Speakers 2018

Adam Shapiro  director, Autopilot Workflow Solutions Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
director, Autopilot Workflow Solutions

Adam is the co-founder and director of Autopilot Workflow Solutions and pilotfish digital.

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Andre Schoeman, Executive for various Lines of Business, Jasco Enterprise Andre Schoeman  Executive for various Lines of Business, Jasco Enterprise Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Executive for various Lines of Business, Jasco Enterprise

Using his wide ranging expertise Andre has a unique understanding of the commercial and technical aspects that drive customer value

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Andre Schoeman, Executive for various Lines of Business, Jasco Enterprise
Antony Hlungwane, Group IT director, MR Price Group (MRPG) Antony Hlungwane  MR Price Group (MRPG) Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
MR Price Group (MRPG)

He was previously Chief Technology Officer for Hollard Insurance, a financial and service provider.

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Antony Hlungwane, Group IT director, MR Price Group (MRPG)
Bheki Zwane, ICT project manager, National Department of Public Works Bheki Zwane  ICT project manager, National Department of Public Works Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
ICT project manager, National Department of Public Works

Bheki Zwane is an innovationist and a technologist.

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Bheki Zwane, ICT project manager, National Department of Public Works
Ian Gatley, Head of Product Domains, Neotel Cathy Pickering (Dr)  Chief architect, Verve Digital Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Chief architect, Verve Digital

Dr Cathy Pickering, chief architect at Verve Digital, has many years' experience in the ICT industry.

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Ian Gatley, Head of Product Domains, Neotel
Charlene George, managing director & Dr Cathy Pickering, chief architect, Verve Digital Charlene George  managing director & Dr Cathy Pickering, chief architect, Verve Digital Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
managing director & Dr Cathy Pickering, chief architect, Verve Digital

Charlene’s experience is a unique blend of corporate, consulting and entrepreneurial experience; having occupied various leadership roles in the financial services and IT industries for the past 17 years.

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Charlene George, managing director & Dr Cathy Pickering, chief architect, Verve Digital
Darren Bak  Lead business analyst, Synthesis Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Lead business analyst, Synthesis

Darren Bak manages a growing team of business analysts that support the Synthesis Cloud Consulting offering and other company initiatives.

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Grant Reynolds, regional sales manager, Netskope Grant Reynolds  Regional sales manager, Netskope Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Regional sales manager, Netskope

Grant Reynolds is a seasoned IT professional with 20 years experience is selling innovative Cyber Security technology solutions enabling enterprises to secure on- premise and cloud data.

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Grant Reynolds, regional sales manager, Netskope
JP Lourens, Software and Solutions product manager, Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa JP Lourens  Software and solutions product manager, Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Software and solutions product manager, Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa

JP Lourens, software and solutions product manager at Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa, is driven by IT trends.

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JP Lourens, Software and Solutions product manager, Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa
Dr Jai Menon , Chief scientist, IBM fellow emeritus, Cloudistics Jai Menon (Dr)  Chief scientist, IBM fellow emeritus, Cloudistics Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Chief scientist, IBM fellow emeritus, Cloudistics

Dr Jai Menon is the chief scientist at Cloudistics, which he joined after having served as CTO for multibillion-dollar systems businesses (servers, storage, networking) at both IBM and Dell. Dr Menon was an IBM fellow, IBM’s highest technical honour, and one of the early pioneers who helped create the technology behind what is now a $20 billion RAID industry. He impacted every significant IBM RAID product between 1990 and 2010, and he co-invented one of the earliest RAID-6 codes in the industry, called EVENODD. He was also the leader of the team that created the industry’s first, and still the most successful, storage virtualisation product.

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Dr Jai Menon , Chief scientist, IBM fellow emeritus, Cloudistics
Jason Kotze, Pre-sales consultant, Redstor Jason Kotze  Pre-sales consultant, Redstor Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Pre-sales consultant, Redstor

Jason Kotze is a pre-sales consultant at Redstor, tasked with bridging the gap between technical and sales by assisting directly with technical qualification and solution scoping

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Jason Kotze, Pre-sales consultant, Redstor
Jeremy Matthews, Regional manager, Panda Security Africa Jeremy Matthews  Regional manager, Panda Security Africa Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Regional manager, Panda Security Africa

Originally from the UK, Jeremy Matthews is a 20-year veteran of the local IT industry, with a range of experience covering enterprise software sales, application integration, Web enablement and IT security.

