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Conference Schedule
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 |
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EVENTS TIMELINE
Conference Schedule
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 |
Speakers
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Prof Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee)
Prof Thomas Sterling (Indiana University)
Prof Ewa Deelman (University of Southern California)
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
Prof Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee)
Prof Yin-Zhe Ma (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Dr Kingsley Obodo (North West University)
Dr Matthew Lasich (Mangosuthu University of Technology)
Dr Pritika Ramharack (SA Medical Research Council)
Dr Sunita Kruger (University of Johannesburg)
Prof Matthew Adeleke (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
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 |
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