Speakers

Rob Shuter

Group President and CEO

MTN

Hon. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful

Minister of Communications

Republic of Ghana

Olabiyi Durojaiye

Chairman

Nigerian Communications Commission

Babak Fouladi

Group CTIO

MTN

Joe Phago

Chief Information Officer

National Treasury of South Africa

Mohamed Dabbour

CEO, Africa

Millicom

Catherine Wanjiku Njari

Senior Manager - TV & Media Content

Safaricom

Herman Singh

Group Chief Digital Officer

MTN

Jean Philbert Nsengimana

Special Advisor and former Minister of ICT, Government of Rwanda

Smart Africa

Siyabonga Mahlangu

Group Executive: Regulatory Affairs and Government Relations

Telkom

Nicholas Naidu

Managing Executive: Technology Strategy, Architecture & Innovation

Vodacom

Palesa Sepanya

CIO

PetroSA

John Momoh (OON)

Chairman / CEO

Channels Media Group

Thierry Zomahoun

President & CEO, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, & Chair

The Next Einstein Forum

Joseph Hundah

CEO

Econet Media

Francis Mumbi

Innovation Lead

Stanbic Bank

Paul Kukubo

Managing Partner, Ghalas Technology and Board Director

Communications Authority of Kenya

Ian Merrington

CEO

The Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi)

Sello Mmakau

Group Chief Information Officer

Airports Company South Africa

Raul Martinez

CCO, Africa

Millicom

Tony Anyiam

CIO

Dangote Industries

Nyiko Ashley Nkuna

Head: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)

Gautrain Management Agency

Brian Banda

Senior Presenter and Talk Show Host

Times Group

Richard Benjamins

Group Director BI & Big Data

Telefónica

Kamal Bhattacharya

Chief Innovation Officer

Safaricom

Johan Bosini

Partner

Quona Capital

Prasanna Burri

CIO

Dangote

Vimbai Carole Muzofa

Head: Interbank at SBG

SBG

Anne-Marie Chidzero

Principle Partner

Alitheia IDF Managers

Anne-Marie Chidzero

Co-Founder and Principal Partner

Alitheia IDF Managers,

Byron Clatterbuck

CEO

SEACOM

Shaun Conway

Founder and President

ixo Foundation

Barry Cooper

Technical Director

Centre of Financial Regulation and Inclusion (Cenfri)

George Debbo

Independent Telecommunications Consultant

George Debbo Telecom (Pty) Ltd

Retesh Dhawakieram

CIO

Mango Airlines

Ritesh Dhawakieram

CIO

Mango Airlines

Sabelo Dlamini

Principal Engineer:Telecoms, Research Group Leader: Advanced Networks & Architecture Systems, Meraka Institute: Telecoms & Media,

Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)

Sebastian Dyantyi

Key Account Manager

WhereIsMyTransport

Farzam Ehsani

CEO and Co-founder

VALR.com

Tomisin Fashina

CIO

Ecobank Group

Matthew Fenech

Artificial Intelligence Research and Advocacy Consultant

Future Advocacy

Willem Fick

CIO

EPPF

Tina Fisher

Managing Director

SnapNSave

Lorien Gamaroff

CEO

Bankymoon

Daniel Goldfarb

CEO and Co-founder

Lendable Inc

Adam Gouveia

CFO

BitPesa

Justin Gregory

CTO - National Sales and Channels

FNB Business

Raphael Grojnowski

CEO

Mama Money

Daniel Guasco

Founder

Click2Sure

Bassim Haidar

Founder & Group CEO

Channel IT

Warren Hero

CIO

Eduloan

Warren Hero

CDO

Webber Wentzel

Ed Higenbottam

CEO

Verdant Capital

Renee Hunter

Senior Research Analyst

Cenfri/ insight2impact.

Katie King

Managing Director

Zoodikers

Tanya Knowles

Managing Executive

Strate Ltd

Joel Nana Kontchou

CEO

ENEO Cameroon

Nvalaye Kourouma

Chief Digital Officer

Barclays RoA

Neebashnee Kristnasamy

Head of Projects and Digital Transformation Programme

Sanlam Private Wealth

Shinya Kukita

Chief Engineer

NEC Corporation

Manu Kumar

CDO

BUPA

Jason Lobel

Group Head of Video

MTN

Jacques Ludik

Founder

MIIA

Tony Manavalan

Co-founder

Keto-Coin

Raul Martinez

CCO

Millicom

Tricia Martinez

Founder and CEO

Wala

Yonas Maru

Group Managing Director

BCS Group

Thecla Mbongue

Senior Analyst, Middle East & Africa

Ovum

Sharron McPherson

Co-Founder

The Centre for Disruptive Technologies & women in Infrastructure Development and Energy Consortium

Benji Meltzer

CTO

Aerobotics

Dudu Mkhwanazi

Chief Executive Officer

Project Isizwe

Llew Morkel

Founder and CTO

DreamBlock

Francis Mumbi

Innovation Lead

Stanbic Bank

Vimbai Muzofa

Head: Interbank & RTGS

SBG

Unathi Myta

CIO

Parliament SA

Unathi Myta

Parliament SA

Parliament SA

Theven Naicker

Head of IT

Scania

Moloti Nakampe

Executive Director

ABI

Mark Nasila

Head of Advanced Analytics

First National Bank

John Naylon

CTO and Founder

Cambridge Broadband Networks (CBNL)

Danson Njue

Research Analyst

Ovum

Margaret O'Connor

Adventure Capitalist

The Centre for Disruptive Technologies

Thelma Obaze

Assistant Manager

Nigerian Television Authority

Dobek Pater

Managing Director

Africa Analysis

Kobus Pienaar

CIO

Vedanta Resources

Matt Pougher

Director of Business Development

Ovum

Matthew Reed

Practice Leader, Middle East and Africa

Ovum

Senior Representative

BICS

BICS

Kevin Rolfe

Head of IT

Barclays

Arnob Roy

President Engineering

Tejas Networks

Nasreen Saunders

Founder and CEO

Umphakathi weAfrika

Marcello Schermer

Expansion

YOCO

Rostan Schwab

Africa Head, Fintech Investments

International Finance Corporation

Wellington Sibande

General Manager: IT Delivery and Consumer Transformation

MTN

Kreaan Singh

Partner

Blockstarters

Patrice Slupowski

VP Digital Innovation

Orange

Diksha Somai Pillay

Head of Innovation

Exxaro Resources

Yves Laurent Soumelong

System Manager - MFS Projects

MTN Cameroon

Russell Southwood

CEO

Balancing Act

Justin Spratt

Head of Business

Uber

Marcus Swanepoel

Co Founder and CEO

LUNO

Dhanaraj Thakur

Senior Research Manager

The Web Foundation

Markus Thill

President, Africa Region

Bosch

Chetan Trivedi

Chief Innovation Officer

Hindustan Zinc Ltd (Vedanta Resources Plc)

Frans van der Colff

VDC Consulting

VDC Consulting

Stuart Van der Veen

CIB Head of Disruption and Innovation

NedBank

Bora Varliyagci

CEO

digitalthings

Berdine Viljoen

CIO

JD Group

Mark Walker

Associate Vice President, Sub-Saharan Africa, IDC Middle East, Africa & Turkey

IDC

Ruan Wannenberg

Head of Technology

RMB

Raj Wanniappa

Founder and CEO

Future Horizon Technologies

Mark Wopicho Nasila

Chief Analytics Officer

FNB SA

Daniel Yu

Founder and CEO

Sokowatch