The Board of Trustees of the Chief Information Officers (CIO) Club Africa has announced this year’s edition of its annual Summit scheduled for Thursday, 4th May 2023, at the Red Carpet Hall, Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The CIO Club Africa is a registered NGO established by the Founder, Abiola Laseinde, to galvanise stakeholders within the IT ecosystem towards driving the digital transformation agenda of Africa.

The Club operates on four strategic pillars: Advocacy, Empowerment, Think-tank and Research & Development.

According to the organisers, the theme for the summit is: “The Digital Economy and the Nexus Between e-Identity, Connectivity and Financial Inclusion”

TCCA Summit 2023 will be hosting the Director General, NIMC, Aliyu Aziz, and other panelists from MTN, AIRTEL, Hewlett Packard, Opay, Digital Encode among many others.

With new technologies transforming the way Africans live and work, the CIO Club Africa Summit 2023 will take you through informative panel discussions and dedicated industry tracks, giving you a bird’s view of the current market situation, the latest technological innovations, and strategies for propelling organisations to meet the unique challenges of these unprecedented times and helping government and industry improve operational efficiency, productivity, and resiliency.

The discussions would focus on harnessing digital identity management for economic transformation as well as financial inclusion globally and in Africa (trends, risks, challenges, opportunities, regulations, and general market governance mechanisms and instruments) for enhanced access to Information Technology that will enable Africans to meet its net zero commitment and achieve sustainable socio-economic development.

The present initiative is the CIO Club Africa contribution in deepening the development of critical knowledge areas that would make Africa competitive in the near and distance future and continue to point at solutions that would create opportunities across board for all stakeholders benefits.