Sophia, the world’s first Humanoid Robot, will be making an appearance at the World Artificial Intelligence (AI) Show taking place in Nairobi, Kenya.
World AI Show is a thought-leadership-driven, business-focused, global series of events taking place in strategic locations across the world. The show is part of a world tour that is taking place in Nairobi, Dubai, Singapore, Mauritius, Riyadh and Mumbai this year.
It connects top AI experts, enterprises, government representatives, data scientists, technology leaders, startups, investors, researchers, academicians, and global AI innovators – all under one roof.
The promoters of the event, Trescon Global Solutions, believe that it is the most-opportune time for the AI solutions providers to build the successful enterprises of the future in Africa.
Kenya has become one of the leading players in Eastern Africa, in terms of adopting emerging technologies like AI and Blockchain. According to a recent research by the PricewaterhouseCoopers, it is reported that by the end of 2030, the AI market will contribute 15.7 trillion USD to the world’s GDP, out of which 1.2 trillion USD will be from African countries.
Kenya has started building a team to transform the nation to become the AI hub for East Africa and even for the whole African continent. Kenya has benefited from the Third Industrial Revolution in terms of advanced Information and Communication facilities.
Recently, the Kenyan Government has appointed an 11 member Distributed Ledger and Artificial Intelligence Taskforce to enforce the President, Uhuru Kenyatta’s ‘Big Four’ strategy that is looking to incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Robotics into Food Security, Affordable Housing, Manufacturing and Public Healthcare.
“The AI and Blockchain Task Force of Kenya is implementing radial changes in the education sector to boost national learning capabilities” says Michael Onyango, a member of the taskforce mandated to publish a roadmap for distributed ledger and AI for the country with the primary objective of making Kenya a leader in job creation through the big four agenda.
The show will play host to a slew of industry thought-leaders and policymakers such as Dr Bitange Ndemo, Chairman of Blockchain and AI Task force for the Government of Kenya; Michael Onyango, Member of Distributed Ledgers and Artificial Intelligence Task Force, Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology for the Government of Kenya; and also the world’s first ‘humanoid’ robot Sophia.
The event will be exploring various relevant topics surrounding AI, ML and Robotics based technologies through a series of interactive panel discussions, tech-talks and keynote presentations.
The event will take place at Villa Rosa Kempinski Nairobi from the 21 – 22 March 2019.
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