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Meet the CIO
Hosted by TechCentral · business · EN
About this Podcast:
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.
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What is Meet the CIO about?
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.
Who hosts Meet the CIO?
Meet the CIO is hosted by TechCentral. The show has published 15 episodes to date.
What has Meet the CIO covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Vodacom Group’s Mohamed Sami on the agentic future" (5 October 2026, 45 minutes), "Shoprite Group's Chris Shortt on what a supermarket becomes" (9 September 2026, 44 minutes), and "Absa CITO Johnson Idesoh on AI, cyber and the future of banking" (28 May 2026, 39 minutes).
How often does Meet the CIO publish?
Meet the CIO publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 47 minutes across 15 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Meet the CIO?
Booking probability for Meet the CIO is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Meet the CIO requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Meet the CIO's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for Meet the CIO are IT Services & Software Development. Meet the CIO has a business audience.
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TechCentral hosts Meet the CIO, a business podcast with 15 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Sep 9, 202644 minS0Shoprite CTO Chris Shortt on meeting the customer anywhere, the SAP core underneath it and hiring for a world of agents. Chris Shortt, chief technology officer at Shoprite Group, says the work of the next five years is...
May 28, 202639 minS0Meet 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...
Mar 23, 202646 minS0Anton 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 />...
Feb 2, 202647 minS0Technology 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...
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Nov 17, 202535 minS0Welcome 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...
Jul 30, 202557 minS0When 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...
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Schalk Visser on Cell C's big tech pivot
May 13, 202540 minS0Meet the CIO | Schalk Visser on Cell C’s big pivot<br /> <br /> Schalk Visser has worked in telecommunications for more than 20 years, first at Telkom, then at Vodacom and now at Cell C, where he has served as chief...
Apr 23, 202552 minS0Yosheen Padayachee, group IT director at Tsebo Solutions Group, is our guest in this episode of TechCentral’s Meet the CIO.<br /> --<br /> Yosheen Padayachee was named as one of the top 100 most influential women in...
Mar 10, 202544 minS0Being a chief information security officer (CISO) in 2025 is a daunting role, but one that TechCentral’s guest in this episode of the Meet the CIO relishes.<br /> Kerissa Varma, who was recently appointed as chief...
Nov 13, 202457 minS0José Soares, director of IT at The Capital Hotels, Apartments and Resorts, fell in love with computers when his dad brought home a Sinclair ZX81.<br /> Through a series of upgrades – from the Commodore 64 to early Apple...
Oct 7, 20241h 5mS0At more than R23-billion/year, Standard Bank Group has the biggest IT budget of any company in South Africa – and quite possibly in the whole of Africa.<br /> The man charged with ensuring the continent’s largest...
Sep 10, 202457 minS0Meet the CIO is presented by Wipro.<br /> ---<br /> There is much more to being a chief information officer than being an advocate of the latest technology. In fact, articulating a vision, and architecting it, is...
Aug 2, 202438 minS0Meet the CIO is presented by Wipro.<br /> --<br /> Bruce Paveley says that when he moved from a senior IT role at Standard Bank in 2017 to the then-nascent start-up digital bank TymeBank, it was “a really big shock”.<br...
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Chris Shortt
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Johnson Idesoh
Absa
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Anton Fatti
HealthBridge
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Tebalo Tsoaeli
JSE
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