About the Conference

The 2019 Cloud Conference, held on 6 June 2019 at Gallagher Estate in Gauteng, is the premier event of its kind in South Africa. The conference will be attended by South Africa’s top cloud, hosting and security executives and IT professionals. The speakers will share information about hosting services, data centres, cloud computing, virtualisation, hosting infrastructure and connectivity.

June 6, 2019

07:00 - 08:45

Registration and Expo

08:50 - 08:55

Delegates take their seats

09:00 - 09:15

Welcome & introduction
Aki Anastasiou - Master of Ceremonies

09:20 - 09:40

Hosting services
Reshaad Sha - CEO of Liquid Telecom in South Africa

09:45 - 10:05

Lend me an ear
David Meintjes - Chief Executive Officer at Connection Telecom

10:10 - 10:30

Cloud & AI, Building an Intelligent South Africa
Marcus Tay - Director, Cloud and Data Center Solutions at Huawei

10:35 - 10:55

Microsoft Axiz
Kevin George - Cloud Specialist at Microsoft

11:00 - 11:20

Connecting Africa to the Cloud
Jan Hnizdo - Managing Director at Teraco

11:25 - 11:55

Panel Discussion
Jan Vermeulen - Editor-at-Large at MyBroadband
Dave Funnell - Cloud Provider Manager at VMWare Sub-Saharan Africa
Mikey Molfessis - Sales Engineer for the Middle East and Africa at Mimecast

12:00 - 12:55

Lunch
Lunch will be served, where delegates will have the opportunity to network and visit exhibitor stands.

13:00 - 13:10

Welcome back
Aki Anastasiou - Master of Ceremonies

13:15 - 13:35

Cloud and connectivity
Derek Friend - Regional Executive, Head, Telco, C & SP at Schneider Electric

13:40 - 14:00

Cloud Management
Kathryn Tindale - Director Channel and General Business at SAP Africa

14:05 - 14:25

The Future is Autonomous – Real life experiences of modern businesses successfully transforming with cloud
Ocea Garriock - Solution Engineering Director at Oracle
Francois Marais - Technology Sales Consulting Senior Manager at Oracle
Victor Botlhokwane - Technology Sales Consulting Manager at Oracle

14:30 - 14:50

The Future of Cloud Computing
Brett StClair - Chief Executive Officer at Siatik

14:55 - 15:00

Closing remarks
Aki Anastasiou - Master of Ceremonies

15:00 - 16:00

Drinks, Networking and Exhibition Visits

Speakers

The 2019 Cloud Conference has attracted the top executives in South Africa’s cloud and hosting industry as speakers, and promises to be an event which should not be missed. Hear about the latest developments and the future plans for cloud, hosting and security services directly from top executives in the field.