AI Expo Africa 2022 | AI Expo Africa | 18 September 2022 | Sandton Convention Centre, 161 Maude St, Sandown, Sandton, 2196, South Africa

This event will be a traditional in-person event with a 4 track speaking programme, vendor expo hall, country pavilions, poster zone, workshops, networking zone and VIP zone. You will learn about real Enterprise case studies and the application of 4IR technologies in Business TODAY, deployment challenges, best practice, ethical considerations allied to the vibrant innovation and start up ecosystem driving the 4IR industry segment in Africa.

2022 Speakers

Bitange Ndemo
Professor Of Entrepreneurship, University Of Nairobi: University Of Nairobi

Prof Zeblon Vilakazi
Deputy Vice-chancellor: University Of The Witwatersrand

Véronique Haller
Deputy Head Of Mission: Embassy Of Switzerland To South Africa

Cllr Randall Williams
Executive Mayor: City Of Tshwane

Kate Kallot
Head Of Emerging Markets – Nvidia

Stephen Ibaraki
Chairman: Redds Capital - Venture Capital Investments

Jonas Bogoshi
Chief Executive Officer: Bcx

Eliana Emediato De Azambuja
General Coordinator Of Digital Transformation - Secretariat Of Entrepreneurship And Innovation: Brazilian Ministry Of Science, Technology And Innovation

Safroadu Yeboah-amankwah
Svp, Chief Strategy Officer: Intel Corporation

Kais Mejri
General Director Of Innovation & Technology Development, Ministry Of Industry & Sme’s

Atenkosi Ngubevana
Group Executive: Digital Process Re-engeneering, Vodacom

John Kamara
CEO, Afyarekod

Dr Lardo Stander
Acting Divisional Head And Acting Chief Executive Officer, Tshwane Economic Development Agency (Teda)

Samar Hamdy
Co-Founder & Business Development Director, Devisionx

Frederic Werner
Head, Strategic Engagement, United Nations Itu

Emmanuel Acheampong
Co-founder, Robomua

Shandukani Nthai
CEO And Founder, Africannova

Karim Beguir
CEO, Instadeep

Mustapha Zaouini
Co Founder, Ai In Africa

Tholang Mathopa
Founder, Rpa Nuggets

Tawanda Ewing
Machine Learning Engineer, Deep Learning Cafe

Lebogang Mothiba
Programme Manager, Nolwazi Stem Education For The Fourth Industrial Revolution Academy

Hajar Mousannif
Pr., Cadi Ayyad University

Thavash Govender
Ai Lead - Microsoft

Franco Van Wyk
Senior Software Developer, Comparisure

Charlotte Kepadisa
Executive Head: Enterprise Cvm & Analytics, Vodacom

Elmen Lamprecht
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Cogo People Analytics

Derek Kweku Degbedzui
Data Scientist, Ghana Tech Lab

Mariana Pereira
Director Of Email Security, Darktrace

Walter Riviera
Ai - Technical Specialist Emea Lead, Intel Corporation

Zolani Ratya
Qa Competency Lead (Test Manager), Glacier

Celina Lee
Director Ixio Analytics & Zindi

Kemdi Ebi
Co-founder & Ceo, Versus Africa

Amandeep Gill
Project Director/ceo, International Digital Health And Ai Research Collaborative (I-dair)

Alison B Lowndes
Senior Scientist, Global Ai: Nvidia

Jay Van Zyl
VP, Ecosystem.ai

Darko Jovišić
Ceo & Co-founder, Robotiq.ai

Wei Xiao
Ai In Emerging Areas, Nvidia

Durrel Ramrathan
Senior Manager, Analytics And Ai: Multichoice

Ekow Duker
Co-founder, Zindi

Leànne Viviers
Ceo & Founder, Mintor

Karim Beguir
Co-founder And Ceo, Instadeep

Gregg Barrett
Ceo, Cirrus Ai

Toshie Takahashi
Professor, Waseda University

Phil D Hall
Conversational Ai Architect, Elzware Ltd

Jean Greyling
Associate Professor, Nelson Mandela University Computing Sciences

Elena Gabriela Ardelean
Ceo & Founder, Ai 4 Development Agency (Ai4da)

Stefan Steffen
Executive: Data Science, Telkom

Francesco Petruccione
Prof: National Institute For Theoretical Physics And Computational Sciences

Esther Hoogstad
CEO, Enlabeler

Victor Bittorf
Working Group Chairperson, Mlcommons

Daniel Wertheimer
Data Scientist, Absa

Ashley Schmidt
Senior Program Manager, Macro-eyes

Martin Ebers
President, Robotics & Ai Law Society (Rails)

Lionel Bisschoff
Directory, Learning Machines

Elham Tabassi
Chief Of Staff, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute Of Standards And Technology

Craig Akal
Co-founder & Director, Elerian Ai

Dave Eagle
CEO, Atura

Veliswa Boya
Senior Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services

Henry Mascot
Ceo And Co-founder, Curacel

Sastri Munsamy
Executive: Technology And Innovation, Inspired Testing

Monica Livingston
Ai Solutions And Sales Director, Intel Corporation

Rudolph Janse Van Rensburg
Cto, Treasuryone Automation

Al Lindsay
Chairman, Elerian Ai

Nkosi Kumalo
Managing Executive Of Bcx Exa, Bcx

Daniel Sloan
Co-founder, Future Tech

Kunda Chaikatisha
Cloud Solution Architect-data & Ai, Microsoft

Paul Epstein
Senior Manager, Accubits

Alex Burak
Rpa Solutions Consultant, Iba Group

Ntsibane Ntlatlapa
Centre Head, C4ir South Africa

Matt Kloos
Cfo, Comparisure

Fanie Botha
Coo, Firtech Holdings

Pommie Lutchman
Founder & Ceo, Ocular Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Barry Dwolatzky
Director Of Innovation Strategy At University Of The Witwatersrand, Wits University

Ansu Sooful
Ceo, Aizatron

Takalani Madzhadzhi
Ceo And Founder, Ashanti Ai

Andrew Dawson
Md, Cognizance Processing

Justin Shanks
Business Development Manager, Olsps

Nii Simmonds
Founder & Ceo, Enubia

Ali Srour
Ceo, Chief Data Scientist, Sociallab

Keith Jones
Founder, Sw7

Dino Bernicchi
Head Of Data Science, Homechoice International Plc

Dr Nick Bradshaw
CEo, Ai Media Group South Africa

2022 Partners and Exhibitors

• IBM
• arm
• intel
• blueprism
• AI
• TINY ML
• ITU
• Embassy of Switzerland
• Switzerland Global Enterprise
• NITHeCs
• InstaDeep
• swissnex
• ecosystem.Ai
• CYBORGINTELL
• BotCity
• spatialedge
• ROBOTEUR
• THE AWARENESS COMPANY
• ASHANTI
• sociallab
• IGS Solutions
• ZIND
• World ECONOMIC FORUM
• State of AI in Africa
• Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• SYNAPSE
• IITPSA
• AIESEC
• ai MEDIA A