Hello world! Announcing Di5rupt.

Launched in December 2021 Di5rupt (“Disrupt”) is a new business, but with a history stretching back almost a hundred years.

Co-founded by Cobus Heyl and John Schlaefli, colleagues at FIPP – connecting global media, Di5rupt will begin life in 2022 with organising and hosting the 44th FIPP World Media Congress on license, offering several established training courses for media as well as commercial and content services for FIPP.

On top of these established businesses, Di5rupt will develop further 3rd party services as well as its own, proprietary products – more on these in due course.

We chose the name “Disrupt” to remind ourselves not only of how disruption leads to new ideas and innovation, but also that a failure to keep up will inevitably lead to your demise.

The 5 in “Di5rupt” has more meaning that just replacing an S with a lookalike 5, but because we are building the business on 5 service pillars: Events, Training, Content, Commercial, and Marketing.

There is also a slightly personal reason for the 5. Co-founders Cobus and John are both north of 50. The idea that age means you are stuck in your ways, unwilling to innovate and change, and without the energy to move out of a comfort zone must in itself be disrupted! We refuse to bow to the stereotypes.

Based in the United Kingdom, Di5rupt operates across international markets. Join us somewhere in the world or online as we roll into 2022 and beyond!

Connect with us on LinkedIn:

• Di5rupt
• Cobus Heyl
• John Schlaefli

Or email us:

• [email protected] (focus areas: general management, product, marketing, and content services)
• [email protected] (focus areas: general management, commercial sales, and strategic partnerships)