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About our Conference
This is the premier cyber event in Africa. The one you simply can't afford to miss
Listed below are reasons you must attend.
Poor cyber security is increasingly affecting society today. Its impact is visible on a national, local, and personal level. With a few strokes of a keyboard, nation states, terrorist groups, stateless organizations, and rogue individuals can launch a cyber-attack from anywhere, at any time, disrupting and damaging our democracy and way of life.
The Data Protection Act 2018 ("DPA") was assented to by parliment August 2018 and is now in force. This critical piece of legislation will have huge implications on how you store, collect and protect you data. There will be huge fines for non-compliance and data breaches up to P1 million and the possibilaty of long custodial sentence.
This year’s conference will feature breakaway sessions with the speakers. You can book your spots in these sessions in advance. We will make this years’ experience highly interactive and with the latest technology on display and access world class advice
read more +The mission is to bring together experts, practitioners, researchers, and industry leaders in the field of cyber security to discuss and explore new trends, challenges, and opportunities that are likely to shape the future of cyber security. The conference aims to provide a platform for knowledge sharing, exchange of ideas, networking, and collaboration among participants in order to enhance their understanding of emerging threats and innovative solutions in the field of cyber security.
Through keynote speeches, panel discussions, technical sessions, and interactive workshops, the conference seeks to foster a deeper appreciation of the importance of cyber security in today's rapidly changing technological landscape, and to equip participants with the tools, skills, and knowledge they need to stay ahead of the curve and safeguard their organizations against cyber attacks.
Ultimately, the goal of the conference is to promote a culture of cyber security awareness and best practices, and to contribute to the development of a safer, more secure digital world.
read more +C-level executives, technology leaders, public policy makers, heads of Information Technology, risk, compliance, audit, human resource and forward thinking business owners, students and end users are expected to join us at the 7th Annual African Cyber Crime Conference in September 2023.
Our conference is designed to reflect the growing challenges that cyber security poses by not being contained within the realm of IT alone.
read more +Women play a crucial role in the field of cybersecurity. Despite being underrepresented, women bring unique perspectives and skill sets that are valuable to the industry.
One of the main reasons why women are important in cybersecurity is because of the growing demand for professionals in this field. As technology continues to advance, cyber threats become more sophisticated and complex. The need for cybersecurity experts has never been greater, and it's essential that we encourage more women to enter this field to ensure a diverse workforce.
Women also tend to bring different approaches to problem-solving than men do. Women may be more likely to think outside the box and come up with creative solutions to cybersecurity challenges. Additionally, having a diverse team can lead to better decision-making, as team members can challenge each other's assumptions and biases.
Our Conference promotes having more women in cybersecurity to help address the gender gap in technology overall. By encouraging more women to pursue careers in cybersecurity, we can work towards creating a more inclusive and diverse tech industry.
read more +We have a spectacular line-up of local, regional and international speakers from the technology world, law enforcement, and risk analysts who will examine emerging critical threats in cyber security and data protection.
When it comes to addressing and ultimately combating cyber-risk, and cyber-crime, we understand that security specialists, programmers, ethical hackers have to find ways to collaborate in order to win the fight against increasingly brazen criminals.
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Meet our Internationally Acclaimed Speakers
We have a fantastic lineup of speakers, each with a unique perspective and expertise in the field of cybersecurity.
Kepaletswe Somolekae
Information and Data Commissioner
Nick Small
Regional Co-ordinator, Africa - CYber4dev
A strategy and technology advisor with more than 25 years of business and information technology consulting experience, providing both public and private sector organizations with practical solutions to their complex business challenges.
Nick's background is in defining and delivering initiatives that support clients in transforming their operations by capitalizing on innovative business models supported by proven technologies. Nick has led the delivery of management and IT consulting services, through numerous international engagements – from strategic consulting assignments to major systems integration programs.
In more recent years Nick focused primarily on information and cyber security, collaborating with national stakeholders seeking to build cyber resilience into their operations. Clients frequently look to me to assist with the evaluation, selection and implementation of cybersecurity capacities and as such I have developed implementation and change management strategies that ensure the successful adoption of new capabilities.
Victoria White
First Secretary - Political (Cyber) British High Commission Pretoria
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
William Makatiani
CEO and Founder Serianu
Serianu Limited is Pan African Cyber security consulting firm with presence in Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana and Nigeria. The firm provides dynamic, business-focused security monitoring and analytics solutions through a combination of consulting, managed services, and threat intelligence. By partnering with Serianu, risk-sensitive organizations are better placed to detect and act on threats to their business, manage compliance with security regulations and policies, and gain the insight needed to prioritize investments and assign scarce resources.
The Honeynet Project is a leading international non-profit security research organization, dedicated to investigating the latest attacks and developing open source security tools to improve Internet security. With Chapters around the world, our volunteers have contributed to fight against malware (such as Confickr), discovering new attacks and creating security tools used by businesses and government agencies all over the world.
Mr. Makatiani is currently leading a continent-wide (Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Ethiopia) effort to develop research based insights on the state of cyber security in Africa.
Before Serianu Limited, Mr. Makatiani worked with Deloitte and Touche, RSA Security, EMC Corporation and Federal Reserve Bank in Boston. Mr. Makatiani has a strong passion for Cyber security issues with an emphasis on research based consulting. He has over 15 years experience in the ICT industry– focusing on ICT strategy, Analytics, Risk and Compliance. He has led numerous engagements across the world– including Kenya, United States, Israel, Ireland, Singapore, China, Egypt and India.
William holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a Masters in Science of Finance from Clark University, Worcester, MA USA and is also a graduate of EMC Corporation’s Management Leadership Programme.
Senwelo Modise
PTech & Cyber Lawyer, Privacy & Data Protection Expert | Partner at Botlhole Law Group
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.
Mr Klaid Mägi
Key Expert, Lead Cybersecurity Adviser at Cyber4Dev
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
Itumeleng Garebatshabe
CEO of Intellegere Holdings
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
Conference Pricing
Take advantage of our early bird prices
Individual
- P6,000 Regular Price
- *P5,000 Early Bird availble up till 1st July 2023
- Lunch and refreshments throughout the day
- Evening Networking Cocktails
Corporate 5+
- P5,500 Regular Price
- *P4,500 Early Bird availble up till 1st July 2023
- Lunch and refreshments throughout the day
- Evening Networking Cocktails
Multiple 2-5
- P5,750 Regular Price
- *P4,750 Early Bird availble up till 1st July 2023
- Lunch and refreshments throughout the day
- Evening Networking Cocktails
Student
- P1,500 Regular Price
- *P1,000 Early Bird availble up till 1st July 2023
- Lunch and refreshments throughout the day
- Evening Networking Cocktails
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