October 28, 2026

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Big Data and Business Analytics Innovation Summit

Over two days, the conference will bring together executives, data leaders, IT professionals, and domain specialists to explore how big data and analytics can drive innovation, competitive advantage, and responsible business growth in Africa’s private sector...
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Big Data Conference South Africa

Over two days, the conference will bring together executives, data leaders, IT professionals, and domain specialists to explore how big data and analytics can drive innovation, competitive advantage, and responsible business growth in Africa’s private sector.

 

Who Should Attend:

  • C-Level executives (CIOs, CFOs, COOs)
  • Data scientists, analysts & AI practitioners
  • Business leaders & decision-makers
  • Heads of data infrastructure / IT
  • Risk, compliance & governance professionals
  • Marketing, operations & finance teams
  • Data engineers & data architects

 

Benefits of Attending:

  • Learn actionable strategies to embed analytics into business operations.
  • Discover cutting-edge tools, technologies & architecture (e.g. data mesh, edge analytics).
  • Network with peers, industry experts & data-driven business leaders.
  • Gain insights into future regulatory, ethical, and governance trends.
  • Understand how data can be monetized responsibly for new revenue streams.
  • Build capacity to foster a data-driven culture, while managing risk and innovation.
SPEAKERS AND DATES

EVENT SCHEDULE

Enjoy the speeches from the best this industry has to offer!



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Welcome Speech & Event Opening

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Data Mesh & Domain-Oriented Architectures

Explore how a data mesh approach distributes ownership to business domains, empowering teams to treat data as a product and scale analytics with agility, collaboration, and domain-specific governance.

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Edge Analytics for Real-Time Decision Making

Discuss processing data at the edge (IoT devices, sensors) to reduce latency, enhance responsiveness, and enable real-time insights for industries such as manufacturing, retail, and logistics.

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Coffee/ Tea Break

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Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Analytics Platforms

Examine strategies for combining on-premises, cloud, and multi-cloud data infrastructures to balance cost, scalability, resilience, and performance across enterprise analytics environments.

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Augmented Analytics & Citizen Data Science

Investigate AI-powered self-service tools that democratize data, enabling business users (non-technical) to generate insights, build models, and drive decisions without relying entirely on data science teams.

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Networking Lunch Break

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Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics for Business Growth

Highlight how businesses can use predictive models to forecast trends and prescriptive analytics to recommend actions — helping to optimize operations, reduce risk, and proactively seize market opportunities.

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Data Monetization Strategies

Unpack ways organisations can turn data into revenue streams: creating data products, partnering for data marketplaces, and leveraging analytics to generate customer value and business profitability.

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Analytics-Driven Sustainability & ESG Reporting

Show how big data and analytics enable businesses to measure and optimize environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance — aligning data strategy with sustainability goals.

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Trust, Governance & Ethical Analytics

Focus on frameworks that ensure data governance, ethical model development, explainability, auditability, and compliance — building trust in data-driven decisions across the organization.

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Privacy-Enhancing Technologies & Federated Learning

Explore techniques such as federated learning, differential privacy, and encryption to analyze sensitive data securely — enabling cross-organizational collaboration without compromising privacy.

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Coffee/ Tea Break

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Data Quality, Lineage & Master Data Management

Dive into how maintaining high-quality, consistent, and traceable data (through lineage and MDM) underpins reliable analytics, compliance, and accurate reporting across business units.

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Scalable Data Infrastructure: Lakehouse, Data Fabric & Vault

Compare modern approaches to data architecture — data lakehouse, data fabric, and data vault — to support efficient ingestion, management, storage, and governance at scale.

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Networking Lunch Break

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Real-Time Streaming & Event-Driven Analytics

Discuss the design and implementation of streaming pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Flink), event-driven systems that process and analyze live data for dynamic decision-making and rapid business response.

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Analytics for Risk, Fraud & Security

Examine how organisations can leverage big data and advanced analytics to detect fraud, monitor risk, and secure operations — turning security data into actionable insights.

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AI for Business Forecasting & Optimization(AI topic)

Explore the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to build forecasting models, optimize supply chains, pricing, and resource allocation — enabling smart, data-driven operational decisions.


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EVENT SPEAKERS


Business Development & Marketing Director of KIWEB Events

Nicholas Geza

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Mohamed Khan

FirstRand Foundation Chair in Financial Data Science FirstRand Foundation Chair in Financial Data Science at University of the Witwatersrand | G20 Presidency Delegate | Journal Editor

Prof. Moinak Maiti

Head of Data & Consulting Head of Data & Consulting at Tesserai

Varsha Ramesar

Driving Value Through Data Science | 30 Under 30 | Young Data Professional of the Year 2025

Daniel Wertheimer

Co-Founder African Academy of Artificial Intelligence | GIBS Business School Marketing Lecturer | | Author: Harnessing the Power of AI in Africa & Messaging for Startups​

Greg Serandos

MD at Master Data Management - 20 years delivery of Data Governance, Data Quality and MDM solutions

Gary Allemann

Chief Information Security Officer at Iosis Laboratories

Ivan Sabljak

Head: Data & Analytics at Webber Wentzel | CDMP®️ | DCAM v2.2 | Passionate about Data, Analytics and User-centered Design

Simone Pozniak

Founder at People With Purpose Consulting I Corporate MC I Keynote Speaker

Nontuthuko Mhlungu

Head: IT Governance & Reporting at National Health Laboratory Service

John Mukomana

Director and Lead Data Architect | Data Architect at BI-Lab Solutions

Mgcobo Gwampi

Head of Data Governance at Absa Group | Group Compliance | Data Strategy| Data Governance & Management| Data Analytics & BI| Data Privacy & InfoSec| Keynote| Advisory Board Member| Lecture & Mentor

Dr. Sizwe Gwala

Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advocate and thought leader | Formerly global AI ambassador with Swiss Cognitive and Research fellow with Stellenbosch University

Johan Steyn

CEO at True I/O | Blockchain Innovation Leader | Keynote Speaker | Bridging Real World Asset Tokenisation & Digital Payments with Enhanced Usability

Vincent Maher

Director Data Science at Dentsu SSA. #DataGap #BigData #DataScience

Paul Stemmet

Head of Digital Marketing: Multichoice Group | Digital Transformation| Martech | Growth Marketing Ex Simply Black | Ex WPP I Ex Publicis |Ex Dentsu | IAB Council | Mental Health Ally

Nivasha Pillay

Head of Centre of Excellence -Internet of Things and Security at MTN

Kenneth Matau

Speaker, Strategist, Coach and Mentor at Custodiet Advisory Services | CSO at SLVA Cybersecurity

Steve Jump

Founder and CEO of The AI Shop; Co-founder of Zindi

Ekow Duker

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