Nilesh Jivraj

Nilesh is the Enterprise Manager for the Africa region at Kaspersky Lab Africa Offices. He is primarily responsible for driving enterprise partner strategies for non-traditional IT Security solutions.

Nilesh has more than 15 years of IT experience and of that 10 years in IT Security working in various segments from distribution to enterprise. Prior to joining Kasperky Lab Nilesh was the Sales manager for Isolv Technologies where he consulted with defence agencies in Asia and Middle East.

Dr Christiaan Roos

Christiaan is an industry leading specialist in the field of IT auditing and cyber risk. He has worked in the internal audit profession for 20 years, mostly in the banking industry. Christiaan has presented and lectured on topics such as: IT Governance | Ethical Hacking | Continuous Auditing | Data Analytics.

His doctoral studies focused on the hacking threat in the South sAfrican banking sector and covered a broad spectrum of disciplines, including: Corporate Governance | IT Governance | Risk Management | Information Security | Ethical Hacking. Christiaan is often asked to perform reviews of complex IT infrastructure and cyber security defenses. He continues to do research into the latest cyber security threats.

Laurie Pieters-James

Laurie holds a specialist degree BA Community Safety and Socio-Legal Studies Specializing in Offender Profiling attained Cum Laude in 2006 and an Honours Degree in Criminology attained in 2010.

For the past ten years Laurie James has worked as a criminologist, forensic profiler and investigator. After completing her honours degree in criminology she began practicing as a criminologist where she is primarily involved in the evaluation and assessment of violent and sexual offenders, later moving into field of economic and cyber crime and the containment of threat.

She is often approached to investigate cases involving sexual abuse of minors as well as cases of severe parental alienation. To this end she set about the establishment of the Sexual Abuse Assessment Team, She is a published author of 2 bestselling books, she wrote a weekly column on various crime related topics for the Sunday Standard

James Grant

James is Visiting Associate Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg he has lectured and specializes in criminal law. He completed his psychology honours on the moral reasoning of Moses Sithole, South Africa’s most notorious serial killer and continues this research resently.

His PhD is entitled The Responsible Mind in South African Criminal Law and concerns an investigation of the foundation for the insanity plea and conditions for criminal responsibility more generally – in criminal law known as the requirement of voluntariness and criminal capacity.

He is most familiar with criminal law, but is comfortable and happy to litigate in any area of law, in particular: criminal law | administrative law | constitutional law | contract law.

Itumeleng Garebatshabe

Itumeleng Garebatshabe is the CEO of Intellegere Holdings, the first Cyber Security consultant in Botswana. He has over 10 years experience in Information Security, IT Security Audit, Internet Governance, Risk Management, Computer Forensics, Ethical Hacking and Security Training.

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.

Dr Audrey Masizana

Dr Audrey Masizana is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of Computer Science at the University of Botswana. She holds PhD in Computer Science from UMIST (2004) United Kingdom. Her teaching and research interests are in the science of Data, Decision and Intelligent Systems. She is currently passionate in the supervision of several post graduate studentsin application of Data Mining and Data Warehousing technologies to real life problems.

She is also involved in a number of research projects including Health Care and Indigenous Knowledge Systems.She has published over 35 articles as conference proceedings, journal papers and book chapters. Her professional service includes being an active member of organising and chairing academic conferences both local and international.

Amongst this the chairingof the African International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) in 2014 and 2016 and chairing the First International Conference in Cyber-security Conferenceand Information systems (ICICIS 2016), both hosted by the University of Botswana. Dr Masizana is also the founding and current Chair of the Computer Society of Botswana (CSB) and has been passionate in driving its course.

David Brooks

David is the Connectivity Product Manager for Nashua and has more than eight years of ISP experience primarily as a Connectivity, Cloud and Communications Product Manager. He is primarily responsible for the launch of the Connectivity portfolio, as well as the streamlining and expansion of ISP market knowledge throughout the organisation.

Prior to joining Nashua’s Marketing team, David worked as a Product Manager for three of SA’s largest ISPs and has an in-depth understanding of the challenges and geographically dispersed nature of the channel. His passion for automation and cloud technologies expands his knowledge base that is essential in the competitive ISP marketplace.