Speakers

Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams

Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies

Republic of South Africa

Hon. Paula Ingabire

Minister of ICT & Innovation,

Republic of Rwanda

Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala

Vice-Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg, Deputy Chair

Presidential 4IR Commission

Lillian Barnard

Managing Director

Microsoft South Africa

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Executive Director

UN Women

Yolanda Cuba

Group Chief Digital and Fintech Officer

MTN

Moustapha Cisse

African Institute of Mathematical Sciences; Head of AI Centre, Google

Pinky Kekana

Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies

Republic of South Africa

Zubin Chagpar

Head of Public Sector, Middle East Africa

Amazon Web Services

Unathi Mtya

Chief Technology Officer

Grindrod Bank

Kuseni Dlamini

Chairman

Massmart

Stafford Masie

Technology Strategist & Investor

Bob Skinstad

Former Springbok Captain and World Cup Winner, Partner, Draper|Gain Investments

Knife Capital

Juliet Mhango

Chief Human Capital Development & Transformation Officer

Cell C

Chris Bertish

Adventurer

Mavericks Big Wave Champion, SUP Trans-Atlantic Paddler

Nitin Gajria

Director - Sub-Saharan Africa

Google

Peter Ndegwa

CEO

Safaricom

Rapelang Rabana

‎Founder & CEO

Rekindle Learning

Daniel O. Adaramola

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Unity Bank Plc, Nigeria

Asif Valley

National Technology Officer

Microsoft

Dr Jacques Ludik

Founder, CEO & Executive Chairman, Cortex Group; Founder & President

Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa

Juliet Ehimuan

Director, West Africa

Google

Ranjith Cherickel

Founder & CEO

icolo

Dr. Tashmia Ismail-Saville

CEO

Youth Employment Service

Alain Ebobissé

CEO

Africa50

Robin Njiru

Public Sector, East Africa Lead

Amazon Web Services

Sandra La Bella

Executive of Information Technology, winner of the IITPSA President’s Awards Visionary CIO Award 2019 – South Africa

The Unlimited

Robert Mullins

President

Raxio Data Centre

Izabela Milewska

Digital Skills Global Leader

Amazon Web Services

Aubrey Hruby

Senior Fellow, Africa Center. Co-founder

Africa Expert Network

Alioune Ndiaye

CEO - Middle East and Africa

Orange

Autram Jacobs

IT Strategy, Planning and Transformation Associate Manager

PepsiCo Sub-Sahara Africa

Shadrack Anyuo

Senior Solution Architect - SSA

Amazon Web Services

Ahmed Ogwell Ouma

Deputy Director

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Karen Smit

Principal Specialist: Specific Needs

Vodacom

Herman Singh

CEO

Future Advisory

Razvan Ungureanu

Chief Technology Officer

Airtel Africa

Dorothy Tembo

Executive Director

The International Trade Centre

Lacina Kone

CEO

Smart Africa

Toyosi Odukoya

Head of Digital Transformation, West Africa

The Coca-Cola Company

Ammin Youssouf

CEO

Afrobytes

Nenzeni Babs Duma

WesBank CIO at FirstRand

WesBank

Joylynn Kirui

Principal Cyber Security Assurance Officer

Safaricom

Thelma Kganakga

CISO

MTN South Africa

Charlene Verzmoter

Philanthropies Lead

Microsoft

Eric Osiakwan

Managing Partner

Chanzo Capital

Ritasha Kalidas

Director: IT Security, Risk and Governance

Tiger Brands

Pamela Coke-Hamilton

Executive Director

International Trade Centre

Darlington Akogo

Founder, Executive Director

IT & WHO Focus Group on AI for Health, karaAgro AI, minoHealth AI Labs

Abimbola Alale

Managing Director

Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited

Emma Wade-Smith

Her Majesty's TRade Commissioner for Africa

Department for International Trade

Hanlie Smuts

CEO

University of Pretoria

Thabo Mashegoane

President

IITPSA

Bernard Chiira

Director, Innovate Now

Global Disability Innovation Hub

Aretha Mare

Policy & Ethics Chair

Alliance for Africa's Intelligence

Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo

Professor and Director of Bioinformatics Lab UQAM; Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer

