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Day 1 - 30 November 2025
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Session | Presenters | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 09:00 | 10:30 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting - Session 1 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting | 1/1-7 - Room 7 | |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | From Energetics to Rates: A Hands-on Workshop on Microkinetic Modelling with ML Potentials - Part 1 | Workshop | Dr. Kyle Abrahams | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | How custom chatbot works and how to build a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented-Generation) system from scratch - Part 1 | Workshop | Mr. Walter Riviera | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | TBA | Workshop | ||
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 11:00 | 12:30 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting - Session 2 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting | 1/1-7 - Room 7 | |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | From Energetics to Rates: A Hands-on Workshop on Microkinetic Modelling with ML Potentials - Part 2 | Workshop | Dr. Kyle Abrahams | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | How custom chatbot works and how to build a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented-Generation) system from scratch - Part 2 | Workshop | Mr. Walter Riviera | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 11:00 | 12:30 | TBA | Workshop | ||
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 13:30 | 15:00 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting - Session 3 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting | 1/1-7 - Room 7 | |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Materials Modelling Workshop using Density Functional Theory (DFT)ay for Supercomputing Centres | Workshop | Kingsley Obodo | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Openstack part 1 | Workshop | 1/1-2 - Room 2 | |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Quantum Machine Learning for Africa (QML4Africa) | Workshop | Dr. Stephanie Muller | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 15:30 | 17:00 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting - Session 4 | SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Meeting | 1/1-7 - Room 7 | |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Materials Modelling Workshop using Density Functional Theory (DFT)ay for Supercomputing Centres | Workshop | Kingsley Obodo | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Openstack part 2 | Workshop | 1/1-2 - Room 2 | |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Quantum Machine Learning for Africa part 2 | Workshop | Dr. Stephanie Muller | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Intermission | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 17:30 | 19:00 | Quantum Machine Learning for Africa part 3 | Workshop | Dr. Stephanie Muller | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
Day 2 - 1 December 2025
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Session | Presenters | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registrations | |||
| 09:00 | 09:05 | Opening | Keynote | Mr. Mervyn Christoffels | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 09:05 | 09:15 | CSIR Welcome | Keynote | Dr. Sandile Malinga | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 09:15 | 09:25 | DSTI Opening | Keynote | Dr. Mlungisi Cele | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 09:25 | 09:45 | NICIS Welcome | Keynote | Dr. Happy Sithole | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 09:45 | 10:30 | TBC | Dr. Thomas Schulthess | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B | |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Refreshment Break | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 11:00 | 11:20 | ® Building the Future: Morocco's High-Performance Computing Infrastructure | HPC Technology | Prof. Imad Kissami | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Entangled Worlds: Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, and the Future of High-Performance Computing. | HPC Applications | Prof. Muaaz Bhamjee | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Quantum Reservoir Computing and Principal Component Analysis for Sustainable High-Performance Search: A New Paradigm for Digital Energy Efficiency | Special | Biswas Kapasule | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | CerebRAN: A Dynamic Behavioural Dataset for Ransomware Detection | ISSA | Mr. Emmanuel Musiiwa Moses Moyo Stones Chindipha | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Exploring the Skies like Never Before, with SKAO | Opportunities for Africa in the Data-Intensive World | HPC Technology | Mr Roufurd Julie | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Is it Time to Switch to Machine Learnt Potentials? | HPC Applications | Prof. Scott Woodley | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Converting complex unitary matrices to quantum circuits using game trees | Special | Mr. Sean Macmillian | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | A Trust Framework for Peer-to-Peer Energy