Africa Cyber Defense Forum

🔍 DFIR in Action is live at #ACDF2026. Dr. Robinson Tombari Sibe, @rsibe, CEO & Lead Forensic Examiner, Digital Footprints Nigeria takes practitioners through the whole lifecycle, from the moment an alert fires to a forensically sound report on the CISO's desk. #DFIR Today's drills: live acquisition, disk examination, memory forensics, log analysis and network forensics. Everyone works the same evidence and learns what to do, when, in what order, and why. 🧠 #ACDF2026 #DigitalForensics

The CAIP Certification Bootcamp is live at #ACDF2026. Two intensive days to become a Certified AI Practitioner, led by @RemiAfon (CISSP, CISM, CEH, PECB & EC-Council Certified Trainer) of @lynsecofficial ]. 🤖 #AI #CAIP Day 1 of CAIP: AI concepts, machine-learning fundamentals, generative AI and the use cases that matter, all framed around responsible adoption. AI literacy is now a security skill. #ACDF2026 #ResponsibleAI Africa's AI future is being decided now, and the people in this room will help write it. Day 2 tomorrow ends with the certification assessment and a new cohort of certified AI practitioners. 🎓 #ACDF2026 #CAIP

Doors are open. Day 1 of #ACDF2026 is underway: three hands-on tracks, one breakfast, and a full day of building capability Africa owns. Coffee's on. ☕🛡️ #CyberSovereignty #ACDF2026

A hacked laptop gets wiped and restarted. A hacked grid takes a city down with it. Dr. George Ologo joins the #ACDF2026 panel “The Grid You Can’t Reboot,” with voices from @EPRA_KE , @KenyaPower, @KETRACO1 and @ntsa_kenya, moderated by National KE-CIRT/CC @KeCIRT’s Donna Owiti. 🎟️ africacyberdefenseforum.com/…

2 days. Our Guest of Honour holds one of the most important and senior digital portfolios in government. We're keeping the name under wraps until Monday next. On 4 Nov, banks and payment firms run EX Umoja Shield I, a live cyber drill: spot it, escalate it, respond together. africacyberdefenseforum.com/… #ACDF2026

Kenya logged 3.37bn cyber threat events in Q1 2026, about 430 a second. On 4–5 Nov we ask the harder part: who decides what happens next? M-PESA, Airtel, Vodacom, MRA and an ambassador walk onto a stage. 3 days. africacyberdefenseforum.com/… #ACDF2026

We ran out of chairs. 🪑 So the #ACDF2026 Gala Dinner is now a cocktail reception: Wed 4 Nov at Mövenpick Hotel & Residences Nairobi, right after Day 3. Same pass. Much better odds of meeting someone new. Details: africacyberdefenseforum.com/… #CyberSovereignty #CyBomaPass #ShapingTheFutureOfCyberDefense

Every cybercrime case eventually meets a sceptic. Usually it’s a defence lawyer, and they’re asking one question: can you prove nothing changed between the moment you seized this device and the moment you showed it to the court? George Aringo has spent more than a decade making sure the answer is yes. George leads Investigations and Forensics at the The National KE-CIRT/CC, Communications Authority of Kenya, @CA_Kenya. His caseload reads like a list of things most of us hope never happen: cryptocurrency fraud, exam malpractice carried out through ICT, and attacks aimed at public infrastructure. Alongside the casework, he has helped write the SOPs and frameworks that shape how Kenya handles cyber incidents, and he mentors the teams who’ll carry that work forward. At #ACDF2026, he joins the panel Building Digital Forensics Labs & Capabilities: From Nothing to a Functioning National Capacity, and an evidential record that survives scrutiny. The conversation covers the unglamorous parts that decide whether a lab is worth having: accreditation, validated tools, chain-of-custody discipline, staffing, and funding that lasts past the first budget cycle. And the question underneath all of it: does the evidence actually hold up in litigation? He’ll be in good company: • Dr. Robinson Tombari Sibe, PhD, Digital Footprints Ltd Ltd. • Karl Obayi, Technology Chambers Limited • ASP Catherine Lomaria, Cybercrime & Digital Forensic Unit • Moderated by KENIZ AGIRA, Kenya Cyber Security & Forensics Association (KCSFA) If you’re building a lab, funding one, or relying on what comes out of one, come and listen. 📍 Mövenpick Hotel & Residences, Nairobi 📅 Plenary days, 4–5 November 2026 🎟️ africacyberdefenseforum.com/…

