Agenda - Day 1 - Virtual AfricaCom 2020

11:25 - 11:3510 mins

Mission Critical Technologies: Africa

Chairperson’ Opening Remarks

11:35 - 11:5520 mins

Mission Critical Technologies: Africa

Wearable Technology for Public Safety: Promise, Principles and Practicality

Michelle Hoogenhout - Senior Data Scientist & Co-founder Ingane Health, Galvanize Inc.

11:55 - 12:3035 mins

Mission Critical Technologies: Africa

Fireside chat: How to integrate and deploy critical communications infrastructure to meet emerging network challenges

Dr Amanat Hussain - Executive Chairman, Issured
Ken Rehbehn - Directing Analyst, Critical Communications, Omdia
Immanuel Pillay - Senior Manager: Networks and Telecommunications, eThekwini Municipality

13:50 - 14:2535 mins

Mission Critical Technologies: Africa

Case study presentation from the City of Cape Town: How the future control room will help tackle today’s threat

Pierre DeWet - Group Health and Safety Officer, Digicall Group (Contractor managing the Transport Information Centre for the City of Cape Town)
Kobus Swanepoel - Head: Stakeholder Management of the Transport Directorate, City of Cape Town
Jaco Groenewald - Head: Operations, Public Emergency Communications Centre, City of Cape Town
Estelle-Mare Le Keur - Head: Service Quality, Public Emergency Communications Centre, City of Cape Town

14:25 - 14:4520 mins

Mission Critical Technologies: Africa

How the evolution and integration of mobile applications will optimise emergency response

14:45 - 15:2540 mins

Mission Critical Technologies: Africa

Fireside chat: Safer, Smarter Cities: How to improve public safety in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Era

Dr Amanat Hussain - Executive Chairman, Issured
Juma Assiago - Head of Safer Cities Programme, UN-Habitat
Tracy Larkin Thomason - Deputy Director, Nevada Department of Transportation

Day 1 - Virtual AfricaCom 2020Tuesday, 10 November 2020