DigiCert & DataGroupIT Trust Exchange Roadshow - Johannesburg

Lead with confidence in the AI era — live in Johannesburg

Join DigiCert & DataGroupIT for the Trust Exchange Roadshow — Johannesburg, a focused, executive session on the new realities of digital trust: shorter certificate lifecycles, quantum readiness, and AI at scale.

Connect with senior security, infrastructure, and networking leaders to pressure-test approaches, compare regional challenges, and leave with practical next steps you can apply immediately.

This is a curated, in-person experience designed for decision-makers responsible for availability, risk, and compliance across modern IT environments. If you’re navigating AI adoption, crypto change, or certificate automation at scale, this session is built for you.

Seats are limited. Registration requests are reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis to ensure a high-value peer group. You will receive confirmation within 24 hours.

Why attend

Join a focused, executive-level session designed to turn fast-moving trust challenges into clear, actionable decisions.

• Reduce outage risk as certificate lifecycles compress and manual processes break
• Get a practical PQC roadmap: what to inventory, how to sequence change, and how to build crypto-agility
• Understand how to govern AI at scale: authentic content, protected models, and controlled agents
• Hear what’s changing across the region and benchmark against peers facing the same operational constraints

Who should attend

This roadshow is built for leaders and practitioners responsible for solving real-world trust challenges, including:

• Certificate lifecycle reduction and automation: PKI, DNS, certificate operations
• Post-quantum readiness and crypto-agility: inventory, prioritisation, change management
• AI Trust and governance: content authenticity, model/IP protection, agent oversight
• Audit readiness and resilience in complex hybrid environments

09:30 - 10:00 - Welcome & Registration

Arrive, collect your badge, and connect with peers over coffee before we begin.

10:00 - 10:30 - Intelligent trust for the real world and what it means for South Africa

Digital trust is becoming operational infrastructure. We’ll set the stage with what’s changing across the region and how leading organisations are strengthening resilience, audit readiness, and trust controls across real-world environments.

We’ll also highlight the operational realities teams face locally, from complex hybrid estates, distributed ownership, to increasing scrutiny on control effectiveness.

Presented by Elliot Samuels - Area Vice President, NEMEA, DigiCert & Werner Lindemann, DataGroupIT CEO

10:30 - 11:00 - Modernising and securing digital trust at a large SOE

Certificate validity reduction is not just a policy change, it’s an operations change. Learn what breaks first, how to plan for automation, and the patterns teams use to reduce risk while keeping service reliability and auditability intact.

Presented by Ricardo Figueira - Security Lead, Threeframes

11:00 - 11:15 - Coffee Break

11:15 - 11:45 - Practical post quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness

A pragmatic roadmap for PQC readiness: inventory, crypto-agility, and change management. Walk away with a sequenced approach you can start now without disrupting critical services.

Presented by Ross Templeton - VP Presales and Engineering, DataGroupIT

11:45 - 12:15 - AI Trust at scale: content, models and agents

AI introduces new trust surfaces—and new failure modes. Learn how organizations can:

• Prove content authenticity and integrity
• Protect proprietary model IP
• Govern AI agents with accountable controls as adoption accelerates

Presented by Richard Hall, AVP Technical Sales, DigiCert

12:15 - 12:45 - The Intelligent Trust debate + open mic

A leadership forum for discussion: what’s working, what’s failing, and what leaders are prioritising next. Bring your toughest questions—this is designed to be practical, not theoretical.

Panelists: Werner Lindemann, Ricardo Figueira, Ross Templeton, and Rich Hall

12:45 - 13:45 - Lunch & networking

Continue the conversation over lunch and build connections with peers facing the same trust and infrastructure challenges.