Africa’s Digital Sovereignty, Built to Connect: Local data centers and sovereign cloud need cyber resilience, shared rules and regional cooperation to protect interests while supporting innovation and AI. Read Zelalem Mengistu’s article. #AfricaTech

When a cyber incident happens, teams need to know who to contact, what to share and how to work together. On Wednesday, 4 November, teams from banks and payment service providers will practise just that at Banking Sector Cyber Drill — Ex Umoja Shield I. This live simulation will run alongside the main Africa Cyber Defense Forum programme, with a focus on spotting an incident, escalating it and coordinating a response across institutions. Powered by the Central Bank of Kenya’s @CBKKenya Banking Sector Cybersecurity Operations Centre (BS-SOC) and @NC4Kenya, National Computer and Cybercrimes Coordination Committee 📅 Wednesday, 4 November 2026 ⏰ 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. EAT 📍 Mövenpick Hotel & Residences Nairobi, Westlands Looking forward to a day of practical teamwork and learning. Save the date. #ACDF2026 #UmojaShield #CyberResilience

Update available: ACDF 2026 in 13 days Version 7.0 is rolling out in Nairobi in 13 days. Changelog: sharper speakers, tougher drills, better coffee, zero downtime for your network. Will you be attending? africacyberdefenseforum.com/… #ACDF2026

⛳ Fairways, Firewalls and Lunch The best conversations at ACDF don’t always happen in the conference hall. On the morning of Friday, 6 November 2026, we close the 7th Africa Cyber Defense Forum at Karen Golf Club with an 18-hole stableford round, where ministers, CISOs, executives and partners turn a week of discussion into the relationships that carry the Nairobi Communiqué forward. 📅 Friday, 6 November 2026 📍 Karen Golf Club, Nairobi 🏌️ 18-hole stableford A relaxed, senior-level setting to network with Africa’s cyber defense community Whether you’re a scratch golfer or just here for the company, there’s a place for you on the course. 👉 Register your place: livescore.mygolfhub.africa/t… #ACDF2026 #AfricaCyberDefenseForum #CyberSovereignty #GolfTournament #Nairobi #CyberSecurity #Networking

A stronger signal is coming from Nairobi. We are proud to welcome the @CA_Kenya Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) as a Strategic Partner of the 7th Africa Cyber Defense Forum. From 2–6 November 2026, #ACDF brings the cyber defense community together in Nairobi, Kenya, to exchange ideas, build connections and shape what comes next. Join us in welcoming CA. The signal starts here. #ACDF2026 #CyberDefense #Nairobi #Africa

Ask any nurse about the first time a system acted strangely on their ward. They’ll remember it. A screen that froze mid-shift. A patient record that didn’t match the patient. A colleague who, with a long queue and no time, pasted notes into a free chatbot “just this once.” Nobody ran a risk assessment. Nobody filed a ticket. A nurse just had a feeling that something was off, and said so to whoever was standing nearest. That instinct is one of the most underrated security tools in any hospital. And it’s why we are so happy to tell you that Jennifer N. is joining us at #ACDF2026. Jennifer is a registered nurse and board-certified informatics nurse who has spent more than 20 years helping hospitals get technology into the hands of people who actually use it. Today she leads Imara Health AI Consulting and serves as President of the Global Nursing AI Alliance™ Africa Chapter. Her fireside chat is called Who Governs the AI Inside Africa’s Hospitals? It’s a question that sounds simple until you try to answer it. AI is already arriving in our health systems: through vendor contracts, through donor-funded pilots, and through clinicians quietly trying tools on their own. And in many places, no one has yet agreed who’s responsible when something goes wrong. Jennifer will talk about what it looks like to get that right: deciding who’s accountable before go-live, listening to the nurses who notice first, and building our own capacity to oversee these tools instead of renting it from vendors. If you work in health, cyber, policy, or anywhere near the places where those worlds meet, I’d love for you to hear her. 📍 ACDF 2026, Mövenpick Hotel & Residences, Westlands, Nairobi 🗓 2–6 November (main plenaries 4–5 November) 🎟 Get your CyBoma Pass: africacyberdefenseforum.com/… Who’s the first person you’d call if something on your ward, or in your hospital, didn’t look right? Tell us in the comments. #ACDF2026 #CyberSovereignty #HealthcareAI

