NEW FRONTIERS OF DIGITAL-SPACE HANNESSING AFRICAN POTENTIALS
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Kenneth Izomoh

Kenneth Izomoh

ADL-INNET

Nigeria & Luxembourg

Kenneth Izomoh

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Mr. Kenneth Izomoh is a digital strategist, an ExO advisor, and an expert in digital transformation, leadership, exponential strategy and innovation with extensive experience in innovation architecture solutions development, business and market positioning. He is an astute entrepreneur and has more than 22 years’ experience in ICT innovation & industry. He has consulted more than 20 EU H2020 ICT development projects for Europe and Africa; and managed business developments related activities in cloud platforms for many economic sectors namely e-health, e-tourism, e-agriculture, oil-&-gas, e-energy, Environment, Circular Economy, smart mobility & insurance, enterprise solutions, e-commerce, factories of the future, and smart manufacturing under industry 4.0 enterprise initiatives. Over the years, Mr. Izomoh served in high profile ICT consulting companies helping clients to achieve exponential growth, offer advisory support to innovation hubs, senior executives, and supporting conceptualization of innovation products’ & designs, value chain optimization schemes, and innovation studies for a number of private and public clients. He also acted in the past as an event manager related to the dissemination & continental networking of stakeholders’ in view of turnkey ICT programmes and entrepreneurships related to EU and Africa joint collaborations..

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Emma Ainamani

ADL-INNET

Rwanda

Emma AINAMANI

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Emma is an ICT marketing expert and also well vested in innovation ecosystem development. He led a team that introduced Huawei Technologies (one of the biggest tech contributors on the globe) to Burundi and Rwanda for 3 years. Currently managing a company that's using one of the latest technology in food tracing and sustainable agriculture in East Africa. He has also participated in establishing agribusiness incubation centres in Uganda.

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Chairman Fasmicro Group, Boston, USA

Chief Executive - Tekedia Institute, Boston, USA

Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Prof Ndubuisi Ekekwe invented and patented a robotic system which the United States Government acquired assignee rights. Dr Ekekwe holds two doctoral and four master’s degrees including a PhD in engineering from Johns Hopkins University, USA. He earned an undergraduate degree from FUT Owerri where he graduated as his class best student. While in Analog Devices Corp, he co-designed an accelerometer for the iPhone. A recipient of IGI Global “Book of the Year” award, a TED Fellow, IBM Global Entrepreneur and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Prof. Ekekwe has held professorships in Carnegie Mellon University and Babcock University, and served in the United States National Science Foundation Committee. The South African press called him “a doctor of innovation” for helping organizations on the mechanics of business innovation, strategy, and growth. Since 2009, the Chairman of Fasmicro Group which controls many startups and entities has been writing in the Harvard Business Review. He was recognized by The Guardian as one of 60 Nigerians Making “Nigerian Live Matter” on Nigeria’s 60th Independence Day (Oct 1, 2020).

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Shaniel Davrajh

Principal Engineer, CSIR
South Africa

Shaniel Davrajh

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Dr Davrajh works at South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), where he is Principal Mechanical Engineer specialising in technology research, development and implementation within mining and manufacturing industries. He manages a multidisciplinary project team consisting of electrical/electronic, software and mechanical engineers to provide solutions for Learning/Smart factories of the future within the scope of the fourth industrial revolution. His 12 years of work experience across academic, research and industrial environments have moulded him to be driven by identifying and exploiting opportunities for continual improvement, using a combination of first principle analyses and industry tested best practices. He specifically enjoys learning to balance aspects of technical design and business considerations for both start-up and scaled growth stage projects. Dr Davrajh participates in his personal capacity.

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Aleksander Stanik

Product Development Director

Smart Secure Networks Sp z o.o., Poland

Aleksander Stanik

Aleksander Stanik has several years of experience as a programmer leader, software architect and programmer. Throughout his professional career, he has focused in particular on distributed control systems (DCS), industrial networks, signal processing, physicochemical analysis methods, and industrial processes in nanotechnology. He has participated in many R&D projects successfully completed the implementation of a new product line. He collaborated with institutions such as the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, MAXIV, ESRF, Solaris and the Polish Academy of Science during the development of many international projects. Long-time member of Tango-Controls Community, initiator and co-creator of transferring a platform commonly used in the Big Science world to the commercial market. Co-author of the publication "Tango Heads for Industry" published at the international conference ICALEPCS2017 A graduate of the Faculty of Computer Science and Materials Science of the University of Silesia specializing in Computer Science in experimental sciences. Certified by Professional Scrum Master PSMI, Critical Chain Project Management TOC CCPM and The Thinking Processes TOC TP. PhD student in the field of the use of Artificial Intelligence in the Industrial Environment at the Silesian University of Technology. .

