2026 EBnet Evolutionaries Conference
Benefits Activated
Most employee benefits sit unused until a claim form appears. This week treats them as living tools for the whole life experience - first job, family, illness, debt, burnout, two-pot, retirement, and the legacy a person hopes to leave.
Event
Dates & format
Audience
EBnet Evolutionaries Conference 2026
26–30 October 2026. Virtual.
Open 24/7 for five days.
Principal officers, trustees, EB consultants, IFAs, investment managers, HR, wellness and health providers, regulators
Why This Year.
The EBnet Evolutionaries Conference is the industry’s annual 24/7 virtual week. Trustees, principal officers, advisers, investment managers, HR professionals and providers come and go as they please - and miss nothing.
In 2025 we looked at technology. In 2026 we look at use - use throughout an employees working life and beyond. But “offered" is not the same as “activated". Activation is design, communication, advice and timing. Ultimately it’s about use and value. We call it….Benefits Activated.
Your money isn’t the story.
Your life is.
Unique Position.
- New in 2026: a venue organised around the member’s life, not the provider’s organogram.
- Open a full week, 24 hours a day.
- Consume only what you need. Everything remains on ebnet.co.za when the week closes.
- Verified CPD hours, at no cost.
- Free for attendees. Built for deliberate attention, not badge-scanning.
- Great prizes to be won.
Benefits that sit in a booklet change nothing. Benefits that walk with people through life change everything.
The Four Doors of Life.
18 Expert voices – 10-15 min each. Four stages of a working life.
CPD Kisok available to claim those hours – fully automated certificate delivery via e-mail.
This is not a product slot. In 15 minutes, we take one life moment - first salary, second child, sandwich month, two-pot temptation, the year before retirement, the first year after work - and show how integrated benefits, advice or design change what the employee does next. We’ll leave you with one thing an employer or adviser can do on Monday. Maybe two.
Live Webinars.
Three live keynote speakers. The rest on your time.
40 minutes, then questions. Auditorium doors open at 9am on 26, 28 and 30 October.
The 2026 conference gathers the industry to show how those tools work in real life - good days and hard days.
Industry Marketplace.
First of its kind industry market place
Over 50 exhibitors. Prizes up for grabs. Pop-in.
Stop leading with products, platforms and “innovation theatre”. Lead with moments: first job, family, illness, debt, burnout, two-pot, retirement, legacy.
The 2026 Evolutionary Awards.
Categories:
Voting - Have your say. One vote per category. Independently audited. 3 pre-screened entries per category.
In a world of continuous improvement we recognise the evolutionaries by a people’s vote. In 2026 we are looking for evolutions that people actually use — at the kitchen table, in a clinic queue, on the day a two-pot withdrawal is tempting, and in the first year after work ends.
Community Centre.
Make yourself visible to fellow conference goers and build your network.
Advice used to cluster around two moments: joining the fund and leaving it. Life does not. Clients need a guide through debt, divorce, disability, a two-pot withdrawal, a diagnosis, a business sale, a will. Benefits Activated is the brief for the modern advisor: tools for the whole experience, not a product for a single risk. Holistic now. Legacy-aware later.
Great Prizes.
Walk the road. Collect your steps. The most curious visitors take the prizes home.
Conference Sponsors.
To evolve is to change into a better state. In 2026 that evolution is simple: benefits that are offered become benefits that are lived.
Your money isn’t the story. Your life is.
EBnet Evolutionaries Conference 2026 · Benefits Activated · 26–30 October · Virtual · 24/7