» Speakers 2018

Rob Adam

Director, Square Kilometer Array
Managing Director, South African Radio Astronomy Observatory

SARAO Managing Director. Prior to this, he was the Group Executive: Nuclear at the Aveng Group. Before that, he served a...

Phindile Baleni

Director General
Gauteng Province, South Africa

Director-General, Gauteng Office of the Premier, South Africa. Before joining the Guateng Office of the Premier in 2015,...

Stefano Bonaccini

Governor
Emilia-Romagna Region

Governor, Emilia-Romagna Region. Stefano Bonaccini has been elected President of the Regional Government of Emilia-Romag...

Paolo Borzatta

Senior Partner
The European House - Ambrosetti

Senior Partner of The European House – Ambrosetti and Managing Director of Ambrosetti Group Limited. He is an expe...

Francisco Javier Juan Casanas

Senior Vice President for Africa
Italian State Railways

Senior Vice President for Africa, Italian State Railways since March 1961. He has a 30 years management experience on se...

Fortune Chasi

Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Zimbabwe

Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Republic of Zimbabwe. Former Prosecutor, Deputy Minister C...

Marcus Cornaro

Ambassador of EU to South Africa

Ambassador of the European Union to the Republic of South Africa. Ambassador Cornaro arrived in South Africa in October ...

Barbara Creecy

Member of the Executive Council for Finance, Gauteng, South Africa

Member of the Executive Council for Finance, Gauteng, South Africa. Ms Barbara Creecy is one of the leaders of the ANC a...

Nicolò D’Amico

Chairman
National Institute for Astrophysics, Italy

President, Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and Chair Professor of Astrophysics at Physics Department ...

Deon de Beer

Chair in Innovation and Commercialisation of Additive Manufacturing
Central University of Technology

Chair: Innovation and Commercialisation of Additive Manufacturing (AM) at the Centre for Rapid Prototyping and Manufactu...

Valerio De Molli

Managing Partner and CEO
The European House - Ambrosetti

Valerio De Molli has been Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of The European House – Ambrosetti since 20...

Pietro Giovanni Donnici

Ambassador of Italy to South Africa

Ambassador of Italy to the Republic of South Africa. Ambassador Donnici started his diplomatic career in 1984, and he ha...

Alec Erwin

Chairman, UBU Investment Holdings
former Minister of Public Enterprises and former Minister of Trade and Industry, South Africa

Chairman, UBU Investment Holding. Between 1994 and 2008 he held several public offices, serving as Deputy Minister of Fi...

Mike Fanucchi

Chief Customer Officer
Transnet

Chief Customer Officer, Transnet. Mr. Fanucchi previously served in the Executive Business Development of Barloworld Log...

Lorenzo Fioramonti

Deputy Minister of Education, University and Research, Italy

Deputy Minister of Education, University and Research of Italy. Lorenzo Fioramonti is also Full Professor of Political E...

Serena Foracchia

Deputy Mayor and Council Member for International Relations
City of Reggio Emilia

Deputy Mayor of Reggio Emilia (Italy), in charge for International Relations, European Projects, Intercultural Aspects a...

Guido Giachetti

Executive Chairman and CEO
Realestate Group

Executive Chairman and CEO, Realestate Group. Mr. Giachetti has a passion for the Hospitality business and Africa: indee...

Tim Harris

Chief Executive Officer
Wesgro

CEO, Wesgro. Mr. Harris previously served as Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister of Finance for the Democratic Alli...

Bernadette Jagger

Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism, Namibia

Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism of Republic of Namibia. Prior to that, Ms. Jagger was Deputy Director of Educ...

Vincent Lemaire

Country Leader South Africa
CLN-MA Group

CEO South Africa, MA-CLN. Vincent Lemaire joined MA-CLN in 2007 and he was Plant Manager Eurostamp France and later COO ...

Panyaza Lesufi

Member of the Executive Council for Education
Gauteng, South Africa

Member of the Executive Council for Education, Gauteng, South Africa. Mr. Lesufi has been a member of the Provincial Exe...

Phuti Mahanyele

Executive Chairperson
Sigma Capital

Executive Chairperson of Sigma Capital. Ms. Mahanyele served as Independent non-executive director at Reunert Ltd since ...

David Malemolla Makhura

Premier of Gauteng, Republic of South Africa

Premier of Gauteng since 2014. Mr. Makura is a trustee of the Board of the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation. He has been part o...

