About our speaker
Lisa Seymour, Professor in the Department of Information Systems (IS) at the University of Cape Town, researches and teaches in the areas of business processes, enterprise systems and IS education, with particular emphasis on regional development in Southern Africa. Her area includes studying how organisations, particularly within the SME and public sector in Africa, can derive benefit from their business processes and enterprise systems. She is also interested in solving educational challenges in this space and in working collaboratively on these challenges. Lisa is the director of the Centre for IT and National Development in Africa (CITANDA), on the executive of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT), principal researcher for Enterprise Systems Education for Africa (ESEFA) and chair of the SAP African Academic Board.