The Vertical Chapter 4: BFSI and SACCOs
August 9, 2023 at 9 AM - 5 PM (GMT + 3)
Radisson Blu Upperhill
welcome
Re-defining Industry Outcomes
The Vertical is a series of events that showcase industry-specific digital solutions. This particular event is designed to bring your solutions to the right people within the right organizations in the BFSI and SACCOs industries.
Speaker List
The Challenges
New solutions tend to face resistance from the market. Selling into the industry takes up a lot of time and effort. We find that the three main challenges faced by organisations in the BFSI & SACCOs space revolve around standing out to attract the attention of prospective customers, getting the message to a broad enough range of target customers and influencing decision-makers in client organisations without prior referrals who they trust.
What the Vertical Can Help You Achieve
The Vertical, by design, is a series of industry-specific events that bring innovative solutions using cutting-edge technology to the decision-makers of businesses. It targets Tech vendors, ISVs, start-ups and, specifically, C-suite and decision makers who represent organisations of industry vertical. Attend and engage with the key decision makers of organizations in the BFSI and SACCO industries as this is a strictly invitation-only event composed of handpicked attendees and highly influential stakeholders.
Pitch, Connect and Close Deals!
Cut through the noise and get in front of the right customers. Take full advantage of an opportunity to pitch your company's business solution, make lasting and meaningful connections with key decision makers and close deals in the shortest time possible.
Benefits
Benefits
The Vertical is designed to bring your solutions to the right people within the right organizations. Here are some of the benefits you can expect to get from the event.
Get personalized feedback
Validate the market
New go-to market strategy
Viable market strategy
Deeper support ecosystem
Control your message
Get positioned as an expert
Engage your peers
Speakers
Speakers
Elly Roimen Mathenge
Technology Enthusiast and Strategist
Elly Roimen Mathenge
Technology Enthusiast and Strategist
Elly is a technology enthusiast; a hybrid professional, an executive leader, and a strategist with experience cutting across various industries. Having studied, worked, and lived in the US for nearly two decades Elly has vast experience in IT Operations, Partnerships, Project & Change Management. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Metropolitan State University and an MBA with a concentration in IT Management from Capella University Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. She is passionate about empowering youth and especially young girls and women through mentorship.
Rodgers Koech
Senior Sales Engineer, African Cluster (AC), Trend Micro
Rodgers Koech (CCIE ENT) is a driven and motivated Sales Engineer with exceptional consultative sales skills to help customers solve technical problems. Works in tandem with sales team to exceed customer expectations for functionality, cost-effectiveness, and successful system rollout. Offering strong work ethic and track record of building loyal customer relationships. Entrepreneurial Sales Engineer with excellent business acumen and proven history of driving technical sales and revenue growth.
Sam Keiru
Cloud Security Lead - Sub-Saharan Africa, Cisco
Sam Keiru leads Cisco’s Cloud Security Business for Sub-Saharan Africa, primarily focusing on enabling Financial Services, Government, and Industry in all matters of Cyber Resilience through enabling Cloud Security Technologies. Previously, Sam cut his Teeth as a Security Solutions Architect and Business Development Lead, pioneering the formation and realisation of turnkey projects across Financial Services, Aviation and as a consultant in the Defence Sector.
Hemal Shah
Product Management Lead, DigiGlass
Hemal is an accomplished cybersecurity practitioner and technology expert in Telecommunications, ICT, and Cybersecurity. With 15+ years of experience across Data Centers, IT architecture, Cybersecurity, and Product and Programme Management, Hemal is a trusted consultant, providing key insights into Cybersecurity Awareness and Best Practices. His specialization lies in strengthening security for Hybrid and Cloud Environments, making him a trusted consultant to clients.
