Speakers

Veliswa Boya

Developer Advocate at AWS

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

Thabang Ledwaba

Delivery Lead and Manager

Solving the Right Problem in the Age of Tool Overload and Autonomous, Agentic Everything

Melissa Landsberg

Software Engineer

Design Systems as a Product, Not a Project

Lizande Botha

BBD Executive

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

Precious Mamotingoe Lesupi

CEO - Queers Code

Your Database Has a Passport

Hennie Francis

Cloud & Technology Strategist

Decoupling HUGE monolithic systems for Dummies

Jesse van der Merwe

BBD Software - Frontend Engineer & MSc Researcher

The Hidden Signals: What You Can Learn When People Play

Jenna Dunford

Software Engineer

The Devs of Nature: Building a Genetic Sequencing Algorithm in C++

Gerni Visser

Software empowered beer enthusiast

One Million Beers

Jaid Heesen

Software engineer

Stumbling into my Semantic Soulmate: Dating App Design for the Visually Impaired

Sagofiwa Moyo

Business Analyst

The Death of the Chatbot: Engineering the "Invisible" AI Interface

Boitumelo Magabane

Systems and Business Analyst at STS

The Death of the Chatbot: Engineering the "Invisible" AI Interface

Sibusiso Mfana

Cloud Engineer

Keeping up with Verstappen: Building a Real-Time AI Sim Racing Engineer

Mikhail Govender

Software Engineer - BBD

I Built a Home Server So You Don't Have To

Schalk Venter

Interaction Design and Software Engineering

Redefining our Relationship to Cloud Computing through Local-First

Kayley Green

Business analyst at BBD

How Procrastination Taught Me Electronics: My Journey Building a Robot Mop

William Brander

Distributed Systems Bricklayer

Top 5 techniques for building the worst microservice system ever

Abed Matini

Senior Backend Developer at Ogilvy

Stop Paying for Easy Prompts: Architecting Hybrid Local-to-Cloud AI Systems

Dino Gironi

Software Engineer, BBD

Type shi: Type theory, Metaprogramming and Typescript

Carike Blignaut-Staden

Using technology to "work smarter, not harder"

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

Batandwa Mgutsi

Software Engineer

Programming Without Syntax / The Compiler Is an LLM

Lesedi Jonas

Software engineer, BBD

Learning programming the fun way by building git.

Cameron Worthington

Software Engineer, BBD

Matric Calculus = Quantum Mechanics = Agentic Development