Oracle CIO Summit
South Africa
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8:30 AM~~2:30 PM~~(UTC+03:00) Jerusalem~~April 15, 2014~~April 15, 2014
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April 15, 2014
8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Johannesburg
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Highlights
The Challenge of the CIO
If you’re like most CIOs, your vision includes finding ways for IT to add real value to the business. The role of a CIO has changed dramatically within the last couple of years from a pure service provider to a leader of business transformation.
Join the Oracle CIO Summit 2014 in Johannesburg and meet IT executives to discuss what it takes for IT to shift focus from maintaining systems to becoming a strategic partner that can help unleash innovation across the business.
We are proud to announce that we were able to secure Nenad Pacek as a keynote speaker for this summit. Well known as a business advisor working to almost 300 multinational corporations, he has fantastic insight into emerging markets. He is the founder and president of Global Success Advisors and co-founder of the CEEMEA Business Group corporate service.
This is an invitation only event. If you would like to receive an invitation please contact
Natanya Steyn
.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Pieter Bensch,
VP and Country Leader Oracle South Africa
Agenda
Agenda
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:05
Welcome
by
Pieter Bensch, Country Leader Oracle South Africa
09:05 – 09:50
IT innovation as business driver
Jean-Claude Michaca, Vice President Storage Systems, Oracle EMEA
09:50 – 10:15
The Top 10 Strategic CIO Issues for 2014
Matthew Kibby, Senior Director, Oracle South Africa
Moderated roundtables
10:15 – 10:45
Customer Engagement – The CIO as customer focused innovator moderated by Graham Mansfield, Oracle and Anthony Briggs, Sasol
Customer centricity is getting extremely important in this connected world. Be innovative and influence the way how customers experience your company will lead to great customer loyalty. How IT can lead this process?
10:45 – 11:15
Strategic Technology Roadmap – How the CIO will shape the future? moderated by Jean-Claude Michaca, Oracle and Ian Beaton, Redisa
Do you want to win future business with an infrastructure based on old technology? It will not be possible. Look 10 years back and remember what dramatic change we were able to experience in this short time period. Let’s discuss the potential of a CIO to shape the future.
11:15 – 11:45
Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:15
Product Development inspired by IT – The CIO as evangelist for new markets moderated by Matthew Kibby, Oracle and Rudolph Horn, Dimension Data
This time is full of new technologies which open doors into new markets. If we join forces and combine product development with new IT technologies what can be the outcome?
12:15 – 12:45
Advisor – Talent Manager – Strategist: Is the new CIO a strategic business leader? moderated by Pieter Bensch, Oracle and Thozama Nene, Oracle
Recent researches show that the role of the CIO has changed in the last couple of years. This is not new. The CIO is moving more and more from a back office function to a strategic function where strategic objectives need to be met, management and financial background is essential and a close relation to CFOs and other board members is necessary.
End of moderated roundtables
12:45 – 13:15
The future of South African economy and business in the global context
Nenad Pacek, President Global Success Advisors
13:15 – 13:30
Closing
13:30 – 14:30
Lunch
Speakers
Speakers
Nenad Pacek
Nenad and his businesses currently advise global and regional directors of almost 300 multinational corporations. He is founder and president of Global Success Advisors (global business and economic advisory) and co-founder of the CEEMEA Business Group corporate service (advisory for regional executives running Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa). The advisory focus is on helping executives understand economic/business outlooks for virtually all countries around the world and on helping companies build strategies for sustainable growth in emerging markets.
Nenad is the author of “The Future of Business in Emerging Markets: Growth Strategies for Growth Markets” (2012), “The Global Economy” (2012), lead author of “Emerging Markets: Lessons for Business Success and Outlook for Different Markets” (2003, 2007), and a contributor to the book “The Future of Money” (2010). He is one of the world’s leading authorities on economic and business issues that concern multinational corporations seeking faster growth internationally. He performs on average two speeches/advisory sessions every week at various corporate meetings on issues ranging from global, regional and country level economic/business outlooks to best business practices for outperforming competition internationally. In corporate circles he is well-known for not using any notes or power point slides while speaking and engaging in discussion.
Nenad is former Vice President of The Economist Group (Economist Intelligence Unit) where he spent almost two decades advising multinationals on economic and business issues and managing several business units in Europe, Middle East and Africa and one business unit globally. He chaired over 100 Economist Government Roundtables with Prime Ministers/Presidents and their cabinets throughout Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Nenad is a board member of the Center for Creative Leadership. He is guest faculty at Duke Corporate Education, Notre Dame Executive MBA and a number of corporate universities.
He was educated in Austria where he studied international business, finance and economics. Nenad lives with his wife and children near Vienna, Austria. He spends his rare free time mostly with his family, but occasionally sneaks out to play basketball, tennis, golf and to ski and swim.
Jean-Claude Michaca,
Vice President Storage Systems,
EMEA
Mr. Michaca studied at the Engineering School of Lucerne where he got an Electronics Engineering Diploma, followed by a Business Administration degree obtained at the Graduate school of Business Administration in Zurich, completed by a Post Graduate degree at the Lausanne IMD International Institute for Management Development.
He joined Oracle Corporation in 1991 where he held several Sales positions ranging from Global Account manager, Sales Director and Managing Director and Vice President in various parts of the organization.
He is currently the Vice President in charge of Storage Systems for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Mr. Michaca born in Lebanon in 1962, is a Swiss citizen. His native language is French and he is fluent in English, German, Spanish, Italian and Arabic.
He is also on the advisory board of several technology start-ups helping them developing their expansion and Go to Market Strategies.
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