Speakers


Alex Ramirez  Data security sales manager Southern Europe and Northern Europe and South Africa, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Data security sales manager Southern Europe and Northern Europe and South Africa, Micro Focus

Alex Ramirez is the specialist in Data Security for the Northern Europe South Africa and Southern Europe regions.

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Andrew Wilmot Andrew Wilmot  executive lead for the payments data security program, Standard Bank Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
executive lead for the payments data security program, Standard Bank

Andrew Wilmot is currently the Executive Lead for the Payments Data Security Program in the Standard Bank Group.

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Andrew Wilmot
Arun Kumar K Tirumala  Group Practice Head – Business Development, Solutions & Pre-sales,
IT Automation Alliance Management, Tech Mahindra Bangalore
Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Group Practice Head – Business Development, Solutions & Pre-sales,
IT Automation Alliance Management, Tech Mahindra Bangalore

Arun Kumar, with over 19+ years of enriched & versatile experience in heading practices for driving overall Techno-Functional Consultancy, Business Development, Pre-Sales and Profitability in IT industry.

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Ashley Baijnath, Senior Pre-Sales Identity and Security Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus Ashley Baijnath  Senior Pre-Sales Identity and Security Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Senior Pre-Sales Identity and Security Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus

Ashley Baijnath is a Senior Pre-Sales Identity and Security Solutions Consultant at Micro Focus.

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Ashley Baijnath, Senior Pre-Sales Identity and Security Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus
Bethuel Lebeya, QA Manager, FNB Bethuel Lebeya  QA Manager, FNB Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
QA Manager, FNB

Current Role: heading technical testing team with focus areas being areas being testing tools.

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Bethuel Lebeya, QA Manager, FNB
Boas Chauke, CEO and founder, BOATech Boas Chauke  CEO and founder, BOATech Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
CEO and founder, BOATech

Boas Chauke is a seasoned IT personality with over 18 years of experience in the sector having worked for various companies including state owned enterprise and multinational companies.

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Boas Chauke, CEO and founder, BOATech
Braam Malherbe Braam Malherbe  International speaker | extreme adventurer | conservationist youth developer | author | MC Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
International speaker | extreme adventurer | conservationist youth developer | author | MC

All these words could be used to describe Braam Malherbe, a man on a mission to save planet earth.

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Braam Malherbe
Carlos Gutierrez  ADM International GTM Leader, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
ADM International GTM Leader, Micro Focus

Carlos leads the business development; go to market and strategy for Application Delivery Management (ADM) product portfolios in Micro Focus.

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Chris Barngrover Chris Barngrover  Senior Strategist, Security, Risk, & Governance Product Group, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Senior Strategist, Security, Risk, & Governance Product Group, Micro Focus

Chris Barngrover is a Senior Strategist in Micro Focus’ Security, Risk, & Governance Product Group.

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Chris Barngrover
Chris Livesey  Senior Vice President and General Manager, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Micro Focus

As the GM of the Application Modernization and Connectivity Product Group, Chris Livesey is responsible for ensuring Micro Focus can continue to win and support customers with great products, great customer service.

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David Christie David Christie  Managing Director, Accenture Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Managing Director, Accenture

David is a Managing Director at Accenture and Leads the Accenture Intelligent Engineering Services (IES) practice across Africa.

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David Christie
Eby Rahmanzadeh Eby Rahmanzadeh  Client Engagement Manager NESA (North EMEA), Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Client Engagement Manager NESA (North EMEA), Micro Focus

In broad context Eby has been pre-eminently arranged as a link between the CIO, developers, project Leaders, resource managers, business analysts and end-users.

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Eby Rahmanzadeh
Eric Rousseau  Regional Sales Leader, Vertica Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Regional Sales Leader, Vertica

My background includes sales and account management for over 30 years in the ICT sector.

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Gareth de Laporte  Channel & Alliances Manager South Africa, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Channel & Alliances Manager South Africa, Micro Focus

Gareth de Laporte Micro Focus Channel & Alliances manager SA.

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Gary de Menezes Gary de Menezes  Managing Director, Micro Focus South Africa Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Managing Director, Micro Focus South Africa

Gary de Menezes, is a veteran in the Information Technology space.

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Gary de Menezes
Gopal Krishna Ramachandra Gopal Krishna Ramachandra  International ITOM Leader, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
International ITOM Leader, Micro Focus

Gopal leads the go to market and strategy of IT Operations Management (ITOM) product group portfolios in Micro Focus.

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Gopal Krishna Ramachandra
Jacques Vermeulen  Senior Presales Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Senior Presales Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus

Innovative, forward-thinking consultant offering over 20 years of success in various leadership roles in the areas of Information Technology consulting.

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Johann Schoeman  Cyber Defence Operations Manager at NEC XON Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Cyber Defence Operations Manager at NEC XON

Johann is the Cyber Defence Operations Manager at NEC XON for Africa.

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John Hibbert  RBB technical test services, ABSA Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
RBB technical test services, ABSA

Nearly 42 years in IT

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John McGowan John McGowan  Director Premium Support for Europe, Middle East, Africa and South America, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Director Premium Support for Europe, Middle East, Africa and South America, Micro Focus

Premium Support is a mission critical service for many enterprise customer.

