Alan Raubenheimer heads up the Strategic Initiatives at Strategic Solutions Architects. He has more than 28 years of experience in the IT industry in a number of technical and management roles in corporate environments and within technology sales and services.

Brian manages an international team of sales engineers across the Middle East and Africa, providing technical sales functions to Mimecast’s sales staff, reseller partners and customers in each region.

Carolynn Chalmers holds an MSc from the University of Cape Town; is certified in the governance of enterprise IT; is an IT governance facilitator for the Institute of Directors; and is a member of the IITPSA’s Western Cape committee.

Daniella Kafouris is a specialist IT and data privacy attorney and has a background in data privacy advisory and regulatory experience.

Edward van der Walt started his career in 1999 as a junior COBOL programmer at a leading insurance company.

Emma Stander, founder and director of Inbox Filing Solutions Africa, started her career in Records Management in 1996.

Gideon is an IT-law specialist and the co-founder and managing director of gidsigned, which is an electronic signature and compliance company.

Joe Phago is the current CIO of the Department of National Treasury.

John Giles is a trusted independent professional legal adviser, who is a practising attorney.

Lonette Genis holds the following qualifications: CISA, CISM, CGEIT, PCIP.

Maeson Maherry is the co-founder and solutions director of LAWtrust, a business that specialises in trust services such as advanced electronic signature solutions, positive identity and encryption in business systems.

Maiendra Moodley graduated from the University of Natal, with a bachelor of commerce degree with majors in business information systems and information systems technology. Subsequently, he read for the advanced business programme and bachelor of technology (management) at Technikon Natal, before studying for his master's in business administration through the University of Wales.

Max Blecher is the chair of South African National Standards Body mirror committee on IT Service Management and IT Governance.

Moroke Phajane is an admitted attorney with more than 11 years post qualification experience.

Dr Neil Croft is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria. He lectures a 3rd year advanced programming course and an honours module on mobile computing.

Nerushka Bowan is a privacy and technology lawyer based in Johannesburg.

Dr Peter Tobin is a highly experienced facilitator and consultant, having delivered over 200 workshops and conference presentations in over a dozen countries since 1994.

Portia Lindiwe Simelane is the Group Manager: IT Governance and Resilience at Airports Company South Africa (ACSA). She has 15 years of IT experience across a variety of industries in both the private and public sectors

Rian Schoeman is the legal advisor for LAWtrust.

Roelof Botha received his early schooling in Stockholm (Sweden), Cologne (Germany), The Hague (The Netherlands), Christiana (North West), Cape Town and Pretoria.

Sheldon Halgreen moved to Johannesburg on his return from the UK in 2007.

Werner Bornman embarked on his career with the backing provided by a master’s degree in information security risk analysis, with a keen interest in the way that business and ICT achieve their strategic objectives.