Leading the Research & Insights team, he provides strategic direction and contributes to the development of practical content for privacy professionals on privacy law and policy, data protection management, and privacy technology and engineering. This work includes engaging with privacy leaders from industry, government, academia and civil society as he keeps IAPP members informed on data protection developments around the world.

Previously, Joe served as the Deputy Director for International Data Transfers with the UK Government where he led the team responsible for UK Government policies relating to free and secure flow of data internationally. Joe has been globally recognized as a leader in privacy law and policy. In 2022, Politico named him as the fourth most influential ‘rulemaker’ in Europe as well as the Digital policy ‘Wonk of the week’ in September of 2021.

Joe has been globally recognized as a leader in privacy law and policy. In 2022, Politico named him as the fourth most influential ‘rulemaker’ in Europe as well as the Digital policy ‘Wonk of the week’ in September of 2021. He has led dozens of UK Government diplomatic delegations or missions, holds over 200 public and private speaking credits on data protection and transfers, and has contributed frequently to academic and professional publications, including the National Law Review. He received his BA in Jurisprudence (Law) with honors from the University of Oxford and his Legal Practitioner Course with honors from the University of Law.

Victoria White spent 10 years serving as a British Diplomat with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

Victoria White spent 10 years serving as a British Diplomat with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Her diplomatic career focussed on protecting British Nationals overseas from serious harm such as forced marriage and death penalty before specialising in Crisis Management. This included responding to terror incidents, natural disasters and political instability affecting British National overseas and contingency planning for Sub-Saharan Africa.

She moved to the UK Ministry of Defence where she began to specialise in policy governance for Cyber Operations. She took up her post in Pretoria in 2020 to lead the UK Government’s cyber engagement for Southern Africa

Martin M. Kamethu, is a Cybersecurity Consultant and Head of Technology at Serianu Limited, with close to a decade of work experience in the technology and cybersecurity industry.

T Martin also heads the Serianu Botswana operations, leading consulting efforts specializing in developing cybersecurity programs that foster innovation, growth, and business profitability.

He is passionate about innovation and leadership, is a Certified Ethical Hacker and a career coach and mentor on matters cybersecurity

Senwelo is attorney admitted to practice law in Botswana specializing in technology and cyber law, a complex but fun area of law.

Senwelo is interested and work tirelessly to achieve proficiency in its diverse sub-areas especially technology policy and regulation, the corporate commercial aspects of innovation and technology, ethics and legalities of new and emerging tech (such as AI, robotics, cloud and edge computing, fintech and blockchain), privacy and data protection, cybersecurity law, digital rights, telecoms law, electronic evidence law and ICTs for people living with disabilities.

Eperienced cyber security expert with a demonstrated history of working in the computer and network security industry. Skilled in ISO 27001, IT Strategy, Management, Information Security, and Telecommunications. Strong business development professional. Proficient, thorough and dedicated cyber security expert with deep understanding of information technology and with remarkable experience of risk and crisis management.

Extensively experienced in leading a wide range of multifaceted activities in the field of cyber security preparedness and capacity building on national as well as on international leve

Driven by her love for quality service, Segametsi Mafa founded Service Xcellence in February 2020 to incorporate her more than 18 years’ worth of experience as an ICT Professional with her passionate love for high quality service to the customers. ICT work is geared towards serving the organiza􀆟on and therefore delivery is always managed, measured and monitored con􀆟nuously through based on the business demand – supply algorithm. Having worked in so many environments where everything is monitored closely birthed the desire for Segametsi to believe that every other Organizaon, Department, Divisions and Unit, however small or big it is, can also be managed, measured and monitored connuously to give high quality service. S

Segametsi has worked with a lot of Contractors, Suppliers and Business Partners and her desire for service excellence was also evident in the way she worked with them, always pushing for the service that has been pledged to meet contractual obliga􀆟ons both on the IT and business side. Her experience has been acquired from working in various organiza􀆟ons from government to parastatals and private companies where she held posi􀆟ons from Technical levels to Senior Management levels as well as Board Membership.

Dr. Jeremiah is a cybersecurity engineer, enthusiast, researcher, and entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience in cyber defense and information security. A Mentor and Speaker on cybersecurity and information warfare focusing on defining up-to-date protection strategies and tactics to assist businesses to stay ahead of malicious attackers. Excellence Award winner In Cybersecurity Incident Response and Cybercrime Management from Young CISO.

Dr. Jeremiah is a Ph.D. holder in Cyber Defense and holds several certificates in cybersecurity such as Certified Ethical Hacker, Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator Certified Penetration Testing Engineer, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, and Certified Network Defender. Before founding MCS Security Solution Dr. June worked for international companies like Paypal, Microsoft, and Google through the bounty bug program

Itumeleng's experience has seen him being part of the National Development Plan 10 (NDP 10) drafters, where his motions on cyber security in his Knowledge Society thematic group were adopted. He has worked with Botswana Police (CID) providing Computer Forensics consultation.

For over 10 years he has provided training to a number of institutions and corporate entities on Cyber Security and related courses. For a 3-year period, he partnered with local radio stations to do weekly IT awareness shows. He has been a contributor to local and regional publications on Cyber Security related issues in Botswana.

Itumeleng is also the pioneer of the mobile application industry and a BlackBerry Enterprise developer. He is a revered technologist