Markets | ISSA | Boitumelo Leotlela Lehlogonolo Ledwaba Prof. Marijke Coetzee | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | AASTU HPC-BDA Center: Advancing Cyber-Infrastructure for Data-to-Decision Transformation in Africa | HPC Technology | Dr. Adugna Woldesemayat | Century City Conference Centre |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Active-learning driven chemical space exploration and relative binding affinity estimation of SARS-CoV-2 PLpro inhibitors using FEP+ | HPC Applications | Dr. Njabulo Gumede | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | COMPARISON OF QUANTUM ALGORITHMS FOR QUADRATIC OPTIMIZATION | Special | Ms. Helarie Rose Medie Fah | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Personal Information Disclosure on Facebook: An Exploratory Study of Demographic differences of first-year IT students at Nelson Mandela University | ISSA | Mr. Asavela Ndzondzo Kerry-Lynn Thomson Prof. Reinhardt Botha | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | TBA | HPC Technology | TBA | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Reference Genome Assembly, Pangenome Construction, and Population Analysis of the Spotted Hyena (Crocuta Crocuta) from the Kruger National Park | HPC Applications | Dr. Ansia van Coller | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Quantum Optimisation Algorithms on Calculating Ramsey Numbers | Special | Mr. Shawal Kassim | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Q&A | HPC Technology | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Q&A | HPC Applications | 1/1-11 - Room 11 | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Q&A | Special | 1/1-7 - Room 7 | |
| 12:30 | 12:50 | Engaging with International Cyber Forums | ISSA | Brett van Niekerk Trishana Ramluckan | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | 1/0-Foyer+C+D - Exhibition and Competition Halls | ||
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Intel Xeon 6: Powering AI Inference from Edge to Cloud for Modern Business | HPC Technology | Dr. Jean-Laurent Philippe | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Computational chemistry methods to understand the role of intermolecular interactions in the properties of materials | HPC Applications | Prof. Catharine Esterhuysen | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Ghost Image Reconstruction with Classical and Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks | Special | Mr. Shawal Kassim | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Assessing Students’ Knowledge of Cybersecurity at a Public South African University | ISSA | Bertram Haskins Errol Baloyi Kerry-Lynn Thomson | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Supercomputing for Sustainability: Balancing Performance and Energy | Special | Prof. Dieter Kranzlmüller Prof. Ewa Deelman Dr. Dan Stanzione Maximilian Höb | 1/1-2 - Room 2 |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Secure HPC and AI Inference Workloads | HPC Technology | Dr. Tim Dykes | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | CCAM Heavy Rainfall Simulations: Sensitivity to Initialization Datasets | HPC Applications | Mr. Tshifhiwa Rambuwani | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Classical and Quantum Computational Complexity of the Ramsey Number Problem | Special | Mr. Brendan Griffiths | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Aligning cybersecurity education with industry needs: Bridging South Africa’s skills development | ISSA | Prof. Hennie Kruger Prof. Lynette Drevin Prof. Marijke Coetzee Mr. Michael De Jager | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | Optimization and Placement Patterns for training and inference workloads | HPC Technology | Dr. Lerato Mohapi | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | Recommendations for Running Bioinformatics Applications on CHPC | HPC Applications | Ms. Thandeka Mavundla | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | Identification of Quantum Hardware based on Noise Fingerprint Using Machine Learning | Special | Mr. Rameez Abdool Ms. Jenna Epstein | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Beyond Performance: Building a Multi-Tenant HPC Centre of Excellence with VAST | HPC Technology | Mr. Kim Ormiston | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Holes, Hops and Haven Ratios—Molecular Dynamics of Ion Transport and Transference in MFSI/[C₄C₁pyr][FSI] electrolytes (M = Li, Na, K) | HPC Applications | Dr. Gerhard Venter | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Password Security Quantum Readiness Framework for IT Professionals | Special | Mr. Anele Siwela | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | A Holistic Cyber Security Readiness Assessment Tool for Organisations in Developing Countries | ISSA | Raymond Agyemang Steven Furnell Tim Muller | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Is AI Killing HPC? No, it isn’t, and it’s a stupid question | Keynote | Mr. Dan Olds | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 15:50 | 17:00 | Industry Inquisition | Keynote | Mr. Dan Olds | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 17:00 | 17:45 | How Intel and HPE team up to solve challenges in Agentic AI, such as IO pressure, security, system heterogeneity and TCO. | Keynote | Dr. Jean-Laurent Philippe Dr. Utz-Uwe Haus | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 17:45 | 17:50 | NSTF Awards: Recognising Research Software and the People Who Build It | Keynote | Ms. Anelda Van der Walt | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 17:50 | 18:00 | Intermission | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 18:00 | 19:30 | Conference Dinner | Century City Conference Centre |
