09:00am - 09:15am

Registration and Coffee

09:15am - 10:00am

Welcome, Introductions & Breakfast
Quintin Van Rensburg & Jaco Stoltz

10:00am - 10:25am

Digital Transformation with Microsoft
Edmund Lombard & Kevin Pentecost

10:25am - 10:50am

VMware Virtualisation
Ian Jansen van Rensburg

10:50am - 11:15am

Governance, Risk & Compliance
Deneys Minne

11:15am - 11:30am

Coffee Break

11:30am - 11:50am

Strategix Group
Quintin Van Rensburg

11:50am

Closing & Networking

Speaker Bio’s

Quintin Van Rensburg

Strategix Group Sales and
Marketing Director SA & UK

Strategix Group Sales and Marketing Director for South Africa & United Kingdom with more than 20 years’ international solution sales experience.

Quintin is a trusted advisor to many organisations and has a proven track record of driving value and business improvement leading to tangible returns on investments.

Deneys Minne

Visionary Leader
Microsoft Dynamics Expert
GRC & AI Solutions Innovator
Standards & Ethical Principles Advocate

With over 25 years of extensive industry experience, Deneys Minne’s remarkable career encompasses banking, credit management, corporate consulting, and a strong emphasis on Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Deneys has developed a deep understanding of international standards, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000, ISO 27000, ISO 45001, and ISO 310001. His expertise extends to ethical leadership principles and ESG, covering King IV, SEDEX, GRI, and SASB.

Edmund Lombard

Small & Medium Business Lead

Edmund has 15 years’ experience in the software and cloud industry, all of which was spent working with small and medium businesses. More than 8 of these years was spent working in the Microsoft South Africa subsidiary assisting SMBs with business productivity, operations and security. The rest of Edmund’s Microsoft career was spent working in the Microsoft partner organization, working with Microsoft Partner’s to assist SMB customers. Proceeding Edmund’s Microsoft career, he spent time working in the Microsoft partner ecosystem for more than 7 years.

Ian Jansen van Rensburg

Systems Engineering Director
& Chief Technologist

Ian Jansen van Rensburg is the Director of Systems Engineering and Chief Technologist at VMware Sub Saharan Africa. He joined VMware in 2007 and has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry.

Prior to joining VMware, he held technical and director positions at leading technology companies. Ian is responsible for driving digital transformation with VMware’s key customers in more than 30 countries throughout the African continent. Ian gladly shares his industry knowledge, experience and vision with all customers to assist them to build a software defined digital future.

Kevin Pentecost

SMB Channel Sales

Business Applications in GPS

Not new to the Dynamics world, Kevin has joined from Vox Telecom, where he headed up their business applications sales team. Before that he was with EOH driving Dynamics opportunities with the EOH Applications business unit. Kevin also has experience working with other software vendors such as Infor and Epicor, and after many years working with Microsoft partners, Kevin is looking forward to a different set of challenges in joining the team at Microsoft.

Kevin is responsible for creating SMB/Scale Channel Plans through partner impact to the SMB/Scale segment by orchestrating partner programs to drive customer acquisitions.

Kevin has recently completed his MBA through IIE MSA, prior to that, he completed a Post Grad Diploma through Monash, and BCom through UNISA.

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