Program Schedule

Built for the Future of AI Engineering

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Johannesburg : November 12, 2026

Programme Schedule

ATLANTA: October 1, 2026

08:00 – 08:50

Registration 

08:50 – 09:00

Welcome Note

09:00 – 09:45

Keynote

Dr. Barıs Sarıalioglu
Founder, Managing Partner, TesterYou

09:45 – 10:30

From Chatbot to Digital Employee: A Live Agentic AI Experiment

Kenan IsraelKenan Israel
Senior Data and AI Architect, Discovery Insure

10:30 – 11:00

Refreshment Break

11:00 – 11:45

The Dual Frontier of AI Quality: Governing Model Drift, and Managing Potential Technical Debt from AI Assisted Development

Carington Phahlamohlaka
Manager, Machine Learning, LexisNexis

11:45 – 12:30

The Architecture of Trust: Designing AI Agents That Know Their Limits.

Bophelo Makhetha
Senior Manager: Software Engineering, MTN

12:30 – 13:15

Networking Lunch

13:15 – 14:00

Do we have “Quality Signal Chain” topic anywhere, this is more sophisticated form of risk based testing. In QSC production signals are driving test strategy. This is how Amazon have optimized testing process.

Craig Risi
Vice President of Software Engineering, Entersekt 

14:00 – 15:00

Panel Discussion

Kumbulani Tshuma
Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Investec

Kaveer Harie
AI and Modernisation Architecture, Google

15:00 – 15:15

Refreshment Break

15:15 – 17:15

Tutorial

Dr. Barıs Sarıalioglu
Founder, Managing Partner, TesterYou

17:15 – 17:30

Closing and Wrap-Up