Day 3 - 2 December 2025
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Session | Presenters | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registrations | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 09:00 | 09:45 | Leveraging undersea cables and optical fibre for high-volume science workflows | Keynote | Dr. Rosalind Thomas | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 09:45 | 10:30 | Bridging Sectors And Empowering Progress | Integrating Compute, Data, and Community for Innovation | Keynote | Dr. Mischa Kim | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break | |||
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Curbing Non-Revenue Water Through A Dynamic Hydraulic Modeling & Smart Water Network Management System | HPC Technology | Mr. Lwando Ngcama | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | (AI) and machine learning (ML) for materials discovery while speeding up the process beyond conventional trial-and-error techniques. | HPC Applications | Prof. Malik Maaza | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Emergent Leadership in Digital Public Infrastructure: A Practice Nexus Approach to Sociotechnical Transformation in South Africa | Special | Mr. Mervyn Christoffels | 1/1-2 - Room 2 |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Strategic infrastructure investments and partnerships and how to maximise private sector investments | SANREN | Mr. Stein Mkandawire | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Ethical Boundaries of Plagiarism Detection in the Age of AI | ISSA | Bobby Tait Rowen Robinson | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Cloud based urban planning decision support | HPC Technology | Ms. Carike Karsten | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | VCo2O4 (001) surface properties in zinc-air batteries | HPC Applications | Prof. Khomotso Maenetja | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Transforming Health Logistics through Digital Leadership: Rwanda’s Drone Delivery flagship project. | Special | Prof. Peter Weimann | 1/1-2 - Room 2 |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Strategic Infrastructure and Partnerships for the Challenges of Petabyte/Exa-Scale Data and High-Speed Transfers in the SADC Region and Beyond | SANREN | Mthunzi Shabangu Mr. Sicelo Nkambule | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Ethical principles and social implications of generative AI | ISSA | Prof. Clarissa Weyer Prof. Hennie Kruger Prof. Marijke Coetzee | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | The National Policy Data Observatory (NPDO) | HPC Technology | Mr. Sifiso Mgaga | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | A use case for integration of Earth Observations and AI in NWP modellin | HPC Applications | Ms. Patience Mulovhedzi | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Creating a Sovereign Cloud Platform for South Africa | Special | Mr. David Macleod | 1/1-2 - Room 2 |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Empowering Research Communities - Data Sovereignty and Skills Development for Managing Data | SANREN | Mrs. Miriam CHAHURUVA | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Uncertainty Quantification in Patient-Specific Cardiovascular CFD: A Global Sensitivity Study on the Lengau Cluster | HPC Applications | Mr. Vincent Punabantu | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Value-driven Artificial Intelligence, Data and Natural Language Processing solutions built on the CHPC sovereign cloud infrastructure | HPC Technology | Mr. Avi Moodley | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Digital Leadership in the Age of AI: Reframing Human Agency and Institutional Foresight in High-Performance Computing Futures | Special | Dr. Wouter Grove | 1/1-2 - Room 2 |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Strategic Infrastructure Investments and Partnerships, and How to Maximise on Private Sector Investments | SANREN | Dr. Frank Seth | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | A conceptual model of factors to improve cybercrime investigation. | ISSA | Mr. Aluta Vusisiziwe Dyasi Bertram Haskins Prof. Reinhardt Botha | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Q & A | HPC Applications | 1/1-11 - Room 11 | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Q & A | Special | 1/1-2 - Room 2 | |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | 1/0-Foyer+C+D - Exhibition and Competition Halls | ||