agenda
Agenda
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Day 01
August 9, 2023
09:00 AM - 09:20 AM
Opening Remarks
09:20 AM - 09:45 AM
Digital Transformation: Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges
09:45 AM - 10:05 AM
Refining Your Customer Experience in the Digital Age
Zahid Sumar
General Manager - East and Southern Africa, Redington Value Division
speaker
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM
Enabling Digital Transformation For The Enterprise
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Securing the Digital Banks of Tomorrow
John Gichohi
Senior Systems Engineer - East Africa, Fortinet
speaker
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Coffee Break
11:25 AM - 11:50 AM
Driving Agility Through DevOps and Agile Transformation
Bernard Wanjau
Data Centre Solutions Specialist - South East Africa, Dell Technologies
speaker
11:50 AM - 12:25 PM
Cybersecurity and Compliance: Safeguarding the BFSI Sector
Rodgers Koech
Senior Sales Engineer, African Cluster (AC), Trend Micro
speaker
12:25 PM - 12:45 PM
Embracing Open-Source Technologies for Innovation and Flexibility
12:45 PM - 02:05 PM
Lunch
02:05 PM - 02:35 PM
Securing Every Byte: Veeam’s All-Encompassing Approach to Ransomware Protection
Shalen Rangasamy
Senior Distribution Manager for Africa, Veeam Software
speaker
02:35 PM - 03:05 PM
Security for Financial Services
Sam Keiru
Cloud Security Lead - Sub-Saharan Africa, Cisco
speaker
03:05 PM - 03:35 PM
Strengthening Anti-money Laundering Efforts in the Kenyan BFSI Sector: Trends, Challenges, and Strategies for Compliance
Panel Discussion
Elly Roimen Mathenge (MBA)
Technology Enthusiast and Strategist
moderator
Hemal Shah
Product Management Lead, DigiGlass
panelist
Timothy Oriedo
Founder and CEO, Predictive Analytics Lab
panelist
David Marete
Managing Director, Ujuzi Software Solutions Ltd
panelist
03:35 PM - 03:55 PM
Closing Remarks
Vipul Rathod
Commercial Lead, Redington Group
speaker
03:55 PM - 05:00 PM
Coffee Break and Networking
partners
Partners
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation which produces computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. They are headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washington, United States. Its best-known software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers.
Fortinet
Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.
Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live, and play. The company provides customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era.
Trend Micro
Trend Micro is the global leader in enterprise cloud security, XDR, and cybersecurity platform solutions for businesses, data centers, cloud environments, networks, and endpoints. Trend Micro helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, our cybersecurity platform protects 500,000+ organizations and 250+ million individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.
As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, our platform delivers central visibility for better, faster detection and response and a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments, like AWS, Microsoft, and Google.
Red Hat
Open technology built for change: Red Hat delivers hardened, open-source solutions that make it easier for enterprises to work across platforms and environments, from the core data center to the network edge. By operating transparently and responsibly, we continue to be a catalyst in open-source communities, helping you build flexible, powerful IT infrastructure solutions. Open source is what powers innovation— past, present, and future. This is the innovation the world needs. This power extends beyond data centers and emerging technology, and puts innovation in the hands of everyone.
Veeam
Veeam ensures data resiliency for your business through secure data backup, fast and reliable recovery, and data protection solutions for cloud, virtual and physical environments. Founded in 2006, we focused on simplifying backups for virtual machines. We quickly became the industry leader. Veeam continues to charge forward to innovate the industry so you can own, control and protect your data anywhere in the hybrid cloud.
Cisco
Cisco delivers innovative software-defined networking, cloud, and security solutions to help transform your business, empowering an inclusive future for all. Cisco offers an industry-leading portfolio of technology innovations. With networking, security, collaboration, cloud management, and more, we help to securely connect industries and communities.
We're the bridge to possible. Connecting is inherently inclusive, and we're all about it. Everything we do—every innovation we unleash—serves our purpose: to power an inclusive future for all. If you can imagine it, we will build a bridge to get you there.
media
Media Partners
dx⁵Group
Digital transformation (dx) is a strategic approach to enterprise innovation built around integrating digital technologies into businesses processes, products and solutions and stakeholder engagement. dx⁵ was built on a passion for transformative technology and authentic community connection. We create, support and activate digital transformation across the African continent through multiple C-Suite connections, driving change and growth in a variety of industries.