South Africa

Gary has been involved in the advertising and communications industry for 37 years and operated on three different continents. He started his career at Ogilvy SA and worked his way through the ranks to become their Group Managing Director for South Africa and Africa. He later headed the Ogilvy Group UK as Chairman and CEO… read more »

Francis Cronjé is the MD at FrancisCronje and is an information governance specialist with a strong legal background and years of practical experience. He advises large entities – ranging from banks and insurance houses to medical administrators – on the powerful impact of POPI and associated information laws. Prior to forming franciscronje.com, he served as… read more »

Francis Alexander, information security researcher and author of the NoSQL Exploitation Framework, has a strong vision of free and open information security education for all. His areas of interest include Web app and standalone app security, DBMS security, coding tools and fuzzing. He has spoken at multiple conferences, such as: HITB AMS 2014, Hack in… read more »

Elsa Jordaan is a general insurance and dispute resolution lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright. She advises on a range of insurance matters, including professional indemnity, computer crime/cyber liability, aviation, medical malpractice, personal injury and public liability. She has in excess of 13 years’ experience in dealing with litigation and alternative dispute resolution in general. Jordaan… read more »

Eleanor Weaver is country manager for Africa at Darktrace. She joined Darktrace shortly after the company was founded and helped it to grow the client base that now includes over 1 000 deployments globally. ELEANOR WEAVER was asked to take over African operations in June 2016, and has been country manager Africa since then, with… read more »

Derek Schraader is the Risk Advisory Africa leader for Cyber Risk Services, based in Deloitte SA, focusing predominantly on: security management, cyber security, information protection, identity and access management, vulnerability management, application integrity, business resilience and resiliency, and disaster risk management. He has 18 years’ experience in cyber security and data analytics, and has been… read more »

In his role as technical account manager, David Moncur is responsible for Samsung Mobile SA’s presales business-to-business mobility operations – working with network operators, ISVs and system integrators to position Samsung’s product portfolio and vertical/horizontal software solutions. He is also responsible for the Samsung KNOX within SA, focusing on both presales and technical support for… read more »

David Loxton was previously co-head of forensics at ENSafrica. He specialises in the investigation and prevention of white collar crime, corporate fraud, cyber crime and money laundering. Loxton’s experience includes providing advice on and conducting investigations into tender and procurement fraud and corruption, as well as working with international law enforcement in the investigation of… read more »

Darshan Lakha, executive head – Vodacom Group Technology Security, Vodacom, started at Vodacom in 1996, and has held key positions with Vodacom Technology both in the Enterprise Business and Mobile Network Engineering Groups. He has experience in various technologies, including SDN, NFV, 4G, cloud, IOT and cyber security. He has 20 years of telecoms experience… read more »

DARRON GIBBARD: Before joining Qualys as CTSO, I have spent the last 25+ years working for a variety of payment services, media and telco organisations providing Cyber, IT and Information security thought leadership and subject matter expertise. My early career was spent working in the vendor marketplace for startups and major security vendors in both… read more »

Darran Rolls directs the continued development and communication of SailPoint’s technology strategy and vision. His long history in information security has helped SailPoint emerge as a company to be reckoned with in every area of identity management – from compliance and governance, to role management and role engineering, to user life cycle management and provisioning…. read more »

After finishing his BSc degree at UFS, South Africa Cobus van den Berg started his career at small consulting firms, producing technology architectures, process models, process optimisation and development for the Department of Defence and Grintek (Saab). He then moved to Business Connexion, where he decided to specialise in enterprise architecture. Using TOGAF and Zachman… read more »

Carolynn Chalmers holds an MSc from the University of Cape Town; is certified in the governance of enterprise IT; is an IT governance facilitator for the Institute of Directors; and is a member of the IITPSA’s Western Cape committee. Chalmers has extensive management and governance experience and has held various board and executive roles for… read more »

Candice Sutherland is a business development underwriter at Hollard. She is a qualified CAIB (SA), specialising in finance, and has appeared on CliffCentral, eTV and ENCA. Sutherland has also featured articles in Cape Argus, Cape Times, Citizen, Cosmopolitan, Cover Magazine, Daily News, FA News, Mercury, New Age, RiskSA and The Star. Hollard is South Africa’s… read more »

Bharadwaj Machiraju project leader for OWASP OWTF, is mostly found either building a Web appsec tool or hunting bugs for fame. All tools are available at github.com/tunnelshade and all ramblings at blog.tunnelshade.in. Machiraju has spoken at conferences including Brucon and Pycon India. Apart from information security, he is interested in sleeping, mnemonic techniques and machine… read more »