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I followed the data and it led me to dinner.....
Lizande Botha & Tammy Vezasie
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 1
Keeping up with Verstappen: Building a real-time AI Sim Racing engineer
Sibusiso Mfana
Cloud Engineer
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 2
Design systems as a product, not a project
Melissa Landsberg
Software Engineer
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"
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
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 6
Stumbling into my semantic soulmate: Dating app design for the visually impaired
Jaid Heesen
Software Engineer
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
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
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 2
The devs of nature: Building a genetic sequencing algorithm in C++
Jenna Dunford
Software Engineer
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 3
Decoupling HUGE monolithic systems for dummies
Hennie Francis
Cloud & Technology Strategist, AWS User Group Leader
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 6
Redefining our relationship to cloud computing through local-first
Schalk Venter
Interaction Design and Software Engineering
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
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 1
Your database has a passport
Precious Mamotingoe Lesupi
CEO, Queers Code
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 2
I built a home server so you don't have to
Mikhail Govender
Software Engineer
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 3
Learning programming the fun way by building GIT
Lesedi Jonas
Software Engineer
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 4
Stop paying for easy prompts: Architecting hybrid local-to-cloud AI systems
Abed Matini
Senior Backend Developer at Ogilvy
CPT
45 Min
Cinema 3
15:00 SAST
Top 5 techniques for building the worst microservice system ever
William Brander
Distributed Systems Bricklayer
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 1
Type shi: Type theory, Metaprogramming and Typescript
Dino Gironi
Software Engineer
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 2
Programming without syntax: The compiler is an LLM
Batandwa Mgutsi
Software Engineer
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 3
One million beers
Gerni Visser
Software-powered beer enthusiast
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 4
The death of the chatbot: Engineering the "invisible" AI interface
Sagofiwa Moyo & Boitumelo Magabane
JHB
45 Min
Cinema 6
Matric calculus = quantum mechanics = agentic development
Cameron Worthington
Software Engineer
CPT
45 Min
Cinema 3