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Agenda

PLENARY SESSION
08:00

Arrival & Registration

09:00

Run and Transform at the Same Time with Micro Focus

Emile Burger, Managing Director, Micro Focus South Africa

09:10

Micro Focus Keynote: State of the Nation

Anas Jwaied, VP & GM Emerging Markets, Micro Focus

09:30

Transforming through adversity - how local businesses are leveraging digital solutions to reduce risk and restore growth

Jon Tullett, Associate Research Director, IDC

This presentation will share IDC market data and end-user insights into digital strategies gaining traction in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, and the business drivers behind them. As businesses look to bounce back from pandemic lockdowns and market downturns, digital transformation is proving central to risk-reduction, repositioning, and revitalizing the business.

10:00

Digital Transformation with AIOpS - The Key to Business Resilience

Kevin Leslie, Global ITOM Sales Leader, Micro Focus

10:20

Tea break & networking

10:40

Value Stream Management, the next step for the DevOps

Carlos Gutiérrez, EMEA and Latam ADM Product Group Leader, Micro Focus

11:00

Building Trust in the African Digital Value Chain with advanced threat intelligence

Mark Fernandes, Global Technology Officer - Cyber Security, Micro Focus

The African digital space is an active domain, with a plethora of diverse actors, unpredictable motivations combined with advanced techniques and methods. With the state of global distressed events, the CyberRes Galaxy intelligence team have observed expanded use of surveillance, covert and smoke screen attacks in the continent.

During this session, Mr. Fernandes will provide a real time view of the African Threat Condition, the major adversary operations we are observing, what are expected techniques and what are how to build a nation-wide threat deterrence capability.

11:20

Executive Panel Discussion Solve for your Digital Dilemma

Emile Burger, Managing Director, Micro Focus South Africa

Kevin Leslie, Global ITOM Sales Leader, Micro Focus

Carlos Gutiérrez, EMEA and Latam ADM Product Group Leader, Micro Focus

Mark Fernandes, Global Technology Officer - Cyber Security, Micro Focus

Luis De Carvalho, Professional Services Lead, Micro Focus

12:00

Lunch & networking

13:15

Third Party Security and Software Bill of Materials

Justin Williams, head of group information security, MTN Group

13:35

Demystifying Data Privacy and Protection

Luke Cifarelli, Cyber Security Account Manager, iOCO

14:05

Making an impact with Automation and Analytics

Ronald Netshishivhe, Chief Advisor: Information Security, Eskom

14:25

Tea break & networking

14:45

Live Stream from Washington DC: 5 Lies About Legacy Modernization

Marianne Bellotti, Author of Kill it with Fire, Systems Geek, Relapsed Anthropologist

15:05

CIO 1:1 Discussion

Anas Jwaied, VP & GM Emerging Markets, Micro Focus

Portia Matsena, Chief Information Officer, BankservAfrica

15:25

Project management and the road to digital transformation

Tala Gxoyiya, General Manager Project Delivery, MTN

15:45

Real business, do you know that you are at war?

Chris Visagie, CTO, UNLIMITIT

16:15

Cloud adoption: Where are you on your cloud journey?

Portia Matsena, Chief Information Officer, BankservAfrica

16:35

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