The AI Media Group, organisers of Africa’s largest AI business event, AI Expo Africa, has announced that IBM Master Inventor and UN Artificial Intelligence advisor, Neil Sahota, will speak at the event.
AI Expo Africa is the continent’s largest B2B trade-focused Artificial Intelligence (AI) business event. The expo, which is now in its third year, will be held at Century City Convention Centre in Cape Town from September 3 to 4.
Roy Bannister, AI Expo Africa Event Director, said: “We are really excited to welcome Neil Sahota to our community, he has amassed 20 plus years of business experience in a multitude of domains and has 17 awards, 26 publications and 15 patents under his belt. His thought leadership around helping clients and business partners create next generation products powered by emerging technology will be highly valued by our community.”
Besides lecturing at UC Irvine in the US, Sahota, pictured below, is also a keynote speaker and author on topics that include emerging technologies AI and Blockchain, as well as entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, innovation and social good.
Sahota said: “I am very excited to gain insights from the African AI community. The AI Expo Africa 2020 event gives both myself and many business leaders the opportunity to immerse themselves in 2 days of real-world AI debate, talks and hands on demos of the 4IR technologies that are changing business and society, it’s the largest event of its kind on the continent and looking forward to making a contribution.”
Sahota joins a growing list of leading figures and companies that have engaged with the AI Expo Africa community, including the likes of AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, IBM, PWC, Kenyan Government, ITU, Nvidia, Intel, SA Government, Dimension Data, UiPath, Blue Prism, Vodacom, Hikvision, SAP, SAS, French Embassy, Telkom, Deloitte, Accenture, EY, Persistent Systems and ABSA & Standard Bank.
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