The World Cyber Security Summit will take place on 28th August 2020.
The Summit will assess the state of Cybersecurity on the African continent from high-profile Cybersecurity experts across the globe.
Hosted by Trescon, the online event will draw interesting insights from leading voices in cyber threat intelligence on Africa’s booming digital ecosystem and its continent-wide online digital trade.
The trade is spurring the fundamental requirement of data protection regulations.
The summit will be hosted on the newly launched virtual events platform, Vmeets.
“There is the growing risk of economic stagnation due to Africa’s digital divide and increased cyber crimes,” said Mohammed Saleem, Founder and CEO of Trescon.
Saleem added that the fundamental idea behind hosting World Cyber Security Summit Africa, is to convene CISOs, IT and Cybersecurity leaders from across the world on an open online forum to unearth cyber intelligence strategies and critical investment opportunities in the African Cybersecurity ecosystem.
The conference will explore Africa’s complex Cybersecurity landscape by essentially focusing on new-age threats and the technologies/strategies to mitigate them.
Some of the key topics to be discussed include Data Privacy & Cyber Regulations; AI and ML for Cybersecurity Intelligence; Disaster Prevention and Recovery Planning; Cybersecurity Capacity Building and Cloud Security; to name a few.
Some of the leading industry experts who will speak at the summit include: Richard M Kiarie, Principal ICT Officer/Head, Policy and Research Unit, Ministry of ICT, Innovation and Youth Affairs, Republic of Kenya, Peter Kahiigi, Director for e-Government Services, Government of Uganda, Themba Mnguni, Deputy Director, IT Audit, Department of Rural development and Land Reform, South Africa.
Daniel Adaramola, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Unity Bank PLC, Nigeria will also speak.
Others are Confidence Staveley, Founder and Executive/Director, Cybersafe Foundation, Top 50 Women in Cyber Security Africa 2020, Nigeria and Dr Gabi Siboni, Director of the Military and Strategic Affairs Program and Cyber Security Program, The Institute for National Security Studies, Israel.
World Cyber Security Summit will feature virtual keynotes, panel discussions, technology use-cases, product showcases and other insightful sessions.
It will be set in an interactive online environment where participants can also engage with speakers in questions and answer sessions and network with solution providers in virtual exhibition booths, private consultation rooms and private networking rooms.
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