Speakers 2024

Representative –

VODACOM

Mark Acton

Head of Technical Due Diligence

Future-tech

Mark Acton

Independent Consultant

Acton Consulting

Heath Andersen

Data Centre Consultant

Abyda Aziz

Head of Strategy

Touchnet Solutions

Abdul Baba

CIO

Infrastructure South Africa

Charly Bahous

CEO

Touchnet Telecommunications

Gerrit Barnard

Director, EMEA

C&D Technologies

Russell Bartley

Director - Client Services

Mavin Powercube

Paul Bekema

Sales Engineer

Legrand Data Centre Solutions

Mahmoud Bennani

Senior Investment Associate

Africa50 Infrastructure Acceleration

Jonker Bester

Director

Spoormaker & Partners

Eduard Bosman

Renewable Energy Engineer

WSP

Dr Nick Bradshaw

Director

SA AI Association

Nicolaas Broodryk

New Business Developer Manager

Bosch Security and Safety

Greg Burke

Head of Site Selection

Africa Data Centres

Samuel Chukwukereuba

Data Centre Manager, Project Implementations

Digital Realty

Juanita Clark

CEO

Digital Council Africa

Will Clarke

International Head of Site Selection and Development

Future-Tech

Dr Ayotunde Coker

Chairman

Africa Data Centres Association (ADCA)

Hong Cui

Director, Global Data Center Integration Solution Dept.

Huawei

Riaan de Leeuw

Country Director: Africa

Sudlows

Richard Doyle

Managing Director

JUWI South Africa

Sandile Dube

MD South Africa

Equinix

Stephane Duproz

Data Centre Consultant

Allyson Eastman

Global Public Policy - Economic Development

AWS

Timi Fadeyi

Head Data Centres

Galaxy Backbone

Mandy Hattingh

Senior Associate

NSDV

Dr Angus Hay

Regional Executive

Africa Data Centres

Julie Irmes

Head of Sales

Touchnet Telecommunications

Dr Quin Jernigan

Manager, Workforce/Economic Development

AWS

Kevin Kent

COO & Co-Founder

GTSS

Leon Kleyn

Technical Director: Mechanical

WSP

Bernard Lecanu

Managing Director

BL International Consultant

Kgothatso Madibogo

Intern Day Plant Operator

CBRE

Nabeel Mahmood

Managing Director

Nomad Futurist

Wabo Majavu

Executive Strategy and Business Operations

Africa Data Centres

Mike Meyer

Managing Director

Portman Partners

John Michael Davidson

Solution Architect, Data Centre Facility

Huawei

Venessa Moffat

EMEA Channel Partner Manager

EkkoSense

Mogomotsi Mokoka

CIO

Independent Communications Authority of South Africa

Mpho Mothapo

Executive Lead Cloud Advisory

BCX Consulting

Norman Moyo

CEO

Distributed Power Africa

Sipho Mtombeni

Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager

Google

Andile Ngcaba

President

Digital Council Africa

Duncan Eric Ogonji

CIO

Kenya Vision

Chudi Okoye

Deputy Regional Editor for Africa

Oxford Business Group

Eben Owen

Senior Director - Anglophone Africa

Uptime Institute

Argyrios Papadopoulos

Director

AIRCOCFD

Menno Parsons

Managing Director

Master Power Technologies

Lee Perrin

Data Centre Business Lead MEA

CBRE

Henning Rasmuss

MD

Datascape Africa

Scott Roots

Sales Director EMEA

DC Byte

Last Shadaya

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Systemair

Amit Sharma

Executive Product Manager - Cloud & AI

Huawei

Lisa Shaw

Senior Manager

CBRE Excellerate

Roger Shutte

General Manager of IT Infrastructure & Cloud

MTN Nigeria

Paul Spagnoletti

Executive Head: Cloud, Security & MSP

Synthesis

Eric Tenkorang

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Onix Data Centres

Quintin van den Berg

Country Business Director Southern Africa

Bosch Security and Safety

Neels Van Niekerk

Executive Director

EQUATE

Shaun Versfeld

Director South Africa

Royal HaskoningDHV

Clinton Vieira

Regional Sales Manager Africa

CMP Products

Lisa Wright

Assistant Vice President, Ecosystem Partner Management

Console Connect

Nomzamo Xaba

Principal Programme Manager

AWS

Adv. Mtho Xulu

President

South African Chamber of Commerce

Michael Young

Application Engineer (Thermal)

Vertiv

Eckart Zollner

Business Development

Digital Parks Africa