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Award winning TV show host and international journalist

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Radio Presenter, Pulse 95 of the tech show: Future Talk

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Award winning CISO from one of the top 100 global universities 

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Leads cybersecurity research at the 11th top university among top 100 universities in the MENA region

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On a mission to build the land of the future securely.

As a veteran in information security with around 20 years of experience, I am intensely focused on developing next-generation security programs for the digital landscape. I have repeated success delivering innovative security programs safeguarding the data and digital information of both Government & industry.

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Currently working as Chief Cyber Security officer, responsible for overall cyber security and data protection strategies and execution plans within the Gulf North Region (Qatar/Kuwait/Bahrain).

Previously , served in Huawei as Director of Consulting , director of regulatory affairs, and head of core network solution department.

With more than 18 years’ experience in the Telecom and IT industries, he possesses broad experience across most technologies including 5G, IoT, cloud and Big Data, having worked in a variety of senior capacities across Technical, Commercial, Business Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and consulting disciplines. He is an expert in the Business of Telecommunications - managing of all aspects (strategy to execution) of Telecommunications Carrier / Service Provider businesses.

In the course of his career, he has worked with ICT infrastructure vendors and SW providers across MENA region.

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Cybersecurity leader at is one of the world's largest and most successful petrochemicals company

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Heading the Cyber Unit at Israel Export Institute, Vlad helps Cyber Companies scale globally, arranging the multi-type B2B/B2G at international conferences, roadshows, tradeshows, and more. Cyber Unit aims at matching the Israeli Cyber solution and the global security challenge, representing over 300 Israeli Cyber Security enterprises. Previously coordinating the Fintech Community of Israel's international framework, Vlad spearheaded the partnership establishment process, developing bilateral partnerships between 12 national Fintech Associations and the Fintech Community of Israel, more than doubling the Fintech Community of Israel's international partnerships. Following the Fintech Association's activity, the ministry of Economy has chosen the community to represent the Israeli Fintech Ecosystem on the national level. Vlad is a Tel Aviv University alumnus, holding a Bachelor in Political Science and a Diploma in European Studies.

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Heads IT/OT Governance & Compliance at the largest private water provider worldwide, by number of people served

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Cybersecurity leader at is one of the world's largest and most successful petrochemicals company

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Award winning TV show host and international journalist

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Aviad Tamir serves as the Aappointed Head of Israel's Economic and Trade Mission to the UAE. His professional experience spans across Israel and abroad working with Healthcare and Technology industries, specializing in International Business Development & Strategic Partnerships within the private and public sectors.

Previously, Aviad worked as Head of Life Sciences & Healthcare at Invest in Israel, the Ministry of Defense, Mission to the U.S. managing procurement projects for the IDF, and the Office of the Prime Minister as an Advisor to the Director General of the Ministry for Senior Citizens. Aviad holds a Master in Public Policy from the IDC Herzliya and a BA in Business Administration & East Asia Studies from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a graduate of the 8400 - The Health Network executive fellowship.

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Award Winning CISO heading cybersecurity for leading insurance company in the kingdom.

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Security Leader of the 2030 transformation vision in Medina Health Cluster

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Multi award winning CISO & Chairman of  Financial Sector Cybersecurity Committee of Saudi Central Bank

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CISO of top 5 best performing mining companies in the world

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An information security expert with 10+ years in the field. Experienced and highly motivated information security leader, who builds, runs and governs a modern, innovative, highly effective and cost efficient information security function. Holding Master degree in Information Security and Assurance, Bachelor degree in Computer Science, and multiple professional certificates in Information Security, Project Management, Leadership, and Business Administration.

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Award winning TV show host and international journalist

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Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) is the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Prior to his appointment as a Minister, he was the Director-General (DG)/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). He serves as Chairman of several Presidential and Inter-Ministerial Committees. He has received over 150 awards, including the Award of Best Minister on multiple occasions. He has authored several books, lectured at universities for almost two decades and is currently a Professor of Cybersecurity. His efforts enabled Nigeria to exit a COVID-19 triggered recession and he has also significantly enhanced data protection and cybersecurity in Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian and British Computer Societies, and is happily married with children.

