Day 1 – 28th October Reg Desk & Expo opens 08:00

09.30 – Welcome & Plenary Keynote Address – SA AI Association & Solcon Capital

09:30 Workshop 1 / Board Room 1

11:00-11:30 Coffee & Networking

• Track Talks / Workshop 2 / Board Room 2

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Networking

• Track Talks / Workshop 3 / Board Room 3

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Networking

• Track Talks / Workshop 4 / Board Room 4

17:30 Extended networking in main Expo Hall & Poster Session

SHOW CLOSES 20:00

Day 2 – 29th October Reg Desk & Expo opens 08:00

09.30 – Welcome & Plenary Keynote Address – SA AI Association & Huawei

09:30 Workshop 1 / Board Room 1

11:00-11:30 Coffee & Networking

• Track Talks / Workshop 2 / Board Room 2

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Networking

• Track Talks / Workshop 3 / Board Room 3

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Networking

• Track Talks / Workshop 4 / Board Room 4

SHOW CLOSES 17:30

NOTE – All boardrooms are invite only via host

DAY 1 – 28th October – Level 2 Track Rooms (Plenary / Track 1, 2, 3, 4) & Workshop Room

• TRACK KEYNOTE – Governing the unseen: Securing the future of agentic AI – SailPoint – UAE
• TRACK KEYNOTE – From pilots to production: what it really takes to run enterprise AI in Africa – Cassava Technologies – Canada
• TRACK KEYNOTE – Accelerating AI Adoption with the AI Data Platform – Huawei Technologies – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – What would your 20-Star CX look like? Co-design it today – iNOVO AI – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Build an Enterprise AI Agent with Agentic AI – NiCE – UK
• TRACK TALK – Beyond the hype: Addressing the real world legal challenges and risks of AI being experienced in organisations – Bowmans – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – From AI Pilot to Trusted Outcomes: Five Lessons from African Customer Operations – Zendesk – Ireland
• TRACK TALK – The Autonomous Enterprise: Building AI Agents with Microsoft – Managing Executive – First Technology Digital – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Shadow AI Is Not the Problem. Your Response to It Is – Netsurit – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Is “AI for all” being deployed now now? – French Embassy in South Africa – France + South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Trust, but Verify: Lessons from the Frontier of AI Research and Hardware – Dean Brand – NITheCS – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Real African use cases & outcomes – Liquid C2 – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Building Africa’s Sovereign AI Infrastructure: Modular AI Infrastructure, Local Data Sovereignty, and High-Density Compute – ECOBLOX & Stratos Lab
• TRACK TALK – AI That Reaches Every Teacher and Learner – Snapplify – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – AI Beyond the Hype: What It Really Takes to Scale AI in a Complex Enterprise – Sasol – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The Funda Five – 5 Questions To Ask Before Trusting AI – AFRIVERSAL AI – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Everybody Has AI. Why Are We All Wearing the Same Hat? – Dentsu – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Africa’s AI Future: From Continental Policy to Real Opportunities for Innovators – AUDA-NEPAD – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Responsible Ai: From Policy To People Building Africa’s Ai-Ready Citizens – MICT SETA – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Closing the Implementation Gap: Strategic Lessons from the South Africa AI Landscape Report – Financial Sector Conduct Authority – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Build To Sell: Product Build To Customer Engagement for AI Natives – SW7 – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – 95% of AI Pilots Fail. The 5% Built This Layer First – Autalus – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Belgotex, City Property & SPAR Group: Three Practical Automation Stories using Microsoft AI and Low-Code – Greenlight Solutions – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – A Diagnostic-Driven Approach to Entrepreneurial Support – YIEDI & Rinku Connect – South Africa

CPD Workshops Day 1

• Workshop 1 Day 1 – 09:30-11:00 – Red Hat & LSD Open – AgentOps in Action: Observability, Tracing & Evaluation for Enterprise Agentic AI
• Workshop 2 Day 1 – 11:30-13:00 – Clickatell – Beyond the Chatbot: Using Conversational AI to Complete the Customer’s Task
• Workshop 3 Day 1 – 14:00-15:30 – Oracle – AI Beyond The Hype – Building meaningful adoption of AI
• Workshop 4 Day 1 – 16:00-17:30 – First Technology – Security in the Age of AI

DAY 2 – 29th October – Level 2 Track Rooms (Plenary / Track 1, 2, 3, 4) & Workshop Room

