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2024 i-Connect Highlights
Innovation met connection at the event, where industry leaders and contributors gathered for a collective journey into the future of business resilience, transformation, and leveraging the digital age.
Below are links to the presentations delivered by each speaker during the 2024 i-Connect Conference, labeled P1 through P9.
Some presentation were done virtually by delegates overseas, below is a video presentation
By: Mr Salim Ismail – Moonshot Thinking
Presentations
Rose Delilah Gesicho
Data Scientist and Community Manager at Zindi
Rose Delilah Gesicho has a solid foundation in Information Technology and Data Science and Analytics. She has extensive experience as a technical trainer at Moringa School, where she educated over 200 students in Data Science concepts within a boot camp setting. During her tenure there, she also led various internal data projects, leveraging her expertise to enhance the organization’s operations.
Motheo Kgengwenyane
Founder of GreyEd
Mont possesses a broad range of knowledge and skills concerning the convergence of technology, education, and economics. With the goal of positively impacting one billion lives within a decade, his work is incubated by a Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP) to advance the frontier of human excellence. GreyEd is exploring the implementation of personalized learning paths through leveraging AI for insights worldwide and tracking learners’ financial barriers to quality education.
Mpho Koolese
BOFINET Connectivity & Access
- Government-owned entity
- Officially launched in October 2013
- Operates on two (2) licenses issued by BOCRA:
- Facilities Network Operator
- Wholesale services provider
- Operates national and international networks
- Data Centre services
- Services Applications
- Development of content and applications
Kwasi Darkwa
Speech Recognition for Africa
- ASR for media monitoring
- Monitoring radio & TV stations in SA, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda via MM partners
- Real-time speech recognition for AI agents
- Recognize caller responses in real-time, allowing bots to interact naturally
- ASR for call center speech analytics
- 100+ call centers clients
- Multilingual ASR model can handle code-switching between
- English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, isiZulu, Setswana
Tavonga Muchuchuti
CEO of Xavier Africa
Tavonga Muchuchuti is an award-winning entrepreneur, a Yale Young African Scholar, and a Summa Cum Laude finance graduate from Sheffield Hallam University. He won the 2019 AAC valuation, the first Sheffield Hallam International Student Prize for business performance across all 27 of the partner schools, and is currently a CFA candidate. Tavonga is the Managing Director at Xavier Africa, a bespoke software development firm specializing in AI-powered solutions for African institutions.
Shaun Shoriwa Benjamin
Founder of “It’s Learnable”
Shaun Shoriwa is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder of It’s Learnable, an innovative tech startup dedicated to bridging the digital divide and accelerating STEM emergence in Africa. Shaun is renowned for developing tools that enable investments to successfully reach learners through various inclusive channels, such as interactive mobile platforms, affordable educational experiences, and fostering engagement with learners, educators, and colleges, to offer a technical perspective to the efforts in making education accessible to all.
Oabona Kgengwenyane
- Al across Africa revolutionised education that has been democratised with PISA score matching Europe’s for the first time
- Global tech companies using Nairobi, Johannesburg, Kigali and Gaborone as talent hunting ground and establish research entities
- Start-Africa Initiative scores over 3500 Unicorns across Sub Saharan Africa in just 10 years
- 600 million Africans without energy 25 years ago reduced to mere 25 million
- Close to zero cost of solar energy powers Africa’s manufacturing industry as it becomes the new China! Inga and Wind energy making contributions too
- Africa’s over 500 million new middle class attracts manufacturing
- GDP growth rates stabilising from past 10 years of double digits to now averaging 5 % with single digital currency used across most countries
Dr Dennis Magaya
Embracing a Growth Mindset for Digital Transformation
On 11th May 1997 a big chess match with a prize of $1.1 million had been played over 9 days in the 35th floor of the Equitable Centre in Midtown Manhattan in the USA. Garry Kasparov, the World chess champion and arguably the greatest chess players of all time, conceded defeat to IBM supercomputer Deep Blue after game 6.
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Event Venue.
- Royal Aria - Tlokweng
- August 08, 2024
- 08.00 A.M. - 16.00 P.M.