About the Country

According to OXFORD Business, The development of the ICT sector in Côte d’Ivoire has been led mostly by the fast expansion of telecoms services — and mobile activity in particular — over recent years. As with many frontier markets, the IT segment of the sector, which includes hardware and software development, cloud computing and networking, has lagged somewhat behind.Although this reality is equally visible in many other West African economies, consumer and business usage in the country continue to evolve at a slower pace, hampered by the lack of sufficient human resources and the still incipient emergence of a domestic IT cluster.

About the Event

The role of a CIO is one of the most criticalone in today’s business and industry. Today, CIOs hold the future of innovation, productivity and competitiveness in their hands. At the GLOBAL CIO FORUM, we not only provide our members with an exchange forum for best IT leadership strategies and practices to enhance business results, but we are also developing a strong voice to ensure that CIOs are represented at key industry and government decision tables. In other words: Integrate. Influence. Impact.

Mission

The GLOBAL CIO FORUM represents IT Executives and CIOs globally. Currently working in META region and with expansion plans globally, the GLOBAL CIO FORUM is a non-profit community of CIOs and IT leaders whose mission is to facilitate networking, sharing of best practices and executive development, and to collaborate on issues faced by the CIOs/IT Executives.

Agenda

Time

Session

Detail

12:30 pm (West Africa Time)

Convention Center Open

02:00 pm (West Africa Time)

WC 200S Welcome Note

Global CIO Forum

02:10 pm (West Africa Time)

World CIO 200 Country IT Outlook

Shimelis Legesse, CIO, Dashen Bank

02:25 pm (West Africa Time)

Technology Outlook 2022

Olatunji Kehinde, Country Manager, Veritas Technologies

02:40 pm (West Africa Time)

Leadership in Post Pandemic: A cross-border view

Imen HBIRI, CTO, Robocare

03:15 pm (West Africa Time)

2021 Outlook

Kgomotso Mantu, Infrastructure Manager, CEDA

03.30 pm (West Africa Time)

CIO 200 Country Awards

Awards ceremony

03:55 pm (West Africa Time)

Closing Note

Global CIO Forum

Speakers 2021

Shimelis Legesse

Shimelis Legesse

CIO, Dashen Bank
Olatunji Kehinde

Olatunji Kehinde

Country Manager, Veritas Technologies
Imen HBIRI

Imen HBIRI

CTO, Robocare
Kgomotso Mantu

Kgomotso Mantu

Infrastructure Manager, CEDA