Meet Our Conference Speakers

2025_Speakers

Dr Jay van Zyl

Founder of ecosystem.Ai

Abdul Baba

Chief Technology & Information Officer (CTIO) at Infrastructure South Africa

Dr Shay Ganesh

Chief Medical Officer at Medshield Medical Scheme

Johan Steyn

Human-Centered AI Advocate, Founder of AI for Business

Chris Kayiya

Director & Lead Management Consultant at Mukai Connect

Karl Dinkelmann

Co-founder and CEO of Nexus Data, co-author of Drive RAPPID Results from Data

Merelda Wu

Co-Founder & CEO at Melio AI

Dr Nishal Khusial

Executive Director at Imperium Advisory Solutions

Emmanuelle Mgiba

Senior Programme Manager & Interim Creative Lead, South Africa at Girl Effect

Dr Imtiaz Abdul Kader

Head of Business Enablement/COO, Absa Group

Daniel Wertheimer

Head of Data Science - Africa & Middle East at Heineken

Tshediso Khuzwayo

Head of Service Operations at OM Bank

Atenkosi Ngubevana

Group Executive at Vodacom

Previous Speakers

John Bosco Arends

Group Head - Information and Network Technology Operations, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality

Nenzeni Duma

Digital Transformation and Innovation Consultant

Antony Hlungwane

Founder of Futurecentric Group

ALI Mashishi

Chief Director: Information Society Modelling and Forecasting at the Department of Communications and Digital Services

Prof Johan Steyn

Smart Automation & Artificial Intelligence (AI) thought leader and management consultant

Orediretse Molebaloa

Head of Solution Engineering, Infobip

Michael Cowen

CEO of Teraflow.ai

Dimitri Kanellopoulos

Chief Global Strategist and Sales – Youverify

Pretty Newman

Chief Digital Officer at Lambent Cloud Pty Ltd

Noleen Ilunga-Muleya

Managing Director at Red Hat Digital Services

Nishal Khusial

Chief Technology Officer at Conlog (Pty) Ltd

Naledi Mosieane

Founder of Oviedo Media

Resham Sivnarain

Lead for AI & ML at Vodacom Group

Venolan Naidoo

Partner at Fasken Law Firm

Siobhain O'Mahony

Founder & Co-CEO of Marco Polo Advisory

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