Keeping our community hydrated and connected! 💧 We would like to welcome Electrum as an exhibitor and Water Bottle Sponsor at DevConf Cape Town 2026. Thanks for supporting developer wellness and collaboration! #DevConf2026 #CapeTownTech
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In 1966, the Navy used optimal decision theory to find a lost hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean. Johan van Rooyen will show how those same principles apply to locating bugs in sprawling, poorly understood software systems. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
Fueling Cape Town's developer community, one cup at a time! ☕ A big thank you to DVT for being a Coffee Sponsor at DevConf Cape Town 2026. Smart people need smart solutions (and great coffee)! #DevConf2026 #CapeTownTech
Jozi and Cape Town! 📓 Old Mutual joins DevConf 2026 as an exhibitor and Notebook Sponsor in both cities. Thank you for helping our developer community capture every brilliant idea! #DevConf2026
Building software with resource-constrained teams means making informed trade-offs. Seale Rapolai will share the strategies for ruthlessly prioritizing, implementing selective automation, and maintaining high velocity without sacrificing long-term stability. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
Great communities bring people together! We are excited to welcome Entelect to DevConf Johannesburg 2026. Stop by their booth on May 12 and be part of the conversation! 💬 #DevConf2026 #DevConnect
🗺️ Renette Ros will share the blueprint for treating upgrades as a continuous, automated, safe background process instead of expensive manual projects. See how her team composes open source recipes and writes custom ones to handle migrations at enterprise scale. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
Samuel Femi Taiwo tackles the challenges of digital accessibility across Africa, from limited awareness and training to minimal implementation frameworks. Discover practical approaches that benefit both users and organizations. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026 #A11y
Carike Blignaut-Staden brings transparency to developer workflows through dashboards, CI/CD pipelines, and real-time insights. Come and discover how to surface the impact of your engineering choices on both budgets and the planet. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
What is the best part of a tech conference?
The talks
The people
The swag
The coffee
(Let's be honest... it's the coffee ☕)
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Fadzayi Moyo identifies the four horsemen undermining AppSec programs: Visibility Gaps, Fragile Toolchains, Culture Wars, and Uncontextualised Risk. Learn how to exorcise each one through contextualised DevSecOps design, intelligent automation, and cultural rewiring. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
What started as fixing longstanding bugs became an opportunity to reveal assumptions and identify non-obvious user workflows. Zach Smith will be sharing lessons from reimagining a legacy system that now serves 700+ active astronomy researchers. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
🦆 World domination is expensive, so Dale Nunns is doing it on a budget. Learn signal analysis, hardware hacking, and protocol decoding while assembling a stationary duck squad that actually takes commands. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
Your network is your net worth! 🌟 #DevConf2026 brings together developers from across South Africa for networking, knowledge sharing, and inspiration. Johannesburg or Cape Town - where will we see you?
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Developers are brilliant at tracking down problems in complex systems, but when they become founders, many stop thinking like debuggers. Renier Kriel will show you how to apply that same technical mindset to build products that succeed in the real world. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
Looking good, feeling connected! 👕 Huge thanks to Investec for being our Clothing Sponsor for DevConf Johannesburg. Because great developer communities deserve great swag! #DevConf2026 #TechCommunity
Traditional productivity metrics capture only part of the picture. Frikan Erwee will share practical approaches to implementing the SPACE framework, common pitfalls encountered, and strategies for translating metrics into actions that improve both delivery and satisfaction. www.devconf.co.za
Heila-Marié Botha will demonstrate how she transforms reactive firefighting into proactive quality engineering. Discover how to scale testing across diverse stacks, make code coverage actionable on merge requests, and build systems that thrive under pressure. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
From a personal identity theft discovery to presenting findings to Parliament, Veer Gosai explores what happens when modern fraud tactics exploit welfare systems at scale, and what engineering insights emerge from trying to fix it. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
Finish this sentence: "I'm attending DevConf 2026 because __________" 🎯 #DevConf2026
Making "deploy on a Friday" a calm, repeatable practice isn't a fantasy. Rory Preddy will share practical patterns for designing systems that return time, restore dignity, and make room for people, where optimism and hope are engineered outcomes. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
Allan Pead is bringing childhood sci-fi dreams to life. Learn how to bend light, perception, and code to create pseudo-holograms, Pepper's Ghost effects, and persistence-of-vision displays, turning developer skills into visual wizardry you can build at your kitchen table. www.devconf.co.za
Tonisha Govender will be addressing what happens when we automate so heavily that we stop applying our core engineering skills. Learn how to work with AI in ways that strengthen your ability, not diminish it. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026
#DevConf2026 speakers announced! From debugging systematic fraud to building clusters in bedrooms, from AI fatigue to legacy code archaeology, this year's agenda brings familiar experts and exciting new voices. More talks still to come. Tickets live now: www.devconf.co.za 🚀
Looking to connect with top developer talent?
They'll all be at DevConf 2026. 🎯
Let's talk: www.devconf.co.za
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Don't just follow the conversation - be part of it! 💬
#DevConf2026 is where South African developers connect, learn, and shape the future of tech.
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We're celebrating 10 years in JHB and 8 years in CPT! 🎉
Which year was YOUR favorite DevConf and why? Drop your memories below! 👇
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Celebrating 10 years in JHB, 8 years in CPT! 🎉
DevConf 2026 is a milestone event, and we're looking for sponsors who want to be part of this special anniversary.
Limited spots available. Secure yours: www.devconf.co.za
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What's ONE thing you learned at a past DevConf that you still use today? 💡
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