THE FORUM, BRYANSTON
13 & 14 March 2018 (conference and expo)
15 March 2018 (workshop)
Speaker
Diamond Sponsor
We extract real value from data, using innovative techniques and solutions, in an affordable and sustainable manner. Bringing modern data, analytics and BI technologies together with traditional environments, while staying compliant. We do not gamble with your data. We structure and protect it before we analyse and visualise it.
Alex Granger
global speaker, author and founder/CEO, The Possibility of YOU
Fondly known as the “exceptional one”, Alex Granger is a global business speaker, author, and the founder and CEO of The Possibility of YOU. Granger has delivered keynote presentations to thousands of delegates internationally, inspiring ordinary individuals to accomplish their goals and dreams. He is considered to be a think-shifter, inspirer, helping businesses and individuals to adopt a new more meaningful and purposeful vision. Granger is a key resource for conferences, strategic sessions, personal development and business interventions, with his key competency lying in shifting mind-set, presenting new insights, and diffusing complexity. He qualified in executive leadership (ELDP) from the Gordon Institute of Business Science with a distinction in leadership, and has been fortunate to work in executive and senior leadership positions for blue-chip companies such as the Bidvest Group, Imperial Group, Standard Bank, Altech Group, G4S Secure Solutions, and Tsogo Sun. As part of his journey, some of the insights Granger has learnt over his 25-year career, and shares with his audiences, can be found in three books that he penned.
Alex Granger will be speaking on the following topics:
Diamond Sponsor
Praesignis
We extract real value from data, using innovative techniques and solutions, in an affordable and sustainable manner. Bringing modern data, analytics and BI technologies together with traditional environments, while staying compliant. We do not gamble with your data. We structure and protect it before we analyse and visualise it.
Please visit praesignis.co.za
Gold Sponsor
SAS
SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and services, SAS helps customers at more than 75,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.
Please visit www.sas.com
Executive Roundtable Sponsor
SITA
SITA was established in 1999 to consolidate and coordinate the State’s information technology resources in order to achieve cost savings through scale, increase delivery capabilities and enhance interoperability. Our mission is to leverage ICT as a strategic resource to enable government to improve service delivery and to meet the challenges faced by a developmental state. This we will do by building a high performance and innovative organisation with the requisite capability, competency and capacity to meet the information technology requirements of government, create shareholder value and deliver high levels of customer, employee and community satisfaction. The Agency remains committed in all its engagements to adhere to the Government’s "IT House of Values", aiming to achieve reduced costs, increased productivity and increased service delivery to South African citizens.
See more at: www.sita.co.za.
Silver Sponsor
ShapeBlue
ShapeBlue are the largest independent integrator of CloudStack technologies globally. We are specialists in design, implementation and support of IaaS clouds for private and public cloud implementations.
An international business, with a global customer base, supported from presence in the UK, USA, India, Brasil and South Africa we have helped design and build some of the world's largest cloud infrastructures. See our Case Studies for examples of our work. Our services include strategic consulting, integration, training, 24x7 SLA based support and software development and patching.
We combine extensive experience designing and building complex network, storage and compute infrastructure with leading skills in go-to market planning, automation and optimization with Apache CloudStack.
We have strategic relationships with technology partners covering compute, networking, hypervisor and primary/object storage.
We have partnered with NetApp as development partners for CloudStack plug-ins, and SolidFire primary all flash storage since 2013.
Please visit www.shapeblue.com
Bronze Sponsor
ICT Intelligence
ICT Intelligence focuses on modern data and information management as a strategic asset in materialising business strategy. We jointly build a trusted partnership with our customers creating the best possible strategic solutions. Capitalizing on digital transformation architecture is essential. Our engineers build productive ready, scalable Big Data solutions supported by leading edge technologies. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning processes for advanced analytics are deployed by our Data Science team to gain actionable insights enabling a competitive advantage to market with the ability to drive additional revenue streams to increase profitability with agility and sustainably.
www.ictintel.co.za
Display Sponsors
Infobuild
Information Builders provides the industry's most scalable software solutions for actionable analytics and trusted data, via one smart platform for Enterprise Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Integration, and Data Quality, along with proven expertise, to deliver value faster, with less risk.
Ready to get the Information Builders Advantage? www.infobuild.co.za
OQLIS
A Data Platform that Moves at the Speed of Business, OQLIS makes it easy for users of any skill level to interrogate their data and build reports and dashboards in an intuitive drag on drop interface, you can share your discoveries and collaborate across the organisation in a safe and secure way. All using the power of the modern web.
See more at www.oqlis.com
Ovations
Using the right combination of people, business processes and technology remains the Ovations approach to the fast changing IT and Business landscape. We’ve helped many of South Africa’s largest organizations achieve sustainable business improvements through our unique approach. Our model is based on building long term partnerships, shaping the journey through technology that creates real experiences
See more at: www.ovationsgroup.com.
Yellowfin
Yellowfin South Africa recognises that all BI tools have specific strengths and weaknesses and mostly get the job done! With the breadth of functionality and unique subscription model from Yellowfin, we concentrate on the business user and analyst and generally make a difference to your business.
Taking you from raw data to great dashboards to actionable insights, Yellowfin BI helps you predict the future, delivering true business value, rapidly, in three key areas:
- Oversight (Dashboards and Reports)
- Insight (Assisted Discovery)
- Foresight (Data Science).
This is how we achieve 3X the standard user adoption rates and ensure you receive true value, quickly, from your BI investment whilst enjoying an ongoing successful partnership with us. Please visit www.yellowfinbi.co.za
Sponsor
TechnoChange Solutions
TechnoChange Solutions recognizes the importance of securing our global customer's data. Building effective systems, improving corporate governance, regulatory compliance, high success rate in strategic ICT project outcomes and enterprise risk management. We are the trusted IT consulting company by our global customers on CyberSecurity strategies, Enterprise Risk Management, public sector policy management, and data protection. Our team consist of highly skilled international management consultants.
See more at: http://www.technochangesolutions.com/.
Media Partners
Brainstorm
ITWeb’s Brainstorm is a local monthly magazine for decision-makers and other intelligent people. Brainstorm offers content on burning business issues that is fresh, controversial, independent and valuable.
See more at: www.brainstormmag.co.za.
CareerWeb
CareerWeb was launched in 1999 and is the leading ICT job portal that focuses purely on the ICT industry. CareerWeb is commited to providing the best service and value to this specialist niche market. CareerWeb is the career site of sister publication ITWeb. CareerWeb is in a unique position to target ICT professionals. It is the premier career site providing IT professionals with a ‘one-stop shop’ for career opportunities, career and salary advice and CV storage. This makes CareerWeb the perfect place for advertising job vacancies and targeting skilled IT professionals.
See more at: careerweb.co.za.
ITWeb Africa
ITWeb Africa provides the latest news, analysis, features, market and video reports, and insights into the continent's changing telecoms and technology industry.
Visit: www.itwebafrica.com.