Clem Sunter will take to the stage at this year's ITWeb IT Confidence Conference, taking place on 10 March at The Forum, in Bryanston.
Known for his High Road/Low Road scenarios from the 1980s, Sunter, former chairman of the Anglo American Chairman's Fund, and an influential speaker, will give a presentation on scenario planning.
The day-long event will focus on 2008's most dominant trends, events, ideas and developments, with an eye towards how these will shape 2009 and beyond. It aims to be a platform for analysts as well as private and public companies to present their perspectives and invite discussion.
Chris Hart, chief economist at Investment Solutions; Kim Merideth, CEO of Spectrum Solutions; Rudolf Pretorius from Treacle Venture Capital; and a senior representative from Grant Thornton South Africa will also speak.
Topics will include an outline of what the ICT industry can expect from the South African economy, how to manage the impending credit crunch, as well as maximising sales and margin in an environment of customers interested in reducing overheads and spending.
The afternoon's three panel discussions will involve CEOs of major players in the South African ICT market, who will discuss the issues facing the industry in these trying times.
Arthur Goldstuck will chair the first discussion. He is MD of market research firm World Wide Worx. The discussion will feature panellist Mike Brierley, CEO of MTN networks. The obstacles, trends and growth prospects in the telecoms industry will be up for discussion, as well as what's new in the industry in SA.
CEOs Allan Cawood, Oliver Fortuin and Mark Harris of DiData, HP and IBM respectively, will discuss the outlook for the implementation of enterprise and ICT systems, from the perspectives of large systems integrators/IT services providers.
Sandy Pulinger, MD of nFold, will chair the final panel discussion. It will focus on opposing software platforms. The three panellists, Simon Carpenter, Mteto Nyati and Nicky Sheridan, are from SAP, Microsoft and Oracle respectively.
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