In-Person Event | The Forum, The Campus, Bryanston | May 11, 2022
With digital agendas accelerating significantly over the last two years, the result has been a continuously changing and increasingly digitally driven world. IDC research shows that 54% of Sub-Saharan Africa CIOs have brought forward their digital agendas by at least one year – and 16% by almost two years – following the upheaval of 2020. Many of these CIOs are now actively reviewing and exploring new digital business models and ecosystem partnerships for the long term.
Whether they're building resilient digital infrastructures or addressing the unique demands of a distributed workforce, CIOs are adapting their organizations to meet a new set of challenges and rethinking their leadership practices for a digital-first world. They are accelerating their digital investments and building organizations that adapt to evolving business requirements and capitalize on change.
The 2022 edition of the IDC South Africa CIO Summit will explore the increasing pace of innovation, examine the country's evolving technology landscape, and present best-practice strategies that will help organizations transform themselves into digitally resilient future enterprises.
Agenda
The IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2022 features a tailored agenda filled with handpicked topics, discussions, panel sessions, and keynote presentations from regional and global technology experts that will explore all of today's hottest ICT issues.
The 2022 edition will be hosted as a in-person event on May 11. Here's what you can expect:
Huawei Cloud is a Huawei brand for cloud services. It draws on Huawei's over 30 years of expertise in ICT technologies, products, and solutions and provides customers with reliable, secure, and sustainable cloud services. Huawei Cloud is committed to building the cloud foundation for an intelligent world with ubiquitous cloud and pervasive intelligence. We will continuously innovate and work with our customers, partners, and developers with a mindset of "Think cloud native, act cloud native", building an all-digital, all-cloud, AI-driven world with Everything as a Service.
Strategic Partner
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA)
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) is a South African professional body for Information Technology professionals and aims to further the study, science and application of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs); maintain and promote Codes of Conduct and Ethics for its members; define and promote standards of ICT knowledge; promote the formulation of effective policies on ICT and related matters; and extend the knowledge and understanding and usage of ICTs in the community. This is achieved by engagement with both Industry and Government on ICT policy, regulations and professional activities, combined with a commitment to the wider. www.iitpsa.org.za
Summit Partner
Google Cloud
Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to
digitally transform its business. It delivers enterprise-grade solutions that
leverage Google's cutting-edge technology – all on the cleanest cloud in the
industry. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google
Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical
business problems. Learn more at https://cloud.google.com/.
Summit Partner
Oracle
Oracle, a global provider of enterprise cloud computing, is empowering businesses of all sizes on their journey of digital transformation. Oracle Cloud provides leading-edge capabilities in software as a service, Platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, and data as a service. Oracle helps customers develop strategic roadmaps and advance their journey to the cloud from any point: new cloud deployments, legacy environments, and hybrid implementations. Oracle’s complete, integrated approach makes it easy for companies to get started in the cloud and even easier to expand as business grows. Oracle’s application suites, platforms, and infrastructure leverage both the latest technologies and emerging ones—including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT)—in ways that create business differentiation and advantage for customers. Today, 430,000 customers in 175 countries use Oracle technologies to seize business opportunities and solve real, tangible challenges. Oracle supports customers on every step of the digital journey, with consulting, financing, support, and training services. To learn more, visit www.oracle.com/za
Summit Partner
Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics are built with artificial intelligence and machine learning at the core to help organizations around the world embrace the future of work. Workday is used by more than 10,000 organizations around the world and across industries — from medium-sized businesses to more than 50% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit www.workday.com.
Summit Partner
AWS
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload. The company now has 84 availability zones within 26 geographic regions, with plans for eight more AWS regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Millions of customers — including fast-growing start-ups, large enterprises, and leading government agencies — trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.
Summit Partner
UiPath
UiPath has a vision to deliver the Fully Automated Enterprise™, one where companies use automation to unlock their greatest potential. UiPath offers an end-to-end platform for automation, combining the leading Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution with a full suite of capabilities that enable every organization to rapidly scale digital business operations.
Summit Partner
Mimecast
Mimecast is a cybersecurity and compliance provider that helps thousands of organizations worldwide make email safer, restore trust and strengthen cyber resilience. Mimecast’s expanded cloud suite enables organizations to implement a comprehensive cyber resilience strategy. From email and web security, archive and data protection, to awareness training, uptime assurance and more, Mimecast helps organizations stand strong in the face of cyberattacks, compliance risk, human error and technical failure.
