Dr Alex Rummel has been working with blue-chip companies since 1995, in Europe and SA, in the areas of financial services, retail, telco and media. He was instrumental in designing and implementing customer-facing solutions for the likes of Old Mutual, Sanlam, Investec, Vodacom and Edcon.

Andrew Moodley joined Axiz in September 2013 as the executive for Advanced Technologies, the value-added start-up within Axiz. He brought over six years’ experience in the distribution sector and prior to that spent 10 years in various technology and business roles within the ISP and telco sector.

Anish Shivdasani is CEO and co-founder of Giraffe, an award-winning mobile technology start-up that helps businesses recruit medium-skilled workers 10 times faster and cheaper than any other way – by automatically matching jobseekers with employers.

Anton Cabral began his career in computer-related positions after completing a BSc in mathematical sciences (computer science and informatics). He joined LRMG (www.lrmg.co.za) in October 2004 as part of the eLearning team.

Arun Babu is the Deloitte Digital Africa – Strategy & Operations practice leader.

An Allan Gray fellow, Ben Shaw completed his studies in finance and accounting at the University of Cape Town, and left the CA track in order to more quickly gain corporate experience in Johannesburg as an M&A investment banker at JP Morgan.

Brett StClair has spent the last 20 years building and growing digital businesses and products.

David Ambler completed his BCom honour’s degree in financial economics and began a career in management consulting. After a number of years delivering projects across various levels of government and private sector, he was asked to look at accelerating the commercialisation of new services within PwC.

David Prosser has been CEO of ComUnity for seven years. Prosser is a mobile and Internet entrepreneur, passionate about connecting people with services they need and trust over all mass market communications infrastructure.

With over 19 years' local and international experience in software solutions, Gareth Whitaker is uniquely able to bridge the gap between business and technology.

Geoff Nell is co-founder of MetraTrans Business Services, a digital transformation consulting business started in 2014, focused on helping businesses adapt to the future.

Ivo Vegter is an independent journalist whose flagship column appears weekly in Daily Maverick.

Jason Levin’s career has spanned many aspects of business, including strategy and marketing. He is now in the start-up space. He headed up Africa's leading youth insight and activation agency, HDI Youth Marketeers, for eight years, but before that, he had started Elevation in 2006, which did then, and is again now, doing exciting things in the start-up space.

Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) Jason grew up spending large amounts of his time writing programs in any programming language he could get his hands on.

NaKamogelo Mmutlana, CEO of Barloworld Logistics, is a South African business leader with 21 years’ senior business executive experience in operations and management in various sectors.

Koen Matthijssen is a proud Ajax Amsterdam fan who runs Enable-U Africa, in that order.

Naik is recognised as one of South Africa's leading digital and technology transformation experts. He leads a portfolio of TransUnion’s businesses in using big data and information services to help consumers and organisations make more informed decisions.

Matt Brown is CEO of Digital Kungfu, a digital business consultancy that specialises in helping companies accelerate innovation and disrupt traditional markets by enabling them with new ways to do business that serve their customers more effectively and responsively.

Mojapela Makau’s role ensures Tracker’s corporate strategy is executed and that technology overall is aligned with and supports stated business objectives.

Morne Bekker joined NetApp in March 2017, bringing with him a wealth of experience in the South African IT industry. Bekker is responsible for all NetApp business across the southern African region, with responsibilities including the development and execution of sales and channel strategies, expanding the NetApp customer base within the region, local skills development and enhancing the partner and alliances ecosystem.

Nicola Columbine is a systems and design thinker, with a passion for people, design, innovation and technology and how this is playing out in shaping the new world of work. She is MD of Integrative Consulting, an innovative advisory, consulting, training and design business and a senior OD, change and communications consultant.

Paige Dos Santos is a senior specialist: digital transformation and innovation, EMEA South, for SAP Africa. Dos Santos vehemently disagrees with the proverb “curiosity killed the cat”. She is currently focused on developing new business models for top SAP customers across Africa, leveraging current and emerging technologies.

Kiracofe brings twenty years of direct-operational and venture financing experience spanning a diverse range of industries in the USA, India, Asia and South Africa.

As CEO of SqwidNet, Reshaad Sha is building an IOT connectivity business based on the Sigfox technology. As chief strategy officer at DFA, he is responsible for corporate strategy, product innovation and long-term business planning.

Rory Moore is the Innovation Lead for Accenture as well as Adjunct Faculty at top business schools. Rory Moore was previously CEO of the Innovation Agency. He is able to rigorously combine academic principles with real-world experience.

Ryan Smit is the newly appointed MD of BMI-TechKnowledge, and a professional futurist.

Prior to joining JUMO, Warren Squires held senior leadership roles at Barclays Africa, most recently as chief investment officer of the Seeker Fund – a fund set up to invest in early-stage FinTech companies in Africa, as well as being COO of Corporate, Barclays Africa, a member of Corporate Banking Africa Exco, responsible for business strategy and execution.