My Intelligent Machines

Hein Wagner

Global Adventurer, Founder

Hein Wagner Academy

Jeni Kostova

Group Executive: Marketing

AYO Technology Solutions

Oyeronke Oyetunde

Head of Regulatory Affairs

MTN Group

Nekesa Were

Director of Strategy

Afrilabs

Charl van der Walt

Head of Security Research

Orange Cyberdefense

Carole Wainaina

Special Advisor to the CEO

Africa50

Nicolas Poussielgue

CEO

Dakar Institute of Technology

Pius Illah

Head of Innovation & Partnerships (Global Engagements)

Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA)

Nomso Kana

Governor

Nuclear Energy Foundation Agency

Precious Lunga

Co-founder & CEO

Baobab Circle

Jimmy Nguyen

Founding President

Bitcoin Association

Otilia Phiri

Lead Attorney, Emerging Markets, Middle East & Africa

Microsoft

Alderman James Vos

Mayoral Committee Member, Economic Opportunities and Asset Management

City of Cape Town

Deemah Alyahya

Digital Economy & Innovation Advisor, Founder

WomenSpark

Mark Thiele

CEO & Founder

Edgevana

Nitesh Singh

Managing Director and Lead for Communications, Media & Technology

Accenture Africa

Odunayo Sanya

General Manager, Planning & Customer Management

MTN Nigeria

Tomiwa Aladekomo

CEO

Big Cabal Media

Ian Merrington

CEO

Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative

Tunde Fafunwa

Lead Advisor

Digital Centre for Excellence, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Jack Pouchet

Vice President, Sales

Natron Energy

Lee Smith

Mission-Critical Data Center Life Cycle, Operations & Industry Specialist

DataCentre DNA

Professor Tawana Kupe

Vice-Chancellor

University of Pretoria

Rishi Birbal

Digital Strategist - Digital Advisory Services Team

Microsoft

Baratang Miya

Founder and CEO

GirlHype

Bill Kleyman

Executive Vice President

Switch

Alex Tsado

Co-Founder

Alliance for AI

Andisa Liba

HR Lead

Cisco Africa

Paula Gilbert

Editor

Connecting Africa

Dr. Markus Thill

President Region Africa

Bosch Group

Ralph Roussow

Managing Director

Vedanta Resources

Alice Munyua

Director, Africa Innovation and Public Policy Program

Mozilla

Onur Bucukoglu

Director, IBM Cloud & Data Platform, Middle East & Africa

IBM

Emma Dicks

Co-Founder

CodeSpace

Ellen Fischat

Co-founder

Story Room

Shiela Yabo

Programme Manager

Solution Space

Irene Mbari-Kirika

Founder and Executive Director

inABLE

Lebo Mokgabudi

Country Manager

Catalyst Fund

Tsitsi Masiyiwa

Co-Founder

Higherlife Foundation

Shannon Smuts Brauer

Founder & CEO

Pure Good Food

Rob Bothma

Strategic HCM Solutions Engineer

Oracle

Zachariah George

Partner and Chief Investment Officer

Startupbootcamp Africa

Lucky La Riccia

Head of Digital Services

Ericsson Middle East and Africa

James Kamau Maina

Senior Expert, Cloud Collaboration, Southern Africa Region

Huawei

Darryn O'Brien

Cybersecurity Lead

Microsoft South Africa

Louis Richards

Ecosystem Partnership Director, EMEA, Console Connect

PCCW Global

Ankiti Bose

Co-Founder & CEO

Zilingo

Andia Chakava

Investment Director

Graca Machel Trust

Jose Gomez

DevOps Solutions Architect

Nutanix

Poppy Gaye

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

accelerateHER / Founders Forum

Reeva Misra

Founder & CEO

Walking on Earth

Linda Rottenberg

Co-Founder & CEO

Endeavor

Stacey Brewer

Co-Founder & CEO

SPARK Schools

Arianna Huffington

Founder & CEO

Thrive Global

Bilha Ndirangu

CEO

Africa's Talking

Andrew Rugege

Regional Director for Africa

ITU

Toby Shapshak

Editor-in-Chief

Stuff

Wang Yifan

President of Huawei's Service & Software Marketing & Solution Sales Dept

Huawei

Adrian Ho

Practice Leader, Enterprise Advanced Digital Services

Omdia

Xolo Motswasele

Group Executive: Business Development

AYO Technology Solutions

Fleur Tchibota

Director of Communications

Africa50

Rudolph Ampofo

Senior Regional Partnerships Manager, Sub-Saharan Africa

Wikimedia Foundation

Sahar Antar

Commercial Director

Mondia Pay

William Anwana

Chief Financial Officer - Corporate & Investment Banking

Sterling Bank Plc

Yele Bademosi

CEO and Co Founder

Bundle

Bunmi Banjo

CEO

Kuvora Inc

Lu Baoqiang

Vice President Delivery & Service of Southern Africa Carrier Business

Huawei

Oumar Basse

Founder

Yobante Express

Havar Bauck

Founder

HotelOnline

Fawzi Behmann

President

TelNet Management Consulting Inc.