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Mohamed Amri

Managing Director,  Industry 4.0 Center,

Sfax, Tunisia

Mohamed Amri

Mohamed Amri is the head of the competence center "Sfax Industry 4.0 Center” (www.i40.tn ) founded in the Technopol of Sfax and financed by the GIZ to lead the industrial digital transofmation of tunisian SMEs. After his computer science study in the german University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, he worked on several software development projects for many Siemens AG business units. Then he founded the Software development and consulting company Yousoft-it (www.yousoft-it.com ), that demonstrates proven abilities by using advanced knowledge of industry-recognized methodologies to deliver complex business and digital transformation projects on time and within budget. He founded also the leadership focused Foundation of Djagora to motivate, mentor and develop high performing young talents.

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Marek Ostafil

Co-Founder

Smart Secure Networks Sp z o.o, Poland

Marek Ostafil

Entrepreneur, advisor, lecturer, manager. Ideator of the Silesian IoT Cluster SINOTAIC, co-founder of Cyberus Labs - Polish cybersecurity company providing global solutions for IT and IoT networks. Cybersecurity expert at the Working Groups for Cybersecurity in the Industry and Cybersecurity in supply chains at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, cybersecurity expert at the Future Industry Platform foundation, cybersecurity analyst at the Kościuszko Institute. Lecturer on IoT cybersecurity at the Silesian Univesity of Technology in Gliwice, Poland, guest lecturer on cybersecurity at the AGH in Kraków, Poland.

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Kazeem Abubakar

Research & Policy Officer - (NACETEM) , Nigeria

National Center for Technology Management

Dr Kazeem Abubakar

An Innovative bright, talented and ambitious researcher and Engineer who has the required professional skills and resources, registered to practice along with comparable experience of working to the highest standards. He has a good track record of ensuring planning, managing and coordinating production and operations of organizations. He is also able to lead teams on commercial, industrial, science, technology and innovation research projects aimed at implementing the principles of Operations Research in organizations where the highest standards are routinely demanded. The Engineer always wants to be actively involved in all collaboration and affiliation engagements aimed at improving on the innovative capabilities of relevant institutions. He has managed higher-level operations and organized research, workshop, conferences and training

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Ajibade Yusuf

Founder / Senior Consultant

Gradient Consulting Africa, Luxembourg

Mr. Ajibade Yusuf

Ajibade has a bachelor's degree in Accounting & Finance from Kingston University - UK and an Executive MBA from Manchester Business School. He is a Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant with over 20 years of working experience in Financial Services. Mr. Ajibade has served as a member of audit and risk committee for various offshore Investment funds and provides advice to Board of Directors on technical accounting and regulatory matters. Mr. Ajibade has extensive offshore fund industry experience and has held several senior positions working for BlackRock Asset Management, State Street Bank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Investec Asset Management. Mr. Ajibade specialisation and focus includes Fund Administration, Custodian Bank, and Banking Regulatory & Financial Reporting. In his personal capacity Mr Ajibade Yusuf is the founder and Principal Consultant at Gradient Consulting Africa. Gradient Consulting Africa is a Luxembourg based company and provides specialist advisory service in corporate governance, project finance and economic intelligence to Corporate and Sovereign institutions. Gradient Consulting Africa are advisors to United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), Global Manufacturing & Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) and Belgium- Luxembourg-Nigeria Chamber of Commerce (BLNCC).

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Kevin Allen

Chief Community Officer

OpenExO, South Africa

Kevin Allen

Kevin Allen is an energetic and creative individual. He believes that we live in an abundant world and looks for ways to impact those around himself with positivity, especially through exponential technologies and the Exponential Organizations (ExO) Model. Kevin is the Chief Community Officer at OpenExO, an organization that drives the ExO Model through a global community in over 130 countries, in order to transform the world for a better future. Kevin is also a passionate traveler having visited 29 countries, loves nature and the outdoors and enjoys a good philosophical debate.

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Rafał Sanecki

Marketing Director at IS-Wireless

Poland

Rafał Sanecki

Prior to IS-Wireless he was a co-founder and board member of ASPIRE - Association of Business Process Services companies, business development manager for Silvair, and head of international expansion at Tagvenue. IS-Wireless develops and delivers 5G network solutions based on the Open RAN model. It includes both: based on standards software and hardware necessary to build 5G (and also 4G) telecommunication networks. Open RAN is the latest trend in building cellular networks. It is based on separating software and hardware concept, enabling the use of COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) servers. This allows for lower prices and improving competitiveness, which is crucial for the further development of the 5G network. IS-Wireless is the first and only Polish provider of 5G network solutions. At the same time, IS-Wireless is the only Polish company actively participating in global 5G R&D projects.

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