Lawrence Boya
Director: Smart City Programme, City of Johannesburg
Featured Speakers
Sharoda Rapeti
Partner, Delta Partners
Marloes Reinink
Founder and Sustainable Building Consultant, Solid Green
Jon Williams
City and Urbanisation Leader, PwC South Africa
Sebastian Granow
Head of Location Management Africa, Siemens
Grahame Cruickshanks
Managing Executive: Market Engagement, Green Building Council of South Africa
Bora Varliyagci
Chief Executive Officer, digitalthings
Tony Lee Luen Len
Partner, Ecosis Ltd, Mauritius
Jeremy Gibberd
Architect and Specialist in Built Environment, Gauge
Vaughan Harris
Founder and President, BIM Institute
Grahame Cruickshanks, Managing Executive: Market Engagement, Green Building Council of South Africa
A professional architect and Green Star SA Accredited Professional, Grahame has 20 years’ experience in the design and construction industry with a focus on green buildings. He has worked on a variety of Green Star SA and BREEAM certified projects and other building projects in South Africa, Singapore and the UK. Grahame now leads Market […]
Sharoda Rapeti, Partner, Delta Partners
Sharoda Rapeti is a Non-Executive Partner at Delta Partners. Delta Partners is a global boutique firm specialising only in Telecoms, Media and Tech (TMT) across two domains of practise, viz.; Management Consulting and Investment Banking. Sharoda has 3+ decades of industry and management consulting experience in the electronics, broadcasting and telecommunications sectors. In her previous […]
Bora Varliyagci, Chief Executive Officer, digitalthings
Bora Varliyagci is the CEO of Digitalthings, a boutique strategy & investment focused advisory firm serving to TMT industry. His over 19 years’ international experience in the telecommunications sector covers emerging markets from Asia, Central, Southern and Eastern Europe to Middle East and Africa. Throughout his career, Bora has successfully set-up new businesses and practices, established […]
Sebastian Granow, Head of Location Management Africa, Siemens
Sebastian is responsible for the strategic and operational real estate management of Siemens’ locations in Sub-Sahara Africa, ranging from site-selection, leasing, relocations and property disposals to day-to-day operations including facility- and service management, maintenance and workplace management. Champion for energy efficiency through distributed energy systems with microgrids and enabling digital building management through our Siemens […]
Marloes Reinink, Founder and Sustainable Building Consultant, Solid Green
Marloes Reinink is the founder of Solid Green Consulting. She has an architectural background and has specialised in sustainable buildings and green building certification. She completed two master degrees with final thesis’s on ‘Sustainable School Design’ and ‘Energy Efficiency Labelling of Commercial Buildings’. Over the last years she has gained extensive experience with the Green […]
Lawrence Boya, Director: Smart City Programme, City of Johannesburg
I am a Director in the City of Johannesburg heading the Smart City Office which is responsible to provide leadership, coordination, and programme management of the Smart City Programme of the CoJ. I have over two decades of experience as a senior executive in different spheres and sectors of government in the Republic of South […]
Vaughan Harris, Founder and President, BIM Institute
Vaughan Harris , aka ‘The Baron of BIM’ has a wealth of history working in the think tanks and leadership development arena within the digital construction industry. His strong business development skills, succession planning and training development has successfully positioned him as the Founder and President for the BIM Institute and is currently the Executive […]
Tony Lee Luen Len, Partner, Ecosis Ltd, Mauritius
Tony Lee Luen Len’s expertise lies in the field of sustainability, the built environment and multi-sector collaboration. He is a chartered quantity surveyor, project manager and an accredited partnership broker. He is equally an accredited professional/assessor in several green building/sustainable communities rating systems. He has started research as a scholar of Bertha Centre of Social […]
Jon Williams, City and Urbanisation Leader, PwC
Jonathan is a partner at PWC Partner responsible for advisory services provided to government and other public sector clients in the Western Cape. He supports PWC’s national practice and clients in responding to the MSCoA change requirements and with their approach to Future African Cities. His experience entails: Public Sector Leadership & Management, Deputy Finance […]
Jeremy Gibberd, Architect and Specialist in Built Environment, Gauge
Dr Jeremy Gibberd is an Architect, Teacher and Research Scientist. He has worked on a wide range of innovative projects in the UK, the USA, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Tanzania and Sierra Leone that redefine how built environments are planned, designed, built and operated to become more inclusive and more sustainable. These projects include inclusive […]
Erky Wood Director, GAPP Architects & Urban Designers, South Africa
Erky is an urbanist specialising in urban design, urban development processes, the identification of strategic objectives, parametric urban cost modelling, public policy issues and their effect on the urban design process. He was a member of the original Urban Design team for the V&A Waterfront project in Cape Town, starting in 1988 and subsequently led […]
Martine Mtonga, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet and National Coordinator, Electronic Government Division – SMART Zambia
Dr. Mtonga is the Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet and National Coordinator for the E-Government Division of the Republic Zambia in the Office of the President (SMART Zambia Institute). The SMART Zambia Institute has been mandated to Coordinate, Harmonise and Implement Information Communication Technologies (ICT’s) across the public service in Zambia. He has experience in […]
Tshepo Kgobe, Senior Executive, Gautrain Management Agency
Tshepo Kgobe is a seasoned Senior Executive who is also a Certified Project Management Professional and Multidisciplinary Engineer with more than 20 years of extensive experience in managing complex projects, programmes and operations with diverse technical requirements, in Infrastructure, Energy and Mining. Tshepo has also held diverse positions that are not related to engineering including […]
Lesley Donna Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Tshimologong Precinct
Lesley believes that living your full potential is a basic human right and designs this opportunity through all her work. She is CEO of Wits University’s Tshimologong Precinct, a digital innovation and skills precinct that aims to realize African digital innovation for global markets. “Tshimologong” works in collaboration with Gauteng provincial government, corporates, entrepreneurs and […]
Cyril Baloyi, Group Chief Technology Officer, City of Johannesburg
Cyril Baloyi is the Group Chief Technology Officer for the City of Johannesburg, responsible for collaborating, consolidating and centralising the City’s entire ICT landscape to reduce systems and processes duplications, and accelerate the City’s and its citizen ambitions by ensuring effective and efficient ICT driven solutions. Previously, he was the Public Sector Services Head at […]
