DataConf 2026 Agenda

🚧 Draft agenda — subject to change

8:00 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 10:15 Welcome & Keynote

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🎤 Keynote — TBC

To be announced

10:15 - 10:40 Tea Break

10:40 - 11:20 Session 1

Dr Thabang Mathonsi

Healthcare in the Age of Agents: The AI Paradigm Shift and its Impact in a Regulated World

Geoffrey Lydall

Intellectual and Emotional Obesity - Fast food in your brain

11:30 - 12:10 Session 2

Carike Blignaut-Staden

Token Economics: The Hidden Cost of Every Prompt

Thato Mokoena

Trekking to the Data Promised Land: Building a Data Practice, Not a Data Team

12:20 - 13:00 Session 3

Paul Domanski

Vanta Rising: How I Built an AI-Native Operating System for a Global Brand House

James McGillivray

Turning Data into Stories People Remember

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:40 Session 4

Michael Victor

An Introduction to Data Science with the Help of Banana-Throwing Gorillas

Abia Duvenage

Thorough, Documented & Wrong: The Problems Methodology Can't Fix

14:50 - 15:30 Session 5

Rishal Hurbans

The Algorithms Inside Generative AI

Mfundo Mbambo

What Does AI Think Africa Looks Like? An Experiment in LLM Bias

15:40 - 16:20 Session 6

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Speaker — TBC

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Panel Discussion — TBC

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