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Jeremy Matthews, Regional manager, Panda Security Africa
Maiendra Moodley, Head of Department for Financial Systems and Processes, SITA Jordan Seke  CRM specialist and ICT consultant, Wits University Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
CRM specialist and ICT consultant, Wits University

Passionate about research demonstrated through several publications in his personal capacity, Mboungou Mouyabi Seke (Jordan) is a cloud computing advocate and evangelist.

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Maiendra Moodley, Head of Department for Financial Systems and Processes, SITA
Julian Thomas  Principal consultant, PBT Group Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Principal consultant, PBT Group

Julian Thomas, principal consultant at PBT Group, specialises in delivering data engineering solutions for a variety of use cases.

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Kevin Hall, National sales manager, Elingo Kevin Hall  National sales manager, Elingo Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
National sales manager, Elingo

Kevin Hall is responsible for C-level engagement and is equipped with expertise and product knowledge to help clients identify their call centre and BPA needs.

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Kevin Hall, National sales manager, Elingo
Louis Pienaar, GM: enterprise product and product development, Liquid Telecom Louis Pienaar  GM enterprise product and product development, Liquid Telecom Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
GM enterprise product and product development, Liquid Telecom

With over 15 years’ experience in the ICT industry Louis holds the title of General Manager: Enterprise Products at Liquid Telecoms where he is responsible for Product Development and delivery for South Africa.

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Louis Pienaar, GM: enterprise product and product development, Liquid Telecom
Maganathin Marcus Veeraragloo, Chief advisor, information security, Eskom Maganathin Marcus Veeraragloo  Chief advisor, information security, Eskom Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Chief advisor, information security, Eskom

A proactive, analytical and conscientious enterprise architect, enterprise security architect and solutions architect with over 20 years' IT experience in the education (North West University), insurance (Discovery Health), banking (Standard Bank, Central Bank of Nigeria, African Bank in Nigeria, BANKSERV), telecommunications (Cell C), public sector (The Department of Trade and Industry, Small Enterprise Development Agency), energy utility (Eskom), water utility (Rand Water), IT consulting (T-Systems South Africa and ATOS) industries.

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Maganathin Marcus Veeraragloo, Chief advisor, information security, Eskom
Michael Needham, snr manager solutions architecture, AWS Michael Needham  senior manager solutions architecture, AWS Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
senior manager solutions architecture, AWS

Michael Needham manages Solutions Architecture for AWS in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Michael Needham, snr manager solutions architecture, AWS
Mohamed-Shoaib Dawood, cloud services lead, IBM Mohamed-Shoaib Dawood  Cloud services lead, IBM Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Cloud services lead, IBM

Businesses are transforming across all industries to offer new products and solutions to the market, and addressing the competitive threats from traditional and non-traditional areas.

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Mohamed-Shoaib Dawood, cloud services lead, IBM
Prof Pete Janse van Vuuren, CEO, The Thinking Cap Pete Janse van Vuuren (Prof)  CEO, The Thinking Cap Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
CEO, The Thinking Cap

Janse van Vuuren is experienced and highly motivated executive level management professional with diverse technical proficiencies and wide-ranging business/ financial and academic competencies.

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Prof Pete Janse van Vuuren, CEO, The Thinking Cap
Rudi Strydom, Enterprise architect, Imperial Logistics Rudi Strydom  Enterprise architect, Imperial Logistics Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Enterprise architect, Imperial Logistics

Rudi is the current Enterprise Architect for Imperial Logistics globally operating in 33 countries worldwide.

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Rudi Strydom, Enterprise architect, Imperial Logistics
Tim Andrews, director, Dotmodus Tim Andrews  Director, Dotmodus Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Director, Dotmodus

Tim spent his early career working in the corporate finance and management consulting industries.

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Tim Andrews, director, Dotmodus
Willie Strydom, Enterprise security architect, Wesbank Willie Strydom  security architect, Wesbank Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
security architect, Wesbank

Willie Strydom has been an information security professional since 1998, and has an uncanny ability to break complex concepts and ideas into bite-size chunks that anyone can understand.

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Willie Strydom, Enterprise security architect, Wesbank
Yunus Docrat, Professional services manager, Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa Yunus Docrat  Professional services manager, Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa Thursday, 8 February 2018, Vodacom World, Midrand
Professional services manager, Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa

With his roots as a desktop IT engineer within the office automation industry, Yunus Docrat has an inimitable proficiency for IT trends and market knowledge.

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Yunus Docrat, Professional services manager, Kyocera Document Solutions South Africa

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