AISSAC 2025 WORKSHOP (Virtual Event)
Programme
2025 VIRTUAL AISSAC SEMINAR PROGRAMME
– Friday 11 July 2025
Theme: Everything Data
In today’s world, data isn’t just a by-product of business-it’s taken on a life of its own. We’ve moved from seeing data as mere footprints of activity to recognising it as dynamic entities that shape decisions, workflows and even entire organisational ecosystems. At the same time, our field of data studies keeps expanding, inviting us to ask not only “What is data?” but “What should we be examining next?”
Join us for an exploration of these frontiers: we’ll interrogate the very nature of digital data objects-from records and representations to independent actors in their own right-and look ahead at the rich, open terrain of data studies and innovation where every question sparks new insights.
Join us for an exciting line-up of Academics to unlock the value of your data!
Time (SAST) UTC+2 |
Event |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Opening & Welcome | AISSAC President: Prof. Sunet Eybers |
| 09:15 – 09:45 | Plenary Talk: Same, same, but different? Toward 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 | Prof, Sunet Eybers |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | BREAK | |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | AISSAC Awards | Mr, Grant Oosterwyk |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | AISSAC AGM | Prof, Sunet Eybers / Mr, Grant Oosterwyk |
