Speakers

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

Mayor of Freetown

Republic of Sierra Leone

Neelesh Pratap Singh

Group Chief Information Officer

Airtel Africa

Dejan Kastelic

Group CTO

Vodacom

Sérgio Pimenta

Regional Vice President for Africa

International Finance Corporation

Tracy Bolton

COO

SAP Africa

Habiba Ben Barka

Chief of Africa Section

United Nations Conference on Trade & Development

Mercy Wanjau

Acting Director General

Communications Authority of Kenya

Brook Taye

Senior Advisor

Finance Ministry, Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Razvan Ungureanu

CTO

Airtel Africa

Miriam Altman

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

National Planning Commission, South African Presidency

Ian Paterson

Chief Investment Officer

Africell Group

Emmanuel Lubanzadio

Head of Public Policy for Sub-Saharan Africa

Twitter

Noaf Ereiqat

Director - Business Development for META

Netflix

Angela Wamola

Acting Head of Sub Saharan Africa

GSMA

Alex Okosi

Managing Director - EMEA Emerging Markets

YouTube

Chérine Magora

Director of Distribution Partnerships - Middle East, Africa & Pakistan

TikTok - ByteDance

Ofentse Mokwena

Strategic Projects Lead

Uber SSA

Shoaib Khan

Chief Technical Officer

Cable & Wireless Seychelles

Amolo Ng'weno

CEO

BFA Global

German Cufre

Global Manager for Telecom, Media and Technology investments

International Finance Corporation

Eleanor Sarpong

Deputy Director & Policy Lead

Alliance for Affordable Internet

Dr Olufunso Somorin

Regional Principal Officer

African Development Bank

Aniel Jhingoeri

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

Radisys

Bill Lenihan

CEO

ZOLA Electric

Charley Lewis

Councillor

ICASA

Kalvin Bahia

Principal Economist

GSMA

Olutomi Olutola

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

USAID

Kagiso Mothibi

Head of Department

Financial Sector Conduct Authority, South Africa

Raphael Dana

Co-Founder

Gozem

Onica Makwakwa

Regional Co-ordinator - Africa

Alliance for Affordable Internet

Olusola Teniola

National Coordinator - Nigeria

Alliance for Affordable Internet

Omar Hagrass

CEO

Trella

Kenechi Okeleke

Director, Social and Regional Research

GSMA

Alice Munyua

Director of Africa Innovation

The Mozilla Foundation

Albert Lysko

Principal Researcher

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Steve Song

Policy Advisor

Mozilla

Jonathan Nickell

COO

3Vision

Yehi El Amine

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Inside Telecom

Paul Hjul

Managing Executive

Hjul Consulting

Paula Gilbert

Editor

Connecting Africa

Hendrik Malan

Africa CEO

Frost & Sullivan

Adrian Ho

Practice Leader - Advanced Digital Services

Omdia

Tony Tiyou

Founder & CEO

Renewables in Africa

Matt Read

Chief Analyst, Service Provider Markets

Omdia

Temidayo Oniosun

Founder & Managing Director

Space in Africa

Tien Fu

Senior Video Producer

Informa Tech

Tobi Lafinhan

Co-Founder & CEO

Venture for Africa