Khomotso Kganyago

Amongst his many responsibilities at Microsoft, Dr. Khomotso Kganyago works closely with the sales teams, business groups, partners and media, presenting security as an enabler to the present and future technologies. Khomotso joined Microsoft with a varied and comprehensive experience in the private and public sectors ranging from Academic and Research Institutions to National government and Agencies.
He is a trusted advisor to C-level executives and has established relationships with security communities and government agencies in South Africa. He has broad experience in management of most aspects in Cloud Computing, Cyber-Security, Cyber-Infrastructure, Consumerization of IT (CoIT), Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD), ICT Auditing, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Asset Management incl. SAM, Operations and Financial Management, Strategy and Contract Research & Development (R&D).
Khomotso managed and implemented the following projects: Materials Modeling Centre infrastructure and operations at the University of Limpopo; Storage Area Network (SAN), Assets Register and Processes, Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) at Stats SA; and Information Security Strategy, High Performance Storage & Archiving, Network Security, Blue Gene/P 4 Africa and Sun Constellation Hybrid System (#1 HPC in Africa, 2008), Department of Science and Technology (DST) sponsored projects hosted by CSIR. He is presently involved in Climate Change and TV Whitespace spectrum projects executed in partnership between Microsoft SA, CSIR, SITA and other partners.
He has initiated cutting-edge, service-oriented architecture (SOA) which removed technology silos and created an integrated infrastructure resulting in the production of an impressive ROI at Statistics SA (Stats SA). He has been instrumental in the development of various operational plans, policies and business strategies. He led the team that delivered the Technology Refresh project nationally in anticipation and preparation for Census 2011.
Other fields of expertise include: education and capacity building, technology and project management, risk and public finance management (PFMA). He set-up operations at the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) in 2007 and later worked in the area of research and development in Information Security and Mathematical Modeling with the ultimate goal of creating a secured CI to support science, engineering and technol