The World CIO 200 Summit 2023 South & East Africa edition

July 18, 2023 - 10:08 AM

The World CIO 200 Summit 2023 South & East Africa edition was successfully held on 14th July 2023 virtually. The event was embellished by some inspirational panelists, winners and attendees. The World CIO 200 Summit South & East Africa edition honored 17 top IT leaders.

Attendees and keynote speakers were welcomed by Anushree Dixit, Global Head – Content & Strategic Alliances, Global CIO Forum. She also shared the collective vision of the Global CIO Forum as a platform of knowledge sharing and networking for like-minded CIOs globally, with the audience.

The event followed the theme of ‘Rise of the power’. The World CIO 200 2023 roadshow is designed to help IT leaders develop and enhance the qualities of leadership, power, vision and focus. The event was kicked off by George Njuguna, Director, Digital IT (CIO), Safaricom PLC with his country inaugural keynote on ‘Evolution of the role of the CIO’.

The following panelists joined the panel discussion on the topic ‘Rise of the Power’,

Makaziwe Makamba, Board Member & Senior Research Analyst, Department of Communications & Digital Technologies, Republic of South Africa
Isabellah Mokaya, IT Manager, Bayobab Kenya
Bernard Rono, Head of ICT/CIO, Kenya Tea Packers Limited
Warren Hero, CIO, Webber Wentzel

The panelists discussed the traits and qualities that IT leaders need to cultivate in their respective industry and how these qualities can help them to develop and apply the skills in the workplace. The panel discussion was moderated by Amit, Saxena, CIO, Ramco Group Kenya.

Venkatesh Mahadevan, founding member, CaaS, shared the aim and vision of CaaS which is a technology revolutionary platform that has been formed with the purpose of delivering technology-enabled solutions at a better price and great quality by subject matter experts themselves. Jayakumar Mohanachandran, Chief Research Officer, CaaS shared his views on RaaS, Research-as-a-Service, which is a research division of CaaS. According to him RaaS works directly with end customers, works directly with partners to find out what the end customers really need and works with major principles to analyze feedback on any product or services, go to market strategy and more.