The majority of surveyed CIOs have not yet adopted generative artificial intelligence tools, such as ChatGPT, finds the ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Survey 2023.
Adrian Hinchcliffe is Editor-in-Chief of Brainstorm magazine, the most established and respected business and technology publication in the country. Prior to this, Adrian worked on and edited a range of other Brainstorm supplements and products, including the long-running CIO Directory and ITWeb’s channel magazine, The Margin – both of which he played a key role in growing from concept to the well-trusted publications that they are today. He was also the long-serving editor of Brainstorm’s Special Focus series, which profiles leading tech companies, and he ran the editorial production of the CIO Council of South Africa’s official publication, Transformer. In addition, Adrian headed up ITWeb’s custom publishing department, which includes many industry-leading clients from the ICT space, as well as the local finance space. Before joining ITWeb, he worked for an industry analysis and B2B publishing company in London, which focused largely on the mobile telecomm
On average, South Africa’s IT professionals earn R840 000 a year, while those in the C-suite take home close to R2 million, according to ITWeb’s 2023 Salary Survey.