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She helps teams and leaders to develop an awareness of what their individual impact looks like and further encourages them to learn how it can add value when infused into their daily work lives.

As an advocate for purpose, Elizabeth enjoys teachings around this simple truth, with the aim to assist leaders achieve great success in their business and personal endevours. Her talks always embrace a combination of diverse culture, humour and eloquence yet truly stir conversations that will invigorate an awakening in ones purpose.

Lohan has deep experience with Self-Sovereign Identity(SSI) and the deployment of this emerging technology in the African context and other low resource environments including implementations using SMS. He was one of the earliest entrepreneurs in Africa building solutions using the Trust over IP stack, on the world’s first-ever public utility for SSI, the Sovrin Main Net. As a serial entrepreneur and self-sovereign identity thought leader, he continues to find motivation in building start-ups that leverage exponential technology and decentralized trust networks with the vision of achieving the identity for all. He is an ex-officio Sovrin Foundation Board member and trustee, chair of the Sovrin Steward Council, and actively involved in various initiatives to further the adoption of self-sovereign identity in South Africa and Africa such as South African Financial Blockchain Consortium (SAFBC), South African National Blockchain Alliance (SANBA), World Economic Forum Digital Identity Coalition, BankservAfrica Digital Identity project (IAMZA), decentralized Identity Foundation, Trust over IP Foundation and a frequent speaker on self-sovereign identity.

Anushka is the Product manager for Atala PRISM ecosystems at Input Output Global. She has over 20 years experience in IT and Lean and has been exploring blockchain technology with an open mind and much curiosity since 2018.

Her roles as the Co-Chair of the South African Financial Blockchain Consortium Identity Working Group, guest lecturer for blockchain at The University of Stellenbosch Business School as well as at the University of Cape Town Fintech Program, and Lead writer for the African Union Blockchain report, speaker at blockchain conferences and advisory working group member of the IAMZA project qualify her to collaborate both locally and abroad to move the dial on digital identity in South Africa and the World.

Anushka is here to share her vision of how Self-Sovereign Identity will shape our future whilst presenting opportunities for new algorithms/APIs and business models.

Rory works in the Developer Relations team at Microsoft as a Principal Cloud Advocate. Cloud Advocates use their deep research skills to help professional cloud developers discover and successfully use Microsoft’s platforms. A seasoned speaker whose talks are both meaningful and humorous, Rory speaks around the world empowering developers to achieve more.

Josh is a young passionate Tech Enthusiast and Cloud Advocate for Microsoft based in Nairobi, Kenya.

As a former Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador & Imagine Cup 2020 EMEA Regional Finalist Josh has developed a passion to enable anyone get started with technology especially revolving around Internet of Things, AI, and Cloud computing.

Glaucia Lemos is Cloud Advocate at Microsoft Brazil & LATAM. She loves helping and making contributions to Open Source projects in Github (@glaucia86). Glaucia is currently Member & Contributor at Node.js Foundation and at React Community making contributions to Nodejs.org and Reactjs.org translations into Portuguese. Glaucia also belongs in quite inclusive Communities such as WoMakersCode – an organization focused on helping, inspiring and empowering even more women in technology help them to gain a job opportunity. Currently, Glaucia lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And her greatest passion is sharing knowledge for all people!

Outside of development, Glaucia enjoys learn new languages, love meeting different people and cultures, a movie buff and drummer!