text: Considered one of South Africa’s top creative thinkers, Conn Bertish is a multiple internationally awarded creative director, trainer of resilience, cancer survival, and big wave surfing - who resigned from his high-powered job after beating brain cancer to launch Cancer Dojo – a mobile app and brand that uses creativity to empower patients to build their own resiliency, tap into the science of psychoneuroimmunology and become harder to kill. Conn speaks and runs workshops on the intersection of creativity, health, technology and resilience for a world under stress.