Ferdie Lochner, Llb, Phd Email & Phone Number

Cape Town, Wc, Za

Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa

Serving as board director and executive with responsibilities for Legal, Leadership, Strategic Collaboration and Talent Management.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

The legal landscape is constantly changing, evolving, and becoming more complex. Keeping up with all the various acts, regulations, and rules is a headache and sometimes impossible for a small to medium-sized business. Yet, failing to comply at best may lead to unforeseen risks and at worst to serious financial setbacks accompanied by fines, the threat of incarceration and reputational damage.Indevaldi Commercial Legal Advisors (ICLA) is committed to be the entrepreneur’s partner on the journey of breaking down the complexities of regulatory compliance, assisting entrepreneurs in implementing regulatory prescriptions and ensuring continued compliance with regulatory changes across the business landscape. ICLA also offers a range of legal services, in particular to support the SME sector in unlocking commercial value and also to render an accessible and affordable alternative to the profession of legal practitioners.

Paarl, Western Cape, South Africa

Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa

Delta Carbon serves as a catalyst in the renewable energy services sector and my role as roving Chief Technology Officer and shareholder is to support the CEO at executive and board level. In this last regard, my most important function is to take the lead in demonstrating how a shareholder should simultaneously also be able to function as board director and as executive, because this typically is how reality unfolds for a small to medium-sized company wanting to scale.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Windhoek

I am now listed as an accredited mediator with Mediation Namibia, focusing on disputes involving the following: Information technology, software licensing, IT contracts, technology in general, commercial contracts, environment and politics and medical negligence. This role is fulfilled mainly in Windhoek, Namibia. In order to maintain my impartiality, the first contact for my services is to be strictly steered through Mediation Namibia, with the relevant details on the Mediation Namibia website.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Stellenbosch, South Afric

Composing essays about technology futures for IFR. This job involves analysis of the latest technology trends, or analysis of a particular technology trajectory and composing the findings in essays which are published under the IFR trademark.

Civic Centre, Cape Town

My profession focuses on Management of Technology (MOT), but I currently fill the position of finance manager for the IT Department of the City of Cape Town. Although I find this a valuable cross-over position for technology analysis and governance, my primary interest as technology analyst focuses on the sustainability, cost, legal and social dimensions of organisational technologies, Intellectual Property rights and associated technological innovations. I pursue a parallel career track. Additional activities involve, among others, pro bono work as innovation mentor where opportunities present themselves and fulfilling the role of technology innovation leader for the IT Department. I am an external examiner, study leader and supervisor for technology-based studies respectively at MBA and PhD levels , and have now enrolled for a BA LLB degree at UNISA - this to further explore the fledging field of (autonomous) technology and the law, law and the Internet (with a particular focus on Social Media) Intellectual Property (IP) involving technological innovations, as well as indigenous law combined with a strong interest in environmental law and sustainability. Specialties: Tracking the technological horizon and analysing new technologies, looking for breakthrough technologies from a sustainability perspective and thinking about technology sustainability in service of a circular economy; promoting technological literacy – in the interest of shareholders, society and the environment; helping organisations to understand the full life cycle costs (economic useful life to decomposition and reuse) of technologies; planning and implementing technology innovation management structures and processes; Intellectual Property for technological innovations; exploring legal implication of autonomous technology, Social Media and the influence of the Internet; multi-disciplinary research, writing & presentation.

I was the first and only IT Manager for the Helderberg City Council before it was usurped by the newly constituted City of Cape Town metropolis. This meant I needed to create from scratch an IT planning, implementation and support structure. With a small but dedicated staff complement I succeeded in rolling out this strategy in a relatively short period of time, even if I needed to keep it together on a shoestring budget. Due to the convergence of technologies, and my fledging interest in Management of Technology as a broader discipline, I convinced the City Manager to allow me a wider sweep at an analysis of all technologies typically found within a municipality – inclusive of vehicle fleets at engineering depots and X-ray scanners in clinics. And so was born my first submission of a tractate on the nature and extent of municipal technologies, and the management imperatives flowing from such. Vacating the post of IT manager I became a certified Total Cost of Ownership expert in the newly created City of Cape Town's IT Department, while I served at the same time as project leader and relationship manager. WIth one eye on my continued part-time studies I used the opportunity to write on financial management imperatives of IT developmental projects, and later developed a technology cost management competency index. All of this subsequently led to a PhD pursuing a better understanding of the macro tenets underlying all technologies. My field of study became Management of Technology and I continue to apply these insights as part of my portfolio of functions as financial manager for the City of Cape Town IT Department.

Having spent my years of compulsory military duty in Namibia, the post of military university lecturer was my first real job. Although at the time it came with uniform and rank, I really enjoyed the academic ambience of the Military Academy, and the widely divergent nature of the military academic discourse that took place from lecture hall, through tea time to dinner tables. My duties were typically that of a university lecturer and I presented classes in Military Geography from first year to honours level. I particulary enjoyed presenting Geopolitics and also took the opportunity to complete part-time a masters degree in Geography, with my sole focus at the time on Geographical Information Systems (GIS). In fact, I subsequently replaced the outdated paper-based and manual techniques Cartography course with a course in GIS, which I developed in consultation with experts from strategic information centres in the South African National Defence Force. Alas, I needed to explore the real world of public sector management and after my marriage with a city-based lady vacated my post and moved to Cape Town.

Phd, Business Management & Administration - Focus On Management Of Technology

Activities and Societies: Member of Western Cape Committee of USB Alumni Association. The focus of my PhD is on the discipline.

Bachelor’S Degree, Law

The focus of my LLB is on the Companies Act and entrepreneurial law, combined with the law of contract. A very important secondary focus.

M Tech Business Admin, Business Administration

Tco Certification, It Cost Benchmarking, Analysis And Management

Gartner TCO expert certification is based on a course and an examination of Total Cost of Ownership principles and statistics, as applied.

Masters, Geography And Geographical Information Systems

Matric, Final School Year

Bachelor’S Degree, Law

Currently entered for a BA LLB, with focus on company law, entrepreneurial law, IT law, and associated governance and oversight.

University Of Cape Town Accredited Mediation Course

Mediation in Motion Mediators NPO pursues impartial and facilitative mediation to help parties in dispute solving their disagreements out.