Report: Inaugural South African Research Software Symposium 2025

The first South African Research Software Symposium was held on 4 November 2025 at the University of Cape Town under the theme Research Workflows, Code & Software Critical Pillars of the South African Digital & Open Research Infrastructure.

A report has been developed for UCT eResearch by the project leader Anelda van der Walt, that provides insights into the event programme, participants and outcomes. Access the report via: https://zenodo.org/records/17790888.

Sponsors:

• UCT eResearch
• Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA)
• African Bioinformatics Institute (ABI)
• Talarify

Recordings of the Keynote address, a highlights reel, the various lightning talks and others are available on YouTube.