What's Next with Aki Anastasiou

Garsen Naidu is a leading sales executive who has served as the Country Manager at Cisco South Africa since 2019. In this What’s Next interview, Naidu shares how Cisco has adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and how tools and technologies allowed the company to continually focus on the needs of its partners and customers.

Wayne D’Sa has over 17 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry and is the Chief Executive Officer of CipherWave. In this What’s Next interview, D’Sa discusses some of the trends in the fibre industry and the impact of Covid and the lockdown. D’Sa provides some insight into how CipherWave Business has adapted over this period and how they have kept up to the demands of people that need...

Natasha Bezuidenhout is the Microsoft Brand Executive at First Distribution and has a passion for helping businesses move to the cloud. In this What’s Next interview, Bezuidenhout unpacks the status of the Microsoft public cloud in South Africa and shares some of the key opportunities Azure provides to South African businesses.

Troy Hunt is a world-renowned security expert and the creator of Have I Been Pwned?, a data breach notification service. In this What’s Next in Security episode, Hunt shares his views on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has on cybersecurity. Hunt also touches on the changes he has seen in the types of data breaches and cyber-attacks since countries moved into lockdowns and gives his view on t...

Peter Reid has an avid interest and passion for Artificial Intelligence and is currently the Head of AI at Mint Group, a leading global systems integrator. In this What’s Next interview, Reid gives insight into the latest trends on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing solutions and how this tech has been used to address the challenges brought by Covid-19.

Johannes Kanis is one of the most experienced cloud experts in the country, currently working as the Cloud and Enterprise Business Group Lead at Microsoft South Africa. This interview, Kanis explores how the explosion of data in the last few years is creating new challenges, but also immense opportunities to unlock new business value. Kanis also shares some details of the Microsoft Azure Synapse A...

Now more than ever, restaurant and fast-food outlets need to be able to provide fast and effective digital delivery services. This is according to Hymie Marnewick, who recently spoke to Aki Anastasiou on MyBroadband’s What’s Next YouTube series about the challenges facing the restaurant industry and what it must do to ensure future growth and success. Marnewick is managing director of XLink Commun...

Ermano Quartero is an experienced Managing Executive at Vodacom with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Quartero has been with Vodacom Business for the past 13 years, building and driving the fixed-line business. In this interview, Quartero gives some background on what SD-WAN is and its relevance within various industries. Quartero shares some of the benefits SD...

Willie Jansen van Rensburg is a leading cloud expert currently serving as an Executive at Axiz Cloud Technologies. In this interview, Jansen van Rensburg explains how the modern workplace has changed and how employees expect to work securely from anywhere, on any device.

Thabiso Hlatshwayo is the Solution Consulting Manager at OpenText Africa. Thabiso leads a team of highly experienced solution consultants who are responsible for the design of multifaceted technology solutions for clients across Africa. In this What’s Next in Security discussion, Thabiso speaks about how the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a major increase in cybercriminal activities like phishing.

Nathan Ragovan is one of the leading cloud experts in the country, currently serving as the Director of Cloud Infrastructure at Oracle, Oracle ZA & SADC.

In this episode of What's Next, Werner Herbst, the General Manager for Tarsus Enterprise product range demos Aruba Instant On, the ideal wireless solution for small businesses.

Barry Venter is the Chief Executive Officer of Nashua and one of the most experienced executives in the information technology and services industry. In this interview, Venter discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Nashua and how they’ve had to adapt. Venter also shares how Nashua as a Total Workspace Provider is enabling businesses to work smarter.

Malebona Mokhutsoane is a leading Analytics Specialist working in the Business Technology Platform team at SAP South Africa as a Solution Advisor for Analytics and Data-Warehousing. In this interview, Mokhutsoane explores the idea of Augmented Analytics and why it is important now. Mokhutsoane also touches on how to improve adoption or awareness of the power of augmented analytics.

Dumisani Moyo is the Head of Sales for Mid-Market at SAP Africa. Moyo is responsible for small and medium-sized enterprises, in both the private and public sectors in the Southern Africa region. He is passionate about helping Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) transform their businesses through leveraging technology. In this interview, Moyo discusses in light of the pandemic how SMEs can le...

Dell Technologies South Africa’s Managing Director, Doug Woolley, is focused on equipping companies with the tools they need to survive and prosper in an increasingly digitised economy. In this What’s Next interview, presented by Intel and Dell Technologies, Woolley discusses why digital transformation is important for South African businesses.

In this special episode of What’s Next, Aki Anastasiou talks to three of the top energy experts to unpack the state of the energy industry in South Africa, which is in crisis. Chris Yelland is the Managing Director at EE Business Intelligence, Andrada Manu is National Product Manager for Eaton at Mustek Limited and Jaco Du Plooy is Eaton Product Manager for Africa.

Colin Erasmus is one of the most experienced technology leads in South Africa and currently heads up the Modern Workplace Business Group at Microsoft South Africa. In this interview, Erasmus shares his views on the heightened focus on information protection and compliance since the drive for more people to work from home. He also discusses the implications of POPIA on South African businesses and...

Justin Hume is the Director of Integrated Mobility at Samsung South Africa. In this interview, Justin talks about the latest Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2.

Aki Anastasiou interviews the lead of financial services at OpenText, Susan Page. With over 21 years’ experience in the financial service industry, Page has helped numerous financial services companies to run simpler so that they can become more profitable and sustainable. In this interview, Page shares her knowledge about the potential for modern technologies to enhance all components of banking.

Adrian Gore is founder and CEO of one of South Africa's leading medical insurers, Discovery Limited. Discovery has evolved into a diversified and multinational financial services group and provides insurance cover for more than 200,000 companies and close to 2 million people.

Sivi Moodley, the Chief Executive Officer of Macrocomm, is a serial entrepreneur, and has successfully built, led and managed small, medium and large businesses. Sivi founded Macrocomm in 2005 and built it into the leading IoT supplier of smart solutions to large corporates as well as the public sector in Africa.

Neale Hill is the Managing Director of Ford South Africa and Sub Saharan Africa. Over his 25-year plus career at Ford, Hill has worked across various functions including sales, marketing and at general management level.

Danie joined OUTsurance in 2002 as a sales advisor, rapidly working his way up through the ranks. He was appointed to the EXCO in 2005 as the company's Head of Sales. With over 20 years' experience in the insurance industry, he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer for OUTsurance in 2017.

Aki Anastasiou interviews Chief Executive Officer of Capitec Bank, Gerrie Fourie. Fourie has lead the company for the past 6 years and has been with Capitec Bank since it was established 19 years ago.