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Atlantic 1: Networking and exhibition area. Lunch and tea will be served here

Atlantic 2 and Marine: All talks will be in either of these rooms Click on the speakers to see their talk details and bio.

07:30 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 10:15 Welcome & Keynote (Atlantic 2)

Jade Abbott

You don't need AI; you need to know what your data is

10:15 - 10:40 Tea break Atlantic 1

Split into breakout rooms Atlantic 2 | Marine

10:40 - 11:20 Session 1

Riding the Storm: Thriving in Uncertainty as a Startup
Bernard van Niekerk Atlantic 2

Unveiling the Illusion: Navigating the Pitfalls of Low-Code Data Tools for Non-Specialists
Johanna Thathaisa Marine

11:20 - 11:30 Movement break

11:30 - 12:10 Session 2

TDD for Data Engineering
Guillaume Belrose Atlantic 2

Diving into Delta Lake
Michael Johnson Marine

12:10 - 12:20 Movement break

12:20 - 13:00 Session 3

Could I store data in my closet?
Janine Lodewick Atlantic 2

Where'd my facts go!?" - Navigating the Development Journey of a Knowledge-Augmented Large Language Model Application at Company Scale
Jonathan Gerrand Marine

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Atlantic 1

14:00 - 14:40 Session 4

Data army of one - Unconventional tools to conquer data challenges
Ewald Horn
Atlantic 2

Adventures with Generative AI APIs
Rishal Hurbans
Marine

14:40 - 14:50 Movement break

14:50 - 15:30 Session 5

PRQL - Modern, functional data transformations with the Pipelined Relational Query Language
Tobias Brandt Atlantic 2

Cut adrift - practical MLOps buoys
Austin Poulton
Marine

15:30 - 15:40 Movement break

15:40 - 16:10 Session 6

Modern Data Management
Jody Roberts
Atlantic 2

How to do everything right and still fail - a story from the data engineering frontlines at the City of Cape Town
Gordon Inggs Marine

16:10 - 17:00 Data Mixer - Social and networking Atlantic 1