Nkosikhona Dlamini is a student at the University of Witwatersrand studying towards a Master of Science in Computer science. Completed honours degree in Computer science at the University of Pretoria. Currently employed at the Tshwane university of Technology. He spent four years working at the CSIR as a research and development technologist focusing on NLP for South African languages.

Terence L. van Zyl holds the Nedbank Research and Innovation Chair at the University of Johannesburg where he is a Professor in the Institute for Intelligent Systems. He is an NRF rated scientist who received his PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Johannesburg for his thesis on agent-based complex adaptive systems. He has over 15 years of experience researching and innovating large scale streaming analytics systems for government and industry. His research interests include data-driven science and engineering, prescriptive analytics, machine learning, meta-heuristic optimisation, complex adaptive systems, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence.