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10:00 SAST

Opening Keynote

Benjamin Rosman

Professor

University of the Witwatersrand

AI

Keynote

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 11

11:15 SAST

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

Lizande Botha & Tamlyn Vezasie

Executive and Talent Acquisition Specialist

BBD

Data

AI

Experience Reports

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 11

Building offline Agentic AI in the Browser

Lucky Nkosi

Executive | Head of R&D Unit

BBD

AI

Architecture

Frontend

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 12

Design systems as a product, not a project

Melissa Landsberg

Software Engineer

BBD

Frontend

Architecture

Developer Experience

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 13

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

Carike Blignaut-Staden

Using technology to "work smarter, not harder"

Data

Developer Experience

Cloud

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 14

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

Veliswa Boya

Developer Advocate at AWS

AI

Developer Experience

Experience Reports

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 15

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

Jaid Heesen

Software Engineer

Frontend

AI

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

Architecture

Developer Experience

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 11

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

Kayley Green

Business Analyst

BBD

Experience Reports

Mobile

Developer Experience

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 12

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

Jenna Dunford

Software Engineer

BBD

Data

Programming

Developer Experience

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 13

Beyond single agents

Rudolph Esterhuysen

Software Engineer

BBD

AI

Architecture

Developer Experience

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 14

Decoupling HUGE monolithic systems for dummies

Hennie Francis

Cloud & Technology Strategist, AWS User Group Leader

Architecture

Cloud

Developer Experience

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 15

Redefining our relationship to cloud computing through local-first

Schalk Venter

Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Architecture

Cloud

Frontend

CPT

45 Min

Cinema 3

14:00 SAST

The hidden signals: What you can learn when people play

Jesse van der Merwe

Frontend Engineer

BBD

Game Design

Behavioural Data

Machine Learning

Electronics

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 11

Your database has a passport

Precious Mamotingoe Lesupi

CEO

Queers Code

Architecture

Data

Cloud

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 12

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

Mikhail Govender

Software Engineer

BBD

Cloud

Security

Experience Reports

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 13

Learning programming the fun way by building GIT

Lesedi Jonas

Software Engineer

BBD

Programming

Developer Experience

Backend

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 14

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

Abed Matini

Senior Backend Developer at Ogilvy

AI

Architecture

Cloud

CPT

45 Min

Cinema 3

Semantic Dissonance

Johnathan Botha

Software Engineer

BBD

Architecture

AI

Developer Experience

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 15

15:00 SAST

Top 5 techniques for building the worst microservice system ever

William Brander

Distributed Systems Bricklayer

Architecture

Cloud

Backend

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 11

Type shi: Type theory, Metaprogramming and TypeScript

Dino Gironi

Software Engineer

BBD

Programming

Architecture

Backend

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 12

Programming without syntax: The compiler is an LLM

Batandwa Mgutsi

Software Engineer

BBD

Programming

AI

Developer Experience

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 13

One Million Beers: Powering the future of social media technology

Gerni Visser

Software-powered beer enthusiast

Programming

Backend

Experience Reports

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 14

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

Sagofiwa Moyo & Boitumelo Magabane

Business Analysts

AI

Backend

Architecture

JHB

45 Min

Cinema 15

How I learnt to stop worrying and embrace chaos

Cameron Worthington

Software Engineer

BBD

AI

Architecture

Programming

CPT

45 Min

Cinema 3

16:00 SAST

Closing Session

JHB

30 Min

Cinema 11

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