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Program Schedule and Format
Day 1: CIO Research Collaboration, Thursday March 10
Morning Session, 09:00 - 12:00 (Lunch)
Chair: Andre de la Harpe
CIO Research - an International and Local Research Perspective
The morning session is the keynote address and will include a group of prominent speakers who
will provide international and local context on CIO Research.
Keynote Speakers:
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome
Prof. J.Cronje, CPUT, Dean of Faculty of Informatics and Design
09:30 - 10:15 International Perspective on CIO Priorities
Prof. P. van Vuuren, Gartner Executive Programme
10:15 - 11:00 Local Perspectives of CIO Priorities
Mr. L. de Villiers, CIO, ABSA, CIO Council of SA
11:00 - 12:00 What is Research and Why IT Matters?
Prof. K. Maree, University of Pretoria
Afternoon Session, 13:00 - 16:00
Chair: Roderick Lim Banda
A Critical View of ICT in the Western Cape
The afternoon session will be conducted as a panel discussion with guest speakers
raising some of the critical issues and problems of ICT in the Western Cape. The aim
of this is to identify focus areas to develop a research group on ICT development in the region.
Guest Speakers will cover:
- The Challenges Faced in Developing the ICT Cluster
- Growing Start-Ups, a Critical Perspective
- Software & Innovation - No Silver Bullets
- Transformation and What IT is Not
Panel Guests to Discuss Research Potential:
- Jenny Mckinell of the Cape IT Initiative (CITI) on the challenges of the ICT Cluster and Skills Development
- Roger Norton of Silicon Cape on ICT in the Western Cape and Start Ups
- Kevin Tabisher discusses Knowledge Management strategies in the City of Cape Town
- Wesley Diphoko and members of the Black IT Forum on the Transformation agenda
Day 2: CIO Research Focus, Friday March 11
Morning Session, 09:00 - 12:00 (Lunch)
Chair: Andy Bytheway
Management Consulting and Service Design
The morning session will focus on areas of research in management consulting.
IT professionals and researchers will discuss various fields and disciplines and
their business relevance.
Guest Speakers will cover:
- Service Design
- Technology Leadership
- Enterprise Architecture
- Knowledge Management
- Emotional Intelligence
Panel Guests to Discuss Research Potential:
- Jacque van Niekerk of MIH shares insights on the business centric research model with Stellenbosch University
- Dr Christo de Coning discusses results based Monitoring and Evaluation the public sector and knowledge management
- Eben van Blerk discusses research on Emotional Intelligence and leadership
Afternoon Session, 13:00 - 16:00
Chair: Jorn Messeter
Product Innovation and Design Research
The afternoon session will include presentations on local innovation in various
areas of ICT as a research focus. There will also be a discussion on the possible
research approaches such as Interaction Design, Action Research and Design Research.
Guest Speakers will cover:
- Interaction Design
- Mobile Development and Cloud Computing
- Marketing and Scaling in the Global Market
- Doing Business in Academia
Panel Guests to Discuss Research Potential:
- G-J van Rooyen will discuss the Media Labs and research model at Stellenbosch University
- Patrick Le Roux will discuss developments in Mobile, Near Field Communication (NFC) and RFID Technology
- David Hislop of Korwe will shares insights on mobile development and the cloud
A Commercial Enterprise from a University Research Project
OpenText is the corporate sponsor of this CIO Colloquium. OpenText is the largest software centric company in
Canada. It produces and distributes computer software applications designed to enable enterprise
content management solutions for large corporate and government systems. The company, which was incorporated
in 1991, originated from a project at the University of Waterloo to create an electronic Oxford
English Dictionary, an undertaking that required developing search technologies that could be used
to quickly index and retrieve information.
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