| 13:30 | 15:00 | BoF: HPC Education | HPC Technology | Mr Bryan Johnston | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | From Punch Cards to AI-Powered HPC: A 40-Year Journey in Computational Chemistry Infrastructure | HPC Applications | Prof. Krishna Govender Hendrick Kruger | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Scalable Network Observability | SANREN | Gerrit Avenant | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Unpacking the effects of Cyber Fraud on Financial Aid students in South Africa | ISSA | Gershon Hutchinson Salah Kabanda | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | The African Bioinformatics Institute: Building Data Infrastructure for Genomics in Africa | HPC Applications | Prof. Nicola Mulder | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | SANReN Connect Proof of Concept (POC) | SANREN | Kasandra Pillay | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Optimising Synthetic Data Generation for Cybersecurity Datasets | ISSA | Christian K. Devraj Jan Eloff | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | Exploring new ways to decarbonize metal production with multiphysics modelling and high-performance computing | HPC Applications | Dr. Quinn Reynolds | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | Scalability and Future-Proofing SANReN Network Infrastructure: Road to 400/800Gbps and AI-Driven Network Intelligence | SANREN | Yabin Zhang | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | From Idea to Impact: Scalable AI Workflows with MATLAB & HPC - Bridging AI Challenges with Scalable, Reliable, and Explainable Solutions | HPC Applications | Dr. Marco Rossi | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | The Effect of Cybersecurity Fatigue on Employees’ Compliance with Cybersecurity Measures | ISSA | Mr. Luyanda Mtombeni Teofelus Tuyeni Wallace Chigona | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | Scalability and Future-Proofing SANReN Network Infrastructure: Road to 400/800Gbps and AI-Driven Network Intelligence | SANREN | Lebogo Kekana | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Q & A | 1/1-11 - Room 11 | ||
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Challenges With Implementing FAIR Data Standards | HPC Technology | Jay Lofstead | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | BoF: CHPC Users | HPC Applications | Dr. Werner Janse Van Rensburg | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 15:30 | 15;50 | Building Trust for Research: Federations, and the Blueprint Architecture. | SANREN | Donald Coetzee | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | A Qualitative Review of Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Biometrics in Decentralized Identity Systems | ISSA | Kedimotse Baruni Sthembile Ntshangase | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | TENET update | SANREN | Abdullah Shariff | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | Object storage for High Performance I/O | HPC Technology | Adrian Jackson | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Adaptive-Delta ADWIN for Real-Time Intrusion Detection in Evolving Network Streams | ISSA | Rodney Buang Sebopelo | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 16:10 | 16:30 | ®Training ML algorithms on resource-constrained devices — a memory/storage perspective | HPC Technology | Jalil Boukhobza | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Correlating Memory, Persistent, and Runtime Evidence in Redis | ISSA | Dr. Mary O. Adedayo Muhammad Abdul Moiz Zia | 1/1-10 - Room 10 |
| 16:10 | 16:50 | The State of SA NREN in 2025 | SANREN | Mr. Ajay Makan Prof. Renier van Heerden | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 16:30 | 16:50 | ® Scalable Data Management Techniques for AI workloads | HPC Technology | Bogdan Nicolae | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 17:00 | 19:00 | Poster (Showcase Cocktails Function) | Poster | 1/0-0 - Foyer |
Day 4 - 3 December 2025
| Start Time | End Time | Title | Session | Presenters | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registrations | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 09:00 | 09:45 | Agentic AI and the Future of Discovery | Keynote | Dr. Ian Foster | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 09:45 | 10:30 | The South African 110K Human Genome Program: Enabling a Big Data in Health Environment for African Personalised Medicine | Keynote | Dr. Rizwana Mia | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Sustainable Research Software and Infrastructure for HPC: Practices, Challenges, and Community | Special | Ms. Anelda Van der Walt | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | The Dell AI Factory-What it is and why it matters | HPC Technology | Mr. Ryan Rautenbach | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Harnessing CHPC Resources for Large-Scale Geophysical Modelling and Mineral Prospectivity Analysis in Southern Africa | HPC Applications | Dr. David Khoza | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 11:00 | 11:20 | Advancing South Africa’s Research Data Ecosystem: Infrastructure, Innovation, and Collaboration. | DIRISA | Dr. More Manda | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | The Convergence of HPC and AI | HPC Technology | Mr. Rick Koopman | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Ocean Modelling at the CHPC: Advancing Southern Ocean and Climate Research | HPC Applications | Dr. Nicolette Chang | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 11:20 | 11:40 | Leveraging Cyber-infrastructure for Open Science: DIRISA's Contribution to Data-Driven Decision-Making in South