Photo Gallery: 15 April 2026, CIO Purpose Driven Tech Summit, 180 Lounger, Cape Town

CIO South Africa recently caught up with Nesaar Banderker, head of IT at Sanlam Private Wealth, and here is what he shared about his role.

Mohamed Sami, group CIO at Vodacom, is in the gym by 6.30am, three times a week. He is also, in his words, “a carnivore and an Egyptian, but a newcomer to South Africa”.

King Price Insurance CTO Dr Eugene Wessels has watched technology reshape industries for 25 years. In his view, nothing in that time compares to what is happening right now in the age of AI, but he is less worried about his developers than he is about everyone else.

CIO South Africa recently caught up with Takealot group chief technology officer Clive Charlton and here is what he shared about his role.

Preferred Provider Negotiators (PPN) CIO Dr Kader Saiod explains why technology leadership is no longer defined solely by delivering IT projects, but by creating measurable business value, managing risk and enabling responsible innovation.

Aspen’s head of IT for SA Commercial has built a career on systems thinking – and a second life on the pages of a novel a decade in the making. Priyen Naidu reflects on risk, reinvention and finding purpose at work and at home.