Platinum Partner
Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 CRM, bringing companies and customers together in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, blockchain, voice, and artificial intelligence—to connect to their customers in a whole new way. The Salesforce Customer 360 is an integrated CRM platform that unites marketing, sales, commerce, service and IT departments. The company is a leader on Fortune’s World's Best Workplaces list, and Forbes has ranked the company one of the world's most innovative companies for nine years in a row. For information, please visit www.salesforce.com.
Platinum Partner
Micro Focus
OpenText has completed the purchase of Micro Focus . We are excited to combine together to provide expanded offerings that support our customers’ growing needs to digitize and work smarter. We are now 25,000 experts strong making us better able to help our customers and fuel our innovation.
Micro Focus brings critical technologies to OpenText, including new categories of AI & Analytics, Application Development & Delivery, Application Modernization, and Digital Operations Management. They greatly complement OpenText’s proven market leadership in Content Services, Business Network, Digital Experience and Cyber Security. With our combined capabilities, we will help customers gain an information advantage and accelerate their digital transformation.
The newly combined company will focus on future business growth that is inclusive, sustainable, and human centric. We can accelerate how we solve complexities by bringing information and automation together so businesses of all sizes can be re-invented through new digital fabrics, new rules, and new ways to work.
The world’s most trusted companies trust OpenText, and our expertise is in helping people work smarter. OpenText powers and protects information to elevate every person and every organization to be their best.
Platinum Partner
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making jobs easier. The company’s 120+ award-winning products and free tools cover everything the IT function needs. From network and device management to security and service desk software, ManageEngine brings resources together for an integrated approach that optimizes IT.
Platinum Partner
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is the security, performance, and reliability company on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today it runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers anything connected to the Internet, with its services being used by everyone, from nonprofits and SMBs to Global 2000 companies and top government organizations.
Platinum Partner
KnowBe4
KnowBe4 is the world’s largest integrated platform for new-school security awareness training and simulated phishing. KnowBe4 was created to help organisations manage the ongoing problem of social engineering through a comprehensive new-school awareness training approach. Tens of thousands of organisations worldwide use KnowBe4’s platform to mobilise their end-users as a last line of defence and enable them to make smarter security decisions.
Platinum Partner
VMware & BCX
VMware software powers the world’s complex digital infrastructure. The company’s cloud, app modernization, networking, security, and digital workspace offerings help customers deliver any application on any cloud across any device. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to being a force for good, from its breakthrough technology innovations to its global impact.
Platinum Partner
Cloudera
At Cloudera, we believe data can make the impossible possible. The world’s leading organizations choose Cloudera to transform their businesses, improve lives, and advance human achievement. All through the power of data.
We deliver the world’s most powerful and flexible Hybrid Data Platform for any data, any analytics, running on any cloud, from the Edge to AI. With Flexibility to run the right analytics on any cloud, for faster insights. Performance and scale to optimize TCO across your choice of cloud. Security that’s consistent across clouds for simpler compliance.
Learn more at Cloudera.com.
Platinum Partner
Microsoft
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and organisation to achieve more by providing best-in-class platforms, tools and solutions that help drive small business productivity, large business competitiveness, and public-sector efficiency. As a proudly South African company with a Level 2 B-BBEE rating, Microsoft SA works with our partners to create local opportunity, growth, and impact by investing in initiatives and programmes that accelerate economic growth, create jobs, enable skills development and drive innovation.
OutSystems is a modern application platform that enables organizations to build applications that make a difference. OutSystems is designed from the ground up to help organizations build compelling applications that drive innovation at the pace that business requires. Leveraging advanced AI-powered tools and automation across the entire platform, OutSystems helps customers tackle strategic challenges such as application modernization, workplace innovation, business process automation, and customer experience transformation. Outsystems also ensures solutions are secure, resilient, cloud ready, and built to scale.
Technology Focus Group Partner
Technology Focus Group Partner
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Axway
Axway enables enterprises to securely open everything by integrating and moving data across a complex world of new and old technologies. Axway’s API-driven B2B integration and MFT software, refined over 20 years, complements Axway Amplify, an open API management platform that makes APIs easier to discover and re-use across multiple teams, vendors, and cloud environments. Axway has helped over 11,000 businesses unlock the full value of their existing digital ecosystems to create brilliant experiences, innovate new services, and reach new markets. Learn more at axway.com.
Trustlink
Trustlink is your integration specialist. It enables the secure and reliable exchange of information, including payment instructions, corporate and customer information, and operational data.
