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How AI-assisted teams actually build with AI

Ever wondered how you or your team stack up when it comes to building, reviewing, and shipping with AI? OfferZen’s framework for AI-assisted engineering helps you map your level of AI fluency.

🗓️ 01 October   ⏰ 12:00 SAST   💻 Online event

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Tian Schoeman
Gen AI Productivity Manager, Impact.com
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Tian Schoeman
Gen AI Productivity Manager, Impact.com
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Tian Schoeman
Gen AI Productivity Manager, Impact.com
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Tian Schoeman
Gen AI Productivity Manager, Impact.com
Nick van Noordwyk, speaker image
Nick Van Noordwyk
Head of Engineering, OfferZen
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Dinielia Pillay
Talent Partner, OfferZen
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Andrew Considine
Chief Product and Tech Officer, Pollinate
Tian Schoeman, speaker image
Tian Schoeman
GenAI Productivity Manager, Impact.com
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AI is changing how teams build. The question is: how far have you actually gone?

Almost every engineer is using AI now: 97% of tech leaders say their teams already do. But there's a big difference between accepting a code suggestion, steering an agent through a scoped ticket, and reviewing PRs from a fleet of agents that worked overnight.

Join us online as Barbara Fourie, Head of Product, presents OfferZen’s framework for mapping your team’s AI enablement level.

Then, Nick Van Noordwyk, Head of Engineering at OfferZen, will run a brief demo of a level 2 AI-enabled workflow, touching on planning, building, and reviewing.

We’ll finish with a panel and open Q&A, joined by two guest speakers: Raphael Smith, Managing Director and Co-Founder at BMEC, and Thamsanqa Moyo, CTO at Jem. They’ll share honest takes on hiring, building capability, and rethinking how engineering teams work today.

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🚀 Discover where you or your team sits on the AI enablement curve

🚀 See a live demo of a level 2 AI-enabled workflow

🚀 Learn how to demonstrate your AI fluency in interviews and technical assessments

🚀 Find out how to hire for and build AI capability across your team

🚀 Figure out if your engineering team is designed for the way work is changing

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Meet your speakers

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Nicolaas van Noordwyk
Head of Engineering, OfferZen
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"You'll never be done with being AI-fluent. Tomorrow a new model releases that can already handle a chunk of what your harness was trying to get right."
Fast facts
🤖 Claude Code, Obsidian, and cmux are his daily drivers.
⌨️ Customised his keyboard and mouse to work faster with AI. Yes, really.
🔨 10/10 software builder. 2/10 handyman.
About Nick
Nick’s an engineering leader who’s spent years building teams and products, and lately, figuring out how to work better with AI. He stays curious, builds workflows that make AI genuinely useful, and pushes his team to experiment. What he’s most proud of? Seeing how far they’ve come on their AI journey.
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Barbara Fourie
Head of Product, OfferZen
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“Showing AI fluency means being honest about what you’ve tried, what worked, and where you still have gaps. That beats a buzzword-filled CV every time.”
Fast facts
🤖 n8n, Claude, and Lovable (basically anything with a good connector).
🌀 Thinks AI products should be weird and authentic.
🏋️ Got into Hyrox. Spent competition day spotting tech improvements.
About B
Barbara is a product leader currently reshaping how engineers showcase their capabilities on OfferZen, including bringing AI fluency into their profiles. She pushes to solve the right problem, welcomes weirdness, and reminds everyone: AI does the how; humans own the what. The result? A team obsessed with taste over speed.
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Raphael Smith
Managing Director & Co-Founder, BMEC
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"Nothing you build with AI comes for free – you still have to put the brakes on. Get the risk profile wrong, and you're maintaining code you never needed to write."
Fast facts
🤖 Claude Desktop: one project, one tab.
🧪 Side projects? Building deliberately terrible apps with his kid. 
About Raph
Raphael solves problems across software, electronics, automation, and medical devices. He’s all about using AI to make tough engineering challenges easier, but he never loses sight of quality, risk, or what actually counts as 'good.' The trick, as he sees it, is knowing when to trust AI, when to double-check it, and how to keep it pointed in the right direction.
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Thamsanqa Moyo
CTO, Jem
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“We've stopped doing a lot of in-depth human review. If you get your gates right, you can ship fast.”
Fast facts
🤖 Claude Code is his go-to for coding and other automation
👂 Party trick? He can wiggle his ears.
🚀 Jem closed its $8.4m Series A in August.
About Thams
Thamsanqa’s a technology leader who’s spent years building teams across African markets, and lately, watching AI take his team from individual autonomy back to small pods. He hires “floor-raisers”, gives people space to experiment, and believes AI fluency starts with curiosity. For him, the real skill is understanding what’s beneath the abstraction.