Moira has worked in the IT-related training field for over 30 years.  

She is GM and director of e-learning solutions provider Laragh Skills (formerly SmartForce Africa). Moira has assisted several companies in implementing computer based training programmes aimed at improving e-literacy in the workforce. 

Moira has been on the committee of the CSSA Western Cape Chapter for six years. She is also active on the Computer Olympiad committee and more recently joined the organising committee for the World Conference of Computers in Education 2005, which is run in conjunction with IFIP. 

She is also a non-executive director of the International Computer Driver’s Licence Foundation.
 

Neville has been in the IT industry in South Africa for the past 38 years. His career started in the Operations environment then progressed through Programming and Analysis, Sales and Management. He was with IBM for 29 years and among others, held the positions of Banking Branch Manager, MD of the Corporate Business Division, Director of the Mainframe Division, Director of the Networking Division and IT Solutions Executive. After leaving IBM, he was MD of Conscripti (Pty) Ltd, the local representatives for Tata Consulting, a major Indian software development and consulting house. He joined META Group in 2002 as Sales Manager and moved across to Gartner in 2005 as Consulting Manager when Gartner acquired META Group.
 

René has been associated with Gartner in Africa for over 11 years. René established the Gartner presence in SA and under her leadership, IT Management Advisory Services has established and grown the Gartner membership base in the territory to more than 120 clients, representing many of the Top 100 companies in SA, as well as having clients in other parts of Africa. Her team consists of 27 employees, based in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. 

Prior to her association with Gartner, René spent nine years at SPL as divisional manager and seven years at ICL in various local and international marketing positions, preceded by four years in a systems development capacity and as a mathematical statistician at Mutual and Federal and the Johannesburg City Council. René holds a master’s degree in business leadership from Unisa, a BSc (Hons) in information systems from Unisa and a BSc (mathematics and computer science) from the University of Potchefstroom.
 

Mthunzi Mdwaba is the executive chairman of Torque-IT South Africa, a company dedicated to computer technical training solutions. In this capacity he has led the company to three nominations in the 2003 African Achievers’ Awards: Creative use of ICT in Education (won); Top Black ICT Company (first runner up); and Top Individual in ICT (first runner up to Sizwe Nxasana, Telkom CEO). In 2004 he won the title of the IT Personality of the Year 2005 presented by the CSSA.

Prior to joining Torque-IT he was CEO of Primedia Music, business affairs director of Metropolis and director of Metropolis Holdings (Primedia and Datatec). He started his career serving articles at Kallmeyer & Strime Attorneys, then took the position of legal services manager at Southern Sun and later became operations director at ASAMI (Association of the South African Music Industry) – now RISA (Recording Industry of South Africa).

Mdwaba holds a BA LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand. 

Roger is the executive director of Electronics Industry Federation and executive director of CSSA.

He is qualified in electronics and telecoms, marketing management and financial management. He serves on several boards as a director, including the South African Electrotechnical Export Council, the SMME Forum and the ISETT Sector Training Authority for ICT.

He has extensive business, marketing and technical experience in ICT and electronics at senior management level in SA, France and the UK.

He is a member of the ICT Empowerment Charter Working Group management team, responsible for financial management and the secretariat and a steering committee member of Savant, the SA government/industry partnership.
 

Ranka is editorial director and founding member of ITWeb.

For the past eight years, she has led ITWeb’s editorial team to grow ITWeb into SA’s premier IT publisher, with a reader base of over 80 000 IT and business professionals. ITWeb published a daily online IT news update; a monthly business IT magazine, Brainstorm, and a weekly IT news digest magazine, iWeek. Ranka has also been programme director and chair of a number of conferences and executive forums hosted by ITWeb and its content partners. 

Prior to joining ITWeb, Ranka was editor of InformationWeek Southern Africa and deputy editor of ComputerWeek. She immigrated to SA in 1994 from Yugoslavia, where she was involved in education, general publishing and IT publishing for over 10 years.

Telkom has grown into the largest communications services provider in Africa based on operating revenue and assets. The Group, consisting of the fixed-line company Telkom and a 50% shareholding in mobile operator Vodacom, is listed on the JSE Limited (JSE) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
The performance of Telkom’s share price reflects the Company’s financial stability, its track record in growing market share, and its ability to balance the pursuit of growth opportunities with the interest of employees, customers and communities. 

Vodacom is a Pan-African cellular communications company providing a world class GSM service to more than 21.5 million customers in South Africa, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho and Mozambique.

Roger Dawes, executive director of the CSSA