The annual SASA conference will bring together a broad range of researchers and practitioners mainly from South Africa to discuss key scientific issues in technical developing areas of research, with potential topics including, Applied statistics, Big data, Bayesian statistics, Biometry, Biostatistics, Computational statistics, Data science, Experimental design, Quantitative finance, Industrial and business statistics, Multivariate data analysis, Official statistics, Spatial statistics, Social statistics, Statistics in education, Statistics in sport, Theoretical statistics, Time series & Financial statistics.