Your hosts Nick, Damian and Gianpaolo will welcome all attendees to SCALE Open South Africa and introduce the schedule for the day.

Nick Taylor (Nox Cape Town), Damian Sheridan (SCALE), Gianpaolo Vairo (SCALE)

Rebecca Cribbin will share her 10 commandments for short-term rental property management success. Over the last 14 years, Rebecca and her team have managed more than 1300 properties, organised nearly 100,000 cleans, helped 500,000 guests create wonderful holiday memories and collected and paid out over $100 million to property owners.

Holiday rental specialists, Rebecca’s business is one of the largest privately owned property management companies in Australia. Currently looking after 360 individually owned short-term rental properties, most of them stand alone homes. Learn from Rebecca’s experience, wisdom and knowledge.

Listen to her stories about being a woman, mother, founder, and business leader. Go away with simple, easily implemented tips and tricks for your own short-term rental property management success and make every day fabulous.

Rebecca Cribbin (Holiday Rental Specialists & Holiday Rental Experts)

Creating awesome hosts that work together and not against each other; has guests returning to the area, satisfies their needs, and makes the referring host front-of-mind.
Identifying your network and incentivizing hosts to share referrals, is a win-win for everyone.

Melanie Kriel (Awesome Host Referrals & Beachfront Apartments in Shakas Rock)

Join Damian Sheridan and industry experts as we discuss the mindset needed to get more direct bookings and some actionable ways of influencing travellers to book directly.

Damian Sheridan (SCALE)

Danielle Laity (WigWag), Melanie Kriel (Beachfront Apartments in Shakas Rock), Brian Sango (Your Property Guy)

The debate around Property Management Systems (PMS) continues, but one thing is clear: companies with ambitious scaling goals leverage PMS to streamline operations and achieve scalability.

Join our panel featuring industry leaders in holiday rental tech, Octorate, and Boom, to unlock the key elements for scaling your business now and in the future.

Gianpaolo Vairo (SCALE)

Shahar Goldboim (Boom), Lorenzo Lella (Octorate)

Join us for an eye-opening discussion on transforming workplace culture! Learn how breaking mental health stigma, embracing diversity, and fostering belonging can supercharge team performance and drive business success. Be part of the movement— let’s build stronger, happier teams together!

Shireen Onia (Propati Cape Town)

Ridhwaan shares his journey battling COVID pneumonia, including a month-long hospitalization, 8 days in the ICU, and 3 months reliant on oxygen. Despite facing death, he emerged with a newfound determination to live fully and seized the opportunity to build a successful short-term rental business.

Within a year, he scaled from one property to seven, leveraging innovative systems and automation to manage his properties remotely, even while hospitalized. This journey culminated in winning a property investor award for his innovative approach and rapid expansion to 15 properties across Cape Town and Dubai within two years.

Ridhwaan Basa (Tenacious Property)

In this panel, we’ll explore potential threats to the South African short-term rental industry and collaboratively identify opportunities to strengthen the market and boost profitability.

Richard Marshall (Nox Cape Town)

Velma Corcoran (Airbnb), Dean McLuckie (The Pangolin Collection), Murray Clark (Neighbourgood)

Nick, Damian and Gianpaolo Vairo will wrap up the day and invite all attendees for some post-show drinks and networking.

Nick Taylor (Nox Cape Town), Damian Sheridan (SCALE), Gianpaolo Vairo (SCALE)