P R O G R A M M E

2-3 April 2014

Conference & Exhibition

Girassol Indy Village Congress Hotel, Maputo

An AITEC Africa event

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OPENING SESSION KEYNOTE SHOWCASE PRESENTATION

Affordable and reliable IP connectivity

for corporate networks throughout sub-

Saharan Africa Fulvio Sansonem, Chief Technology Officer,

SatADSL, Belgium

The Impact of a Connected Africa Alexandre Nheve, Regional Operations Manager, South East Africa, SEACOM Mozambique

The power of digital marketing Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn as social marketing tools in a Mozambican SME and corporate context.

Mulweli Rebelo, Director General, Ologa, Mozambique

Can mobile money be free? Nnamdi Oranye, Business Development Manager, Indian Atlantic, South Africa

Electronic banking and payments: Introducing customer-centric services Stelios Papadakis, Head Electronic Banking Channels, Barclays Bank, Maputo, Mozambique

Evolution of Transit & Internet Exchange Points Willem Marais, Global Head of Sales, SEACOM, South Africa

How to get it right this time: New models for African operators and ISPs Kai U. Wulff, Access Field Development Director, Google, USA

Modular data centres A practical case study on how modular data centers can effectively address many of the construction challenges

in Mozambique - by turning a project in to a guaranteed product.

Carita Da Costa, Sales Director Eastern & Southern Africa, Flexenclosure AB, Mozambique

Context-aware business intelligence for Southern Africa Jonathan David Novotny, Social Entrepreneur, eCommerce Advocate, Founder of CloudSales,

Creative Director, CloudSales, South Africa

Developing ICT best practice for Southern African higher education institutions Developing best practice from the theoretical foundations of information systems research and a developed

context-aware based business intelligence framework, that respond to institutional decision-making activities

within the South African Higher Education sector. The study addressed the loopholes in managing higher

education institutions by fact and also streamline how integrated business intelligence tools and applications can

bring organizational intelligence. The study employed a mixed method research approach, where information

systems research methodologies, especially the technology acceptance model, design research methods,

quantitative and qualitative techniques are solicited in applicable situations during the study.

Alfred Mutanga, Head: Management Information Systems, University of Venda, South Africa

PANEL DISCUSSION 1 Mobile applications development in Mozambique and across the SADC region Evaluation of recent Hackathon results and output and discussion of issues related to IP on ICT

innovations; funding for ICT entrepreneurs in Mozambique and major barrier for start-ups. Mozambique Information and Communication Technology Institute (MICTI) and the Southern Africa

Innovation Support Programme (SAIS)

PANEL DISCUSSION 2 Held in partnership with ictmoz

New telecommunications legislation and regulations: Assessment and

implementation for a new era in communications

PANELLISTS Hermann Woithe, CEO, Internet Solutions, Mozambique

Kai U. Wulff, Access Field Development Director, Google, USA

Americo Muchanga, Director General, INCM, Mozambique

PANEL DISCUSSION 3 E-Commerce in emerging economies

PANELLISTS Jonathan David Novotny, Social Entrepreneur , eCommerce Advocate, Founder of CloudSales

PANEL DISCUSSION 4 ICT in Youth Development and Education PANELLISTS Jonathan David Novotny, Social Entrepreneur , eCommerce Advocate, Founder of CloudSales

PANEL DISCUSSION 5 Held in partnership with Alliance for Affordable Internet in Africa

Affordable broadband access: How can government, private enterprise, academia

and development partners work together to achieve lower costs?

PANEL DISCUSSION 6 Systems interoperability: The holy grail for an effective national payments system

PANELLISTS Paulo Maculuve, Director, Banco de Moambique

Arafat Mahomed Bique, Direco de Sistemas de Informao, BCI, Mozambique

PANEL DISCUSSION 7 New approaches, including shared services and infrastructure to accelerate rural

connectivity

LEAD PRESENTATION

Rural connectivity: Opportunities and challenges The benefits of having poor rural communities connected to the Internet. Challenges in getting it

done, role of government, private sector models Hermann Woithe, CEO, Internet Solutions , Mozambique

PANELLISTS Fulvio Sansone, Chief Technology Officer, SatADSL SA, Belgium

Polly Gaster, TICs para Desenvolvimento/ICT4D, Centro de Informatica da Universidade Eduardo

Mondlane (CIUEM), Campus Universitario, Mozambique

WORKSHOP

Dream, make, sell Mobile apps business workshop Derrick Kotze, Director and CEO, mLab Southern Africa, South Africa

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