Big Data and Business Analytics Innovation Summit

today October 28, 2026my_locationThe Maslow Hotel in Sandton


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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.



Location

The Maslow Hotel
in Sandton, Johannesburg

Past Sponsors


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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.


Details
Begin October 28, 2026 H 08:00
End October 29, 2026 H 16:00
Location The Maslow Hotel in Sandton
Address The Maslow Hotel Johannesburg, South Africa
Phone (+27) 011 046 5455

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