Committees
Local Organising Committee
General Chair
Mr Anban Pillay
General Chair
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Technical Programme Committee
Dr Edgar Jembere
Programme Co-Chair
Academic Leader: Computer Science
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Prof Terence van Zyl
Programme Co-Chair
Institute for Intelligent Systems
University of Johannesburg
Dr Paige Benton
African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
University of Johannesburg
Dr Daniel Grimaldi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (AIRU) in the Department of Computer Science University of Cape Town
Prof Eduan Kotzé
Computer Science and Informatics
University of the Free State
Prof Aurona Gerber
Department of Information Science
Stellenbosch University
Dr Edgar Jembere
Academic Leader: Computer Science
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Prof Knut Hinkelmann
Head of Research Group Intelligent Information Systems
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Dr Fabio Tollon
Edinburgh Futures Institute
University of Edinburgh
Prof Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem
Head of Department: Philosophy
Head of Department: Philosophy
University of Pretoria
Prof Marelie Davel
Director of the Multilingual Speech Technologies (MuST) Research Group, Faculty of Engineering
North-West University
Dr Jonas Haldimann
Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Research Unit
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Prof Sunet Eybers
Applied Artificial Intelligence, Data Science Teaching and Learning, Design Science Research
University of South Africa
Mr Anban Pillay
Computer Science
University of
KwaZulu-Natal
Unconference Committee
Mr Sibonelo Dlamini
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Ms Yuvika Singh
Unconference Chairperson
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Mr Mluleki Bryan Sinqadu
Tutorial Chairperson
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Tutorial Chairperson
University of KwaZulu-Natal
SACAIR Steering Committee
Prof Aurona Gerber
Committee Member &
Chair of the SACAIR Steering Committee
Chair of the SACAIR Steering Committee
Stellenbosch University
Mr Anban Pillay
Committee Member
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Prof Alta de Waal
Committee Member & Treasurer
University of Pretoria
Prof Louise Leenen
Committee Member
University of the Western Cape
Prof Mehrdad Ghaziasgar
Committee Member
University of the Western Cape
Prof Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem
Committee Member
University of Pretoria
Committee Member
University of Pretoria
Dr Edgar Jembere
Committee Member
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Prof Terence van Zyl
Committee Member
University of Johannesburg
