View our programme to see who will be presenting online and in-person at CSSA 2026.
This programme may change without prior notice.
7 September 2026 | 8 September 2026 | |||
| 08:00 | Registration for CISCO workshop | 08:30 | Registration | |
| 08:30 to 11:30 | Workshop Sponsored by Cisco | 09:00 | Welcome | |
| 11:00 | Registration for CSSA (tea and light snacks on arrival) | 09:05 | From Innovation to Regulation: Rethinking Security in the Age of AI Professor Tshilidzi Marwala United Nations University | |
| 12:00 | Welcome | 09:50 | Nathaniel Fried OSINT Industries | |
| 12:10 | Associate Professor Jonathan Shock University of Cape Town | 10:20 | Sponsor: First Technology | |
| 12:55 | Forget about Cybersecurity Awareness – make all end-users Cybercrime fighters Professor Basie von Solms University of Johannesburg | 10:40 | TEA | |
| 13:40 | Sponsor: Cisco | 11:20 | Terence Govender IITPSA | |
| 14:00 | TEA | 12:00 | Digital wounds Lukas van der Merwe CyberCom Africa | |
| 14:35 | Peter Allwright UHY Crossleys Forensics Limited | 12:30 | Update on national cybersecurity structures & initiatives in SA Craig Rosewarne Wolfpack | |
| 15:10 | Sponsor: NTT | 13:00 | Sponsor presentation | |
| 15:40 | Professor Angela Sasse University College London | 13:20 | LUNCH | |
| 16:15 | People, Culture and AI: Keeping Humans in the Loop to Combat Cybercrime in an Intelligent Age Professor Kerry-Lynn Thomson Nelson Mandela University | 14:10 | Trustworthy Agentic Systems Thorsten Eisenhofer CISPA | |
| 16:45 | Beyond Key-Person Dependency: Training an AI “Intern” as a Force Multiplier for Solo Operators Wesley Phillip SAIAB | 14:40 | Responsible AI-Driven Cybersecurity Decision Support for African Organisations: Balancing Productivity, Automation, and Security Risk Dr. Olalekan Samuel Ogunleye University of Venda | |
| 17:10 | Closing proceedings | 15:10 | Sponsor presentation | |
| 17:15 | Cocktail function | 15:30 | Brigadier Janine Steynberg Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation | |
| 16:10 | Prize giveaway | |||
| 16:20 | CSSA closing | |||
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