Major Industry players come in support for the 7th CIO 100 Symposium and Award

SEACOM and Sage have pioneered in setting the pace for sponsoring the 7th CIO 100 set to take place in Enashipai Spa & Resort, on the 9th and 10th of November 2017.

CIO 100 Symposium and Awards is the most powerful gathering of CIOs and senior IT and business executives. Now in its 7th year, Leadership, innovation and business strategy will top the event’s agenda as the event seeks to examine the latest opportunities and challenges in our fast-changing world.

SEACOM is a submarine cable operator with a network of submarine and terrestrial high-speed fibre-optic cable that serves the East and West coasts of Africa. SEACOM’s reach extends into Europe and the Asia-Pacific via India.

The Pan-African network uses bundled backhaul, open access PoP’s (Points of Presence) and global partnerships to provide end-to-end wholesale and enterprise connectivity around the world for African and international network and content operators.

On the other hand Sage is a company that has specialized in supplying Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for Small Businesses.

Speaking about the sponsorship, Nikki Summers, Sage Regional Director-East Africa said that Sage was passionate about facilitating conversation between the country’s top CIOs, IT managers, and other executives in charge of digital transformation. And Sage wanted to showcase how African leaders are transforming their organisations to become more adaptive and innovative.

“Sage aims to be a reliable partner for CIOs who have embarked on digital transformation, working with technology leaders to drive growth and innovation in their businesses. We are proud to sponsor these awards, which provide a forum for Kenya’s CIOs to learn from each other and a platform to recognise the achievements of the country’s top technology leaders,” she concluded.

With the East African ICT landscape taking a paradigm shift this year’s agenda will also majorly focus on digital transformation, a force that drives the industry. Digital Transformation in the past few years has been seen from a different perspective of not only about embracing modern technology but about a change in thought and organization culture.

This in turn has forced Leaders and IT teams in any enterprise to work hand in hand to meet the business requirements, drive innovation and march towards continuous improvement bringing about importance of digital transformation which revolves around accelerate business activities, lower cost, improve time to market, bring about a positive change in processes, people, and competency models.

“In a world where digital technologies are disrupting markets and industries at a rapid pace, the CIO is the organisation’s champion for innovation, continuous learning and transformation. He or she has the responsibility of leading the business through an era of profound change and opportunity,” added Summers.

The event has also attracted speakers from across the region and for the first time. The the Permanent Secretaries from the Ministries of ICT in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda converge on one table and highly touch on the regional IT collaboration.

Other key sponsors for the event include CopyCat Group, Check point Eaton, Microtek, Forcepoint, Icolo.io and Veeam.

For more information and to register for the event click here.