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Cape Town boating conference targets growth for Africa’s marine industry
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries Government engagement, global trade pressures, AI and manufacturing competitiveness featured at the African Boating Conference in Cape Town, as industry leaders examined barriers to growth across the marine sector.
Prisa's pre-conference explores PR in the future
View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries The Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa’s (Prisa) pre-conference programme is currently underway at the University of Johannesburg's (UJ) Bunting Road Campus, ahead of the two-day Prisms Summit and Prisms Gala Dinner and Awards, which take place tomorrow, Thursday 22 October, and Saturday evening, 24 October.
3 of SA’s largest banks launch renewable energy platform
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries Three of South Africa’s largest banks — FNB, WesBank, and RMB — have launched Nav.energy, an integrated renewable energy platform that simplifies how South African businesses access, finance and implement renewable energy solutions. Muneer Ismail, CEO of commercial and corporate banking. Image supplied.
Meta opens AI skills programme to SA developers and students
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries Meta has partnered with South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) to launch a free AI training programme for developers, students, startups and early-career professionals.
Preparing students for an AI-first industry
2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies View more, Apple or Spotify Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries A programme by Brandtech+ for The Animation School students is preparing these students for an AI-first industry.
South Africa’s AI ambitions face a looming power constraint
More... 2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Search jobs Advertise your job vacancies Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries Artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure requires more than advanced chips and computing capacity. It also needs a reliable supply of electricity.
Eskom’s 5 GW coal-exit and the looming power squeeze for local AI ambitions
What happens to AI operations when the grid cannot carry everyone? Picture a call centre where every agent phones in sick on the same morning with no one to pick up. That is what a major power interruption to a key data centre can do to a business that hands its frontline to AI. The software needs compute, and compute needs electricity. Cut the power at the wrong place and the operation is absent until it comes back.
Fixing reflections by smashing mirrors: The real reason behind all those failed enterprise AI projects
Cape Times | August 03, 2026 SOMEWHERE in a South African head office this quarter, an AI proof-of-concept that impressed the executive committee six months ago is being switched off or shelved. It demoed beautifully, but it never made it into production. And the post-mortem will probably blame the model, the vendor, the hype or even AI technology itself. That instinct is almost always wrong. When an enterprise AI project fails, it is rarely the intelligence that lets you down.
Fixing reflections by smashing mirrors: The real reason behind all those failed enterprise AI projects Original
AI Warren Olivier|Published 25 minutes ago The failed pilots piling up inside South African organisations are not because AI is bad business technology. It’s a reflection of a deeper issue AI mirrors – and the usage bill is what makes that reflection harder and harder to ignore. Image: TVBRICS Somewhere in a South African head office this quarter, an AI proof-of-concept that impressed the executive committee six months ago is being switched off or shelved.
Fixing reflections by smashing mirrors - The real reason behind all those failed enterprise AI projects
By Warren Olivier, Regional Vice President for Africa, Cloudera Somewhere in a South African head office this quarter, an AI proof-of-concept that impressed the executive committee six months ago is being switched off or shelved. It demoed beautifully, but it never made it into production. And the post-mortem will probably blame the model, the vendor, the hype or even AI technology itself. That instinct is almost always wrong.
The Real Reason Behind All Those Failed Enterprise AI Projects
Somewhere in a South African head office this quarter, an AI proof-of-concept that impressed the executive committee six months ago is being switched off or shelved. It demoed beautifully, but it never made it into production. And the post-mortem will probably blame the model, the vendor, the hype or even AI technology itself. That instinct is almost always wrong. When an enterprise AI project fails, it is rarely the intelligence that lets you down.
The real reason behind all those failed enterprise AI projects
Warren Olivier, Regional Vice President for Africa, Cloudera. Somewhere in a South African head office this quarter, an AI proof-of-concept that impressed the executive committee six months ago is being switched off or shelved. It demoed beautifully, but it never made it into production. And the post-mortem will probably blame the model, the vendor, the hype or even AI technology itself. That instinct is almost always wrong.
Building the modern data centre: 10 steps for success
by Warren Olivier, Southern Africa regional manager, Veeam Software The always-on era is becoming a reality for every business: Globalisation is allowing companies to spread their operations across multiple time zones just as users are abandoning the old nine-to-five working day and want access to their email and data anytime, anywhere.
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