What's Next with Aki Anastasiou

Digital transformation can help South African SMEs compete without large IT budgets. Keshal Sookha, Managing Executive: Commercial Strategy at Telkom Business, explains how.

Sookha discusses why smaller businesses still face barriers to accessing enterprise-grade technology and how integrated platforms can simplify email, document management, storage, collaboration, and communication.

He also explains Telkom Business’s partnership with OneOffice, including its locally hosted cloud platform, integrated cybersecurity, and OneSeek AI capabilities. The discussion covers how SMEs can use AI to search information, summarise documents, and improve productivity without investing in specialist infrastructure or technical teams.

Sookha also outlines how Telkom Business is expanding beyond connectivity to offer broader digital solutions and why small businesses should digitise from the start rather than waiting until they become larger.

0:00 Intro
1:04 Why SMEs still face a digital divide
2:18 Technology challenges for small businesses
3:36 Telkom Business and OneOffice
5:50 Cybersecurity and data protection
7:43 Giving SMEs access to AI
10:04 Telkom Business beyond connectivity
12:46 Why SMEs should digitise from the start

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Technology ownership can become expensive as device prices rise and hardware ages. David Buck, General Manager at InnoVent, explains a smarter approach.

Buck discusses why South African businesses should challenge the assumption that buying technology outright is always the best option. He explains the difference between keeping productive equipment and “sweating” outdated devices that reduce employee performance, increase support costs, and limit access to newer capabilities.

The conversation also explores how lifecycle management and device data can help companies make more targeted procurement decisions, matching the right technology to the right employee rather than replacing equipment according to a fixed calendar. Buck explains how InnoVent combines funding, asset management, refurbishment, and resale to lower total cost of ownership.

He also outlines why giving devices a second life can support both sustainability and smarter capital allocation as businesses plan their technology budgets.

0:00 Intro
1:19 Responding to rising technology costs
3:56 Rethinking technology ownership
6:31 Is keeping a paid-off laptop really cheaper?
9:00 Making smarter replacement decisions
11:45 Refurbishment and the circular technology model
13:40 Planning a smarter 2027 technology budget

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AI-powered digital health could make quality healthcare more accessible across South Africa, especially in communities with limited medical resources.

Prof. Leenta Grobler, Associate Professor in Digital Health Innovation at the North-West University (NWU), explains how technology can help close gaps in access, information, and continuity of care.

Grobler discusses remote patient monitoring, digital tools that connect local clinics with specialists, and NWU research into more accurate infant growth monitoring. She also explains how AI-supported retinal screening could analyse health data faster and support better clinical and insurance-related decisions.

The conversation explores why human oversight must remain central to AI in healthcare, and why successful African digital health solutions must be designed for local realities such as connectivity constraints, unreliable electricity, and varying levels of digital literacy.

0:00 Intro
1:37 South Africa's healthcare access problem
3:32 How digital health can improve patient care
6:08 NWU's digital health projects
10:41 AI-supported retinal screening
11:25 Why humans must remain in control
13:37 Designing technology for South Africa
16:18 Measuring real healthcare impact

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#DigitalHealth #ArtificialIntelligence #Healthcare

AI and technology transformation are reshaping what businesses expect from connectivity providers, pushing them far beyond traditional internet services.

Wayne D’sa, CEO of CipherWave, explains how the South African technology company is evolving from a Tier 1 ISP into a broader technology partner focused on connectivity, cloud, voice, and cybersecurity.

D’sa discusses why reliable, low-latency connectivity remains fundamental as businesses adopt AI and cloud services, and how CipherWave is expanding its data centre and security capabilities. He also explains the company’s approach to AI: testing technologies internally, protecting business data, improving internal processes, and only then taking proven solutions to customers.

The conversation also explores South Africa’s technology skills shortage, zero-trust security, customer experience, and why staying relevant requires technology providers to respond quickly as business needs change.

0:00 Intro
1:24 Wayne D’sa's return to CipherWave
5:02 From ISP to technology partner
8:10 Expanding cloud, voice and data centre services
10:40 Why cybersecurity is critical
14:28 CipherWave's AI strategy
18:30 Improving the customer experience
23:33 Staying relevant in a fast-changing market

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#ArtificialIntelligence #CloudComputing #Cybersecurity

AI software development is accelerating rapidly, but businesses still need human expertise to turn faster coding into secure, reliable software.

Hector Beyers, CEO and founder of Codehesion, explains how artificial intelligence is changing the software development lifecycle and why developers can no longer afford to ignore AI-assisted tools.

Beyers discusses Codehesion’s AI-augmented Innovation Pod model, which combines specialist developers, UX, QA, DevOps, and planning expertise with AI to deliver projects faster. He also explains why code audits, security, scalability, and human accountability remain critical as AI generates more production code.

The conversation explores AI-powered prototyping, modernising legacy systems, and why custom software is becoming easier and more cost-effective to build. Beyers also predicts how developer roles could evolve as autonomous AI agents take over more repetitive testing and development tasks.

0:00 Intro
2:30 AI hype vs real software value
6:20 Why human oversight still matters
7:52 Codehesion's Innovation Pod model
11:42 Balancing AI and human expertise
18:34 The limits of AI prototyping
22:29 Modernising legacy software

Join Hector Beyers, CEO and Co-Founder of Codehesion, alongside our technical experts, for a practical discussion on what it really takes to use AI to build production-ready software.
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