Andrew Owens is the Senior Product Manager for Interconnection & Peering at Teraco Data Environments, and is responsible for the design, commissioning and management of the NAPAfrica peering platform.
Co-Founder and Director of Workonline Communications, an African wholesale carrier network services provider, responsible for network design and operations.
He has over 20 years experience of working with over 20 000 small to medium enterprisesand empowering them to have their very own business identity online.
Dr. Angus Hay, PrEng, CEng, MIET, MIEEE, FSAIEE, was born and educated in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has a BSc (Eng)Elec (1987) and a PhD in digital transmission (1998)
Kiru has 28 years of experience in the ICT sector with five of those as an academic and researcher. He is currently the Chief Director: Cybersecurity Operations in the Department of Telecommunication
People and business orientated individual, passionate about automation; finding simple and less mundane methods of how to provide excellent customer service.
Mark is a techie at heart. He's into new technology like IPv6, DNSSEC and DANE and wants to encourage Domain Name growth in Africa. Mark also enjoys Afrika Burn and SCUBA Diving.
Mohammad Patel is the former CEO of OTEL Telecoms. Mr Patel served as Chairman of WAPA, Management Committee of ISPA and played an important role in the national development of telecoms in SA.
The reason I wake up everyday (my 'Ekigai') is "To master a bit more of myself every day, so I might give it to the service of humanity, as an instrument of peace to the glory of God“.
Thomas has more than 20 years’ experience in Service Provider Access solutions, covering the SP markets in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Latin America and now on a global base.
Vika Mpisane is the Chief Executive Officer of the ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA), the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) Manager for South Africa’s domain - ZA.
William has been fighting the good fight for telecoms liberalisation in Africa since 1999. This has taken him via ISPA, AfrISPA and ISOC to ICASA and back to consulting