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Award winning cybersec leader of one of the largest companies in the world by revenue

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Cybersecurity influencer & powerhouse fuelling global strategies & policies

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A dynamic, ambitious, and diligent Cybersecurity professional highly capable of learning new skills rapidly, working independently and in teams, and developing solutions to help achieve stakeholders’ goals. Areas of expertise include security incident handling and response, analytics and intelligence, and audit and compliance. Driven by xcellence, I aspire to join a reputable organization where I would be able to begin my career in Cybersecurity / Information Security, lead challenging projects, and contribute to the organization’s success and growth in alignment with Vision 2030.

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Mrs Ben-Simhon is currently leading the Intelligence partnerships and cyber-fraud Innovation at Citi’s Cyber Intelligence Center & TLV Innovation Lab.

Karine is a senior cybersecurity manager with vast experience and understanding of the cyber warfare ecosystem, on both corporate and National levels.

In her current role, Karine is working on identifying Innovative solutions for cybercrime prevention, and work with internal and global stakeholders to increase effectively information exchange and data analytics.
Prior to joining Citi, she worked at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, where she founded and managed the Operational Cooperation unit. During this role she led global initiatives and worked closely with Government agencies worldwide and global industry stakeholders, by establishing tailor made partnerships to prevent cybercrime from occurring.
She began her career at the Israel Security Agency, and continued her journey working for the private and Government sector promoting multi-national projects related to cybersecurity and HLS. Being a top priority, in the past few years, Karine promoted local initiatives to empower younger girls to achieve their full potential, and encourage technological leadership.

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Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi is a versatile Information Technology (IT) professional, strategist and transformation manager with experience that cuts across the private and public sectors in IT operations, business transformation, solution architecture, tech policy development, administration and management. In the last 16 years, he has applied himself and excelled in several positions with proven capacity including managerial roles.

Mr Abdullahi is a thoroughbred IT professional and the first Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE in Nigeria's public sector. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi and holds multiple Leadership & Management courses in top institutions across the globe including Harvard University, Cambridge University and IMD Business school, Switzerland. He is equally a Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan – trained strategist.
He started his professional career at Galaxy Backbone Ltd in 2012 as a network engineer and in 2014 he joined the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a Technology Architect. He then joined NITDA in 2017 as the Technical Assistant to the then Director General.

On 20th August 2019, in recognition of his astute and focused leadership Mallam Abdullahi was appointed the Director-General of NITDA by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. Thus far, he has placed NITDA on the global regulatory and digital economy map and has implemented various strategic initiatives that is making indelible impacts on all Nigerians.

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CISO of top 5 best performing mining companies in the world

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Award winning cybersec leader of one of the largest companies in the world by revenue

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Mr. Muniru Muhammad Mai is the Director, Cybernetics and Automation in the Research, Technology, and Innovation (RTI) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC). His role in this position includes among others:

• Assessing new advances in technology and finding the most innovative ways to deploy them in the NNPC to help maintain the Company’s competitive edge.
• Providing technological incubation services for “techpreneurs” and startups to support deployment of digital technologies in NNPC's operations.

Mr. Mai came to RTI from NPDC—and NNPC’s exploration and production arm, where he served as the General Manager, Information Technology Department. Prior to his transfer to NPDC, he also served as the Executive Director Services of Integrated Data Services, Ltd, another upstream company of the NNPC.

Mr. Mai is a graduate of Physics and was awarded various performance prizes at graduation. Other academic certificates include:

• Master of Science in Computer Science from the City University, London, England.
• Executive MBA, in Energy Management from the BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway and IFP/ESCP-EAP, Paris, France; as well as Nanyang Technology from the University of Singapore.

His career began in the United States of America, where he worked in the Information Technology sector, with his work taking him across states including Massachusetts, Florida, Virginia, and Washington DC.

Mr. Mai worked with various organizations while in the US including:

• Johnson & Johnson in Boston, Massachusetts, as a Systems Analyst
• Computer Associates Inc. Jacksonville, Florida, as Senior Systems Consultant
• DynCorp, Inc. Reston, Virginia, as Senior Systems Consultant
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank (FRB), Washington DC as a Consultant
Mr. Mai has attended various workshops and seminars locally and overseas, including Regulatory Principles, Practices, and Compliance in the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry (2015); IT Infrastructure Management (2014); Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Certification (2012); EMBA, Energy Management, Oslo, Norway (2010); Extensive Team Building and Leadership Development Programme at Total Oil Co. (2008); IT infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification (2007); Executive Development Programme (EDP) at Kellog School of Management of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (2006) and PRINCE2 Project Management Certification (2005).

