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Diamond Sponsors

Intel Digital Readiness Programs

Increased digitalization requires investment in digital readiness for countries to remain competitive in the global economy. Digital Readiness encompasses skills, trust, and responsible use of emerging technologies by people for broader socio-economic benefits. Building digital readiness among people is essential for achieving more inclusive outcomes from the digital economy.

Intel is committed to bringing AI everywhere and making AI inclusive by addressing the skills gap for all.

Intel has rolled out the large-scale public-private partnership program, Intel Digital Readiness, with government, academia and industry partners. This shared-value, shared-responsibility program portfolio aims to demystify and democratize emerging technologies for all. These programs are currently being implemented in 29 countries for a diverse non-technical audience, irrespective of their location, gender, and ethnicity.

Established in 2010, Eclipse is a specialized consultancy focused on High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage solutions. We provide comprehensive services, from initial design and rigorous testing to seamless implementation and ongoing support. Our mission is to help South Africa’s top scientific, research, and academic institutions harness the power of bespoke, scalable computing environments. By optimizing economics, processes, and speed, we enable our clients to confidently explore the frontiers of computer-aided visualization, simulation modelling, and prediction.

HPE is a leader in essential enterprise technology, bringing together the power of AI, cloud, and networking to help organizations achieve more. As pioneers of possibility, our innovation and expertise advance the way people live and work. We empower our customers across industries to optimize operational performance, transform data into foresight, and maximize their impact. Unlock your boldest ambitions, with HPE. Discover more at HPE.com

Platinum Sponsors

The National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS) is a South African national institute established to advance theoretical and computational science across the country and the wider African continent. NITheCS is hosted at Stellenbosch University and functions as a consortium, engaging South Africa’s 26 public universities and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in a dynamic and collaborative network.

Operating across eight scientific themes – ranging from astronomy and astrophysics to bioinformatics and quantitative biology, data science, earth systems modelling and climate change modelling, mathematics, quantitative finance, statistics, and theoretical physics – NITheCS provides a pan-disciplinary platform to address real-world challenges through integrated scientific approaches.

Through its research, training, and engagement programmes, NITheCS aims not only to deepen scientific understanding but also to contribute to socio-economic development and position South Africa, and Africa more broadly, as active participants and leaders in the global scientific community.

Dell Technologies is a global technology leader with a purpose to create technologies that drive human progress.

We partner with organizations to accelerate outcomes from ideas to innovation. We do this through a unified, best‑in‑class portfolio and resilient supply chain, backed by expert services and an open partner ecosystem.

Whether refreshing to AI PCs, modernizing your data center and multicloud, advancing cybersecurity resilience, or harnessing AI through the Dell AI Factory, we help you turn data into insight and deliver secure, sustainable, and intelligent solutions that move your business forward.

Gold Sponsors

VAST Data is the AI Operating System company – powering the next generation of intelligent systems with a unified software infrastructure stack that was purpose-built to unlock the full potential of AI. The VAST AI OS consolidates foundational data and compute services and agentic execution into one scalable platform, enabling organizations to deploy and facilitate communication between AI agents, reason over real-time data, and automate complex workflows at global scale. Built on VAST’s breakthrough DASE architecture – the world’s first true parallel distributed system architecture that eliminates tradeoffs between performance, scale, simplicity, and resilience – VAST has transformed its modern infrastructure into a global fabric for reasoning AI. Learn more at vastdata.com and follow VAST Data on LinkedIn, YouTube and X.

Lenovo is a US$69 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #196 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

Silver Sponsor

The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is a national research infrastructure supported by the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), as part of the South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap (SARIR). SADiLaR has an enabling function with a focus on all 12 official languages of South Africa, supporting research and development in language technologies and language-related studies in the humanities and social sciences.

SADiLaR’s flagship capacity development programme, ESCALATOR, grows an inclusive and active South African community of practice in Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences through strategic partnerships, tailored training initiatives, the Digital Champions Initiative, DH-IGNITE regional events, and the Digital Humanities Open Educational Resources Champions Programme. The SWiP collaboration with Wikipedia and PanSALB advances South African languages on digital platforms by bringing together communities of language practice to actively contribute to the Wikipedia.

The centre operates several strategic programmes including:

The Higher Education Sector Support Programme (HESSP), which provides targeted support to universities in implementing the Language Policy Framework for Public Higher Education Institutions through capacity building, language planning expertise, and terminology development.
The Digitisation Programme, which systematically creates digital text, speech, and multimodal resources for all official South African languages while developing natural language processing software tools
LwimiLinks, an online platform that centralizes multilingual terminology and language resources to empower language practitioners across South Africa.

Additional initiatives include the Child Language Development Node, Write-it multilingual academic writing support tools, and the recently launched Research Software Awards in partnership with the National Science and Technology Forum.

Through these programmes, SADiLaR provides researchers, students, and educators across South Africa’s 26 public universities and research centres with the skills, resources, and networks needed to ensure a digital future for all official South African languages.