Call for Abstracts & Speaker Proposals

We invite clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and innovators to submit abstracts or speaker proposals for the 2nd Annual Data Driven Surgery Conference, jointly hosted by Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University and Safe Surgery SA. This year’s conference will focus on the power of perioperative data to drive clinical excellence, equity, and innovation in surgical care.

Themes and Topics

• Clinical Tools Fair – Demonstrate a digital or practical tool that enhances surgical care, quality improvement, or patient safety.
• Making Surgical Data Work for You – Share stories or strategies for using data in clinical practice, private sector initiatives, or institutional benchmarking.
• Data-Driven Teams Save Lives – Present on how surgical teams use routine data to strengthen communication, reduce risk, or improve outcomes.
• Digital Dashboards & Decision Tools – Show us how your team visualises and acts on perioperative data.
• Open Source & Local Innovation – Present tools built in or for African contexts to address perioperative data challenges.
• Cross-Sector Collaboration – Insights from partnerships between public, private, academic, or non-profit sectors to advance surgical data use.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit a short abstract (300 words max) or session proposal by 30 September 2025.
Include the following:

• Title of your proposed talk or demo
• Presenter name(s), institution(s), and contact info
• Abstract or description of your session
• Preferred presentation format (Talk, Panel, Workshop, or Demo)
• Relevance to one or more of the conference themes

Who Should Submit?

We welcome submissions from surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses, technologists, researchers, data scientists, quality improvement teams, facility managers, provincial and national DoH officials, and health entrepreneurs.

Submit Your Proposal

Submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/rVbghhFPSt6QDdAo7

For more information, visit: https://safesurgery.co.za/events or contact: hyla.kluyts@smu.ac.za