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Interview: BBD on how digital disruption is upending financial services
In this episode of the podcast, BBD UK director and the group’s executive head of banking, Matthew Barnard, and BBD executive head of cloud services, Dieter Rosch, discuss the fundamental digital disruption sweeping through banking and financial services. South African banks spend a huge amount of money on IT every…
Interview: Seacom CEO Byron Clatterbuck returns
In this promoted episode of the TechCentral podcast, Seacom CEO Byron Clatterbuck returns for a discussion about the big trends affecting the telecommunications industry in South Africa and the broader continent, particularly from a data perspective. Clatterbuck talks about the ever-expanding demand for data from both consumers and businesses and…
Interview: Ovex CEO Jonathan Ovadia
In this episode of the podcast, Jonathan Ovadia, co-founder and CEO of Ovex, a relatively new cryptocurrency exchange based in Cape Town, joins Duncan McLeod for a discussion on the crypto market. Ovex, which enjoys the backing of Civic founder Vinny Lingham and Bitcoin Foundation executive director Llew Claasen, among…
Interview: Aptronics joint MD Alex Russell on the intelligent workspace
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral interviews Alex Russell, MD of iOCO Technology subsidiary Aptronics, on the concept of the “intelligent workspace” and how it can boost employee productivity. Russell explains why the intelligent workspace is critically important in modern organisations, not only to improve productivity, but also…
DFA CEO Thinus Mulder on the company's expansion plans
Dark Fibre Africa is keen to buy or build tower and data centre assets as it expands beyond the provision of fibre telecommunications infrastructure in South Africa. That’s according to DFA CEO Thinus Mulder, who was speaking last week at an event hosted by Absa Corporate and Investment Bank, arranged…
TalkCentral: Ep 266 - 'Fibre for smart masses'
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Duncan McLeod talk about Vumatel's plans to roll out fibre broadband in Mitchell's Plain and Alexandra. Can fibre be delivered to lower-income and even poor areas profitably? Also this week, drama at EOH; Netflix posts a horrid quarter; and Red Dead Redemption…
Interview: Vumatel CEO Dietlof Mare
In this episode of the podcast, TechCentral's Duncan McLeod interviews Vumatel CEO Dietlof Mare about the fibre-to-the-home provider's roll-out of fibre to Mitchell's Plain on the Cape Flats and the company's plan to deploy fibre infrastructure in Johannesburg's Alexandra. He talks about providing fibre broadband in areas that fibre providers…
Interview: Steve Briggs on Seacom's big brand refresh
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral is joined by Seacom chief commercial officer Steve Briggs for a discussion on the company's big brand overhaul. Coinciding with Seacom's 10th anniversary, the refresh was done to showcase the company's evolution from solely a provider of subsea bandwidth in its early…
Interview: VMware lead technologist Ian Jansen van Rensburg
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral interviews VMware sub-Saharan Africa lead technologist Ian Jansen van Rensburg about the challenges and opportunities facing companies and chief information officers. With cloud and digital transformation foremost in the minds of South African technology and business executives, Jansen van Rensburg talks about…
Interview: PPS CTO Avsharn Bachoo
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral interviews Avsharn Bachoo, chief technology officer at mutual financial services provider PPS, about the company’s massive digital transformation project and how and why it chose to migrate its IT systems into the cloud. Founded in 1941, PPS is the only mutual financial…
Interview: Suse country manager Grant Bennett
In this promoted episode of the podcast, TechCentral talks to Suse country manager Grant Bennett about the enterprise open-source software company’s partnership with SAP and how South African companies are increasingly realising the benefits of moving to cloud services. Bennett talks about the history of Suse, which was founded 27…
Interview: Rifqa Carr of new Uber rival inDriver
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod is joined by Rifqa Carr of ride-hailing service inDriver, which is newly launched in South Africa. InDriver, which was started in Russia and which now has 24 million users around the world, was launched in Cape Town in February and in Johannesburg…
Interview: VALR.com CEO Farzam Ehsani on the future of crypto money
In this episode of the podcast, VALR.com co-founder and CEO Farzam Ehsani returns to the show for a wide-ranging discussion on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Ehsani talks about why he quit corporate South Africa – he was blockchain lead at RMB – to strike out on his own with VALR.com, a…
Interview: Seacom chief development officer Suveer Ramdhani
In the latest in a series of promoted podcasts with Seacom, TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod talks to Seacom chief development officer Suveer Ramdhani about the changes sweeping the telecommunications industry. Ramdhani talks about the consolidation that has started to take shape in the South African telecoms sector - some of it…
Interview: Intergreatme CEO Luke Warner
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Intergreatme co-founder and CEO Luke Warner about how the technology start-up managed a R32-million fundraising round using crowdfunding platform Uprise Africa. Described as an “emergent regtech player”, Intergreatme wants to create a world where consumers no longer have to fill out…
Interview: Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Telkom Group CEO Sipho Maseko on the group’s 2019 financial results. The discussion kicks off with Maseko explaining whether Telkom can keep up the astonishing growth in its mobile business, where it almost doubled its number of subscribers in the past…
Interview: Jolla (Sailfish OS) CEO Sami Pienimäki
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod is joined by Jolla CEO Sami Pienimäki to talk about the implications for the world of smartphone operating systems of the US government’s decision to force Google to hang up on Huawei. In the podcast, Pienimäki discusses the impact the decision could…
Interview: IoT.nxt CEO Nico Steyn
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews IoT.nxt co-founder and CEO Nico Steyn about the recently announced acquisition by Vodacom Group of 51% of the company. Steyn explains how the deal came about, what IoT.nxt will use the capital injection to do and what’s next for the Centurion,…
Interview: Sophos's Paul Ducklin on WhatsApp security
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Paul Ducklin from British security company Sophos about the news that WhatsApp has been targeted by an advanced "cyber actor", who exploited the software’s voice calling feature. The exploit allowed attackers to potentially install malicious code on targeted users' smartphones. Ducklin…
Interview: Axiz CTO Jacques Malherbe on the changing role of distribution
In this promoted episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Axiz chief technology officer Jacques Malherbe on how the ICT distribution industry is changing significantly. Driven by the growth of cloud computing, digital transformation and a less comprehensive role being played by original equipment manufacturers, the relationship between these…