DSEAfrica Conference

Real People. Real Work. Real Data Careers.

A one-day conference for learners, builders and aspiring professionals who want to understand what Business Intelligence Developers, Data Analysts, Data Engineers and Machine Learning professionals actually do at work.

Date: 26 November 2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM EAT
Venue: Sarit Expo Centre – MwinaNairobi, Kenya
Ticket: KES 1,999

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Learn from industry experts
Build your network
Understand career paths

Date & time
26 November 2026
11:00 AM – 7:00 PM EAT
Ticket
KES 1,999
Full day, lunch included
Venue
Sarit Expo Centre – Mwina
Nairobi, Kenya
Career tracks
Four paths
BI · Analysis · Engineering · ML
Industry experts
Practitioners
People who do the work daily

Why attend

More than a conference.A clearer view of your future.

The day opens with roundtable conversations rather than a stage, so you meet people before anyone presents. Over lunch and three keynotes you hear what the work is really like, and the afternoon splits by career track so you can go deep on the path you are weighing up.

Real-world insights
What the work actually looks like on an ordinary Tuesday, not what a syllabus says it looks like.
Meaningful networking
Roundtables first, so you are talking with people before anyone stands up to present.
Career clarity
Leave knowing which of the four paths fits how you like to think and work.
Practical exposure
The tools, the daily routine and the trade-offs behind each role, described by people doing it.

Career tracks

Explore the data career paths

Four roles that sit close together on a job board and feel very different from the inside. Each session covers the daily work, the tools and the kind of thinking the role rewards.

Business Intelligence Developer
Build dashboards, model data and turn business needs into decision-ready reporting.
- Power BI
- DAX
- Data Modelling
Data Analyst
Work with data to answer questions, find insights and support business decisions.
- SQL
- Excel
- Data Visualisation
Data Engineer
Build and maintain data pipelines and systems that make analytics possible at scale.
- ETL
- Pipelines
- Data Warehousing
Machine Learning Professional
Build models and data-driven solutions for prediction, automation and intelligent systems.
- Python
- Models
- MLOps

Agenda

Flow of the day

A full day of conversation, learning and connection, from arrival to close.

01
11:00 AM
Arrival & roundtable conversations
Small tables, introductions and the questions you came with.
02
12:30 PM
Lunch with keynote speakers
Eat together. The experts sit at the tables, not apart from them.
03
1:30 PM
Three keynote sessions
Three practitioners on the shape of their work and how they got there.
04
2:30 PM
Expert sessions by career track
Split by path: BI, analysis, engineering and machine learning.
05
5:00 PM
Networking & community
Open floor to follow up on anything from the day.
06
6:30 PM
Leaderboard & closing
Community recognition, then closing remarks.

Speakers & industry experts

Learn from practitioners

Every session is led by someone who does this work every day. We introduce people by the role they hold rather than by name, because what you came for is the work.

Community Member
Business Intelligence Developer
Community Member
Data Analyst
Community Member
Data Engineer
Community Member
Machine Learning Professional
Plus more industry experts
Ask questions and hear real experience from across several industries.
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Venue

Sarit Expo Centre – MwinaNairobi, Kenya

A modern, comfortable space built for learning, conversation and networking, with everything set up before you arrive.

Venue amenities

Bottled water
Leaf pad and pen
Tables and chairs
Complimentary Wi-Fi
AV technology
Flipchart / whiteboard

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Gallery

Past Conference

Every picture below is from the last DSEAfrica summit at Sarit Expo Centre – Mwina. Open any photograph for the full-size version, or take the whole set with you.

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26 photographs, one zip file.