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Interview: Talos's Martin Lee on cybersecurity
Thank you for downloading the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats via a Cisco TelePresence room to Martin Lee, technical lead within Cisco's Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group, about the latest developments in information security. Lee is a certified information system systems security professional and chartered engineer…
Interview: Siyabonga Cwele on spectrum and more
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele sat down with TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod in Cape Town on Wednesday on the sidelines of the FTTX Council Africa conference to discuss a range of issues affecting the industry. In the podcast, McLeod asks Cwele about government's plans, finally, to move ahead…
Interview: Uber's Alon Lits and Justin Spratt
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Uber Technologies GM for sub-Saharan Africa Alon Lits and the company's head of business development for the same region, Justin Spratt, chat about the past, present and future of Uber in Africa. Listen as Lits explains how Uber got…
Interview: Gerrit Smit on why the global tech rally is far from over
In this episode of TechCentral, Duncan McLeod chats via Skype to Gerrit Smit, fund manager at London-based wealth management company Stonehage Fleming, which invests billions of dollars on behalf of ultra-high-net-worth individuals. Thirty percent of Stonehage Fleming's GBI Fund is made up of investments in the technology space, with big…
Interview: Inside Pick n Pay's bitcoin trial, with Jason Peisl
In this episode of TechCentral, Duncan McLeod chats to Pick n Pay information systems executive Jason Peisl about the retailer's bitcoin trial. In the podcast, Peisl explains why Pick n Pay decided to test bitcoin payments at the point of sale. He talks about what the company learnt from the…
Interview: Farzam Ehsani on why crypto money is truly revolutionary
In this episode of TechCentral, we bring you a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion with cryptocurrency expert Farzam Ehsani, the blockchain lead at Rand Merchant Bank and chairman of the South African Financial Blockchain Consortium. Ehsani, a leading thinker on blockchain technology, believes crypto money is not only going to reshape…
Interview: Huge Group's James Herbst and Duarte da Silva
In this episode of TechCentral, Duncan McLeod chats to James Herbst and Duarte da Silva about the past, present and future of listed telecommunications company Huge Group. The CEO and chairman respectively, Herbst and Da Silva chat about the crisis that hit Huge Group when the bottom fell out of…
Interview: Kwesé Play CEO Ryan Solovei
In this episode of TechCentral, Duncan McLeod chats to Ryan Solovei, executive vice president of Econet Media and CEO of Kwesé Play, which is offering a new streaming media service to South African consumers. The offering, which consists of a Roku media box and accompanying services - which include Netflix…
Interview: Disruptive insurtech start-up Pineapple
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to the three co-founders of fintech start-up Pineapple, which has just raised R5.2m in funding to take its potentially disruptive "insurtech" solution to market. Marnus van Heerden, Ndabenhle Ngulube and Matthew Smith chat about how Pineapple…
Interview: Michael Jordaan, CEO, Montegray Capital
In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to Michael Jordaan, founder and CEO of Montegray Capital. Jordaan, the former CEO of First National Bank, talks about his investments in South African technology start-ups and the tech start-up ecosystem in the country. In the interview, he chats about the plans for Rain…
Interview: HP chief technology officer Shane Wall
Thank you for listening the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to Shane Wall, global chief technology officer at HP and director of HP Labs. Listen as Wall first talks to journalists about the future of technology, including its likely impact on Africa. He chats about the explosive…
Interview: Barclays Africa Group CIO Ashley Veasey
How is technology transforming the banking industry? In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to Barclays Africa Group chief information and chief digital officer Ashley Veasey about how technology disruption is changing the face of banking. From the blockchain to artificial intelligence and mobile money to bot-driven apps and services, the…
Interview: HMD Global on the future of Nokia phones
Nokia is a brand that still has enormous cachet among South African consumers. In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to Justin Maier and Patrick Henchie, vice-president and product head respectively at HMD Global in sub-Saharan Africa of the relaunch of the brand. HMD Global, a Finnish…
Interview: Russell Lamberti on how crypto money will change everything
Crypto money is going to change the world fundamentally. That's the word from Russell Lamberti, an economist and the head of ETM Macro Advisors, who believes the stage is set for a showdown between central banks - and nation-state governments - and the emerging world of distributed and anonymous cryptocurrencies…
Interview: ICT policy expert Charley Lewis
Thank you for downloading the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to former lecturer and ICT policy and regulatory expert Charley Lewis on the ICT sector in South Africa and how it's developed over the past 23 years. Lewis, a former senior lecturer at the Link Centre at…
Interview: Jo'burg finance MMC Rabelani Dagada
City of Johannesburg finance MMC Rabelani Dagada joins TechCentral's Duncan McLeod in this episode of the podcast to chat about the plans to make Jo'burg a smart city. Dagada talks about the billing system crisis, how it happened and what the new, Democratic Alliance-led administration is doing to fix it…
Behind SA cryptocurrency start-up Project Ubu
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to two of the directors behind Project Ubu, a South African start-up that's working to combine the idea of a universal basic income with a blockchain-housed cryptocurrency. Project Ubu chief technology officer Steve Sidley (formerly CTO at Altech) and marketing…
Interview: Andy Brauer, SA inventor behind promising new fuel cell
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to former Business Connexion chief technology officer Andy Brauer, who has struck out on his own with a new venture that is looking to build and commercialise a "reversible" hydrogen fuel cell that he believes could…
Interview: GetSmarter CEO Sam Paddock
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats via Skype to Sam Paddock, co-founder and CEO of GetSmarter, the Cape Town-based online education specialist that has just been acquired by Nasdaq-listed 2U in a deal valued at US$103m, or about R1.3bn. The deal, which closed two weeks ago,…
SAP's Adaire Fox-Martin on 'kickbacks' scandal
We’re departing from the usual interview format in this episode of the TechCentral podcast to bring you a very important teleconference press call with SAP executive board member Adaire Fox-Martin, who will be jetting into South Africa on Friday to deal with the scandal that has erupted around the German…