The WIIT Chapter will be running a series of monthly webinars titled #MYSTORY, featuring leading women in IT. Join our first guest speaker, Julie Regairaz, founder of STEAM & Curious in the digital skills development space, as we discuss the challenges and opportunities experienced by professional women in IT. Julie will discuss her own career, […]

Register here This Webinar forms part of the IFIP 60 years celebration that is taking place internationally. It is organised by the Technical Committee 9 RSA national representative and co-hosted by the RSA national member society to IFIP, the IITPSA. In addition to the celebration, this webinar aims to raise awareness at community and societal levels […]

As most software companies move towards agile development practices, emphasis has been put on employing Automators over traditional Test Analysts and focussing testing efforts on quality-engineering practises. We’re definitely improving our engineering capability - making sure we are automating features. We’re also ensuring that we have established automated regression packs and we are developing automated […]

Artificial Intelligence: Opening pandora's box on ethics: An IITPSA AI & Robotics Special Interest Group Event, 28 October 2021   Click here to register Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital technologies will have a major impact on humanity's future progress in the near future. They've highlighted basic concerns about what we should do with these platforms, […]

AfricaCom, anchor event of Africa Tech Festival, is the meeting place of Africa’s largest community of tech champions and the largest tech event on the continent. IITPSA is a partner of the Africa Tech Festival. For further information and to secure your free visitor ticket click HERE

AfricaCom, anchor event of Africa Tech Festival, is the meeting place of Africa’s largest community of tech champions and the largest tech event on the continent. IITPSA is a partner of the Africa Tech Festival. For further information and to secure your free visitor ticket click HERE

#WIIT #MYSTORY, 17 November 2021 The IITPSA's Women in IT (#WIIT) Chapter has launched a series of monthly webinars titled #MYSTORY, featuring leading women in IT. The guest speaker will be Zanele May, Head of Automation COE at Sanlam. The event on 17 November has been postponed. The new date will be advised in due course. […]

The purpose of this panel discussion, taking place on 17 November is to discuss the value of community networks from the socio-cultural perspective, their vital role in providing broadband connectivity to rural and remote areas, as well as exploring innovative technologies such as blockchain-based community currencies and their potential to help build local economies in […]

Covid-19 has presented us with an opportunity to showcase online education. During the pandemic, students and teachers all around the world were forced into online classes and for most, gained their first experiences of them. There was good and bad, and many will have hated that experience. But for some, it has opened their eyes […]

Chatbots, Conversational AI, Natural Language Processing: It seems that the technology has made exponential advances over recent years. Many of us use this technology daily in the form of Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri and others. The applications in education and healthcare are promising. A significant challenge with this technology is that almost all […]