Date: 31st of March 2017
Time: 10.30 am – 7.00 pm
Venue: Fire & Ice! Melrose Arch
Location: Gauteng, South Africa
Areas of focus:
Benchmarking Strategy for
This Alliance Chapter will focus on building a decision making and decision influencing community focused on impacting the ICT division of enterprises and upper mid-market organisations from the Durban region in South Africa.
Arrival and networking prior to the content being divulged
Session Leader: Peter Munnings – Distributed Engineer – ConsenSys
Session Title: Preparing for Restructure: Blockchain and Southern Africa CIOs
Description:
Is Blockchain the most important emerging technology for the enterprise – and therefore the CIO?
The digital revolution is bringing a new and radically different platform for business and other institutions that can take us through the next quarter-century of human progress. At the core is the biggest innovation in computer science in a generation. It is blockchain – the technology underlying the digital currency Bitcoin.
For the last few decades, we have had the internet of information. Blockchain is bringing the internet of value.
At its most basic, blockchain is a global database – an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions, but virtually everything of value and importance to humankind: birth and death certificates, marriage licences, deeds and titles of ownership, educational degrees, financial accounts, medical procedures, insurance claims, votes, transactions between smart objects, and anything else that can be expressed in code. This ledger represents the truth because mass collaboration constantly reconciles it.
Will the rise of blockchain enabled the rise of capitalism and the nation state?
How about the corporation – a pillar of modern capitalism?
How about the internet of things?
Key takeaways:
Basic blockchain architecture and why it is so different to a typical corporate data store
Lessons from history (the development of data package switching protocols)
What’s happening in this space
SA Financial Blockchain Working Group
Projects in the rest of the world
Session Leader: Philip Anderson – Associate Partner – IBM South Africa
Session Title: Blockchain – An Innovative Transformation Journey
Description:
Global trends in Blockchain and how IBM is assisting clients in transforming their business using Blockchain and HyperLedger.
Session Leader: Suren Pillay – Chief Architect & Head of Specialised Engineering – Absa Capital
Session Title: Agility – Infrastructure on Demand & DevOps our Saviour
Description:
Historically, large organisations in South Africa have been reluctant to adopt Cloud technologies, although many of them have shown significant successes. Suren will share Absa Capital’s high-level approach to cloud adoption, the benefits that are targeted and some learnings from the journey so far.
Session Leader: Harris Charalambous – Chief Enterprise Architect – Standard Bank
Session Title: Management Techniques for Digital Disruption
Description:
Digital transformation will affect us in three ways:
1) The way we manage will needs to change
2) Our organisational culture needs to change
3) Our technology choices need to change.
Session Leader: Ulrika Reyneke – Cloud Managed Services Leader – IBM South Africa
Description:
Session Leader: Suren Govender – Director – Iburru
Session TitleThe Future of Business
Description:
In this address, we firstly cover a mind-bending glimpse into the next 10 to 30 years of life on Earth: where is the future of technology and humanity headed, what happens when they intersect, and what does it mean for business. The second segment discusses a practical approach to harness the opportunities that the Connected Age is throwing to us
