IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2021 | IDC | 20 May 2021 | Virtual Event

While COVID-19 has disrupted every element of global business, it has also demonstrated the critical importance of digital transformation. As the journey from crisis to recovery gets underway, the enablement of a Future Enterprise must be the end goal for any successful business.

The digital installment of the IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2021 will navigate a broad range of themes that are central to this journey, so join us as senior IDC analysts and respected IT leaders take a deep dive into the new economy and explore what it means for your business.

The event’s dynamic agenda will take you through a series of presentations, panel discussions, real-life use cases, and dedicated industry tracks, giving you a bird’s eye view of the current market situation, the latest technological innovations, and strategies for propelling your organization to meet the unique challenges of these unprecedented times.

2021 Speakers

Mark Walker
Associate Vice President, Sub-Saharan Africa, IDC

Meredith Whalen
Chief Research Officer, IDC

Oliver McKenna
CTO Northern Europe, Workday

Frank Dickson
Program Vice President, Cybersecurity Products, IDC

Pete Lindstrom
Vice President, Security Strategies, IDC

Matthew Eastwood
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure & Datacenters, IDC

Rory Duncan
Research Vice President, Cloud Service Providers, IDC

Ian Jansen van Rensburg
Lead Technologist and Senior Systems Engineering Manager, VMware

Saqib Chaudhry
Head of Digital Innovation and Development, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Tim Youngblood
Corporate VP & Global CISO, Global Technology Risk Management, McDonald's (USA)

Mike Towers
CISO, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International (USA)

Rasha M Abu AlSaud
Head of Information Security Risk, Leading Bank in Saudi Arabia

Samresh Ramjith
Deputy CISO, ABSA Group (South Africa)

Shaik AbdulKhader
CISO, Leading Petroleum Company in Qatar

Kayıhan Altınöz
Senior Vice President of IT, Ministry of Interior (Turkey)

Ghinwa Baradhi
Chief Information Officer MENAT, HSBC Bank (UAE)

Sanjay Khanna
CIO, RAKBANK (UAE)

Taif Muhsin
VP, Integrated Operations, Innovation & Future Technologies, Expo 2020

Nick Burton
Chief Information & Digital Officer, AVON International (UK)

Dr. Jihad Mohaidat
VP, Education Technologies, Higher College of Technology (HCT) (UAE)

William Braun
CIO, Chevron Corporation (USA)

Vipin Gupta
CIO, Toyota Financial Services (USA)

Louise van der Bank
CIO, AfriSam (South Africa)

Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META), IDC

Jonathan Tullett
Senior Research Manager, IT Services

2021 Partners

SUMMIT PARTNERS:
• Workday
• Huawei Cloud
• Avaya
• Nutanix

PLATINUM PARTNERS:
• VM Ware
• HCL
• Riverbed
• Fortinet
• iOCO
• Splunk

TECHNOLOGY FOCUS GROUP PARTNERS:
• DarkTrace
• Manage Engine
• CloudFare
• Fire Eye
• Aruba