Join us for a panel discussion where professionals from academia, research, and startups come together to explore the transformative impact of technology. This session will spotlight how collaborative efforts across various communities, utilizing GitHub can foster innovation, advance social good, and ensure inclusivity for all.

Constellation 2024 is GitHub's in-person developer conference celebrating the best of the South African developer community

Panel: Leveraging Technology for Inclusive Innovation

Lebogang is a Account Technology Strategist at Microsoft, focused on accelerating developer productivity. She was named an Inspiring50 South Africa winner in 2020 and is a member of IEEE Region 8 (EMEA). Lebogang is also the Founder of Difela Hymns Podcast and Difela Hymns online community that digitizes African hymns. Through these initiatives, Lebogang provides accessibility to African hymns and promotes their cultural significance.

Lebogang Madise

Lloyd has a strong background in IT management and business development, having served as CIO for Barrows for over 7 years. Lloyd has extensive experience in infrastructure upgrades, implementing Scrum in development teams, and delivering system improvements and new applications. He also has project management experience, having successfully implemented Sage X3 across 8 group companies during his time as ERP Project Manager. Lloyd is a certified professional in Blitzscaling and Measure What Matters.

Lloyd Vassard

Prof. Vukosi Marivate holds the ABSA UP Chair of Data Science and is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pretoria. He focuses on AI &#x26; Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly for local and low-resource languages, as well as Data Science for Society, leading the Data Science for Social Impact (DSFSI) research group. He co-founded Lelapa AI, a socially-grounded Africa-centric AI research &#x26; product lab. Vukosi also co-founded the Masakhane NLP research foundation and is a co-founder of the Deep Learning Indaba, the largest annual Artificial Intelligence R&#x26;D gathering on the continent.

Panel: Leveraging Technology for Inclusive Innovation

Lebogang Madise

Lloyd Vassard

Prof Vukosi Marivate

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