Our Keynote Speaker -
Ndubuisi Ekekwe holds two doctoral and four master's degrees, including a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and MBA from University of Calabar, Nigeria, all completed by March 2009. He graduated in August 1998, from FUT Owerri, Nigeria as his class's best student. He founded First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics Ltd (Fasmicro) - Africa's first integrated circuit design house. Ekekwe is also the Founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology and a full professor of engineering with Babcock University Nigeria. He last held the title of Banking Executive with Diamond Bank Lagos.
Professor Ekekwe is an inventor - he holds a US Patent on a microchip used in minimally invasive surgical robots and has authored breakthrough papers, including a roadmap on African single currency which he presented in an AU congress. He has spoken at Harvard University, the UN Summit, African Union Congress, Wharton Business School and Brown University amongst others. Ekekwe's book on nanotechnology and microelectronics won IGI Global 2010 "Book of the Year" award. He lives in Boston and was in the team that created the XL sensor inside the iPhone and iPod. He authored Nigeria's Vision 2020 Microelectronics thematic area and is the recipient of more than 17 academic fellowships and scholarships.
Here is a brief profile of some of our Enterprise Solutions speakers:
Jide Sowade is an Enterprise Technology Consultant and founder of Travit Technology Ltd (UK) and ArchTix Technology Ltd (Nigeria). He has over 20 years experience in Information Technology and has a broad range of experience in planning, architecting and delivering Enterprise IT systems. His specialties include Enterprise Architecture Planning, Design and Solution Definition and Assessment, IT Programme management, End to end systems definition and value delivery.
His consultancy experience includes planning and defining Enterprise systems capabilities for companies such as DWP, BG Group, British Airways, Direct Line, Environment Agency and Bank of Scotland.
He has also presented at a number of conferences including AITEC- 2003 and he is a certified TOGAF professional.
Daljit Banger is a London based CEO of S-EA-T.COM Ltd (UK).
Daljit has 28 years solid IT Industry experience, having undertaken assignments in the USA, Sweden,Switzerland, Finland, Hong Kong to name but a few, on behalf of large multi-nationalcompanies.
Daljit as a practitioner has in the past held senior Chief Architect/CTO positions for multibillion pound organisations e.g Financial, UK Government Agencies, Utility Companies.
Daljit's focus as CEO of S-EA-T.COM is the promotion and realisation of Enterprise Architecture and specialises in turning around failing practices, rejuvenating, rescuingand delivering value from Enterprise Architecture teams embedded within blue chip organisations.
Daljit is a unique individual as he is one of a handful of individuals that have published free software tools and articles to promote Enterprise Architectural concepts. He is also a fellow of the British Computer Society.
Dr Abdul Jaleel kehinde Shittu obtained his bachelor of Management Information Systems and Master Information Technology degrees from International Islamic University Malaysia in the year 2004 and 2007 respectively and PhD at University Technology PETRONAS 2009.
His research focuses on Information Technology Outsourcing, Shared Service and Outsourcing, Digital Divide, IT for rural dwellers , IT/IS implementations, IT Project Management, Quality assurance, software engineering process and practices among others. He worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Information Systems, International Islamic University Malaysia. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at School of Computing, Univeristi Utara Malaysia. He has co-authored book on ICT Utilization, and concurrently working on books for IT Managers and IT for Islamic Banking.
Andrew Price is a UK based Enterprise Security Architect and Security Consultant. He has over 25 years experience in Information Technology Security and has a broad range of experience in designing, delivering and securing local and enterprise IT systems, services and solutions for UK government and large UK based financial services companies.
His consultancy experience includes application design and development, developing and delivering training, enterprise IT infrastructure solution architecture and design and enterprise security solution and service assessment and accreditation. His clients include The Environment Agency, Scottish Widows, Barclays Bank and the Foreign Office.
He has presented at a number of vendor conferences and is a CLAS consultant.
Olufemi Adedamola Oyedele was born at Lagos Island Maternity Hospital on July 29, 1966. He attended St. Peter’s College in Abeokuta where he graduated in 1982. He studied Building Technology at Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos State between 1984 and 1986. In 1987, he entered University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos State to study Estate Management and graduated in 1991 with Bachelor of Science. Between 2003 and 2006, Mr. Oyedele studied Housing Development and Management at University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State and graduated with Master of Science.
In 2007, he studied International Project Management at Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, and graduated with another Master of Science in 2008. He has travelled extensively and worked variously as Estate Officer, Project Manager, Site Manager, Property Investment Advisor and Researcher. Mr. Oyedele is a member of Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) and registered by the Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (ESVARBON) to practice estate management in Nigeria. He is also a member of Institute of Value Management and Association of Project Managers both in London.
Mr. Oyedele has written over eighty (80) articles and professional papers and has delivered lectures on the built environment and climate change, facility management, waste management, project management, service charge management etc in Glasgow-Scotland, London-England, Amsterdam-Netherlands and Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Nigeria. Mr Olufemi Oyedele is currently with Fame Oyster & Co. Nigeria, a project management and construction management firm with offices in Abuja and Lagos State, Nigeria.
Tom Graves, at present he is based in Britain, but that could change at any moment. He is an author with twenty books behind him, in around a dozen languages, over the past thirty years, and an eclectic range of interests. Some of his older books and other writings can be foundat TomGraves.org. Most of his recent writing (since 2007) can be found at my publishing-imprint Tetradian Books – see TetradianBooks.com.
His professional field is mainly in enterprise architecture, but with an emphasis on strategy and futures, on complexity and sense-making, on relationships between organisation, extended-enterprise and market, and on integrating IT with the rest of the business.