Opening remarks:

• Rached Hamza, General Manger, CERT

Session 1: What IoT applications to address African challenges

Session objectives: This session will give an overview of IoT applications and related technologies, e.g., machine-to-machine (M2M) communication and ubiquitous sensor networks (USN), which are or may be deployed in Africa and worldwide

Moderator: Hend Ben Hadji, CERT

Speakers:

• Rached Hamza, General Manger, CERT
• Bilel Jamoussi, Chief, ITU-T Study Group Department, ITU

Session 2: IoT successful business cases

Session objectives: This session will discuss international experiences in this field. Some concrete IoT use cases, which are successfully implemented in Europe and Africa will be presented.

Moderator: Philippe Cousin

Speakers:

• David Garcés, TST, Spain, IoT for smart cities and Harbors
• Olivier Hersent,  Actility, France, IoT for Smart Energy
• Pedro Malo, Uninova , Portugal IoT for the last-mile of the  supply- chain: smart-kitchen
• Imed Ammar, Cynapsis, Tunisia, IoT at Home
• Anis Youssef, Telnet, Tunisia, IoT for e-Health
• Louis Coetze, CSIR Meraka, South Africa, IoT platform for Africa

Session 3: IoT for Africa in the global context

Session objectives: This session will present worldwide challenges to enable IoT deployment worldwide and particularly in Africa. The need for international standards to achieve global interoperability will be discussed and current standardization efforts presented.

Moderator: Bilel Jamoussi, Chief, ITU-T Study Group Department, ITU

Speakers:

• Bilel Jamoussi, Chief, ITU-T Study Group Department, ITU
• Philippe Cousin, Probe-IT project Manager

Session 4: Panel

Session objectives: The panel is intended as an open and very interactive discussion with the workshop audience. The steps that Africa should take to successfully deploy IoT will be explored and discussed.

Moderator: Philippe Cousin

Closing remarks:

• Mongi Marzouk, Minister of Information and Communication and Technologies