Keen to find out how local manufacturers are leveraging digital innovation, Brainstorm chatted to them about emerging technologies, their response to the Covid-19 pandemic and what they’re doing to prepare for Industry 4.0.

It seems that, in spite of pandemics and lockdowns, IoT may still be on track to have a more immediate impact on business and life.

Do telcos hold the key to providing much-needed financial services to the unbanked? Brainstorm spoke to Vodacom to find out.

South Africa relies heavily on tourism for jobs and international income, but the lockdown has put paid to that. How, then, can the industry open itself back up? And what impact can technology have?

Whether used professionally, socially, educationally or at home, technology is touching every part of our daily lives, and the days when people only had a computer at work are long gone.

Defining workplace transformation within the frameworks of digital, people, and company.

Smart supply chains spell massive gains for the industry, but only when they are designed with the user in mind.

In order for everyone to enjoy the benefits of digital innovation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we need to focus on the efficient utilisation of resources, says the CSIR’s Dr Fisseha Mekuria.

Think the skills your workforce has today are big enough to handle the working demands of tomorrow? Think again…

Analytics are a vital part of understanding a business and helping to improve decision-making, but there are also many considerations to make around the data foundation.

There are conflicting views surrounding convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT).

The popular video platform has erupted onto the scene as a standout during the Covid-19 lockdown, but mirroring its meteoric rise could be an equally dramatic decline, even if remote working becomes more widely adopted post-pandemic.

Open source represents much more than free software.