Philip Machanick, Mosiuoa Tsietsi and Ibraheem Frieslaar presented papers at SAICSIT 2017 held at Black Mountain Hotel, Thaba Nchu, Free State 26–28 September 2017. The conference was very competitive with only 36% of submitted papers accepted. Tapiwa Chindeka also represented the department at the Masters and Doctoral Symposium held prior to the main conference. With 3 out of 39 papers accepted, we once again punched above our weight as our staff complement is far less than one thirteenth of the total number of Computer Science academics across the country.