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Neotel, Dimension Data to sponsor discussions at IT Leaders Africa Summit

Neotel and Dimension Data has confirmed that it will be sponsoring a panel discussion at the sixth IT Leaders Africa Summit, produced and hosted by Kinetic and takes place from 18-19 March 2015 at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg.
Neotel, Dimension Data to sponsor discussions at IT Leaders Africa Summit

Neotel has confirmed that it will be sponsoring a panel discussion at the sixth IT Leaders Africa Summit, produced and hosted by Kinetic.

The MD and CEO, Sunil Joshi, will be taking part in this panel discussion on enterprise technology in Africa during an agenda track focussing on business connectivity alongside CIOs David Visser of Coca-Cola southern Africa and Mike Davies of Royal Bafokeng Platinum. In this session, they will discuss 4G supporting the real-time transmission of voice, data and video, and whether the technology is sufficient to improve connectivity for unified communications in organisations.

Other featured speakers on this track includes Hollard Group Services CTO, Anthony Hlungwane, who will focus on the new social and mobile collaboration tools that connect people inside and outside the enterprise, in a way that provides real-time communications and access to supporting systems.

You can also hear case studies of the alternative strategies taking shape within organisations located in areas with limited bandwidth during a panel discussion with Chandima Miyanadeniya, CIO of Aon; Johan Pistorius, CIO of African Rainbow Minerals; Potlaki Maine, Executive Head IT of Sentech; Nkosana Mbokane, GM of ICT of Perishable Products Export Control Board; and Rocky Gwewera, Group Head of Infrastructure Architecture of Sasol.

The CIO in the age of the cloud

Dimension Data will also be powering a panel discussion. Grant Morgan, GM: Cloud of Dimension Data will be joined by Fundile Ntuli, CIO of ubank; Peter Oeschger, ?Group CIO of Finbond Mutual Bank and Heinrich Kukkuk, Group Information Technology Manager of Aveng Group in a discussion on the role of the CIO in the age of the cloud. This session will answer questions about where the CIO features in an age when decisions to use the cloud are being made by marketing and other functions both within and outside the organisation.

Hear the experts at the IT Leaders Africa Summit on the 18 and 19 March at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton, Joburg.

For more, go to www.itleaders.co.za.

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