Technology Focus Group Partner
SUSE
SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable and
enterprise-grade open source solutions, relied upon by more than 60% of the
Fortune 500 to power their mission-critical workloads. We specialize in
Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes Management, and Edge solutions, and collaborate
with partners and communities to empower our customers to innovate everywhere
–- from the data center, to the cloud, to the edge and beyond.
Technology Focus Group Partner
Technology Corporate Management (Pty) Ltd
Precisely
Precisely is the global leader in data integrity, providing accuracy, consistency, and context in data for 12,000 customers in more than 100 countries, including 99 of the Fortune 100. Precisely’s data integration, data quality, data governance, location intelligence, and data enrichment products power better business decisions to create better outcomes.
TCM
Technology Corporate Management (TCM), a proud IBM Platinum Business Partner, has been delivering enterprise-grade services and solutions to its loyal and growing customer base across southern Africa for over three decades. This solid track record, coupled with its considerable in-house IBM expertise, makes TCM a leader in the ICT sector.
Technology Focus Group Partner
Freshworks
Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight
their customers and employees. We do this by taking a fresh approach to
building and delivering software that is affordable, quick to implement, and
designed for the end user. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Freshworks
has a dedicated team operating from 13 global offices to serve 50,000+
customers including Bridgestone, Chargebee, DeliveryHero, ITV, Klarna,
Multichoice, OfficeMax, TaylorMade and Vice Media. For more information
visit www.freshworks.com.
Technology Focus Group Partner
Udacity
Udacity changes lives, businesses, and nations through radical talent transformation in digital technologies. Udacity's global, online talent transformation platform focuses on in-demand digital technologies, mentor support, and project-based learning taught by industry experts. Programs include real world content for job-ready competencies in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, autonomous systems, cloud computing, among other disciplines. Udacity has more than 100 enterprise customers including Airbus, Bertelsmann, BNP Paribas, Leidos, Mazda, and the United States Air Force. Udacity collaborates with more than 200 global industry partners including Google, Facebook, Mercedes-Benz, and NVIDIA to power technical education. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the private company has operations in the United Kingdom, Egypt, Germany, India, and the United Arab Emirates. Udacity has raised $163 million in funding to date from investors including Bertelsmann, Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, and Drive Capital. For more information, please visit www.udacity.com
Technology Focus Group Partner
BCX | IBM
At BCX, we pride ourselves on being one of the leading South African end-to-end digital partners for corporates and enterprises across the African continent, within the Private and Public Sector. As a wholly owned subsidiary of the Telkom Group, we aim to become the number 1 digital partner of choice for clients within our chosen markets.
BCX drives business results by helping our clients place their customer at the heart of their organisations. Enabled by our technological capabilities such as converged communications, cloud services, industry solutions, cyber security and digital edge, BCX will innovate solutions to deliver exceptional value through better experiences along the value chain.
To do this we combine local market understanding and deep industry expertise with some of the world’s most advanced Information and Communication Technology, together with a tireless commitment to make your unique digital journey as seamless as possible.
Visit us on www.bcx.co.za
Exhibit Partner
Kaspersky
Kaspersky is a global cybersecurity company founded in 1997. Kaspersky’s deep threat intelligence and security expertise is constantly transforming into innovative security solutions and services to protect businesses, critical infrastructure, governments, and consumers around the globe. The company’s comprehensive security portfolio includes leading endpoint protection and specialized security solutions and services to fight sophisticated and evolving digital threats. Over 400 million users are protected by Kaspersky technologies, and we help 270,000 corporate clients protect what matters most to them.
