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Tickets Now Live: CREAIDETOR 2026 Opens Registration for Its Pan-African No-Code and AI Experience

CREAIDETOR 2026 has opened registration for its November edition, expanding beyond its Lagos debut to bring together builders, founders, creators, and professionals interested in exploring the possibilities of no-code...

ORT South Africa launches Funda Nam, a trilingual AI study companion built with GAS Marketing, to help youth from underserved communities master Big Data...

ORT South Africa (ORT SA), with the support and guidance of GAS Marketing Automation, has launched Funda Nam ("Study with Me"), an AI study companion built exclusively for beneficiaries...

FINAL CALL: Just two weeks left to enter the 2026 Future of HR Awards

Your HR wins could be driving transformation, but if nobody outside your organisation knows about them, what are you really gaining? Nominations close on 16 September. Your team has invested...

Honouring excellence in HR: Entries open for the Future of HR Awards 2026

Topco Media is thrilled to announce that entries are now open for the much-anticipated Future of HR Awards 2026, recognising the leaders, teams and organisations driving innovation, excellence and...

Experian Innovation Summit spotlights trusted AI and responsible BNPL reporting as credit enters a new era

Experian, the global data and technology company, today convened leaders from banking, telecommunications, financial services, retail credit, small business finance, fintech, non-bank lending and insurance at its annual Innovation...

AI is no longer a standalone investment theme – it’s everywhere

While information and communications technology (ICT) accounted for the bulk (62.7%) of all Southern African venture capital (VC) deals in 2025, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning represented just...

Consumers turn to AI for increasingly personal matters, Kaspersky survey finds

Kaspersky’s recent survey in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa (META) region shows that AI is becoming part of consumers’ everyday lives – and users are increasingly turning to...

Four weeks to Go: Tackling the HR headaches keeping you up at night

South Africa’s business landscape is changing fast. Organisations are under pressure to attract and retain scarce skills, integrate younger and increasingly diverse generations, rethink traditional leadership structures, respond to...

The greener side of digital life: What Gen Z expects from the future of technology

On International E-Waste Day, Kaspersky explores an emerging paradox in Gen Z’s behaviour: while Gen Z is the most digitally immersed generation, it also leads in awareness of technology’s...

Beyond the burden: why sustainable EdTech adoption starts with teacher ownership

A new digital learning platform can look like progress on a procurement spreadsheet and feel like another job in the staffroom. There is the account to activate, the class list...

Why AI agents need smaller, better-defined APIs

Consider an insurer whose claims process runs through a single operation called ProcessClaim. It was built for the insurer's claims application, where staff capture the details on screen and...

Are South African businesses ready for the next wave of AI-powered attacks?

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is underway, and South African organisations face a hard truth: AI has made cyberattacks cheaper, faster, and more convincing. No defence can stop all of them....
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SAS predictions: 2027 is the year of AI consequences

For years, AI has shown enterprises what’s possible. In 2027, they’ll demand proof that it delivers. As AI moves deeper into business operations and gains...

Your employees are using AI. Have you given them a safe way to do it?

An employee is preparing for a customer meeting and wants an AI assistant to summarise a lengthy proposal. They paste the document into a...

South Africa’s insurers enter the age of agentic AI as CX becomes the new battleground

Despite South African insurers investing significantly in digital transformation over the past decade, many customers still experience fragmented and slow journeys that rely heavily...

Founders at Work returns with a stronger focus on practical AI implementation for scaling founders

The second instalment builds on insights from 1 523 scaling founders across all nine provinces and will help established QSE businesses move from experimenting...

Kaspersky reveals how generations discover sales offers and shares online security tips

A recent global Kaspersky survey highlights that Gen Z finds sales offers through creators and social media (48%), while Boomers prefer search engines (38%)...
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