After many nominations from the ICT community, ITWeb Brainstorm’s judging panel has shortlisted finalists for its CIO of the Year awards. Run in association with First Distribution and Microsoft, the awards include two categories: Enterprise CIO of the Year and Public Sector CIO of the Year. The Enterprise CIO of the Year finalists are: Assaad…
Vodacom Group CIO Mohamed Sami Mohamed Sami, group CIO at Vodacom, says autonomous AI agents that resolve customer problems without handing them to a human are the next big shift in customer experience – and that it is closer than many think. Speaking on TechCentral’s Meet the CIO podcast series, which is brought to our…
Garrett Boss joins Laserfiche as chief information officer. Laserfiche — the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation — today announced the appointment of Garrett Boss as chief information officer. Boss will oversee Laserfiche’s global IT services team and business transformation office, including deployment of internal Laserfiche solutions and all other…
Shoprite Group CTO Chris Shortt Chris Shortt, chief technology officer at Shoprite Group, says the work of the next five years is meeting the customer at their point of need, wherever that is – and that this does not mean the end of the store. Speaking on TechCentral’s Meet the CIO podcast series, brought to…
The winners of the Brainstorm CIO of the Year Awards 2025: the Information Regulator’s Tando Luyaba (left) and Standard Bank’s Khomotso Molabe. ITWeb Brainstorm has opened nominations for its CIO of the Year Awards for 2026. With a history of recognising the vital role the chief information officer (CIO) plays in the modern organisation, through…
Derek Wilcocks, group CIO at Discovery, says AI has finally given the group the ability to do something it has wanted to do since Vitality launched more than 25 years ago: personalise it. Speaking on TechCentral’s Meet the CIO podcast series, brought to you by NTT DATA, Wilcocks said Personal Health Pathways is built on…
Incoming Nebank CIO Nikos Angelopoulos Nedbank has appointed Nikos Angelopoulos, formerly MTN Group’s group CIO, to the same role at the bank, which has been without a permanent technology chief since the end of January. Angelopoulos starts on 1 September and joins the group executive committee. He ran technology at MTN from July 2018 until…
Nikos Angelopoulos, Nedbank Group CIO. Nedbank has appointed Nikos Angelopoulos as its new group chief information officer (CIO), effective 1 September. Angelopoulos joins the bank from MTN Group, where he has served as group CIO since 2018. In that role, he was responsible for IT strategy, investments, delivery and governance across MTN’s 16 markets, supporting…
Fezile Dali, CIO for business and commercial banking at Standard Bank Group. (Image: supplied) Data and artificial intelligence (AI) are key priorities for Standard Bank’s business and commercial banking (BCB) unit, as it looks to unlock the promise of AI and generative AI. So said Fezile Dali, CIO for BCB at Standard Bank Group, in…
Palo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel Small software bugs that developers once safely ignored can now be strung together by AI into working exploits – and the code to launch those attacks at scale generated on demand. That is the warning from Meerah Rajavel, global CIO of Palo Alto Networks, who spoke to TechCentral during…