The Forum, The Campus, Ground Floor Wanderers Building, The Campus Office Park Cnr Sloane Street & Main Road, Bryanston, 2021
Wednesday, May 11
08:00AM South Africa Time (GMT+2)
Language English
Registration Fee Free of Charge: For End Users (not IT + Consultant companies)
Contact
For More Information, contact: Lizelle Jones - Senior Conference Manager, IDC South Africa
Mobile: +27 73 404 3099 | Email: ljones@idc.com
Proceedings
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Venue
The Forum | The Campus
Ground Floor Wanderers Building, The Campus Office Park Cnr Sloane Street & Main Road, Bryanston, 2021
Knowledge Hub
Analyst Spotlight
Building a Strong Data Culture for Innovation
Chris Weston
Principal, European Client Advisory Practice, IDC
"Many companies are looking for ways to become more 'data driven', and by this they mean that they want good data to shape their decisions
Analyst Spotlight
Enabling Digital Resiliency to Thrive Beyond the Crisis
Ranjit Rajan
VP, Research (META), IDC
The pandemic has spurred a rapid acceleration of digital transformation, with over 70%
Analyst Spotlight
The Future of Work Requires Skills Building and Organizational Change Management
Mark Walker
Associate Vice President, Data & Analytics, IDC
Digital transformation and business volatility are driving organizations to reimagine the future of work and deploy remote or hybrid-first work
CXO Spotlight
Digital Transformation Reshaping Work Modules
Louise van der Bank
CIO, AfriSam
Technology is reshaping the world of work into agile
CXO Spotlight
IDC South Africa CIO Summit, a platform for technology leaders
Samresh Ramjith
CIO, AfriSam
For the past 14 years, the IDC South Africa CIO Summit has been the platform of choice for technology leaders
Analyst Spotlight
Three broad themes that will shape the tech investment decisions of the country’s CIOs
Jonathan Tullett
Senior Research Manager, IT Services, Africa, IDC
As industries across South Africa bounce back from the economic turbulence of the last two years
Partner Spotlight
Solving Challenges for South African Innovation and Growth
Niral Patel
Director, Google Cloud Africa
In the fast moving and ever-changing digital economy, enterprises across all industries will need IT agility, data driven insights, strong security, and digital skills to continue to thrive.
Analyst Spotlight
Businesses Must Start to View Digital Transformation as Organizational Transformation
Keoikantse Marungwana
Senior Research Manager, IDC
Digital transformation is shaping the future of work and the future enterprise.
Partner Spotlight
Cloud Is the Future of ICT and the Foundation of Digital Transformation
Stone He
President, Cloud Business, Southern Africa Region, Huawei
In the fast moving and ever-changing digital economy, enterprises across all industries will need IT agility, data driven insights, strong security, and digital skills to continue to thrive.
"Whilst working across many different industries and types of organizations in our advisory practice, there are some questions that come up regularly. Many companies are looking for ways to become more 'data driven', and by this they mean that they want good data to shape their decisions and their processes so they can provide more effective and profitable services to their customers.
This is an easy thing to say, but not so easy to do. At IDC, we have identified several components that combine to provide the conditions for this change. They can be grouped into six key areas — People, Attitudes, Values, Goals, Social, and Technology.
Whenever we see this change occurring in a sustainable way, these are the common factors that came together to make it happen. While technology is a key underpinning factor that cannot be ignored, the real change happens in the culture of the organization — employees learn to value the data they provide because it translates into the information they then use to make daily decisions.
The cultural change that must be apparent in any organization that aspires to this state is to embrace genuine transparency in the decision-making process. There must be a desire to learn from mistakes or unsatisfactory outcomes rather than to hide and/or forget them. This requires wise, mature leadership with an eye on strategic outcomes in the long term.
I'll be speaking at the IDC Middle East CIO Summit 2022 about how you can enact this cultural change in your own organization. So, join me on February 22nd at The Ritz-Carlton, Dubai International Financial Centre to hear more."
The pandemic has spurred a rapid acceleration of digital transformation, with over 70% of CIOs in the Middle East saying they have brought forward their digital roadmaps by at least one year, and one in seven bringing them forward by over two years.
As organizations battled to navigate the headwinds caused by the pandemic, there was an increased focus on business resiliency. This is the ability of an organization to rapidly respond to business disruptions and restore business operations in a timely fashion. However, this alone is not sufficient - organizations need to be digitally resilient as well.
This is different from being simply resilient. Digital resiliency is the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to not only restore business operations, but also capitalize on the changed conditions. While business resiliency tends to focus on anticipating the crisis and preparing for it, digital resiliency is focused on rapidly adapting to any business disruption.
Being digitally resilient requires resiliency across many parts of the organization, all working together. Organizations need to develop digital resiliency across all dimensions of the business – leadership and organization, financials, workforce, operations, brand and reputation, and customers and ecosystems – as they look to thrive in the post-pandemic, digital-first world.
Digital transformation and business volatility are driving organizations to reimagine the future of work and deploy remote or hybrid-first work models, leading them to redefine their work processes and engage diverse talent pools. With disruptive new technologies available, time-connected workers in task-based roles are increasingly using intelligence embedded in adaptive digital workspaces to engage clients/colleagues and drive enterprise productivity from anywhere.
Technology is reshaping the world of work into agile, modern workspaces that support an increasingly diverse, distributed, and dynamic workforce securely, effectively, and productively, enabling employees to become life-long learners.