Samkelo Blom

Managing Director

Nomatu Consulting

Lawrence Boya

Head of Smart City

City of Johannesburg

Haakon Brunell

Co Founder and Managing Partner

Katapult Accelerator

Josh Builta

Director Internet of Things

Omdia

Clive Butkow

CEO

Kalon Venture Partners

Brighton Chiwera

Country Transformation Manager

Banc ABC a Part of Atlas Mara

Akhona Damane

Chair

South African National Blockchain Alliance (SANBA)

Jessica Davies

Senior Disruption Analyst

Nedbank

Grégoire de Padirac

Principal

Orange Ventures Africa

George Debbo

Independent Telecommunications Consultant

George Debbo Telecom

Tidjane Deme

General Partner

Partech

Pierre DeWet

Group Health and Safety Officer

Digicall Group (Contractor managing the Transport Information Centre for the City of Cape Town)

Aissatou Diallo

Senior Regional Portfolio Manager - West Africa and Indian Ocean

International Trade Centre

Farzam Ehsani

Co Founder and CEO

VALR

Sathya Elumalai

President and CEO

Aidar Health

Andrew Elwick

Head of Technology and Creative

UK Department for International Trade

Claudine Gakundi

Country Manager Kenya

Odyssey Africa Capital

Lorien Gamaroff

CEO

Centbee

Tedd George

Chief Narrative Officer

Kleos Advisory Ltd

Mukira Gitonga

CEO

Chimera IOT

Onur Goker

Principal, IFC Global Infrastructure Fund

IFC Asset Management Company

Maureen Grosvenor

Director

GroKlub

Daniel Guasco

CEO

Click2Sure

ONUR GÜVEN

Senior Manager, Mobile Financial Services

Turkcell

Meryem Habibi

CRO

AZA

Sacha Haider

Principal

Global Ventures

David Harrowsmith

CEO

Monivation

Stone He

President

Africa Cloud & AI Business Group, Huawei

Edmund Higenbottam

Managing Director

Verdant Capital

Rutendo Hlatshwayo

Chief Legal Officer

Ozow, digital payments company

Maxine Holt

Senior Research Director

Omdia

KHaled Ismail

Co-Founder

Algebra Ventures

Khaled Ismail

Founder and Chairman

Himangel

Hemash Kala

Managing Director

Beansprout Technologies

Yousuf Karrim

Governance Risk and Compliance Lead

Puleng Technologies

Aditya Kaul

Research Director, AI & Intelligent Automation

Omdia

Kevin Kent

CEO

Critical Facilities Efficiency Solutions

Tauriq Keraan

CEO

TymeBank

Yaseen Khan

CEO and Co Founder

Emerging Medical Guidance

Neil Kinsley

CEO

Medici

Philip Kiracofe

CEO and Co Founder

Startupbootcamp

Steven Koltai

Founder

Koltai & CO

Jurgen Kuhnel

Co Founder and CCO

Xago

Dr Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD MPH

Pediatric Endocrinologist, Clinical Director of HealthIT

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Kenza Lahlou

General Partner

Outlierz Ventures

Dr. Chris Landon

CEO

Landon Pediatric Foundation

Femi Longe

Co-Founder & CEO

Qiesto Learning

Sitoyo Lopokoiyit

Chief Finance Service Officer, MPESA Africa CEO

Kenya Safaricom

Hope Magaya

ICT Services Manager

Zimparks

Makeda Mahadeo

Media Personality

Content Creator

Lee Maina

Senior Expert, Software - Mobile Money

Huawei

Natasha Nadia Marillier

Organisational Development Business Partner

Intelligent Debt Management

Andile Maseko

Head of Ecosystem Development

Alphacode

Dr Desne Masie

Chief Strategist

IC Publications

James Matai

Network Director

Kenya Safaricom

Maimouna Mbacke

Strategy Consultant and Board Member

Women Investment Club

Bruce Mellado

Senior Scientist & Professor

iThembaLabs & Witwatersrand School of Physics

David Metcalf

Director, METIL

UCF Institute for Simulation and Training

Rene Michau

Head of Fintech Client Advisory

Standard Chartered Bank

Hillary Miller-Wise

Africa Regional Director

Bolt Food

Ali Monzer

Chief Technical Information Officer

Uganda MTN

Stephen Mooney

GEP Dealmaker

UK Government- Department for International Trade -Global Entrepreneur Programme (GEP)

