DataConf 2025 Agenda

8:00 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 10:15 Welcome & Keynote

🎤 Keynote

Dr. Jay van Zyl

The Accuracy Dilemma in a Generative World

10:15 - 10:40 Tea Break

10:40 - 11:20 Session 1

Michael Johnson

Pipes and Streams: A New Age of Data Engineering Architectures

Innocent Jackson

The Forgotten Demographic: Why Seniors Matter in Ethical AI and Digital Inclusion

11:30 - 12:10 Session 2

Pippa Hillebrand

Privacy or piracy in AI?

Wiza Msuku

From chaos to coherence: My journey through Offline Healthcare analytics from a hundredfold sources

12:20 - 13:00 Session 3

Georgina Armstrong

Hard-learned lessons about Recommender Systems

Henrico Bekker

Beyond the Firewall: Securing the AI Revolution

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:40 Session 4

Lisema Matsietsi

How to Craft Teams of Exceptional Analysts

Malcolm Hillebrand

Help, my data crawled off the table! A peek into how data science for biology works

14:50 - 15:30 Session 5

Marijn Hazelbag

AI in the Wild: Digital Twins and the Messy Reality of Scale

Melissa Albeldas

Climbing Out of Burnout: Lessons from Indoor Rock Climbing, MLOps, and the Data Science Lifecycle

15:40 - 16:20 Session 6

Carike Blignaut-Staden

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

Mini open space

Generate topics and discuss in small groups
Facilitated by Mercia Malan

16:20 - 17:00 Data Mixer - Social and networking (Cash Bar)