Shoprite CTO on recruits who bring their own AI agents

Shoprite CTO on recruits who bring their own AI agents

Shoprite Group chief technology officer Chris Shortt About 12 000 Shoprite Group employees are using generative AI tools, and the retailer has built its own platform to route their requests to whichever model can handle them most effectively and cheaply. Chris Shortt, group chief technology officer at Africa’s largest retailer, told TechCentral’s Meet the CIO…

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DVT Insights Webinar to feature Databricks EMEA CTO on the future of AI-driven organisations

DVT Insights Webinar to feature Databricks EMEA CTO on the future of AI-driven organisations

Webinar: The role of AI in changing company structures and dynamic. Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. No longer confined to improving productivity through chatbots and automation tools, AI is increasingly being embedded into organisations through autonomous agents capable of planning, reasoning and executing tasks. As businesses begin deploying these technologies at scale, a…

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Amazon CTO unpacks what 2026 holds for developers

Amazon CTO unpacks what 2026 holds for developers

Dr Werner Vogels, CTO and VP of Amazon. Despite the amplified narrative that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will make software developers obsolete, the era of the professional developer is not over. This is one of the key technology predictions by Dr Werner Vogels, CTO and VP of Amazon.com, for 2026 and beyond. Now an annual…

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