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South Africa’s Electric Dream hits the accelerator as Absa and BYD reinforce their partnership buff.ly/85kMR8i

South Africa has more graduates than ever, so why is youth unemployment still breaking records? buff.ly/yTwtvYf By Leon Smalberger, CEO of the Academic Institute of Excellence (AIE)

Preparing Africa’s data centres for the demands of autonomous AI buff.ly/ivn52oO By Faith Waithaka, Cloud and Service Provider Segment Lead for Anglophone Africa at #SchneiderElectric

#GirlCode calls for applications to 2026 Pan-African Hackathon buff.ly/Bgfsiib

Engineering for density – why liquid cooling is no longer optional for data centres in the age of AI buff.ly/6cBnXct By Willem Weber, Mechanical Engineering Consultant for Digital Parks Africa

News: How ‘TikTok Brain’ is breaking legacy security training buff.ly/UHjDllv By Anna Collard, CISO advisor and SVP content strategist at #KnowBe4

Energy for AI, AI for energy: designing AI-ready data centres buff.ly/puNQF4b By Steven Santini, Secure Power Vice President, #SchneiderElectric Sub-Saharan Africa

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ISO 42001 helps organisations prepare for the realities of AI governance buff.ly/1sWE73a By Ryan Boyes, Senior Security Administrator Officer at Galix

Artificial intelligence is changing the rules of cybercrime buff.ly/Wb0YQzX By Avinash Gupta, Head of COE (Centre of Excellence) at In2IT Technologies

An intelligent pair of eyes - Maximising efficiency and security resilience through video buff.ly/UsrXqSX By Marcel Bruyns, Sales Manager for Africa at #AxisCommunications

The real AI opportunity is not replacing technology, it is redefining the business buff.ly/NV7Ld4u By Dewald Lindeque, Business Development Director and co-founder at #MOYO

Banks do not need more AI ambition; they need AI that they can govern buff.ly/PycZBcq By Craig Stephens, Advisory Business Solutions Manager, #SAS Africa

#Cloud isn’t the finish line: Why businesses must rethink their AI foundations buff.ly/X3eVg3I By Junaid Kleinschmidt – Intelligence lead and Ntsako Baloyi – Data & AI lead for Accenture, South Africa

Artificial intelligence is changing the rules of #cybercrime buff.ly/RerTBiv By Avinash Gupta, Head of COE (Centre of Excellence) at In2IT Technologies

Navigating the Frontier of Agentic AI buff.ly/0KpUTe0 By Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer at Cisco #Cisco #AgenticAI

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Your technology stack is not a customer experience strategy buff.ly/JxmyNfv Orchestrating technology, people, and process at the standard global customers expect is why specialist CX outsourcing exists, says Clinton Cohen, CEO of iContact BPO.

David and Goliath - How the SME can become the enterprise’s most secure asset buff.ly/wbBWKWH By Lucas Molefe, Cybersecurity Expert at ESET Southern Africa