Speakers

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

Mayor of Freetown

Republic of Sierra Leone

Neelesh Pratap Singh

Group Chief Information Officer

Airtel Africa

Mercy Wanjau

Acting Director General

Communications Authority of Kenya

Dejan Kastelic

Group CTO

Vodacom

Alastair Long

Her Majesty’s deputy Trade commissioner, Africa

Department for International Trade

Cathy Smith

Managing Director

SAP Africa

Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings

Member of Parliament - The Klottey-Korle Constituency

The Republic of Ghana

Sérgio Pimenta

Regional Vice President for Africa

International Finance Corporation

Habiba Ben Barka

Chief of Africa Section

United Nations Conference on Trade & Development

Miriam Altman

Professor of Practice 4IR, School of Economics, University of Johannesburg & Commissioner

National Planning Commission, South African Presidency

Razvan Ungureanu

CTO

Airtel Africa

Tracy Bolton

COO

SAP Africa

Dr. Bitange Ndemo

Chairman of the Blockchain and Artificial intelligence Taskforce

Government of Kenya

Angela Wamola

Acting Head of Sub Saharan Africa

GSMA

Noaf Ereiqat

Director - Business Development for META

Netflix

Ian Paterson

Chief Investment Officer

Africell Group

Onica Makwakwa

Regional Co-ordinator - Africa

Alliance for Affordable Internet

Amolo Ng'weno

CEO

BFA Global

Emmanuel Lubanzadio

Head of Public Policy for Sub-Saharan Africa

Twitter

German Cufre

Global Manager for Telecom, Media and Technology investments

International Finance Corporation

Olutomi Olutola

Regional Connectivity and Digital Advisor - Bureau of Development, Democracy and Innovation

USAID

Paula Hunter

Executive Director

Mojaloop Foundation

Bill Lenihan

CEO

ZOLA Electric

Charley Lewis

Councillor

ICASA

Alex Okosi

Managing Director - EMEA Emerging Markets

YouTube

Omar Hagrass

CEO

Trella

Tony Tiyou

Founder & CEO

Renewables in Africa

Eleanor Sarpong

Deputy Director & Policy Lead

Alliance for Affordable Internet

Olusola Teniola

National Coordinator - Nigeria

Alliance for Affordable Internet

Dr Olufunso Somorin

Regional Principal Officer

African Development Bank

Ofentse Mokwena

Strategic Projects Lead

Uber SSA

Dion Jerling

Managing Director

Connect Earth

Kevin Kent

CEO

Critical Facilities Efficiency Solutions

Kalvin Bahia

Principal Economist

GSMA

Kagiso Mothibi

Fintech lead

FSCA

Raphael Dana

Co-Founder

Gozem

Yehia Alamine

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Inside Telecom

Paula Gilbert

Editor

Connecting Africa

Aniel Jhingoeri

Regional Vice President EMEA Sales and Head of Embedded Platforms and Digital Endpoints

Radisys

Chérine Magora

Director of Distribution Partnerships - Middle East, Africa & Pakistan

TikTok - ByteDance

Shoaib Khan

Chief Technical Officer

Cable & Wireless Seychelles

Paul Hjul

Managing Executive

Hjul Consulting

Tom Cuthell

Event Director, Africa Tech Festival

Informa Tech

Adrian Ho

Practice Leader - Advanced Digital Services

Omdia

Raphael Dana

Co-Founder

Gozem

Elizabeth Rossiello

CEO

AZA Finance

Kiringai Kamau

South-South Secretariat Lead

Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)

Steve Song

Policy Advisor

Mozilla

Hendrik Malan

Africa CEO

Frost & Sullivan

Alice Munyua

Director of Africa Innovation

The Mozilla Foundation

Imelda Ngunzu

Manager, Market development

Mastercard

Kenechi Okeleke

Director, Social and Regional Research

GSMA

Temidayo Oniosun

Founder & Managing Director

Space in Africa

Jan Pilbauer

CEO

BankservAfrica

Matt Read

Chief Analyst, Service Provider Markets

Omdia

Tinashe Ruzane

CEO and Co-founder

FlexClub

Jonathan Nickell

COO

3Vision

Albert Lysko

Principal Researcher

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Angus Brown

Fintech Enrepreneur

Minit Money

Tien Fu

Senior Video Producer

Informa Tech

Lorien Gamaroff

Founder CEO

Centbee

Shirley Gilbey

Dealmaker

Uk Department for International Trade

Dev Govender

Director Financial Services

PWC

Tanya Knowles

Business Manager

Adhara

Tobi Lafinhan

Co-Founder & CEO

Venture for Africa

Coenie Louw

Technical Operations Manager

Ozow

Tim Nuy

Founder

Finclusion

Johan Steyn

Lead Architect Automation

PWC South Africa

Chris Wehbe

CEO

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