After introducing himself simply as "Rory", the energetic CTO told the crowd in the Tintswalo at Waterfall hotel in Johannesburg how Microsoft is going through a transformation itself, moving from the vision of founder Bill Gates to put a desktop on every desk, to a business model around cloud and mobile first. In June we spoke to Microsoft's Managing Director for South Africa, Mteto Nyati, about the ambition to connect the next billion. You can read that frank and candid interview with Nyati here. During the presentation titled ' Reimagining Finance in a Digital Enterprise ' Headon-Weeks challenged CFOs and FDs to engage more with IT-companies. "The feedback we get, and I think I represent the technology industry here as a whole, is that leaders want to engage us more. So let's talk more, there is value for everyone involved." Summarizing what is on the mind of leaders in 2014, Headon-Weeks mentioned enhancing the customer experience, transforming to a digital business and becoming more responsive.