His Excellency, Dr. Debretsion Gebremichael

Deputy Prime minister for finance and economic cluster and the Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Dr. Debretsion Gebremichael is Deputy Prime minister for finance and economic cluster and the Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Ethiopia, and currently Board Chair of Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, Ethiopia. Dr Debretsion was previously Director General of the Ethiopian Information and Communication Technology Development Agency. He holds B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, M.Sc. in Electrical/Communication Engineering, M.Sc. in Public Policy and Management, and PhD in IT.

Mr. Charles

Senior Security Consultant, Cyber Security Africa

Lead Security Consultant at Eacademy Group. He has 9 years of progressively responsible and diversified experience in Information Security and Management.Active in the IT and Information Security sphere conducting security assesments,penetration tests,computer forensics and assurance.

Delivered consultancy and Training for some of the largest private and public players in the Eastern African Region. Highly specialized and focused on Penetration Testing as well as able to perform both general white and black box audits.

Mr. Felix Mulei

ICT Specialist Eclectics International

Felix Mulei is an experienced Information and Communication Technology(ICT) Specialist with over seventeen(17) years post Masters Degree in Computer Science working experience. He has implemented core banking systems in fifteen(15) banks in several countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Ghana and Zimbabwe. is an experienced ICT consultant and has helped banks develop best practice procedures and controls for their ICT function. He is the Head of Business Development at Eclectics International.

Mr. Amady Kadhi Ben Djouma

Business Development Manager - SAB INTERNATIONAL

He is responsible for Tanzania and East African Countries of, which is a fully owned subsidiary of SAB Group. SAB International is a deployment base from which a business network will be set up to cover the Americas, South east Europe, the Middle and Near East, the Gulf countries, Asia, the English-speaking parts of Africa and the Far East. The SAB action plan relies, up to now, upon its regional offices abroad (Italy, Luxemburg, Monaco, Lebanon, Tahiti, Tunisia, United Kingdom) or upon relevant partnerships which differ according to sector.

He has about ten years’ experience in IT with different technologies such as Oracle Database, Oracle Application Servers, Oracle Flexcube, Oracle Data Warehouse, and Solaris/Linux and other areas of business such as business development and marketing.

He worked as IT consultant and technical instructor for various banks and company in Tanzania in different areas of the technology especially oracle technologies and finally he opened his own company called Actant Technologies Limited in Tanzania. He participated in various IT training especially in Oracle technologies with various companies.

Mr. Melaku Kebede Eshetu

Vice President, Systems & E-Banking at United Bank

Formerly, he was Vice President Technolgy for Zemen Bank. Before his 10+ services in Banking industry, he was Registrar, Senate Member and Lecturer at Unity University College. He has also carried out more than 16 ICT projects during his previous consultancy periods including some key projects like Conducting Study to establish EthSwitch (National Switch), CORE banking implementation for 4 different Banks, MIS consultancy service at ABS Bank of Sudan (Khartoum) etc. Mr Melaku has BSc in Physics, MSc in Information Science and many other database, Network and Business related certificates.

Mr.Imran Chaudhrey

Fortinet Major Accounts Manager for East Africa.

Imran Chaudhrey is the Fortinet Major Accounts Manager for East Africa and brings a wealth experience from HP East Africa Where he was a Senior Enterprise Account Manager, Imran has worked in the East Africa markets for the last 10 years And has a wealth of knowledge on Data center technologies, Enterprise Technology Stack and Architecture, Networks And recently his passion for IT & Network security.

Mr.Rotimi Olumide

Director, Windows Business Division, Sub Saharan Africa & Indian Ocean Islands Microsoft Corporation, West, East & Central Africa (WECA)

With responsibility for managing the Windows Business Division, across 49 countries, in Sub Saharan Africa, Rotimi is responsible for one of the most exciting and dynamic businesses on the African continent. During his 13 year career, at Microsoft, Rotimi has worked in leadership roles in Canada, the United States and most recently in his current role in Africa.

Prior to taking his current role, Rotimi was based at Microsoft headquarters in the United States where he worked as Business Operations & Strategy Manager to the vice president for the U.S Server Business. He’s also held leadership roles in the Worldwide Online Services Group, Windows Business Division & U.S Marketing & Operations Team.

In his current role, Rotimi is responsible for creating marketing strategies, executing market campaigns and selling motions for Windows Operating Systems & Devices Business. He holds full P&L accountability for Windows commercial revenue, deployment as well as Windows Enterprise Mobility Solutions, across all audience segments.

Education: Rotimi holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A

Angela Ng’ang’a

Corporate Affairs Lead, East and Southern Africa & Indian Ocean Islands - Microsoft Corporation, West, East & Central Africa (WECA)

Responsible for government relations and policy across 15 countries, Angela is responsible for policy advocacy and driving alignment between government priorities and Microsoft’s strategic goals in Sub Saharan Africa.

She is a seasoned communications professional with over 15 years’ experience in developing and managing corporate affairs for various local, pan African and multinational organizations. Her strong competencies in government relations, internal communications, advocacy and lobbying, strategic communications and transformational change has seen her become an integral member of the C-suite in the organizations she has served.

Her key corporate experience spans from AAR Health Services where she was part of the management team that transformed the local health management organization to an East Africa operation, Telkom Kenya where she was part of the dream team involved in the transformation of the company to Orange following its acquisition by France Telecom.

Professionally, Angela is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations UK, the Secretary General of the Public Relations Society of Kenya, member of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (ICT) Sectoral Committee and the Northern Corridor Technology Alliance (NCTA) Coordinator for Kenya.

Ms. Meabh Maguire

Regional Manager - CR2

Meabh Maguire is a Regional Manager at CR2, managing major accounts across the Middle East and Africa (MEA). Meabh has over 15 years’ experience of advising banks in the region on best in class fintech solutions. Meabh’s proven success is testament to her expertise in the banking technology space and her in depth experience of the ever changing market and trends of the Middle Eastern banking landscape. Prior to joining CR2, Meabh spent 3 years with Enterprise Ireland – the official Irish Government Trade Board in their Dubai office. Here she excelled in acting as a key strategic advisor for Irish financial software firms looking to enter and undertake business in the Middle East. In this capacity, Meabh also held responsibility for coordinating Prime Minister and Irish Government led Trade Missions to the region. Meabh graduated with BA in Communications from Dublin City University, Ireland.

Mr. Sam Keiru

Account Manager Security Sales - Cisco Systems Limited

With 8+ years of experience coupled with extensive involvement in the design, deployment and securing of Enterprise Infrastructure with time as both a solution architect and a consultant responsible for validating the efficacy of security solutions deployed to protect these infrastructures, Sam Keiru works as a Cisco Security Product Specialist for Africa.

In this position he manages the sales and business development initiatives around Cisco's security solutions and consulting services across Cisco's public and private sector customers. Cisco has a unique value proposition in its ability to deliver on threat-centric approaches to solving their customer's security challenges, one that he enjoys evangelizing audiences on time and again.