Event Details

We are pleased to announce our support to the AI Tools & Technologies workshop to be held by Eriscan Innovation on the 6th of September, which aspires to be part of the AI Ecosystem digital transformation in Africa.


The importance of AI remains a formidable tool to respond with new and unforeseen solutions to problems created by inevitable disruptions. The workshop attendees will be exposed to practical demonstrations of these AI tools developed by South African specialists and developers.


Free entrance to Spanish Chamber of Commerce RSA members.

Agenda

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Introduction
9:10 AM - 9:40 AM
AI and existing problems still unsolved
Raluca Pauna - MSc IT Engineer (Buch), MM-IS (WITS), Theory of Change post-graduate (Stanford, CA.)
9:40 AM - 9:50 AM
Summary and Q&A
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Artificial Intelligence for Good: Demystifying AI and its benefits in business and society today.
Prof Johan Steyn - Author, and AI Thought Leader, recognised as one of the Top 50 global voices on Artificial Intelligence (Swiss Cognitive), Founder of aiforbusiness.net
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Super Tools for Super Humans
Andrew Bosma - CTO, and Co-owner - OQLIS
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Summary and Q&A
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee break
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM
Detecting Solar Panels from Satellite Image Data using Machine Learning
Ryan Shackleton, Software Engineer - OQLIS
12:20 PM - 12:50 PM
The Data Journey
Shawn Winterburn, CEO, and Co-owner - OQLIS
12:50 PM - 1:00 PM
Summary and Q&A
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Guest appearance, dialling in from USA
Prof Melanie Mitchell (Melanie Mitchell is the Davis Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research focuses on conceptual abstraction, analogy-making, and visual recognition in a...
Prof Melanie Mitchell (Melanie Mitchell is the Davis Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research focuses on conceptual abstraction, analogy-making, and visual recognition in artificial intelligence systems. Melanie is the author or editor of six books and numerous scholarly papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and complex systems. Her book Complexity: A Guided Tour won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award and was named by Amazon.com as one of the ten best science books of 2009. Her latest book is Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans)
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1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
Q&A
1:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Refreshments and networking

Tickets

Complimentary ticket
Member Price Complimentary

Venue

Innovation Hub Pretoria

1 Mark Shuttleworth St, Lynwood, Pretoria, 0087
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

If you have any questions please contact Chrislyn Fortuin

Contact Organizer

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