East Africa
CIO Summit
Innovative Digital Strategies: Evolving to the Demands of a New Reality
DIGITAL Event | June 10, 2021
The digital installment of the IDC East Africa CIO Summit 2021 will navigate a broad range of themes that are central to this journey, so join us as senior IDC analysts and respected IT leaders take a deep dive into the new economy and explore what it means for your business.
The event’s dynamic agenda will take you through a series of presentations, panel discussions, real-life use cases, and dedicated industry tracks, giving you a bird’s eye view of the current market situation, the latest technological innovations, and strategies for propelling your organization to meet the unique challenges of these unprecedented times.
For the very first time, this year's edition of the IDC East Africa CIO Summit will feature a CIO Masterclass Arena. Here, you will find a selection of CXO best-practice presentations, fireside chats, and panel discussions as respected industry pioneers and thought leaders share insights into the successful digital transformation strategies applied within their own organizations.
Open to All Delegates
The CIO Masterclass Arena is open throughout the duration of IDC East Africa CIO Summit 2021 to all delegates looking to maximize their learning and expand their organizational thinking.
A Wealth of Best Practices
CXOs from across the region and around the world will share first-hand experiences, strategies, and insights into their success stories.
Exchange Insights and Knowledge
This is your opportunity to share your very own journey with fellow CIOs to enhance collaboration and build long-term partnerships.
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VMWare
Dimension Data
Founded in
1983, Dimension Data is a $1,3 billion African born systems integrator and
managed services provider, employing over 15000 employees across 15 countries
in Africa and the Middle East. We design, manage, and optimise organisations’
technology environments, to enable them to leverage data in a digital age.
Palo Alto Networks
Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organisations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important asset, information. The company services customers of all sizes across 180 countries – ranging from 99 percent of the Fortune 500 to individual consumers – with the industry’s most comprehensive and innovative portfolio from the edge to the core to the cloud.
Oracle
Citrix Systems
CITRIX www.citrix.com
Citrix builds the secure, unified digital workspace technology that helps organizations unlock human potential and deliver a consistent workspace experience wherever work needs to get done. With Citrix, users get a seamless work experience and IT has a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
ManageEngine
Checkpoint
Darktrace
FireEye
FireEye is the intelligence-led security company. Working as a seamless, scalable extension of customer security operations, FireEye offers a single platform that blends innovative security technologies, nation-state grade threat intelligence, and world-renowned Mandiant® consulting. With this approach, FireEye eliminates the complexity and burden of cyber security for organizations struggling to prepare for, prevent, and respond to cyber attacks. FireEye has over 10,100 customers across 103 countries, including more than 50 percent of the Forbes Global 2000.
© 2021 FireEye, Inc. All rights reserved. FireEye and Mandiant are registered trademarks or trademarks of FireEye, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
Commvault
Commvault
gives people the freedom to reimagine potential — in their data, and for
themselves. How? With a single solution to help protect, manage, and use data.
We’re obsessed with creating software that feels like second nature. Our goal
is to eliminate errors, reveal insights, take mind-numbing IT tasks off to-do
lists, and make people feel data ready — no matter what comes their way. We
build up people, not just businesses. And that starts within.
Poly
Telkom Kenya Limited
Telkom is a technology company that provides integrated solutions to individuals, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), Government and large corporates in Kenya, drawing from a diverse solutions suite that includes voice, data/connectivity, digital financial services, as well as network services. Powered by its vast fibre optic infrastructure, it is also a major provider of wholesale carrier-to-carrier traffic, within the country and the region.
These services are primarily offered through our Service Delivery Units: Digital (that offers: Data Centre Services, Cloud, Managed Services, Connectivity, Broadband, Carrier-to-Carrier traffic, and Backbone Infrastructure); Consumer (that offers: Data, Voice, VAS, and Content) and Digital Financial Services (through our platform T-kash).
Telkom is also building on strong, consumer-centric ethos and is committed to providing innovative, accessible and refreshingly simple communications solutions that suit customers’ everyday communication needs.
Established as a telecommunications operator in April 1999, Telkom is 60 per cent owned by Helios Investment Partners, with the remaining stake held by Kenyans through the Government of Kenya. Telkom has 4,152 km of its own terrestrial fibre cabling, serving as a key conduit for broadband connectivity, inland. Telkom Kenya also owns a 22.5% stake in TEAMS, a 5,000km undersea fibre optic cable through Fujairah, UAE, and a 10% stake in LION2, another 2,700km undersea fibre optic cable through Mauritius. It also owns a stake in the East African Submarine System Cable (EASSy) and manages the National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI), on behalf of the Ministry of ICT, an inland fibre optic cable network running through Kenyan counties. Telkom is also the landing partner for the LION2, EASSy, and DARE 1 Cables.
Please visit www.telkom.co.ke to get to know more about Telkom.
Combining keynote speeches, panel debates, and peer-to-peer networking, the IDC East Africa CIO Summit 2021 will provide an unrivaled platform for high-level ICT executives to:
57 Years | 1100 Analysts | 110 Countries
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