He has also distinguished himself with various memberships of Professional affiliations including Kellog Alumni Energy Club, Evanston, IL, USA, IEEE, Computer Professionals Council of Nigeria.
His hobbies include Tennis, Football, adopting new Technology and Monitoring Current Affairs.

He is happily married with children.

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Globally acclaimed national security lawyer & author

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Ishaaq is currently the Chief Cyber security Officer for Sasol. He has over 20 years’ experience in the IT field and is passionate about unlocking the business value of technology. He spends time on various transformation projects transforming the IT delivery pipeline from traditional waterfall to Agile - DevSEcOps. His current focus is on transforming Cyber Security to be adaptive to modern digital threats in an ever-changing technology landscape to safeguard and protect business and support its strategy”.

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President of AUVSI Israel.
Chairman of the Association of Autonomous Systems in AEAI
Founder CEO Restartup (restartup.co.il)
MENTOR WEWORKLABS
Lecturer in HIT Autonomous Systems
Graduate CUNY in mechanical engineering
Graduate CUNY in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Specializing in electro-optics and robotics.
Senior manager with 35 years of experience in managing business units and multidisciplinary
companies, designing electro-optical products and establishing production lines.
Former CEO of UAS company Innocon
Partner at Accelerator, founder of IC Touch
Former Director, Display Department, El-Op (Elbit)
Establishes and manages the Singapore-based electro-optical subsidiary of El-Op (Elbit)
Former VP of Marketing and Sales at Bentel Industries

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Over 13 years of experience at Governmental position, managing complex global projects.

Expert in technology-integrated, business development in multinational environments and provides unique and innovative solutions for a wide range of multi-player situations.

MSc in Materials Engineering fromthe Ben-Gurion University.

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He served as VP Sales and Business Development at Cy-oT (acquired by Orchestra Group) and Zoomd Technologies (TSXV:ZOMD) as well as Director of Sales and Business Development at Verint Systems (NASDAQ:VRNT). Before joining Verint, he served as VP Sales at eXaudios Technologies (acquired by Beyond Verbal).

Erez also served as EMEA Sales Manager at Nice Systems (NASDAQ:NICE).
Erez holds a Bachelor's Degree in Management and Economics.

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President of AUVSI Israel.
Chairman of the Association of Autonomous Systems in AEAI
Founder CEO Restartup (restartup.co.il)
MENTOR WEWORKLABS
Lecturer in HIT Autonomous Systems
Graduate CUNY in mechanical engineering
Graduate CUNY in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Specializing in electro-optics and robotics.
Senior manager with 35 years of experience in managing business units and multidisciplinary
companies, designing electro-optical products and establishing production lines.
Former CEO of UAS company Innocon
Partner at Accelerator, founder of IC Touch
Former Director, Display Department, El-Op (Elbit)
Establishes and manages the Singapore-based electro-optical subsidiary of El-Op (Elbit)
Former VP of Marketing and Sales at Bentel Industries

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Award winning TV show host and international journalist

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Radio Presenter, Pulse 95 of the tech show: Future Talk

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Award winning CISO from one of the top 100 global universities 

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Leads cybersecurity research at the 11th top university among top 100 universities in the MENA region

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On a mission to build the land of the future securely.

As a veteran in information security with around 20 years of experience, I am intensely focused on developing next-generation security programs for the digital landscape. I have repeated success delivering innovative security programs safeguarding the data and digital information of both Government & industry.

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Currently working as Chief Cyber Security officer, responsible for overall cyber security and data protection strategies and execution plans within the Gulf North Region (Qatar/Kuwait/Bahrain).

Previously , served in Huawei as Director of Consulting , director of regulatory affairs, and head of core network solution department.

With more than 18 years’ experience in the Telecom and IT industries, he possesses broad experience across most technologies including 5G, IoT, cloud and Big Data, having worked in a variety of senior capacities across Technical, Commercial, Business Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and consulting disciplines. He is an expert in the Business of Telecommunications - managing of all aspects (strategy to execution) of Telecommunications Carrier / Service Provider businesses.