Africa. | DIRISA | Dr. Phoshoko Katlego | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Vendor Presentation (TBC) | HPC Technology | Vendor Speaker (TBC) | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Tailoring structural design of spinel LiMn2O4 cathode material through high entropy doping | HPC Applications | Prof. Raesibe Sylvia Ledwaba | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 11:40 | 12:00 | Empowering South African Research through the Altron AI Factory | DIRISA | Dr. Bongani Andy Mabaso | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Vendor Presentation | HPC Technology | Vendor Speaker (TBC) | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | A first principle study of thermoelectric properties of some chalcogenides materials | HPC Applications | Dr. Moshibudi Ramoshaba | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | AI-Assisted Optimization of Large-Scale Climate Data Transfers in South African Research Infrastructure | DIRISA | Mr. Jonathan Padavatan | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Q & A | HPC Technology | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Q & A | HPC Applications | 1/1-11 - Room 11 | |
| 12:20 | 12:30 | Q & A | DIRISA | 1/1-7 - Room 7 | |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | 1/0-Foyer+C+D - Exhibition and Competition Halls | ||
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Investigations of Selected Properties of Material under Dynamical High Pressure and Temperature | HPC Applications | Prof. George Amolo | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | BoF: HPC Ecosystems Project | HPC Technology | Mr. Bryan Johnston | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Catalysing Data Centre Investment for Africa’s High-Performance Computing and Climate Action through the Digital Investment Facility (DIF) | DIRISA | Mr. Mulalo Mphidi | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | ChemShell: defects in energy materials by hybrid QM/MM approach | HPC Applications | Mr. Liam Morgan | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 14:10 | 14:30 | The Dynamic Control of Head Stabilisation in Cheetahs: A Computer Vision and Optimisation Approach | HPC Applications | Ms. Kamryn Norton | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 14:30 | 14:50 | High-Performance Computing for Multiphase Flow Modelling of Oxygen Lancing in Pyrometallurgical Tap-Holes | HPC Applications | Dr. Markus Erwee | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Q & A | HPC Applications | 1/1-11 - Room 11 | |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 15:30 | 17:00 | BoF: Women in HPC “Advancement through the professional staircase” | HPC Applications | Prof. Khomotso Maenetja | 1/1-11 - Room 11 |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Co-design and federation of computing services for AI and simulation | HPC Technology | Mark Wilkinson | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 15:30 | 15:50 | Hybrid Stacking and Embedded Regression with Multi-Phase Feature Selection for Explainable Crop Yield Prediction in Botswana | DIRISA | Mr. Kalu Ubi Kalu Dr. George Anderson Dr. Audrey Masizana | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 15:50 | 16:10 | GPU/LLM as a Service Platform | HPC Technology | Pramod Venkatesh | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 15:50 | 16:05 | Computational Model for Identifying Sepitori in Multilingual Texts | DIRISA | Dr. Dan Masethe | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 16:10 | 16:30 | Federated Computing for Health Data Science in Africa | HPC Technology | Mr. Takudzwa Nyasha Musarurwa | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 16:05 | 16:20 | SADiLaR's repository as a cyber-infrastructure: Improving data accessibility for South African languages | DIRISA | Prof. Menno van Zaanen | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 16:30 | 16:50 | Integrating High-Performance Computing and Deep Learning for Big Data-Driven Cyberinfrastructure: A Framework for Scalable AI Research in African Research Institutions | HPC Technology | Dr. Olalekan Samuel Ogunleye | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 |
| 16:20 | 16:35 | Recognising South African Voices: A Multilingual ASR Pipeline | DIRISA | Ms. Mahlatse Mbooi | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 16:35 | 16:50 | Factors associated with sexually transmitted infection literacy among men who have sex with men and transgender people in Soweto: A machine learning approach | DIRISA | Dr. Claris Siyamayambo | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
| 16:50 | 17:00 | Q & A | HPC Technology | 1/1-8+9 - Room 8+9 | |
| 16:50 | 17:05 | Q & A | DIRISA | 1/1-7 - Room 7 |
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| 17:00 | 18:00 | Canapés & Cocktails Networking Session | Century City Conference Centre | ||
| 18:00 | 18:45 | The Evolving Coexistence of HPC and AI — The US Leadership Class Computing Facility and Other Developments. | Keynote | Dr. Dan Stanzione | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 18:45 | 19:00 | Active Memory Architecture, Early Design | Keynote | Prof. Thomas Sterling | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |
| 19:00 | 21:15 | Awards | 1/0-AB - Hall A+B |