For the past 14 years, the IDC South Africa CIO Summit has been the platform of choice for technology leaders from both the public and private sectors. As we step into a new digital era, we look forward to the 14th edition of the Summit as the event has always supported the country’s digital journey through its in-depth discussions around cutting-edge tech solutions, emerging use cases, and proven strategies for driving success.
As industries across South Africa bounce back from the economic turbulence of the last two years, International Data Corporation (IDC) believes there are three broad themes that will shape the tech investment decisions of the country's chief information officers (CIOs) and the organizations they represent through 2022 and beyond – the implementation of a digital-first strategy, the quest for digital resiliency, and the pursuit of hybridity.
In the fast moving and ever-changing digital economy, enterprises across all industries will need IT agility, data driven insights, strong security, and digital skills to continue to thrive. Google Cloud is working with companies throughout the region to accelerate their digital transformation on the world's cleanest cloud, while also bringing employees together in today's era of hybrid work, through a suite of collaboration and productivity tools. Our session during the Summit is going to provide a deeper dive into how Google Cloud helps businesses solve their biggest challenges.
Digital transformation is shaping the future of work and the future enterprise. With remote and distributed workers becoming a common feature of the modern enterprise, many business leaders are looking to shift their organizations to platform-based business models. IDC predicts that over the next decade, 75% of organizations will be completely digitally transformed. This organizational transformation is no longer a differentiator – it is a business survival imperative.
Many enterprises across industry verticals such as banking, utilities, manufacturing, healthcare, and retail have realized the need to view their organizations as a platform. They are developing digital transformation strategies based on an integrated, enterprise-wide technology architecture that seamlessly leverages internal and external data "triggers" to drive changes in the internal business processes and optimize value creation and value delivery for their customers. This is what IDC refers to as a digital transformation platform (or DX platform for short). The future enterprise is a digital enterprise.
By 2025, global enterprise cloud adoption rates are predicted to reach 100%. The information revolution of the past half-century has been the catalyst for this industrial revolution, and we now find ourselves in an intelligent world that requires cloud technology. In Southern Africa, bridging the skills gap remains crucial to the success of the region's economy and its people. Huawei plans to significantly increase its strategic investment in foundation technology, and we will continue to work with partners to reshape the digital landscape and empower customers with best-in-class technology.
Globally, we have faced unprecedented times, with socio and political issues constantly impacting business. Strategic partnerships have created the opportunity for us to collaborate and rise to the challenges we face. Huawei Cloud has experienced exponential growth since building the first local datacenter in Africa, and as we expand, we help shape the future of Africa’s digital economy.
Key Topics
The IDC CIO Summit gives you essential intelligence on a series of strategic & tactical topics:
From Secure to Trusted: A Journey to Digital Leadership
Next-Generation Security & Resilience
Cloud Computing: The Springboard for Digital Transformation
Key Topics
The IDC CIO Summit gives you essential intelligence on a series of strategic & tactical topics:
From Secure to Trusted: A Journey to Digital Leadership
Next-Generation Security & Resilience
Cloud Computing: The Springboard for Digital Transformation
Artificial Intelligence: A Slow-Motion Explosion
Building Hybrid Clouds for the Digital Era
The Future of Work and the Long-Term Implications of a Distributed Work Environment
Digitalizing Supply Chains and Operations to Improve Efficiency, Enhance Agility, and Reduce Risk
Reengineering Business Processes and Developing Long-Term Strategies for Automation and Increased Efficiency
The Transformation of Applications: Cloud-Native App Modernization
The Convergence of 5G, IoT, and Edge: Preparing for a Digital Quantum Leap
Health & Safety Protocol
In view of the current COVID-19 situation, IDC has implemented the following health and safety measures:
Attendance at the IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2022 will be limited to invited delegates only.
Sanitized badge jackets and lanyards will be strategically placed at the entrances to the venue.
Fully vaccinated IDC, partner, and venue staff will welcome and serve all attendees at the event.
The venue will be rigorously sanitized before and after the event.
Only five chairs per table will be allowed, and a two-meter distance between each table will be maintained at all times.
Hand sanitizers will be placed on each table, in addition to entry and exit points.
Tea/coffee stations will be cordoned off and only serviced by vaccinated staff.
Temperature checks will be made at the entrance to the venue.
Face masks will be mandatory, including inside the venue. However, gloves are optional. Masks can only be removed when seated at the table.
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International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,300 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. IDC's analysis and insight helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community to make fact-based technology decisions and to achieve their key business objectives. Founded in 1964, IDC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading media, data and marketing services company. To learn more about IDC, please visit www.idc.com.
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