Nobody hacked you. The vendor just stopped answering. Mobile money transfers are stalling, merchant settlement is backing up, a major bank’s card switch is down and your security team finds no attack. The company that runs the switch has gone quiet, and now they hold the leverage. Do you pay, freeze the rail, go public or call a foreign vendor who no longer feels like a partner? At #ACDF2026, we’re putting the people who’d face that call in one closed room. Operation Float Lock is an executive cyber war-game for CEOs, MDs, Board members and regulators from banks, mobile operators, fintechs and payment providers. They sit together, and the crisis escalates in real time. Nobody fixes the technology. They decide what to do, and they own the outcome. The question to take away: if your vendor stopped being on your side tomorrow, would your leadership know what to do in the first 90 minutes? 📅 Tuesday 3 November, 15:30 to 18:30 📍 Pride Inn Azure, Westlands, Nairobi 🔒 Invitation-only. Chatham House Rule. The session closes straight into the Cocktail Reception. To request an invitation: [email protected] #ACDF2026 #OperationFloatLock #CyberSovereignty #CyberDefense

The boardroom AI debate, settled by people who’ve built the guardrails. Somewhere in your organization, someone is already asking: do we go with the big closed models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini), or the open ones catching up fast (DeepSeek, Kimi, Nemotron)? The good news is that at the 7th Africa Cyber Defense Forum, two people who actually build the guardrails will give you a straight answer. Meet Noureen N. Njoroge @EngineerNoureen and Tahseen Rabbani, the co-founders of Next Puzzle AI. Noureen has run threat intelligence at Nike, built Cisco’s incident response practice, and been named Cybersecurity Woman of the Year, twice. She also sits on the boards of WiCyS, the Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence and Africa Cyber Defense Forum (ACDF). Tahseen is a researcher at the University of Chicago whose work has landed at NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR. He’s also helped shape some of the most popular agentic benchmarks out there. Their session is Open versus Closed Source Agents: Risks and Sovereignty where you can expect a candid look at data privacy, maintainability, cyber threats and what happens when an agent goes rogue. 📅 4 November 2026 📍 Mövenpick Hotel & Residences, Nairobi 🎟️ Grab your CyBoma Pass: africacyberdefenseforum.com/… Tag the colleague who keeps saying “we should just use AI.” 😄 #ACDF2026 #AIGovernance #AIsovereignty #CyberDefense

Clear your calendar, charge your laptop, prepare your questions and bring your curiosity. #ACDF2026 is almost here, and Nairobi is about to host conversations on the technologies, policies and partnerships that will shape Africa's cyber future. Five days. One continental conversation. Plenty of reasons to be in the room. 📅 2–6 November 2026 📍 Nairobi, Kenya 🎟️ Your next move: africacyberdefenseforum.com/… #ACDF2026 #CyberSecurityCommunity #Nairobi

Every tax payment, every ID check and every mobile transfer rests on the same question: who really controls the systems underneath? Dr. Charles Fodya lives that question daily. At the Malawi Revenue Authority @MRA_Malawi he leads the modernisation of revenue systems, digital taxpayer services, cybersecurity, cloud, connectivity resilience and the responsible use of AI. Before that, he headed Malawi CERT at MACRA and helped push the country toward a stronger cybersecurity framework. His foundation is rare: a PhD in Computing and Applied Mathematics (Wits), an MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing (Oxford), and more than two decades across academia, national ICT programmes and World Bank and EU-supported assignments. At #ACDF2026 he joins a panel discussion on: The Systems a State cannot Outsource: Securing Sovereign Identity and Payment Rails Digital identity and payments are the load-bearing walls of the modern state. This panel asks how to secure and govern them as sovereign infrastructure, not products bought off a foreign shelf. On the panel with: • Tim Theuri, Executive Head of Cybersecurity, M-PESA Africa • Joan Mburu CISA CISM, CISO, Airtel Kenya • Joel Kazoba, Head of Cybersecurity, Vodacom Tanzania Moderator: Ms. Meriem Slimani, ATU ICT Development Director 📍 7th Africa Cyber Defense Forum, Nairobi, 2–6 Nov 2026 Main plenaries: 4–5 Nov, Mövenpick Hotel & Residences Nairobi 🎟️ Attendee tickets: USD 200 → africacyberdefenseforum.com/… #ACDF2026 #AfricaCyberDefenseForum #DigitalSovereignty #Cybersecurity #DigitalIdentity #PaymentSystems #Malawi #Nairobi

We're proud to welcome @PwCMauritius as an official Supporting Partner of #ACDF2026. Nairobi. 2-6 November. Africa's cyber sovereignty, from vision to action. #ACDF2026 #CyberSovereignty