Bradley has experience in implementing and scaling bleeding-edge open source technologies at financial institutions. His career in Big Data started at Standard Bank, where he built the largest Hadoop cluster in Africa at the time, enabling the Data Science capability at scale across the organisation.

Bradley has become a thought leader in the field of cybersecurity as it relates to big data, sharing his experiences with other international industry leaders at the 2018 DataWorks Summit in Berlin through a talk titled “Securing and governing a multi-tenant data lake within the financial industry”.

Bradley is currently the Engineering Practice Lead for Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence managing several teams, from robotics to personalisation.   His responsibilities include defining and executing the strategic roadmap migrating core banking activities to the cloud, as well as enabling artificial intelligence and machine learning use cases, ensuring Standard Bank remains a strong contender in today’s data economy.

Outside of work, Bradley’s interests include track racing and travelling. He believes strongly in youth empowerment and giving graduates in South Africa the platform to showcase their abilities.  To that end, Bradley is currently lecturing on “Big Data Analytics and Business Applications” at the School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems at the University of Johannesburg.

Pieter van Eyssen is a Principal Solution Consultant at Genesys for the South & East Africa region. In this capacity, Pieter collaborates and works closely with Account Executives, Channel Partners and Customers to discover, plan and engineer Genesys solutions to ensure that all business and customer experience objectives are met through the different strategies utilized. With an extensive prior background in Professional Services, wherein his responsibilities included implementation, configuration, integration and support of Genesys solutions, for small and large scale projects within South Africa and Europe and across a range of vertical sectors, Pieter has acquired more than 17 years of experience related to the customer service and experience industry.

Ian Keller is Chief Information Security Officer for SBV Services, where he is responsible for leading SBV’s and diverse information security and IT risk strategy.

Prior to joining SBV, Ian served as Group Chief Information Security Officer for the Discovery Group. In this role, Ian set the Group information security and technology risk vision and strategy in key areas, including governance, policy, awareness, project management, audit,  assessment, incident response, operations, technical investigations, business continuity and disaster recovery.

Ian is an active member in the cyber security industry and is brand ambassador for Trend Micro and Fortinet. He in an active member at the CIO Roundtable and CISO Alliance. He is also a CISSP and ISEB ISM member, both in good standing.

Ian began his career in Information Security in the South African Defence Force where he served as Instructor in the Army Intelligence wing at Danie Theron Combat School.

He received his Masters Degree from the University of Liverpool.

Abdul Baba is a highly recognised and equally qualified IT practitioner and trusted advisor.  Abdul currently consults as an independent consultant in the industry and is also a non-executive director for Computer Aid International and 7 Events Africa.  He is currently a member of the Executive global network (EGN), Institute of Director of Southern Africa (IODSA), IT professional’s association as well as the CIO Council of South Africa.  His strength lies in setting business and IT strategies, developing large solutions architectures, managing system development, and leading cohesive teams for implementation. Abdul chairs and presents at many Business IT Leadership conferences with a passion on how technology will transform and enable business value. He is a Cybersecurity, Governance, and Dx evangelist, who serves on various boards and IT advisory bodies as part of his contribution to influencing South Africa’s 4IR goals and aspirations

Abdul has started his career in the banking industry, worked extensively within SAP Business Consulting, Insurance, Logistics transportation, Media and Advertising industries respectively.  Abdul also has extensive experience in Enterprise IT Architecture where he held various technical technology roles in one of the largest bank in Africa. Abdul served as the CIO of Skynet as well as the Group IT Director of the TBWA Media group prior to his current role. Abdul holds a B.Comm Honours degree in Informatics as well as a Master’s degree in Business Leadership (MBL). Abdul is currently working on his PHD contributing to the 4IR success and body of knowledge in South Africa.