In the course of his career, he has worked with ICT infrastructure vendors and SW providers across MENA region.

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Cybersecurity leader at is one of the world's largest and most successful petrochemicals company

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Heading the Cyber Unit at Israel Export Institute, Vlad helps Cyber Companies scale globally, arranging the multi-type B2B/B2G at international conferences, roadshows, tradeshows, and more. Cyber Unit aims at matching the Israeli Cyber solution and the global security challenge, representing over 300 Israeli Cyber Security enterprises. Previously coordinating the Fintech Community of Israel's international framework, Vlad spearheaded the partnership establishment process, developing bilateral partnerships between 12 national Fintech Associations and the Fintech Community of Israel, more than doubling the Fintech Community of Israel's international partnerships. Following the Fintech Association's activity, the ministry of Economy has chosen the community to represent the Israeli Fintech Ecosystem on the national level. Vlad is a Tel Aviv University alumnus, holding a Bachelor in Political Science and a Diploma in European Studies.

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Heads IT/OT Governance & Compliance at the largest private water provider worldwide, by number of people served

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Cybersecurity leader at is one of the world's largest and most successful petrochemicals company

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Award winning TV show host and international journalist

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Aviad Tamir serves as the Aappointed Head of Israel's Economic and Trade Mission to the UAE. His professional experience spans across Israel and abroad working with Healthcare and Technology industries, specializing in International Business Development & Strategic Partnerships within the private and public sectors.

Previously, Aviad worked as Head of Life Sciences & Healthcare at Invest in Israel, the Ministry of Defense, Mission to the U.S. managing procurement projects for the IDF, and the Office of the Prime Minister as an Advisor to the Director General of the Ministry for Senior Citizens. Aviad holds a Master in Public Policy from the IDC Herzliya and a BA in Business Administration & East Asia Studies from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a graduate of the 8400 - The Health Network executive fellowship.

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Award Winning CISO heading cybersecurity for leading insurance company in the kingdom.

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Security Leader of the 2030 transformation vision in Medina Health Cluster

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Multi award winning CISO & Chairman of  Financial Sector Cybersecurity Committee of Saudi Central Bank

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CISO of top 5 best performing mining companies in the world

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An information security expert with 10+ years in the field. Experienced and highly motivated information security leader, who builds, runs and governs a modern, innovative, highly effective and cost efficient information security function. Holding Master degree in Information Security and Assurance, Bachelor degree in Computer Science, and multiple professional certificates in Information Security, Project Management, Leadership, and Business Administration.

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Award winning TV show host and international journalist

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Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) is the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Prior to his appointment as a Minister, he was the Director-General (DG)/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). He serves as Chairman of several Presidential and Inter-Ministerial Committees. He has received over 150 awards, including the Award of Best Minister on multiple occasions. He has authored several books, lectured at universities for almost two decades and is currently a Professor of Cybersecurity. His efforts enabled Nigeria to exit a COVID-19 triggered recession and he has also significantly enhanced data protection and cybersecurity in Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian and British Computer Societies, and is happily married with children.

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Award winning cybersec leader of one of the largest companies in the world by revenue

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Cybersecurity influencer & powerhouse fuelling global strategies & policies

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A dynamic, ambitious, and diligent Cybersecurity professional highly capable of learning new skills rapidly, working independently and in teams, and developing solutions to help achieve stakeholders’ goals. Areas of expertise include security incident handling and response, analytics and intelligence, and audit and compliance. Driven by xcellence, I aspire to join a reputable organization where I would be able to begin my career in Cybersecurity / Information Security, lead challenging projects, and contribute to the organization’s success and growth in alignment with Vision 2030.

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Mrs Ben-Simhon is currently leading the Intelligence partnerships and cyber-fraud Innovation at Citi’s Cyber Intelligence Center & TLV Innovation Lab.

Karine is a senior cybersecurity manager with vast experience and understanding of the cyber warfare ecosystem, on both corporate and National levels.

