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Business Transformation and Cybersecurity in Southern Africa: Emerging Trends

Explore how organisations can embrace digital transformation while building the resilience to navigate an evolving cybersecurity landscape.

About the webinar

Digital transformation creates opportunities to improve efficiency, rethink workflows and strengthen organisational performance. It also brings new cyber risks that need to be considered alongside the benefits.

This webinar brings together expert perspectives on business transformation and cybersecurity in Southern Africa. The discussion focuses on practical ways to strengthen resilience, improve awareness and align digital change with responsible governance.

Director of Ceremonies

Dr Godwin Kaisara

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business, Namibia University of Science and Technology

What we’ll explore

  • Understand emerging threats, including AI-driven attacks, credential theft and ransomware.
  • Strengthen resilience through continuity planning, incident response and reliable backups.
  • Explore identity management, regulatory awareness and continuous threat monitoring.
  • Build a cyber-aware culture that supports sound governance and institutional integrity.

Session format

  • Expert keynote presentations
  • Interactive panel discussion

Meet the guest speakers

Expert perspectives. Practical insights.

Dr Zoran Mitrovic

Dr Zoran Mitrovic

Director and Consultant

Mitrovic Development and Research Institute, South Africa

Cybersecurity governance, strategic risk and the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence.

Dr Zoran Mitrovic

Dr Zoran Mitrovic

Director and Consultant

Mitrovic Development and Research Institute, South Africa

Dr Zoran Mitrovic is an Executive Director at MDRI, an ICT expert at the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency, and an academic and cybersecurity consultant with experience across industry, government and higher education. He holds a Doctor of Technology in Informatics.

His work includes board-level cybersecurity governance, strategic risk frameworks and the secure, responsible adoption of generative and agentic AI. His capacity-building initiatives span cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, digital security awareness and AI governance.
Mr Gideon Aniechi

Mr Gideon Aniechi

Chief Technology Officer

3Cs Aquarah Limited, United Kingdom

Enterprise cybersecurity, incident response and practical approaches to digital resilience.

Mr Gideon Aniechi

Mr Gideon Aniechi

Chief Technology Officer

3Cs Aquarah Limited, United Kingdom

Gideon Aniechi is a cybersecurity executive, technology strategist and Chief Technology Officer at 3Cs Aquarah Limited. His experience includes enterprise cybersecurity, security innovation, incident response and digital transformation.

He has held senior security leadership roles at Ethnos Cyber Limited and served as an Incident Commander during an enterprise ransomware crisis. His work combines technical response, crisis management, advisory services and organisational resilience. He also contributes to cybersecurity training, public discussions, technology entrepreneurship and mentoring.