By Adeola Ogunlade,
Côte d’Ivoire Prime Minister, Patrick Achi, four Ministers from Côte d’Ivoire, Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as senior executives and specialists from different companies in the across banking, finance, insurance and energy sector in Africa have been billed to attend the second edition of the Cyber Africa Forum (CAF) to be held in Abidjan on May 9 and 10.
The forum is holding under the patronage of Patrick Achi, Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire, and in the presence of major players in the ecosystem of cybersecurity such as Huawei, Deloitte, Orange or Ecobank. It is co-organized by Ciberobs, a reference platform on cybersecurity in Africa and Jeune Afrique Media Group.
Tagged: “Digital sovereignty and data protection, levers of economic growth for the African continent”, the discussions of this second edition will address the emergence of new cybersecurity risks, linked to practices associated with the digitization of African societies. (teleworking, digital and/or decentralized finance, online commerce, sovereignty in a context of geopolitical tensions, etc.). Themes directly concerning several major economic players active in Africa, such as Atos, CCDOC, Cybastion or ESET Africa, which will be present alongside many other public players (political leaders, organizations.
In a release made available to newsmen, The President and founder of Ciberobs, Franck Kié said that the economic risks related to cybersecurity are a reality in Africa.
Kie said “the Cyber Africa Forum aims to be this platform of exchange of reference on the continent that brings together African and international actors in cybersecurity in order to put the cyber risk at the heart of the problems of Africa, as a challenge for its emergence”.
Also, in his words, The Managing Director at Jeune Afrique Media Group, Frederic Maury, said “for ten years, especially through the AFRICA CEO FORUM, we are closer to the problems of the private sector and the observation is clear: unlike large companies around the world, African CEOs perceive the potential of data and digital but still too often neglect the cyber risk, which is yet one of the most important operationally. That’s why we decided, alongside Ciberobs, to make the Cyber Africa Forum a key venue on the subject.”
More than 500 people and decision-makers from over 25 countries are expected to attend this event of reference for cybersecurity in Africa, which includes 23 panels and more than 80 speakers