The Future for Humans- Could there be an abdication of human thought? Things get real at the Artificial Intelligence Africa track, part of the virtual Africa Tech Festival

This year's virtual Africa Tech Festival (which houses AfricaCom , AfricaTech, [4] AHUB, AccelerateHER and the AfricaCom Awards), also presents Artificial Intelligence Africa (AI Africa). On Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th November, attending delegates will explore the role of man and machine in the burgeoning Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).

AI Africa hosts an exceptional line-up of speakers, including some of the world's leading authorities on the subject of machine learning, its implications, challenges and opportunities - as they pertain to the African continent and its peoples.

Key speakers include:

* Moustapha Cisse , African Institute of Mathematical Sciences; Head of AI Centre, Google
* Alex Tsado - Co-Founder, Alliance for AI
* Jacques Ludik (Dr) - Founder, CEO & Executive Chairman, Cortex
Group; Founder & President, Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa
* Marcus Tay - Chief Tech Director, Huawei Cloud - Africa Region
* Bruce Mellado - Senior Scientist & Professor, iThembaLabs & Witwatersrand School of Physics
* Ahmed Ogwell Ouma - Deputy Director, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
* Precious Lunga - Co-founder & CEO, Baobab Circle
* Nicolas Poussielgue - CEO, Dakar Institute of Technology
* Pius Illah - Head of Innovation & Partnerships (Global
Engagements), Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA)
* Nomso Kana - Governor, Nuclear Energy Foundation Agency
* Aditya Kaul - Research Director, AI & Intelligent Automation, Omdia
* Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo - Professor and Director of Bioinformatics Lab UQAM; Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer, My Intelligent Machines
* Rishi Birbal - Digital Strategist - Digital Advisory Services Team, Microsoft
* Otilia Phiri - Lead Attorney, Emerging Markets, Middle East & Africa, Microsoft
* Aretha Mare - Policy & Ethics Chair, Alliance for Africa's Intelligence
* Darlington Akogo - Executive Director, minoHealth AI & AI4Radionology, IT & WHO Focus Group on AI for Health.

James Williams, Portfolio Manager - Connecting Africa, Informa Tech, observes that: "AI and/or machine learning have become integrated into numerous devices, making daily decisions for us, without us even knowing at times. This automated process has far reaching consequences, not
only on the future of work, but on us, as independent free-thinking human beings.

"Consequently, we have seen the AI track at AfricaTech grow year on year, to attract an increasingly diverse audience and we expect no different in 2020, a year hallmarked by the rapid adoption of technology in all forms."

Examining some of these concepts, and chaired on Tuesday by Max Smolaks, Global Editor, AI Business and Artificial Intelligence Africa and on Wednesday by Jacques Ludik, sessions to look out for will include:

* The critical role of AI in Africa's Fourth Industrial Revolution
* Huawei Cloud: Building Inclusive AI, Helps Enterprises Quickly Become Intelligent
* Panel: The role of AI in Africa's fight against COVID-19
* Building a smart banking revolution
* Machine Learning: the engine of Africa's AI renaissance
* Using AI-enabled cyber smart security to protect your business
* Fireside chat: Smart Agriculture: can AI power a new agricultural revolution?
* Panel: Addressing hurdles to AI adoption in Africa
* Question Time: 'Seizing the vision of an AI-enabled Africa.'

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