In her current role, Karine is working on identifying Innovative solutions for cybercrime prevention, and work with internal and global stakeholders to increase effectively information exchange and data analytics.
Prior to joining Citi, she worked at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, where she founded and managed the Operational Cooperation unit. During this role she led global initiatives and worked closely with Government agencies worldwide and global industry stakeholders, by establishing tailor made partnerships to prevent cybercrime from occurring.
She began her career at the Israel Security Agency, and continued her journey working for the private and Government sector promoting multi-national projects related to cybersecurity and HLS. Being a top priority, in the past few years, Karine promoted local initiatives to empower younger girls to achieve their full potential, and encourage technological leadership.

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Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi is a versatile Information Technology (IT) professional, strategist and transformation manager with experience that cuts across the private and public sectors in IT operations, business transformation, solution architecture, tech policy development, administration and management. In the last 16 years, he has applied himself and excelled in several positions with proven capacity including managerial roles.

Mr Abdullahi is a thoroughbred IT professional and the first Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE in Nigeria's public sector. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi and holds multiple Leadership & Management courses in top institutions across the globe including Harvard University, Cambridge University and IMD Business school, Switzerland. He is equally a Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan – trained strategist.
He started his professional career at Galaxy Backbone Ltd in 2012 as a network engineer and in 2014 he joined the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a Technology Architect. He then joined NITDA in 2017 as the Technical Assistant to the then Director General.

On 20th August 2019, in recognition of his astute and focused leadership Mallam Abdullahi was appointed the Director-General of NITDA by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. Thus far, he has placed NITDA on the global regulatory and digital economy map and has implemented various strategic initiatives that is making indelible impacts on all Nigerians.

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CISO of top 5 best performing mining companies in the world

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Award winning cybersec leader of one of the largest companies in the world by revenue

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Mr. Muniru Muhammad Mai is the Director, Cybernetics and Automation in the Research, Technology, and Innovation (RTI) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC). His role in this position includes among others:

• Assessing new advances in technology and finding the most innovative ways to deploy them in the NNPC to help maintain the Company’s competitive edge.
• Providing technological incubation services for “techpreneurs” and startups to support deployment of digital technologies in NNPC's operations.

Mr. Mai came to RTI from NPDC—and NNPC’s exploration and production arm, where he served as the General Manager, Information Technology Department. Prior to his transfer to NPDC, he also served as the Executive Director Services of Integrated Data Services, Ltd, another upstream company of the NNPC.

Mr. Mai is a graduate of Physics and was awarded various performance prizes at graduation. Other academic certificates include:

• Master of Science in Computer Science from the City University, London, England.
• Executive MBA, in Energy Management from the BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway and IFP/ESCP-EAP, Paris, France; as well as Nanyang Technology from the University of Singapore.

His career began in the United States of America, where he worked in the Information Technology sector, with his work taking him across states including Massachusetts, Florida, Virginia, and Washington DC.

Mr. Mai worked with various organizations while in the US including:

• Johnson & Johnson in Boston, Massachusetts, as a Systems Analyst
• Computer Associates Inc. Jacksonville, Florida, as Senior Systems Consultant
• DynCorp, Inc. Reston, Virginia, as Senior Systems Consultant
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank (FRB), Washington DC as a Consultant
Mr. Mai has attended various workshops and seminars locally and overseas, including Regulatory Principles, Practices, and Compliance in the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry (2015); IT Infrastructure Management (2014); Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Certification (2012); EMBA, Energy Management, Oslo, Norway (2010); Extensive Team Building and Leadership Development Programme at Total Oil Co. (2008); IT infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification (2007); Executive Development Programme (EDP) at Kellog School of Management of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (2006) and PRINCE2 Project Management Certification (2005).

He has also distinguished himself with various memberships of Professional affiliations including Kellog Alumni Energy Club, Evanston, IL, USA, IEEE, Computer Professionals Council of Nigeria.
His hobbies include Tennis, Football, adopting new Technology and Monitoring Current Affairs.

He is happily married with children.

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Globally acclaimed national security lawyer & author

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Ishaaq is currently the Chief Cyber security Officer for Sasol. He has over 20 years’ experience in the IT field and is passionate about unlocking the business value of technology. He spends time on various transformation projects transforming the IT delivery pipeline from traditional waterfall to Agile - DevSEcOps. His current focus is on transforming Cyber Security to be adaptive to modern digital threats in an ever-changing technology landscape to safeguard and protect business and support its strategy”.

