The CIO & C-Suite Club Africa is a premier network of visionary leaders shaping the future of Africa’s digital economy. With a growing community of over 1,000 members, we bring together C-level executives, technology leaders, government agencies, and industry stakeholders to drive innovation, collaboration, and digital transformation across the continent.
Built on four strategic pillars—Advocacy, Empowerment, Research & Development, and Think-Tank—the Club fosters high-impact conversations and strategic initiatives that accelerate Africa’s digital growth. Through flagship programs such as the annual CIO Summit, quarterly CIOs First Friday events, and Digital Skills Development Programs, we empower decision-makers with insights, connections, and strategies to navigate the evolving tech landscape.
As Africa’s digital frontier expands, the CIO & C-Suite Club Africa remains at the forefront—championing innovation, influencing policy, and bridging the gap between technology and leadership. Join us as we shape the future of Africa’s digital transformation.
The CIO & C-Suite Objectives
- It will be an interactive platform where the Members and their entire ecosystem can exchange best practice, share knowledge and experience, explore business solutions, and derive strategies to address major IT innovation challenges in Africa.
- Exclusive membership and pioneer status offered to key sponsors, partners and participants of The CIO Awards.
- Members will have the opportunity to drive the initial activities and organization of the Club with the opportunity to establish the modus operandi of The Club.
- The Club will be entirely secured and exclusively reserved for Members included assimilated COOs, and CEOs who oversee all IT activities in their company.
- To promote the IT profession by providing leadership and visibility to members.
- To organize an annual CIO Summit preceding The CIO Awards.
- To establish strategic alliances with international bodies and exchange information on technology, security and problem solving and evaluating new technologies to help the IT community via virtual workshops, brainstorming sessions etc.
- To allow members to share insights and lessons learned through experience and IT implementation and create best practices, evolve standards, common interfaces.
- To contribute to policies on IT as they affect the economy and to develop thought- leadership on topical issues; alliances with similar bodies and developing an effective stakeholder analysis.
- To promote continuing education, build alliance with educational institutions and to help expand knowledge and skills by providing a forum for exchange of ideas, training programs, seminars, workshops etc.