Eric Muli

CEO

Odyssey Africa Capital

Peter Munnnings

Co Founder and COO

Adhara

Julio MUPEMBA

I&P Acceleration Technologies Program Coordinator

Investisseurs & Partenaires – I&P

John Murphy

Director Africa

TransferLink

Amos Mwongera Mutiga

Co-Founder and Director

Red Brick Africa

Phyllis Mwangi

National Coordinator

International Trade Centre - SheTrades

Esther Mwikali

General Manager

Metta

Alexandre N'DJORE

Founder and CEO

Digitech Group Africa

Theven Naicker

Head of ISIT

Scania South Africa

Kashira Naidoo

Associate: Alternative Equity Investments

Nedbank

Omeshnee Naidoo

Director of Information Systems and Technology

City of Cape Town

Terence Naidu

Managing Director & Founder

EnvisionIT and Truzo

Dr Mark Nasila

Chief Analytics Officer, FNB Risk office

First National Bank (FNB)

Ida Nganga

Regional Head

UNESCO Emerging Technologies for Development

Tsakane Ngoepe

Chief of Staff

M – Kopa

Steve Oh

Head of ETF Listings and Business Development

Nasdaq

Temitope Okupe

Project Management Officer

Community Development Links Initiative

Funke Opeke

CEO

Main One

Desere Orrill

Chairman and Director

OLE! CONNECT and Bold Network

Stelios Papadakis

Group Head of Technology

African Banking Corporation Holding (ABCH)

Harry P. Pappas

Founder and CEO

Intelligent Health Association

Adeleke Pitan

Head of Talent & Reward Management

Asset & Resource Management Holding Company (ARM HoldCo)

James Preston

Executive Editor

Global Crypto

Mathieu Proust

General Manager, UK, Ireland and Emerging Markets

WeWork

Simon Rahmann

CEO

Mondia Pay

Srinivas Rao

Chief Digital Officer

Nigeria MTN

Marius Retiz

General Manager Africa

LUNO

Gianluca Sacco

COO

VALR

Paul Michael Scanlan

CTO

Huawei

Richard Self

Senior Lecturer in Governance of Advanced and Emerging Technologies

University of Derby

Keiran Smith

CEO

Mr Green Africa

Max Smolaks

Global Editor

AI Business

Russell Southwood

CEO

Balancing Act

Laura Stebbing

Co-CEO

accelerateHER

Adam Steventon

Director of Data Analytics

The Health Foundation

Herco Steyn

Senior Fintech Specialist

SARB

Ido Sum

Partner

TLcom Capital

Steven Sutherland

Manager

adapt IT

Aniko Szigetvari

Founding Partner

Atlantica Ventures

Wasim Tahir

Sector Strategist- financial institutions

CDC Group

Marcus Tay

Chief Tech Director

Huawei Cloud - Africa Region

Mariam Tendou Kamara

Founder and Managing Director

Baantou & MadameDigital

Laura Trendall-Morrison

Strategist and Leadership Expert

The GameChanger Consultancy

Dr. Konstantinos Tsanis

FinTech and Digital Banking Expert

IFC

Dorothy Tunde-Ajala

CEO & Lead Consultant

Accelerate Leadership Ltd

Rachel Turner

Director of Economic Development

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

David van Dijk

Head of Secretariat

African Business Angel Network (ABAN)

Dr Dieter Veldsman

Group Human Capital Executive

Momentum Metropolitan

Jan Vermeulen

Editor At Large

MyBroadband

Abe Wakama

CEO

IT News Africa

Julian Watson

Principal Analyst, IoT

Omdia

Paul Webster

Business & Banking specialist

Department for International Trade

Chris Wehbe

Executive Chairman

Lendable

Craig Wright

Chief Scientist

nChain

Mark Young

CEO

Finclusion South Africa

Guy Zibi

Founder & Principal

Xalam Analytics