The ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Banquet 2026 brought together technology leaders. (Photograph by Strike a Pose) Operationalising artificial intelligence (AI) beyond the hype, cyber security threats and budget constraints are among the biggest pressure points facing South African chief information officers (CIOs), according to preliminary findings from the ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Survey 2026. The preliminary results…
Pandelani Munyai, group CIO at Transnet, and Jochem Melis, CIO of cloud, infrastructure and core platforms at Absa, have won the public and private sector categories respectively at the ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Awards 2026. Pandelani Munyai, group CIO of Transnet, and Jochem Melis, CIO of cloud, infrastructure and core platforms at Absa, have won the…
Complete the 2026 CIO Survey and submit your nominations for the CIO of the Year Awards. If you are a CIO or the most senior IT executive in a sizeable South African organisation, share your perspective by completing The ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Survey 2026. Conducted in partnership with MTN Business, this research project is now…
South African CIOs and senior IT executives are invited to take part in the survey, while the ICT community can nominate candidates for the awards before 28 September. The ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Survey, conducted in partnership with MTN Business, is now under way and South African technology leaders are invited to contribute to the annual…
The author, Change Logic’s Marchant van den Heever It is Monday morning and the programme steering committee is reviewing another transformation update. The milestones are on track, training has been completed, communications have gone out, system performance is stable and the dashboard is green. Then someone asks the question that changes the room: “Are people actually…
Dr Andile Ngcaba, executive chairman and co-founder of Convergence Partners and Solcon Capital. (Photograph by Strike a Pose) The global information and communication technology (ICT) landscape is faced with three main crises: submarine internet cable cuts, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cyber security threats, and vulnerabilities in the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) ecosystem. So said Dr…
Exploring the cyber skills landscape. Logicalis recently partnered with IDC to create an easy-to-digest infographic that highlights key outcomes from IDC research on the current cyber skills landscape. In conversations with customers, Logicalis is hearing a familiar challenge: how to meet rising demands for stronger data security while struggling to hire and retain the cyber…
ITWeb editor-in-chief Adrian Hinchcliffe presenting the findings of the ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Survey 2025. Cyber security and compliance have emerged as the leading priorities for South African chief information officers (CIOs) in 2025. This is according to findings from the ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Survey 2025, which gathered insights from 115 CIOs across various industries, highlighting…
Winners of the ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Decade of Service awards in 2024: AfriSam’s Louise van der Bank and the University of the Witwatersrand’s Dr Stanley Mpofu. ITWeb Brainstorm, in partnership with MTN Business, is seeking nominations for the top enterprise CIO, as well as the top CIO in the public sector. Nominations can be made…
Lungile Mginqi, digital transformation strategist. “SaaS is dead,” declared Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the BG Squared podcast. That quote is not a throwaway line − it signals a seismic transformation in enterprise software. AI agents, he argues, will replace traditional business applications by shifting logic from siloed stacks into dynamic, cross-system orchestration layers. As…
