Speakers

Jochen Kirstätter

Google Developer Expert (GDE) at Google Cloud

How escaping death inspired me to develop an AI-assisted application

Seale Rapolai

Full-Stack Developer at Khula

Cowboys and code: Building fast in the startup wild west

Jessica Randall

Android Developer - GDG Cape Town

Code reviews with empathy: Building a positive feedback culture

Mikateko Ngobeni

Software Engineer at BBD

Mirror mirror on the wall, now with features that do it all: Building our own smart mirror

Renette Ros

Technical Lead at Entelect

Navigating the storm: Building resilient systems in the face of production chaos

William Brander

Software Engineer at Particular Software

How building a portable escape room made me a better developer

Hennie Francis

Chief Executive Officer at AWS Community SA

Decoupling HUGE monolithic systems for dummies

Theresho Mogowane

Solutions Architect at Computro Solutions / BMW IT HUB

Embracing the future: My journey to autonomous testing

Charlene Cooke

Executive at BBD

Tech leadership against the grain

David Budnitsky

Software Engineer at BBD

From the ground to the sky: How I built my first FPV Drone

Carike Botha

Software Development Consultant at iSolve Business Solutions

Build custom agent with vectorize text in Azure AI Search

Riselle Rawthee

Software Engineer at BBD

Mirror mirror on the wall, now with features that do it all: Building our own smart mirror

Kirsten Reid

Head of Play at Two Name Games

Beyond gamification: Gameful thinking for complex challenges

Jana Barclay

UI/UX Designer at BBD

Designing with robots and clients

Knowledge Dzumba

Software Engineer at BBD

Ctrl+Alt+TV: Reverse engineering an infrared TV remote using an ESP32 microcontroller and flutter

Nicholas Pym

Software Engineer at BBD

Platform engineering: Serving developers a menu of ready-made solutions, not raw ingredients

Kayley Green

Business Analyst at BBD

An unlikely innovator: Bringing an AR Sandbox to life without an engineering degree

Rahul Kapoor

Software Engineer at BBD

Full stack, no stack: Building an entire app with just a database

Tiane Erwee

Software Engineer at BBD

How to make a hit mobile game... or die trying

Stephan Pieterse

Software Engineer at BBD

100ms makes a difference

Stefan de Jager

Software Engineer at BBD

How I tried to kill my mouse (and failed spectacularly)

Batandwa Mgutsi

Software Engineer at BBD

Beyond tools - How I built my own programming language

Andre Staats

Software Engineer at BBD

Platform engineering: Serving developers a menu of ready-made solutions, not raw ingredients

Gaurav Choudhary

Software Engineer at BBD

The hidden cost of automation: When doing less does more harm

Omer Elgoni

Software Engineer at BBD

Intuitive API designs: How and why we should write code for humans

Emma Pringle

UI/UX Designer at BBD

Designing with robots and clients

Manesh Borkar

Software Engineer at BBD

Warbots with a brain: AI in the arena

Leslie de Jager

Software Engineer at BBD

How I used software to improve my health

Melissa Landsberg

Software Engineer at BBD

AI- Back to the future

Siyabonga Nkuna

Software Engineer at BBD

When the feed thinks for itself: Building a social network of AI agents

Zeerak Baig

Software Engineer at BBD

The Matrix of Meaning: Understanding LLMs with XAI

Adam Kaminski

Software Engineer at BBD

The Matrix of Meaning: Understanding LLMs with XAI

Christine Bosman

Business Analyst at BBD

Maturing BA roles with AI

Herman Botha

Executive at BBD

Maturing BA roles with AI

Zandile Mkwanazi

CEO of GirlCode

Panel Discussion

Ralf Dominick

Chairman and founder of BBD

Panel Discussion

Streicher Stegmann

Executive at BBD

Panel Discussion

Ruddy Marriday

Co-founder of CodeXplores

Panel Discussion

Tony van der Linden

CIO at BBD

Panel Discussion