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11:15 SAST

I followed the data and it led me to dinner.....

Lizande Botha & Tammy Vezasie

Data

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 1

Keeping up with Verstappen: Building a real-time AI Sim Racing engineer

Sibusiso Mfana

Cloud Engineer

AI

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 2

Design systems as a product, not a project

Melissa Landsberg

Software Engineer

Frontend

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 3

Observability as a team sport: Designing dashboards for humans, not just metrics

Carike Blignaut-Staden

Using technology to "work smarter, not harder"

Data

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 4

AI can code, but it can't think like you (yet): The human in the loop

Veliswa Boya

Developer Advocate at AWS

AI

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 6

Stumbling into my semantic soulmate: Dating app design for the visually impaired

Jaid Heesen

Software Engineer

Architecture

CPT

45 Min

Cinema 3

12:15 SAST

Solving the right problem in the age of tool overload and autonomous, agentic everything

Thabang Ledwaba

Delivery Lead and Manager

AI

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 1

How procrastination taught me electronics: My journey building a robot mop

Kayley Green

Business Analyst by day, accidental engineer by curiosity

Experience

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 2

The devs of nature: Building a genetic sequencing algorithm in C++

Jenna Dunford

Software Engineer

Data

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 3

Decoupling HUGE monolithic systems for dummies

Hennie Francis

Cloud & Technology Strategist, AWS User Group Leader

Architecture

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 6

Redefining our relationship to cloud computing through local-first

Schalk Venter

Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Architecture

CPT

45 Min

Cinema 3

14:00 SAST

The hidden signals: What you can learn when people play

Jesse van der Merwe

BBD Software – Frontend Engineer & MSc Researcher

Other

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 1

Your database has a passport

Precious Mamotingoe Lesupi

CEO, Queers Code

Architecture

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 2

I built a home server so you don't have to

Mikhail Govender

Software Engineer

Other

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 3

Learning programming the fun way by building GIT

Lesedi Jonas

Software Engineer

Tools

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 4

Stop paying for easy prompts: Architecting hybrid local-to-cloud AI systems

Abed Matini

Senior Backend Developer at Ogilvy

AI

CPT

45 Min

Cinema 3

15:00 SAST

Top 5 techniques for building the worst microservice system ever

William Brander

Distributed Systems Bricklayer

Architecture

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 1

Type shi: Type theory, Metaprogramming and Typescript

Dino Gironi

Software Engineer

Programming

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 2

Programming without syntax: The compiler is an LLM

Batandwa Mgutsi

Software Engineer

Programming

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 3

One million beers

Gerni Visser

Software-powered beer enthusiast

Programming

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 4

The death of the chatbot: Engineering the "invisible" AI interface

Sagofiwa Moyo & Boitumelo Magabane

AI

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 6

Matric calculus = quantum mechanics = agentic development

Cameron Worthington

Software Engineer

AI

CPT

45 Min

Cinema 3

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