Meet the CIO

Meet the CIO is a podcast series produced and published by TechCentral and published monthly. We talk to IT leaders across South Africa about the role of technology in their organisations.

Meet the CIO is a business podcast hosted by TechCentral, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

TechCentral hosts Meet the CIO, a business show with 13 episodes published.

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  Absa CITO Johnson Idesoh on AI, cyber and the future of banking

  May 28, 202639 minS0

  Meet the CIO is brought to you by NTT DATA<br /> --<br /> Johnson Idesoh, group chief information and technology officer at Absa, says AI in all its forms – generative, agentic and the AI now being wielded by cybercriminals – is the single biggest topic on his desk, but cautions that it remains a tool that has to be tied directly to business strategy and customer outcomes to deliver value.<br /> Speaking on TechCentral’s Meet the CIO podcast series, brought to you by NTT DATA, Idesoh said AI is maturing rapidly into heavily regulated industries such as financial services, and that b...

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  Healthbridge CTO Anton Fatti on the future of digital health

  Mar 23, 202646 minS0

  Anton Fatti, chief technology officer of HealthBridge, says the doctor-patient relationship must remain at the centre of digital transformation in healthcare, even as AI reshapes how medical practices operate.<br /> Speaking on TechCentral’s Meet the CIO podcast series, brought to you by NTT DATA, Fatti said AI and cloud computing are already easing the administrative burden on doctors and medical professionals, allowing them to spend more time with patients rather than on paperwork and back-office tasks.<br /> Fatti joined Healthbridge as CTO in February 2025, bringing experience from senior technology leadership roles at the South African Revenue Service, where he se...

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  Meet the CIO | Inside the JSE’s tech engine with CIO Tebalo Tsoaeli

  Feb 2, 202647 minS0

  Technology sits at the heart of modern capital markets, and nowhere is that more evident than at the JSE. In the latest episode of Meet the CIO, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sits down with Tebalo Tsoaeli, the bourse’s CIO, to unpack how technology underpins Africa’s largest stock exchange – and how it is evolving for a more digital, global and real-time future.<br /> Meet the CIO is brought to you by NTT DATA, where global experience meets local impact.<br /> Tsoaeli has spent his entire career in financial services technology, starting out as an application developer at Rand Merchant Bank b...

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  How BDO’s Khaya Mbanga is preparing the firm for an AI future

  Nov 17, 202535 minS0

  Welcome to season 2 of Meet the CIO, TechCentral’s podcast series that dives into the minds of South Africa’s top technology leaders. Meet the CIO is brought to you by NTT DATA – where global experience meets local impact.<br /> After a highly successful first season featuring CIOs from across the corporate landscape, we’re kicking off season 2 with a conversation with Khaya Mbanga, chief information and digital officer at BDO South Africa, where he also heads the firm’s growing BDO Digital division.<br /> BDO is one of the world’s largest professional services firms, specialising in audit, tax and advisory...

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  How Marijke Guest steered Nedbank through an IT crisis

  Jul 30, 202557 minS0

  When Nedbank realised early last year that its mammoth core banking overhaul and modernisation programme was going awry, it turned to Marijke Guest for help.<br /> Guest, CIO of Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) and payments and a veteran of the financial services group, tells TechCentral’s Meet the CIO about how the bank realised it was headed for trouble, and what it took to get the project back on track and delivered – all in little under a year.<br /> According to Nedbank, the project was thought to be 80% complete, but when it was reassessed in January 2024, it became clea...

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