2025 Annual AISSAC Seminar

Theme: Everything Data

Time (SAST) UTC+2	Event	Speaker
09:00 – 09:15	Opening & Welcome	AISSAC President Grant Oosterwyk
09:15 – 09:45	Plenary Talk: Same, same but different? Towards theorizing digital data objects	Prof. Marta Stelmaszak Rosa Isenberg School of Management University of Massachusetts Amherst United States
09:45 – 10:00	Q&A
10:00 – 10:10	BREAK
10:10 – 10:40	Plenary talk: Data Quality Imperatives for Trustworthy AI	Prof. Olawande Daramola Department of Informatics University of Pretoria South Africa
10:40 – 10:55	Q&A
10:55 – 11:05	BREAK
11:05 – 11:35	Plenary Talk: Data, Data Studies, and Data Innovation: A Sensemaking Attempt	Prof. Aleksi Aaltonen Stevens Institute of Technology New Jersey
11:35 – 11:50	Q&A
11:50 – 12:00	Closing	AISSAC President Grant Oosterwyk
12:00 – 13:00	BREAK
13:00 – 13:15	AISSAC Awards	AISSAC President Grant Oosterwyk
13:15 – 14:15	AISSAC AGM	AISSAC Immediate Past President Prof, Sunet Eybers / AISSAC President Grant Oosterwyk