ITWeb Meeting of Minds – Artificial Intelligence 2018, The Forum, Bryanston, South Africa, 1-2 August 2018

MIIA has partnered with ITWeb for their ITWeb Meeting of Minds – Artificial Intelligence 2018 event at Bryanston from 1-2 August 2018.

For more details about this event see: http://v2.itweb.co.za/event/itweb/artificial-intelligence-2018/

AGENDA: http://v2.itweb.co.za/event/itweb/artificial-intelligence-2018/?page=agenda

Key attractions of this event:

• An international keynote address from the Netherlands: Dr Aimee van Wynsberghe, assistant professor of ethics and technology at TU Delft (Netherlands) and president of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics.
• Nedbank will bring Pepper (SA’s first humanoid robot) to the event for its presentation.
• The programme includes two controversial panel discussions, so it isn’t just a traditional show of heads. The topics are:
  • AI: Good, Bad, Fad? A session to talk about the implications of AI with respect to employment, social and workplace impact, and where it really stands today in terms of capability. Do we face the rise of the killer robots, or are the bots going to be our best friends?
  • On the road to AI – how do you get there? This panel discussion will provide insight into what considerations need to be made before embarking on a journey to AI.
• The event is endorsed by The Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa, and Dr Jacques Ludik, president and founder of the Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa and CEO and founder of Cortex Logic, will present information on solving strategic and operationally relevant problems through operationalising AI, data science, IOT and big data and analytics.
  • Get good perspective on operationalizing Big Data & Analytics, IoT and AI and its benefits
  • Discover how end-to-end AI solutions can unlock value from all available structured and unstructured data to:
    • increase operational efficiency, effectiveness and revenue
    • create strategic value via faster, better and more proactive decisions, enhanced scalability, new business models, and revenue growth opportunities
    • enhance customer experience via real-time, on demand, digital, personalized service delivery, assistance and advice which is enabled via 360 degree insights about the customer
    • an enable more targeted sales and marketing
  • Get information on some of these solutions include strategic business transformation & optimization, human capital valuation & employee profiling, intelligent virtual assistants, robo-advisors, process optimization, predictive maintenance, fraud detection, churn prediction, advanced risk scoring, machine learning-based trading, real-time customer insights, smart recommendations and purchase prediction, personalized search, cyber security, medical risk prediction, and precision medicine.
  • Working collaboratively with innovate AI partners that can help business thrive in the Smart Technology Era and be agile, innovative and adapt quickly to stay relevant given the swift pace of change and disruption to business and society.
    • Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x932Xbdds0CsHwjQ36zv40xYIrMFHIwp/view?usp=sharing
• Tim Collins, head of Consulting, Product Development and Analytics at TransUnion, will present a case study on TransUnion’s CreditVision.
• Celia Pienaar of Webber Wentzel will present on the use of AI in regulation will how AI is transforming the regulatory environment
• The event features a speed networking session – which has become very popular among our delegates at previous events.
• We have also secured Vera Nagtegaal, Executive Head, Hippo.co.za speak on embracing digitalisation/AI to be able to compete with the biggest technology disrupters
• Nigel Solomons, Head of ICT, Golden Arrow Bus Services (Pty) Ltd will present a case study: Transport Industry on the AI trends in the Public Transport Industry

Please register here. MIIA members get a 20% discount.