If you haven't already heard the IITPSA President's Awards finalists for 2016 have been released. After months of deliberation and debate by our illustrious panel of judges, they have settled on the ten IT Personality of the year finalists and ten Visionary CIO of the year finalists. And you are invited to meet them all on 24 November 2016.
Bongani Bingwa will open the IITPSA President's Awards for a second year in sterling fashion, followed by our international keynote speaker, for the first time in South Africa, Brenda Aynsley, immediate past President, Australian Computer Society and IFIP IP3.
Aynsley will present on the promise of diversity in ICT and in our society, and will reveal her personal journey as a woman in ICT over the past 40 years. She will focus her attention on computers and computing which are her business, her passion and her hobby. This talk will give you insights drawn from her career.
The main event in collaboration with ITWeb, Gartner, EngineerIT and GIBS will be the announcement of the 38th Annual IT Personality and 9th Visionary CIO of the award.
In case you haven't already heard - the IT Personality of the year finalists are:
Brandon Bekker, MD, Mimecast \ Carel du Toit, MD, Mint Management Technologies \ Damian Michael, CEO, Innovo Networks \ Edward Lawrence, director, Workonline Communications \ Elizabeth Gould, co-founder and CEO, codeX \ Lee Naik, MD, Accenture Digital SA \ Luvuyo Ran, MD, Silulo Ulutho Technologies \ Marius Coetzee, CEO, Ideco \ Sbu Shabalala, CEO, Adapt IT \ Zoaib Hoosen, MD, Microsoft SA \ and the Visionary CIO of the year finalists are:
Ashley Veasey, group CIO, Barclays Africa (Absa) \ Brenda Niehaus, group CIO, Standard Bank \ Jamie Whittaker, chief digital officer, Discovery Holdings \ Len de Villiers, CIO, Telkom \ Libisi Maphanga, CIO, Independent Electoral Commission \ Peter Alkema, CIO, FNB Business Banking \ Ridwaan Bardien, CIO, SANBS \ Sean Maritz, CIO, Eskom Holdings \ Thagaran Govender, CIO, Mercantile Bank \ Travis Dewing, CIO, Netcare.
Join the excitement and vote now for your choice in each category.
Attendees at the IITPSA President's Awards will be afforded the opportunity to network with industry experts in a dynamic setting; discuss industry trends and challenges; uncover some of the pertinent issues on the IT horizon; and recognise the remarkable and the excellent alongside a jury of their peers. Sound interesting? Register now by reserving a table or a seat or two and enjoy a morning of red carpet treatment with the winners, finalists and peers.
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