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Building ethical AI frameworks for financial services

CTO of Sage, Aaron Harris, explores the urgent need for coordinated ethical AI standards as 90 percent of SMBs prepare to adopt AI tools by 2030, and warns against a “Wild West” approach to implementation.

ACRN appoints Wayne Janneker as CTO

With over two decades of experience driving digital transformation across the healthcare and corporate sectors, Wayne Janneker, the newly appointed CTO of the Africa Clinical Research Network (ACRN), is looking to modernise technology systems and lead the rollout of digitally enabled trials.

Wits CIO Dr Stanley Mpofu yields good results

Wits CIO and proud farmer Dr Stanley Mpofu believes in building his team and giving back. His exceptional people and project leadership skills were recognised at the 2024 CIO Awards, where he took home the prestigious CIO of the Year and IT Project of the Year awards.

CIO Webinar: Agentic AI to drive the next wave of customer personalisation in retail

In a recent CIO South Africa webinar titled retail reimagined: leveraging AI for a competitive edge, Dr Prince Abudu, head of technology for AI at Cassava Technologies and Boyd Chislett, chief business officer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies outlined a vision for how African retailers can gain a competitive edge through agentic AI and the continent’s first AI factory.

iOCO is building a resilient tech ecosystem

iOCO is using a balanced approach to lead businesses in local and international markets to leverage technology to differentiate their offerings to customers. This enables businesses to drive meaningful innovation and gain a competitive edge, writes Tessa Kruger.

CIO Nomonde White-Ndlovu knows how to make the right call

Award-winning Bidvest Bank CIO Nomonde White-Ndlovu had her hands full, literally, when she walked away with three awards at last year’s CIO Awards - best high performance team; best strategy & leadership; and, the title of 2024 Young CIO of the Year.

Social media: Sophistically engineered information systems

Digital literacy needs to evolve to include neurochemical literacy, Rennie Naidoo, a research director and professor at Wits believes. He explains how social media can be manipulated to elicit specific engagement and warns that attention and mental clarity are IT leaders’ hottest commodity.

2025 CIO Day: From bullshit to bullseye and slay

At CIO Day on 27 May 2025, one of the breakaway sessions, called Mission IT Possible, gave CIOs an opportunity to dive into different scenarios within individual groups to solve business challenges.

2025 CIO Day: IT executives need to lead with confidence, conviction

For CIOs today, the biggest challenge comes at the intersection between strategy, business impact and innovation. In order to successfully navigate this crossroads, IT leaders need to go beyond the technology and learn new skills that will help them influence the direction of their organisations.

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