The Speaker Faculty

This is the complete list of the confirmed contributors at Mobile Web in Africa. 

As more and more of the leading lights from the mobile industry are confirmed their details will be included here:

• Mr Herman Heunis, Chief Executive Officer, MXit
• Dr Marc Smith, Leader, Connected Action Consulting Group
• Mr Jose Henriques, Executive Head, Internet Services, Vodacom
• Mr Kannan Pashupathy, Director of Engineering for Africa, Google
• Mr Rick Joubert, Executive Chairman, Yonder Mobile Media / Founding Chairman,
  Mobile Marketing Association
• Mr Stephane Boyera, Program Manager, Web Foundation / W3C
• Mr Vincent Maher, Portfolio Manager, Social Media, Vodacom
• Mr Matthew Buckland, Head, 20FourLabs
• Mr Eric Cantor, Director, AppLab Uganda, Grameen Foundation
• Mr Sean Paavo Krepp, AME, Emerging Markets Services, Nokia
• Mr Marc Anthony Zimmerman, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, The Broccoli Project 
• Mr Simon Leps, CEO, Fontera
• Mr Charles McCathie Nevile, Chief Standards Officer, Opera
• Mr Rahim Zaknoun, Business Development - Middle East Africa, Forum Nokia
• Mr Mbugua Njihia, Chief Executive Officer, Symbiotic Media Consortium 
• Mr Pete Case, Creative Director, Gloo Design Agency
• Mr Elan Lohmann, General Manager - Online, Avusa Media
• Mr Allan Kent, Head, AtPlay, Saatchi & Saatchi
• Mr Zibusiso Mkhwananzi, Executive Chairman & Financial Director, KRAZYBOYZ Digital
• Mr Angus Robinson, Founder, Brandsh Media
• Mr Mario Marais, Living Lab Research Group, Meraka Institute, CSIR
• Ms Ory Okolloh, Executive Director, Ushahidi
• Mr Yomi Adegboye, CEO, Alireta Nigeria
• Mr Ashraf Patel, Program Manager, SAFIPA
• Mr Tyler Reed, CEO & Founder, TinyImpact
• Mr Brett Loubser, Product and Technical Support Manager, Samsung South Africa
• Mr Justin Spratt, Co-Founder, ISLabs
• Mr Russell Atkins, Managing Director, Thumbtribe Media
• Mr Ahmed Kajee, Managing Director, CellSmart
• Mr Nyasha Mutsekwa, Chief Executive Officer, EngineeringIdeas
• Mr Rapelang Rabana, Chief Executive Officer, Yeigo Communications

"We asked Matthew Dawes to put together the mobile conference that people will talk about until the next year and if you look at the speaker line-up
he has done exactly that.  I have been involved from the concept-on-a-napkin phase of this event and its going to be seminal."
Mr Vincent Maher, Portfolio Manager: Social Media, Vodacom

"I must say the agenda looks action packed and this promises to be a killer conference, I am excited to be a part of Mobile Web Africa"
Mr Elan Lohmann, General Manager - Online, Avusa Media

"The social impact of computing remains largely in the future when connected mobile devices with sensors capture information about each of us and every encounter. The Mobile Web Africa conference will gather leading
participants in this massive transformation"
Dr Marc Smith, Leader, Connected Action Consulting Group