• PLENARY KEYNOTE – Leading Agentic AI Infrastructure Innovation to Enable a New Intelligent SA – Huawei – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – The Sovereign AI Stack, Layer by Layer, Open by design, in production in days, under your command – SUSE – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – Success Factors for Future Proofing your Organisation’s Technology Ecosystem – Zoho – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – From Pilot to Production: The Practical Implications of Customised AI Implementations – Retro Rabbit – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – Shaping the Future with Oracle Solution – Oracle – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The Next Era of Finance: How AI Is Redefining Financial Operations – Yooz – France
• TRACK TALK – Organisational AI Policy (Created by real people) – Youth Employment Service – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Profit Power: How Bonisa AI leveraged Siemens’ Data & AI Solutions to Maximise Margins for Staffing Success – Bonisa Applied Insights – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Building Sovereign AI for the South African Enterprise – Business AI – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The $100 Billion Customer Experience Mistake – We Automated Conversations, Not Outcomes – Clickatell – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The Economics of Enterprise AI: From ML to Agentic AI – GPUs, Tokens and the Cost of Scale – Redhat – UAE
• TRACK TALK – The Gap Between the Keynote and the Keyboard: AI in Business, Unfiltered – Saucecode – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – AI Readiness & Change Maturity – A FREE Tool To Baseline Your Journey – SA AI Association – South Africa
• PANEL – Green AI & Compute – Trends & Opportunities For Builders – Retro Rabbit, Cassava, French Embassy, Altron
• TRACK TALK – The Rise of Agentic AI: How Organizations Can Unlock Value While Managing Risk and Governance – iTuring.ai – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – From AI Experiments to AI-Ready Organisations: A Strategic Framework for Scaling AI in African Enterprises – Nestle – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How Contextual AI Is Reshaping Beauty Purchasing Decisions – Owulo Skin – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Half of Enterprise AI Needs No Historic Data – StrideShift Global – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – No Shortcuts: Why Close to a Decade of Disciplined Digitization Was the Only Path to AI That Actually Works – Netcare – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – From Policy to Practice: Why National AI Strategies Need Sector Specific Guardrails – FirstRand Group – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Safety as Architecture: Designing a Legal Form-Filling Tool for Survivors of GBV – Gender Rights in Tech – South Africa
• TRACK TALK Auditable AI for Regulated Archives: How Open Standards and Local Inference Close the Governance Gap – The Archive and Heritage Digital Curation Group – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Focus on Human Rigour and Critical Thinking in an AI-Enhanced Education – KWC EvolveSchool – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Building African Creative AI: Data, Rights, and Real Products – Auraa Africa – South Africa

CPD Workshops Day 2

• Workshop 1 Day 2 – 09:30-11:00 – DVT – AI-Native Software Development: Idea to Production in 90 Minutes
• Workshop 2 Day 2 – 11:30-13:00 – Huawei – Empowering the Intelligence Evolution
• Workshop 3 Day 2 – 14:00-15:30 – DENSU – Congratulations. AI Just Joined Your Team
• Workshop 4 Day 2 – 16:00-17:30 – Get AI – From Prompt to Supervised Agent

Our Applied R&D poster programme (Innovation wall) is always massive success helping to share R&D innovation with industry practitioners and investors.  The R&D posters to be showcased at AI Expo Africa 2026 will include; 

• Q-LOG: Quantum-Enhanced Logistics Intelligence – Optimising Last-Mile Delivery for a More Inclusive South Africa
• TemEYO: An AI-Powered Interview Preparation Platform for African Job Seekers and Recruiters
• Excavating the articulation gap: adaptive conversational AI for capability discovery in South Africa
• Multilingual Speech Search for South African Languages
• Closing Ai Regulatory Gaps: Promoting Responsible Ai and Governance
• Adaptive Learning For Educational Transformation of Uganda
• “Deep learning-based mobile application for the enhancement of pneumonia
• medical imaging analysis”
• Sovereignty in the Age of Agents: Decentralized Local LLM Deployment & Multi-Agent Topologies for African Enterprises
• Deep learning-based mobile application for the enhancement of pneumonia medical imaging analysis: A case-study of West-Meru Hospital
• Enhancing Detection of Common Bean Diseases Via Fast Gradient Sign Method Trained Vision Transformers
• Edge AI Under Attack: Securing Intelligent Systems at the Edge
• Ensuring Responsible AI Through the Use of Uncertainty Quantification
• Capital-Safe AI Decisions for African Enterprise
• The importance of ML in geology: Detecting pyrite (FeS2) nodules in coal seams using machine learning
• Closing the Trigger Gap: An Offline, Edge-AI Emergency Escalation Trigger for South African Hospital Wards
• Optimising Socially Responsive Grid-Connected Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems: What Algorithm Behaviour Reveals
• A Systematic Review: Investigating the Relationship between Discourse Patterns and Pedagogical Strategies for Physical Science Educators on the topic of Electromagnetic Radiation.