The event provided the ideal stage coupled with the latest in conference trends internationally.

Attendees were invited to interact with the expert-led advisory panel featuring giants Robert Sussman, co-founder and joint-CEO of Integr8; Hugo Timmerman, head of IT Southern Africa at British American Tobacco; and Tunde Coker, MD of Rack Centre (A Jagal Group Company).

Delivering on its promise, the event featured over 35 speakers including David Visser, CIO of Coca-Cola Southern Africa; Sal Laher, CIO Eskom; Rocky Gwewera, global head of infrastructure architecture at Sasol; Stephan Ekbergh, CEO and founder of Travelstart; and Sunil Joshi, MD and CEO of Neotel.

Throughout the event, guests engaged in cutting-edge keynote sessions, panel discussions and numerous educational workshop sessions, all led by some of today’s most prominent figures within the local and international IT landscape.

Key topics from the summit included an in-depth discussion on the CIOs role in implementing an enterprise strategy, disruptive forces reshaping the role of the CIO, boosting mobile development with app flexibility, as well as an analysis on the intertwined relationship between cyber attacks and applications based on recent data collected from over 5500 networks worldwide which was presented by Adriaan Joubert, SE manager (Sub-Saharan Africa) at Palo Alto Networks.

Shannon Mackrill, joint managing director at Kinetic says, "The quality of our attendees and the strategic relationships we’ve built with our sponsors played a major role in ensuring the success of the event; whereby we were able to successfully match potential buyers with the right solution providers enabling the business relationship to grow from an introductory level. By allowing those who are actually facing the day-to-day ICT challenges to integrate with those creating a positive change within the industry towards a more hassle-free environment and smooth operation within enterprises, we were able to combine our efforts with those of our sponsors and partners to provide the right platform to deliver on this ethos."

Some sponsors and partners included: Telkom Business, HP, Performanta and Blue Coat Systems, SITA, Airwatch, Kofax, Dimension Data, Neotel, Meso Systems, Sage Pastel Accounting and ERP Africa, and Blackberry.

The team at Kinetic wishes to thank all partners, sponsors and attendees for another successful year, and look forward to the seventh edition scheduled for early 2016.

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