2024 - Arthur Goldstuck

We're excited to announce Arthur Goldstuck – founder of World Wide Worx and author, researcher and speaker on technology trends – as the event host for the Intelligent ICT Awards Africa 2024.

Arthur Goldstuck is an award-winning writer, author, analyst and technology commentator. He is founder of World Wide Worx, South Africa’s leading independent technology market research organisation. Among other, the Cloud in Africa project won the Business-to-Business Marketing category of the 2019 Sabre Awards Africa.

He has received lifetime achievement awards in multiple sectors, including the Distinguished Service in ICT Award from the Institute of IT Professionals of South Africa in 2013, being elected to the Southern African Speakers Hall of Fame in 2021 and, for his work in training and mentorship, to the Southern African Educators Hall of Fame in 2023. In 2022, the global insights community Esomar named him to the Insights 250 honour roll of the world’s top innovators in market research, enterprise intelligence and data-driven marketing.

He is author of 20 books, including South Africa's all-time best-selling IT book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet. His most recent work, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AI, was released at the end of 2023.