2024 SPEAKERS

ISIPHETHU INDUSTRY PROGRAMME

Onke Dumeko

Onke Dumeko is a corporate affairs and operations executive and keynote speaker with extensive work experience spanning the diverse yet complimentary disciplines and industries of commercial and luxury retail, media, publishing, content (film & television) production and the public sector. A recipient of the 2017 Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans, the 2018 Gauteng Government Film & Media Excellence Awards and a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, she was the strategic marketing manager of magazine platforms Destiny, Destiny Man, ELLE, ELLE Decoration and SAWUBONA magazine under their original publisher, Ndalo Media. She was the editor-in-chief of Destiny magazine and the founding editor of thebar, a film & television archival platform where she hosted a YouTube show and podcast, The ForeverOnke Show. As the head of operations at the National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture she leads a robust team that manages Partnerships & Distribution, Marketing & Communications, Events & Activations, Legal, Policy, Compliance & Research, Facilities Management and Special Projects (PESP) at the national film and audio-visual funding body.