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John McGowan
Jonathon Wright  digital therapist, strategic thought leader and distinguished technology evangelist Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
digital therapist, strategic thought leader and distinguished technology evangelist

Jonathon Wright is a digital therapist, strategic thought leader and distinguished technology evangelist.

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Justin Williams Justin Williams  Executive: Group Information Security, MTN Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Executive: Group Information Security, MTN

Justin Williams heads up information security for MTN across the Group, a position he has held for the last 3 years.

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Justin Williams
Keith Webster  Senior Architect Cloud Infrastructure and Security, MTN Boost Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Senior Architect Cloud Infrastructure and Security, MTN Boost

Keith Webster has 35 years IT experience across Mining, Financial Services, Utility, Hospitality and Telecommunication (Vodacom, MTN).

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Lars Rossen Lars Rossen  Micro Focus Fellow, Ph.D. MBA, Member of the Chief Technology Office Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Micro Focus Fellow, Ph.D. MBA, Member of the Chief Technology Office
Lars Rossen
Nigel Bird Nigel Bird  Chief Executive Officer, PayDay Software Systems Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Chief Executive Officer, PayDay Software Systems

Proudly South African husband, father and Ironman

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Nigel Bird
Philip Meyer Philip Meyer  Vice President, Product Delivery at Sage Africa & Middle East Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Vice President, Product Delivery at Sage Africa & Middle East

Philip is passionate about software development and has over 20 years’ experience in software research and development (R&D) and operations management.

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Philip Meyer
Philip van Dalen, Senior Presales Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus Philip van Dalen  Senior Presales Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Senior Presales Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus

Innovative, forward-thinking consultant offering over 20 years of success in various leadership roles.

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Philip van Dalen, Senior Presales Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus
Poppy Tshabalala Poppy Tshabalala  Vice-principal: ICT & CIO, University of South Africa (UNISA) Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Vice-principal: ICT & CIO, University of South Africa (UNISA)

To me, digital transformation is a disruptive challenge higher education is facing, fighting for its survival.

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Poppy Tshabalala
Pradeep Roy Pradeep Roy  Cloud Advisory Lead for Africa, Accenture Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Cloud Advisory Lead for Africa, Accenture

Pradeep leads Accenture’s Intelligent Cloud and Infrastructure practice, focusing on helping its customers in their Journey to Cloud.

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Pradeep Roy
Rene van der Zanden Rene van der Zanden  Director Professional Services, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Director Professional Services, Micro Focus

René is Director of Professional Services at Micro Focus.

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Rene van der Zanden
Russell Hollick Russell Hollick  Chief Software Architect, SYSPRO (Pty) Ltd Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Chief Software Architect, SYSPRO (Pty) Ltd

Since joining SYSPRO in 1982, Russell has been responsible for most of the core components of the software.

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Russell Hollick
Sekhwela Mokgala Sekhwela Mokgala  Digital Systems Manager, Axiz Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Digital Systems Manager, Axiz

Sekhwela Mokgala is a seasoned systems engineering manager from an Industrial & Systems Engineering background.

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Sekhwela Mokgala
Seph Robbertse Seph Robbertse  Senior Presales Solutions Architect - South Africa, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Senior Presales Solutions Architect - South Africa, Micro Focus

Seph Robbertse is the Solutions Architect for the Application Modernization and Connectivity Portfolio in South Africa.

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Seph Robbertse
Marcus Thomo Simakade Marcus Thomo  Pre-sales Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Pre-sales Solutions Consultant, Micro Focus

With 15 years plus Experience within the service management space

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Marcus Thomo
Simeon Tassev  Managing director, Galix Networking Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Managing director, Galix Networking

Simeon Tassev has been the Managing Director of Galix for 24 years.

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Sipho Mogapi, Managing Director, Lubanzi-ICT Consulting (SMME) Sipho Mogapi  Managing Director, Lubanzi-ICT Consulting (SMME) Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Managing Director, Lubanzi-ICT Consulting (SMME)

Sipho is Founder of Lubanzi ICT Consulting, He has been in Quality Assurance for over 11 years.

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Sipho Mogapi, Managing Director, Lubanzi-ICT Consulting (SMME)
Stephen Smith  Software Business Consultant, Micro Focus Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Software Business Consultant, Micro Focus

Stephen Smith is a 17+ year veteran of Micro Focus and HPE Software.

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Veletia Worthington Veletia Worthington  Senior Systems Analyst, Discovery Life Systems Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Senior Systems Analyst, Discovery Life Systems

Works as a senior systems analyst at Discovery Life and has a passion for quality and process efficiency.

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Veletia Worthington
Warren Fisher  Product Manager: ADM and Big Data, EOH Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Product Manager: ADM and Big Data, EOH

Warren Fisher started in the IT industry in 2001 as a Technical Consultant on Peregrine Systems software.

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Yosheen Padayachee Yosheen Padayachee  Chief information Officer, MMI Holdings Africa Tuesday, 20 February 2018, Summer Place, Hyde Park
Chief information Officer, MMI Holdings Africa

Yosheen specialises in IT strategy, service and solution delivery.

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Yosheen Padayachee

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