Mayowa Adegoke Award winning TV show host and international journalist

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Mayowa Adegoke

Award winning TV show host and international journalist

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BIOGRAPHY

Award winning TV show host and international journalist

The Honorable Minister Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, Nigeria

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The Honorable Minister Prof Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami)

Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, Nigeria

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BIOGRAPHY

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.

Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola Chair, African Union Cyber Security Expert Group

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Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola

Chair, African Union Cyber Security Expert Group

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BIOGRAPHY

Cybersecurity influencer & powerhouse fuelling global strategies & policies

Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi Director General of NITDA

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Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi

Director General of NITDA

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BIOGRAPHY

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.

Muniru Muhammad Mai Director, Cybernetics and Automation in Research, Technology, and Innovation (RTI), Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)

Osei Bonsu Dickson Chief Legal Advisor, Ministry of National Security, Ghana

Ishaaq Jacobs Chief Cyber security Officer, Sasol, South Africa

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Muniru Muhammad Mai

Director, Cybernetics and Automation in Research, Technology, and Innovation (RTI), Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)

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BIOGRAPHY

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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Osei Bonsu Dickson

Chief Legal Advisor, Ministry of National Security, Ghana

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Globally acclaimed national security lawyer & author

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Ishaaq Jacobs

Chief Cyber security Officer, Sasol, South Africa

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BIOGRAPHY

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”.