Does this technology change the engagement model? 
- Are customers meeting delivery teams or working with agent capabilities?

2. Tactical questions

- Does this give me a gun that I can take to knife fights?
- What are the offerings I removed in the past that seem more viable now?
- Can I further decouple parts of my delivery/capability/business model to create a new productised offering?
- How do I create value for customers without getting them on a call?
- Should I build/buy or partner for new capability/offerings?
- Can I use this to unlock non-traditional deals, like capability for equity?
- What are the byproducts of what we do that can be monetised?
- If I had to relaunch an offering in two weeks what would I do?
- What can now be done in 2 weeks to create value instead of 1 to 2 months?
- What does a software-defined agency look like?

These are just some ideas and questions I have been asking myself as we navigate this current wave. I am curious to hear what others are asking themselves while navigating this journey.

#Africa #Technology #Business #GenAi

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