Day 1 – 13 November 2025

09:00-09:30 – Welcome & Intro

• Welcome Address: UCT Dean of Science (TBC)
• Local Practicalities: Mattia Vaccari & Lucia Marchetti
• Setting the Scene: Grazia Umana & Mattia Vaccari (15 mins in total)

09:30 – 17:30 Session: Exploring the Radio Universe: From Pulsars to Cosmology

09:30-10:15 – Pulsars (Andrea Possenti / Marisa Geyer)
10:15-11:00 – Galactic Plane & Radio Stars (Alessio Traficante / Patrick Woudt)

11:00-11:30 – Coffee & Tea

11:30-12:15 – Nearby Galaxies (Filippo Maccagni / Mpati Ramatsoku)
12:15-13:00 – Transients (Massimo Giroletti / Patrick Woudt)

13:00-14:00 – Lunch

14:00-14:45 – AGN, Galaxies & Radio Galaxies (Isabella Prandoni / Lucia Marchetti)
14:45-15:30 – Clusters (Tiziana Venturi / Kenda Knowles)
15:30-16:00 – Coffee & Tea
16:00-16:45 – Cosmology (Gianni Bernardi / Mario Santos)
16:45-17:30 – VLBI Science (Cristiana Spingola / Roger Deane)

Day 2 – 14 November 2025: Technology and Future Perspectives

09:00 – 09:50 Session: Science Policy and Strategic Cooperation

09:00 – 09:20 – INAF Contribution to MeerKAT (Grazia)
09:20 – 09:50 – ISARP & ISMOS Collaborative Research Funding Programmes (Teuns Phahlamohlaka & Luca Tiano & Pierguido Sarti)

09:50 – 12:30 Session: Engineering and Computing for the Next Generation of Radio Astronomy

09:50-10:30 – Instrumentation (20 minutes each)

• MeerKAT+ LMC – Cristobal Bordiu
• MeerKAT+ Correlator – Andrea Melis

10:30-11:00 – Coffee & Tea

11:00-12:00 – Digital Infrastructure

• Visualisation – (Fabio Vitello & Lucia Marchetti)
• Pipelines – Francesco Cavallaro & Sphe Makhatini)

12:00-12:30 – SRC (Andrea Possenti & Segopotso Moshapo)

12:30-13:30 – Lunch

13:00-14:30 Session: MeerKAT and Beyond

13:30-14:00 – MeerKAT+ – Status Update and/or Legacy Survey Programme Summary (Roger Deane & Tiziana Venturi)

14:00-14:30 – MeerKAT Band5 (Grazia)

14:30 – 16:30 Session: Beyond RADIOMAP: Charting the Future Towards the SKA Era

14:30-15:30 – Round Table – Where are we going next? (Participants & Moderator TBD)

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:30 – Closing