Stefano Manservisi

Director General for International Cooperation and Development
European Commission

Director General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO) of the European Commission. Prior to that, Mr. Ma...

Trevor Manuel

President’s Special Envoy on Investment, South Africa
Chairman, Old Mutual Group Holdings

Chairperson of Old Mutual Group Holdings (OMGH). In April 2018 Mr. Manuel has also been appointed by President Cyril Ram...

Herman Mashaba

Mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa

Elected Executive Mayor of Johannesburg in August 2016, Herman Mashaba was born on 26 August 1959 in GaRamotse, Hammansk...

Antonio Almeida Matos

Chairperson
Mozambique Maputo Corridor Logistics Initative

Mozambican Chairperson of the Maputo Corridor Logistics Initiative, from 1975 to 1990 António Almeida Matos worked in v...

Veli Mcobothi

CEO
Cinga Capital

Founder and Director, Cinga Capital. Prior to founding Cinga Capital, Mr. Mcobothi was a Private Equity Principal at Inv...

Angelica Mkok

Head of Industry Affairs for Southern Africa
Amadeus Integrated Solutions

Head of Industry Affairs in Southern Africa, Amadeus IT Group. Ms. Mkok is a seasoned executive in the travel and techno...

Thabo Molekoa

CEO Sub-Saharan Africa Region
Thyssenkrupp AG

CEO, Thyssenkrupp AG, Sub Saharan Africa. Mr. Molekoa has more than 18 years profesional experience, both operational an...

Arnaud Montalvo

CEO
Airbus Helicopters Southern Africa

Mr. Montalvo joined in 1997 the Safran group and was appointed Vice President Finance for Turbomeca Africa in 2002. In 2...

Dineshan Moodley

Responsible of Project Delivery Division
Automotive Industry Development Centre

Responsible of Project Delivery Division, Automotive Industry Development Centre (AIDC). Mr. Moodley has almost 17 years...

AB Moosa

CEO
Avalon Group

CEO, Avalon Group. In 2006, AB was appointed as CEO of the Avalon Group, which was co-founded by AB’s late Grandfather...

Nomusa Mufamadi

Chairperson
Gauteng Tourism Agency Board

Chairperson of the board of directors of the gauteng tourism authority where she was formerly the chairperson of the aud...

Peya Mushelenga

Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Namibia

Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Republic of Namibia. Prior to that, he was Assistant Whip SWAPO party 2005-2010...

Ranieri Niccoli

Chief Manufacturing Officer
Automobili Lamborghini

Chief Manufacturing Officer, Automobili Lamborghini. After earning a Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Univers...

Tseke Nkadimeng

Founder and Executive Chairman
Moopong Investment Holdings

Founder, Moopong Investment Holdings. Mr. Nkadimeng started his career working for KPMG in the audit department. He left...

Lynette Ntuli

CEO, Innate Investment Solutions
(Summit Main Chairperson)

Chief Executive Officer of Innate Investment Solutions, a South African entity that provides property, asset management ...

Blade Nzimande

Minister of Transport, South Africa

Minister of Transport, Republic of South Africa. Dr. Nzimande is the current General Secretary of the South African Comm...

Lapo Pistelli

Executive Vice President of International Affairs
ENI

Lapo Pistelli was born in Florence in 1964 and has been Eni’s Executive Vice President of International Affairs since ...

Jeff Radebe

Minister of Energy, South Africa

Minister of Energy, Republic of South Africa. Mr. Radebe has previously served as a Minister in the Presidency: Planning...

Hamilton Ratshefola

Country General Manager
IBM South Africa

Country General Manager, IBM SA. Mr. Ratshefola joined IBM as a graduate and trainee System Engineer in 1990. He worked ...

Jonathan Reichental

CIO and CTO
City of Palo Alto, State of California

Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Palo Alto. Mr. Reichental is a multiple award-winning technology leader ...

Shirish Soni

Ambassador of South Africa to Italy

Ambassador of South Africa to Italy. H.E. Amb. Soni presented Letters of Credentials to President Sergio Mattarella, Pre...

Ismail Vadi

Member of the Executive Council for Roads and Transport
Gauteng, South Africa

Member of the Executive Council for Roads and Transport, Gauteng, South Africa. Between April 1994 and November 2010, Va...

Luiz Zerbini

Director
Director, International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Director and Head of the Cancer Genomics Group at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (IC...