At the Finance Indaba on 22 October 2026, finance leaders discussed flexible capital allocation in a panel titled Dynamic resource allocation: Why traditional annual budgeting is finally dead.

At the Finance Indaba that took place at the Sandton Convention Centre on 22 October 2026, Naeem Seedat, group executive of digital strategy and venturing at Telkom, explained why AI investments often fail when they are judged with tools built for traditional technology.

In an insightful session at the 2026 Finance Indaba, Arno Daehnke, chief finance and value management officer at Standard Bank; Glenn Fullerton, former CFO at Nampak Limited and Nombulelo Khambule, partner, cyber strategy and transformation at Deloitte Africa, explained how a major cyber incident can halt core operations, strain liquidity, expose sensitive data and put staff safety and wellbeing at risk.