Samuel Modupe has about a decade years of experience in cybersecurity and engineering roles, specializing in security architecture, infrastructure protection, and team leadership. He has consistently demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing robust security solutions to mitigate risks and protect sensitive data across various industries, including telecoms, finance, technology, and consulting. Key Achievements: Design and Implementation of Secure Systems: Led a team responsible for designing and implementing a comprehensive security architecture for a financial institution's critical systems. This initiative significantly reduced vulnerabilities and enhanced the resilience of the infrastructure against cyber threats. Team Building and Mentorship: Built and nurtured a high-performing security engineering team by recruiting top talent and providing mentorship and professional development opportunities. Improved team efficiency by implementing management methodologies, resulting in a 50% increase in performance. Compliance and Standards Adherence: Ensured compliance with industry standards (e.g., NIST, PCI DSS ISO 27001) and regulatory requirements, leading successful audits and certifications. Played a pivotal role in achieving and maintaining compliance with regulatory bodies and stakeholders. He has to credit various globally recognized cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CEH Master, COBIT, CCNP Security, Microsoft Azure Cybersecurity Architect, Microsoft Azure Solution Architect, Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, etc.

Gbenga Adebowale is the Enterprise Sales Director of Vertiv in Central Africa. Gbenga began his career with Vertiv (formerly Emerson Network Power) as Country Sales Manager for Nigeria in 2017. Gbenga is currently based in the Nigeria office and is responsible for the planning and execution of strategic growth for Vertiv’s across the Central Africa region ensuring alignment with the company’s global vision. Prior to joining Vertiv in 2017, Gbenga was the Enterprise Sales Manager at APC by Schneider Electric for West Africa. Gbenga has more than 15 years of management experience in the capacities of leadership, coaching and mentoring, Sales and Marketing, territorial expansion, General Management, working across various technology value chain. Gbenga has Executive MBA (International Business) from Paris Graduate school of management. He has also secured certificates in Negotiation and presentation techniques, Managing complex sales, and Executive team leadership from Lagos Business School (Pan African University).

Eben Owen has been affiliated with the datacentre industry since 1999. He’s broad knowledge of power and cooling systems started with American Power Conversion in 2000 as district manager for Southern Africa. He relocated to the United Kingdom in 2004 where his skills were utilized by APC UK and Ireland as Systems Engineer. After designing and deploying a number of datacentre across the UK, Eben decided to join Datacentience, a datacentre consultancy in London, from where he moved to Emerson Network Power (Vertiv) in 2008. Eben returned to South Africa 2010 where he spend another 3 years with Schneider Electric as Enterprise and Solutions manager for Southern Africa. In 2014 Eben joined FIAMM (FZSONICK), an Italian battery manufacturer as Country Manager for Africa, with a close affiliation to UPS and battery systems. Eben joined The Uptime Institute in July 2018 as Sales Director for English Speaking Africa. He is married with 3 kids, an avid hobby electronics enthusiast and enjoy the outdoor life. "

A People and Communications expert with 15+ years of international experience, including senior management in the energy sector. I work directly with CEOs and managers to solve critical issues around leadership development and marketing communications. Expert in supporting organisations with planning and executing marketing and communications strategies in line with their budget and objectives, I have a track record of leading mid to large scale marketing campaigns, events and global initiatives to success. I have executed high-impact projects with a focus on lead generation and sales conversion that have generated millions of euros in revenue. In 2021, I founded Eloge Consulting, a marketing and communications firm that provides strategic channel marketing, public relations (PR), and digital marketing to B2B organisations, as well as training services. I have developed a robust leadership program, tried and tested with top companies, to help managers improve their communication and build cohesive teams geared towards organizational success. The program adopts a practical approach to inclusive leadership, inter-cultural management and effective communication, including public speaking. Using the Maxwell DISC assessment method, the course provides participants with in-depth analysis of their personality, strengths and challenges to help them work together more effectively. I am also passionate about lending my voice and energy to women empowerment initiatives, helping us shatter internal and external barriers to our professional fulfilment. I organize networking initiatives that bring together women from all walks of life to share their stories and create possibilities for other women all over the world.

A future-facing leader with extensive experience pioneering the development, execution and operations of Data Centres and Fibre Infrastructure throughout Africa, focusing on efficient delivery of digital Infrastructure and reduction in carbon footprint. An expert in Data Centre & Optic Fibre designs, construction and operations with experience across West Africa and a proven track record of drawing interest from the four big OTTs. I am passionate about bringing transformational change to underserved areas of Africa and supporting a greener environment through innovation designs inspired by hand-on experience in some of the challenging terrains of Africa. An adept at at managing large budgets and running complex operations in the most challenging areas of Africa. Experienced in hiring top tier talent, training, coaching and mentoring them to expertise and career fulfilments. Able to create an environment of cohesion and camaraderie, with optimal levels of employee engagement and productivity.

A commercially experienced, business focused and innovative technologist, skilled at leading large, multi-national, multi-location teams to design, build, restructure, or manage complex technology operations in order to improve and service businesses. Track record as global CIO, leader and builder of technology based businesses. Board level executive experience, managing budgets in excess of £100m and implementing large global change programs, mergers and acquisitions. International experience gained across Europe, USA, Asia and Africa, with particularly strong recent exposure in Africa.