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President of AUVSI Israel.
Chairman of the Association of Autonomous Systems in AEAI
Founder CEO Restartup (restartup.co.il)
MENTOR WEWORKLABS
Lecturer in HIT Autonomous Systems
Graduate CUNY in mechanical engineering
Graduate CUNY in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Specializing in electro-optics and robotics.
Senior manager with 35 years of experience in managing business units and multidisciplinary
companies, designing electro-optical products and establishing production lines.
Former CEO of UAS company Innocon
Partner at Accelerator, founder of IC Touch
Former Director, Display Department, El-Op (Elbit)
Establishes and manages the Singapore-based electro-optical subsidiary of El-Op (Elbit)
Former VP of Marketing and Sales at Bentel Industries

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Over 13 years of experience at Governmental position, managing complex global projects.

Expert in technology-integrated, business development in multinational environments and provides unique and innovative solutions for a wide range of multi-player situations.

MSc in Materials Engineering fromthe Ben-Gurion University.

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He served as VP Sales and Business Development at Cy-oT (acquired by Orchestra Group) and Zoomd Technologies (TSXV:ZOMD) as well as Director of Sales and Business Development at Verint Systems (NASDAQ:VRNT). Before joining Verint, he served as VP Sales at eXaudios Technologies (acquired by Beyond Verbal).

Erez also served as EMEA Sales Manager at Nice Systems (NASDAQ:NICE).
Erez holds a Bachelor's Degree in Management and Economics.

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President of AUVSI Israel.
Chairman of the Association of Autonomous Systems in AEAI
Founder CEO Restartup (restartup.co.il)
MENTOR WEWORKLABS
Lecturer in HIT Autonomous Systems
Graduate CUNY in mechanical engineering
Graduate CUNY in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Specializing in electro-optics and robotics.
Senior manager with 35 years of experience in managing business units and multidisciplinary
companies, designing electro-optical products and establishing production lines.
Former CEO of UAS company Innocon
Partner at Accelerator, founder of IC Touch
Former Director, Display Department, El-Op (Elbit)
Establishes and manages the Singapore-based electro-optical subsidiary of El-Op (Elbit)
Former VP of Marketing and Sales at Bentel Industries

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Award winning TV show host and international journalist

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Radio Presenter, Pulse 95 of the tech show: Future Talk

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Award winning CISO from one of the top 100 global universities 

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Leads cybersecurity research at the 11th top university among top 100 universities in the MENA region

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On a mission to build the land of the future securely.

As a veteran in information security with around 20 years of experience, I am intensely focused on developing next-generation security programs for the digital landscape. I have repeated success delivering innovative security programs safeguarding the data and digital information of both Government & industry.

BIOGRAPHY

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Currently working as Chief Cyber Security officer, responsible for overall cyber security and data protection strategies and execution plans within the Gulf North Region (Qatar/Kuwait/Bahrain).

Previously , served in Huawei as Director of Consulting , director of regulatory affairs, and head of core network solution department.

With more than 18 years’ experience in the Telecom and IT industries, he possesses broad experience across most technologies including 5G, IoT, cloud and Big Data, having worked in a variety of senior capacities across Technical, Commercial, Business Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, and consulting disciplines. He is an expert in the Business of Telecommunications - managing of all aspects (strategy to execution) of Telecommunications Carrier / Service Provider businesses.

In the course of his career, he has worked with ICT infrastructure vendors and SW providers across MENA region.

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Cybersecurity leader at is one of the world's largest and most successful petrochemicals company

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Heading the Cyber Unit at Israel Export Institute, Vlad helps Cyber Companies scale globally, arranging the multi-type B2B/B2G at international conferences, roadshows, tradeshows, and more. Cyber Unit aims at matching the Israeli Cyber solution and the global security challenge, representing over 300 Israeli Cyber Security enterprises. Previously coordinating the Fintech Community of Israel's international framework, Vlad spearheaded the partnership establishment process, developing bilateral partnerships between 12 national Fintech Associations and the Fintech Community of Israel, more than doubling the Fintech Community of Israel's international partnerships. Following the Fintech Association's activity, the ministry of Economy has chosen the community to represent the Israeli Fintech Ecosystem on the national level. Vlad is a Tel Aviv University alumnus, holding a Bachelor in Political Science and a Diploma in European Studies.

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Heads IT/OT Governance & Compliance at the largest private water provider worldwide, by number of people served