Photo Gallery: 15 October 2026, CITO East Africa Pitch Parade Capital Club East Africa

In more than ten years of her career, Catherine Bwire, CISO at Ecobank Uganda, has watched women remain outnumbered in IT careers. To change that, she urges female tech leaders to make themselves visible and mentor the younger generation.

For a long time, the debate around AI has revolved around whether AI will replace humans and whether businesses especially in Africa are ready to fully embrace AI. While these debates continue, Airtel Money, Uganda has already integrated AI into its systems and is already reaping the benefits as the CIO, Sulaiman Mugalasi shares.

Kibe has over two decades experienced in ICT management with expertise in IT strategy, governance and digital transformation among others

When Ecobank Uganda's Juliet Kyomugisha, Nation Media Group's Russell Akuom and AAR Hospital's Ibrahim Juma took to the stage at the CITO East Africa Data and Cybersecurity Summit to report back from the roundtable sessions, the consistent message was that implementation is the hard part of data governance.

Bank of Kigali’s CIO Eveque Mutabaruka has built his entire career by stewarding transformation programs in different financial institutions, from Rwanda to Botswana and Kenya. In every program, his leadership philosophy is simple: empower first then follow up.

The Uganda edition of the CITO East Africa Summit began as a room full of technology leaders comparing operational challenges. By the end of the evening, the conversation had evolved into a discussion about community, collaboration and the need for CIOs across East Africa to stop working in isolation.