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Atlantic 1: Networking and exhibition area. Lunch and tea will be served here

Atlantic 2 and Marine: All talks will be in either of these rooms Click on the speakers to see their talk details and bio.

07:30 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 10:15 Welcome & Keynote (Atlantic 2)

James McGillivray

The value of community in a fast-evolving landscape

10:15 - 10:40 Tea break Atlantic 1

Split into breakout rooms Atlantic 2 | Marine

10:40 - 11:20 Session 1

Lessons Learned from Using an LLM and Expecting Magic
Gerhard van Deventer Atlantic 2

Revamp Your SQL Servers with Azure SQL Managed Instance
Jody Roberts Marine

11:20 - 11:30 Movement break

11:30 - 12:10 Session 2

Heinekens MLOps Journey: From notebooks to scalable products
Garett Sidwell Atlantic 2

Building strong foundations: Designing effective development programs for junior data talent
Zintle Faltein-Maqubela Marine

12:10 - 12:20 Movement break

12:20 - 13:00 Session 3

Managing Multinational Data teams
Georgina Armstrong Atlantic 2

Applying engineering principles to reporting
Guillaume (G) Belrose Marine

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Atlantic 1

14:00 - 14:40 Session 4

5 types of databases in less than 40 minutes
Michael Johnson
Atlantic 2

A practical approach to federated data governance strategies
Kabelo Masemola
Marine

14:40 - 14:50 Movement break

14:50 - 15:30 Session 5

Open source data sucks - and how we learned to love it!
Jonathan Bossenger Atlantic 2

I can see clearly now - Adding vision to a rubber duck
Dale Nunns
Marine

15:30 - 15:40 Movement break

15:40 - 16:20 Session 6

Creating Data Science impact at scale
Brittany Wagenaar
Atlantic 2

Accelerating Medical Insight: Harnessing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems and LLM's
Elisha Bere Marine

16:20 - 17:00 Data Mixer - Social and networking (Cash Bar) Atlantic 1