What's Next with Aki Anastasiou

Jeremy Osbourne is a prominent ICT figure and the Strategic Account Manager at Infobip. With over 25 years of experience in the digital communications, telecommunications and digital-security sectors, Osbourne has been a great asset to every organization that he has been a part of. In this interview, Jeremy Osbourne gives an overview of how brands communicate with their customers and explains why...

In the second What’s Next interview with Nihilent, Sabahat Kazi gives insight on the iVEN and iDEAL solutions and how Nihilent is connecting the supply chain for customers as well as vendors. Sabahat shares how SAP is positioning its Business Technology Platform (BTP) and he gives insight into the adoption of BTP by SAP customers.

Johan Scheepers is an experienced IT expert working as a Senior Manager in Solution Architects at Red Hat in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a highly-motivated professional that has garnered 30 years’ experience in the information technology industry. In this What’s Next interview, Scheepers discusses why organisations should automate and modernise their IT systems. Scheepers highlights the benefits to...

Sabahat Kazi is an experienced SAP expert and the Global Head of ERP at Nihilent – a global consulting and services company. He is also the CEO and founder of Intellect Bizware Services, the SAP business unit of Nihilent in the APJ region. In this What’s Next episode, Sabahat explains how his team was able to produce the first Rise with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition solution in the Asia-Pacif...

Julian Liebenberg is a leading ICT executive and the Chief of the Converged Communications Business unit at BCX. Liebenberg has over three decades of experience in the ICT sector having served at numerous large-scale organisations across South Africa. In this What’s Next interview, Liebenberg discusses how several enterprise network trends are combining and compelling businesses towards software-d...

Crispin Cheadle is an expert on smart home systems and runs the South African division of Advantage Air, the Smart Home manufacturer which has offices based in South Africa and Australia. Advantage Air developed the MyPlace Smart Home system 18 years ago and has been improving on it ever since. To date, their products have been recognised as world-leading products. In this What’s Next episode, Che...

In this What’s Next episode, Aki Anastasiou discusses the future of SMS with tech experts Charles Stretch and James Pearce, the founders and joint CEOs of SMSPortal. Stretch and Pearce have built SMSPortal from a garage-based start-up to an international player and the biggest bulk SMS provider in Africa. In this episode, Stretch and Pearce give some background on the journey of SMSPortal and how...

Kobus Burnett is a storage and tech expert who is currently the territory lead for South, East, and West Africa at Seagate. Burnett has worked at Seagate since 2019 and has more than 10 years’ experience with the Seagate brand. In this What’s Next interview, Burnett shares some of the exciting features consumers can experience with Seagate’s One Touch portable drive series, including massive stora...

In this What’s Next episode, Aki Anastasiou talks to security experts Guy Golan, the CEO and co-founder of the Performanta Group, and Paul Green, the Services Director at Identity Experts. Golan and Green discuss the acquisition of Identity Experts by the Performanta Group and how the acquisition allows Performanta to extend its security capabilities across the Microsoft portfolio. They also share...

Ryan Ramawoothar is an experienced business executive and a senior software and cloud specialist at First Technology. Ramawoothar has been with First Technology since 2017 and has a history of working in the SaaS and cloud industries. In this What’s Next interview, Ramawoothar discusses the typical problems and challenges business face to become POPIA compliant and shares how the Microsoft Complia...

Simon Just is a leading ICT expert and the Cluster Executive of Advisory, Solutions and Group Marketing at EOH and iOCO. In this What’s Next episode, Simon shares how the work environment has changed over in recent times, and what the future of work looks like.

Mike Styer is an IT industry veteran and the country manager of GlassHouse South Africa. GlassHouse South Africa is a leader in managed services, backup, recovery, business continuity, and managed SAP services and systems monitoring. In his second What’s Next interview, Styer provides background on legacy SAP systems and shares insight into SAP’s modern upgrades. Styer provides key reasons for bus...

Ricky Pereira is a leading ICT distribution expert serving as the Dell Technologies Enterprise Business Unit Manager at Pinnacle, a leading ICT distribution company and authorised distributor for Dell Technologies in South Africa. In this episode of What’s Next, Pereira discusses how the pandemic accelerated the demand for enterprise solutions and how Pinnacle had adapted to the changing demands....

Pieter Pienaar is the Chief Executive Officer at Informed Decisions and a leading ICT executive in South Africa. In this What’s Next interview, Pienaar shares details around why Informed Decisions was started and the unique solutions they provide. Pienaar gives some insight into the future growth of IoT, their crowning achievement, and what the future holds for Informed Decisions.

Owen McConnell is an experienced software professional and the Director of Commercial Sales at Zendesk in EMEA. In this What’s Next episode, McConnell talks about digital transformation and the change in customer experience which has been aided by technology.

Mike Styer is an accomplished technology executive with more than 30 years’ experience in the information technology sector. In this What’s Next episode, Styer shares how the Covid pandemic had impacted organisations’ ability to protect their data and discusses cyber recovery and its importance for organisations.

Brett van Rensburg is a top ICT expert and the Sales Director for the Network Division of iOCO, Africa’s leading integrated technology services company. In this What’s Next interview, Van Rensburg discussed the advantages and challenges of a hybrid workforce and shares insight into the different remote access options for organisations, and the benefits of each option.

In this interview, Aki Anastasiou talks to two cyber security experts from Nexio South Africa, Brett Orwin and Guy Shannon, about how SMEs are being breached and why cyber security solutions for SME’s are often too complex, resource inefficient, and costly. Brett Orwin is the EHOD: Network and Collaboration at Nexio South Africa and has more than 30 years’ experience in the telecommunications and...

Donna Mostert is the Huawei Line of Business Manager at Mustek Limited. Donna is a high achieving, well networked, entrepreneurial Business Executive with an outstanding record of maximizing opportunities and growth within the most challenging and competitive environments. As a business leader, she has developed a B2B multi-disciplined and multi-cultural sales teams as well as customer and busines...

Morgan Malyon is the Executive Product Manager/Senior Solution's Manager Huawei Enterprise Technologies. Morgan is a skilled and highly innovative Senior Product Manager within the Information and Communications Technology sector. His strength and experience lie within the Data Centre environment, including data protection, disaster recovery, high availability, replication, virtualisation, SAN con...

Greg McDonald is Director – Systems Engineering at Dell Technologies in South Africa. A data centre evangelist, Greg draws on his deep technical expertise to convey to customers and the press what Dell Technologies can achieve through Digital Transformation. He leads a passionate team of system engineers, engaging with a wide range of customers, from small business to enterprise, across verticals...

Deon Geyser was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Liquid Intelligent Technologies SA and brings over 15 years' experience in the ICT and Telco space, having worked in different countries across the African continent.

Phathizwe Malinga is the Managing Director at SqwidNet. He has been involved in the information technology and telecommunication industries for over two decades and has held several senior management level positions. As the Managing Director of SqwidNet, a fully-owned subsidiary of Dark Fibre Africa, Phathizwe is responsible for building an IoT connectivity business in South Africa in partnership...

Joe Robertson represents Fortinet to the CISO community, where he advises the executive committees of large enterprises and service providers as their digital transformation strategies require security-driven networks and holistic security approaches. In over four decades in the security and networking business Joe has held technical, marketing, management, and executive roles at companies as dive...

Vino Govender is the Chief of Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Innovation at DFA. He has held key roles in the ICT industry in African market leaders such as Liquid Telecoms, MTN, Vodacom, Neotel, Telkom, Nokia Siemens Networks, and BMI-T. Vino is a Chartered Marketer (SA) who has shared his wealth of knowledge through numerous thought-leadership articles and published market reports. He is...