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.....
Tammy Vezasie
BBD Software - Talent Acquisition Specialist
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, AWS User Group Leader
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-powered 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 and Technology Enthusiast
The death of the chatbot: Engineering the "invisible" AI interface
Boitumelo Magabane
Systems and Business Analyst at STS, AWS Certified AI Practitioner
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
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
Lesedi Jonas
Software Engineer
Learning programming the fun way by building GIT
Kayley Green
Business Analyst by day, accidental engineer by curiosity
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
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
Cameron Worthington
Software Engineer
Matric calculus = quantum mechanics = agentic development