IITPSA President's Awards nominations now open

The Institute of Information Technology Professionals SA (IITPSA) has called for nominations for this year's prestigious IITPSA President's Awards, which include the IT Personality and Visionary CIO of the year accolades.

The IITPSA awards, presented this year in partnership with ICT media publications ITWeb and EngineerIT and award partner, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, have recognised the South African IT industry’s leading lights for over 40 years.

Past winners include the likes of Etion CEO Teddy Daka and Absa CIO for Virtual Channels Jacques Barkhuizen (2018), Entelect CEO Shashi Hansjee and former Sasol Global CIO Alec Joannou (2017) and Adapt IT CEO Sbu Shabalala and Peter Alkema, business banking CIO at First National Bank (2016).

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Nominations are invited for:

The IT Personality Award, which recognises a highly respected and outstanding ICT professional who has made a significant technical or academic contribution to the industry, who has been successful in building a highly-respected IT organisation or business, and/or who has made a major contribution to the IT profession over a number of years.
The Visionary CIO Award, which honours a CIO who has demonstrated visionary leadership in using IT to support, grow and transform business and/or who have established best practice in implementing technology solutions in an organisation.
The Technology Excellence Award, which will be presented to a person or team who has made exceptional or innovative use of technology for an organisation and/or who has exhibited technological excellence that has delivered measurable benefit for business/the SA Economy.
Social Responsibility/Community Award, which will be presented to a person, team or project that delivers the benefits of IT on a not-for-profit basis into the community or brings the community into the IT space.