IDC CIO Summit to attract 150 tech leaders from across West Africa

International Data Corporation (IDC), on Wednesday, announced its West Africa CIO Summit will take place on May 13–14 at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos.

The summit with the  theme ‘ Where IT Meets Business’ is expected to drive home the importance of closely aligning IT and business functions at a time when organizations across the region are faced with the challenge of implementing emerging products and services while simultaneously trying to improve operational efficiency.

The event will attract more than 150 CIOs, technology decision makers, and government advisors from across the region.

“The annual CIO Summit continues to grow from strength to strength and plays an important role in both shaping and reflecting opinion across the region’s continuously evolving ICT sector,” says Bola Adisa, country manager for IDC West Africa.

“IDC recognizes that the ability to rapidly correlate IT project spending with critical business priorities is essential, with CIOs increasingly required to demonstrate the business value of their projects and embrace the strategic benefits their businesses are striving to achieve. Against this backdrop, the West Africa CIO Summit 2015 will explore the need for IT plans to encompass strong business metrics alongside the existing IT-related metrics that typically examine application delivery in isolation.”

IDC also announced the introduction of five unique, informative workshops based around its IT Executive Programs.

The program is designed to help today’s time-constrained IT executives make more effective technology decisions.

According to a press statement, the “sessions will serve up timely discussions on mitigating technology risks, maximizing the effectiveness of IT investments, identifying and capitalizing on new IT opportunities, and implementing cutting-edge tech solutions that are tightly aligned with overall business objectives.”

With the event representing the largest social gathering of CIOs in West Africa, numerous local ICT vendors will join a host of major global giants to present their unique insights into the latest trends shaping tech adoption across the region, while a variety of senior line-of-business executives will also be on hand to offer that all-important non-IT perspective.

To ensure the very latest technologies are covered at the West Africa CIO Summit 2015, IDC has partnered with some of the world’s foremost ICT players, including EMC and Vodacom as Summit Partners; Dell, Sunnet Systems (in co-partnership with IBM), SAP, and Oracle as Platinum Partners; Netapp and MTN Business Nigeria as Gold Partners; Magic Software and FVC as Exhibit Partners; and Winnigroup as a Lunch Partner.

For more information about IDC’s West Africa CIO Summit 2015 and to learn about the range of flexible partnership opportunities on offer, please contact Bola Adisa, country manager for IDC West Africa, at badisa@idc.com. You can also tweet about the summit using the hashtag #IDCWACIO or visit the dedicated event website www.idcciosummit.com/lagos.