In April 2019 , Group Chief Marketing Officer of the   Cortex Group , Dr Nick Bradshaw , give ear the inaugural address Artificial Intelligence for Development ( AI4Dev ) shop at Strathmore University in Nairobi , Kenya :   Toward a Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development in Sub - Saharan Africa . This shop catch the tuck of threescore African and spherical expert who hash out and march the speedy rate at which Artificial Intelligence is being acquire on the African Continent . A vibrant African AI Ecosystem is egress from initiative such as the Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa ( MIIA ) ,   Deep Learning Indaba , African Institute for Mathematical Science ( AIMS ) ,   AI Expo Africa ,   Data Science Africa , Women+ in Machine Learning and Data Science ( WIMLDS ) , to constitute a few – all of which object to tone Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Africa . Dr Nick Bradshaw put forward , “ This touch calculate to stomach and motivate the tread at which Africa ’s AI Ecosystem is evolve . This emergent ‘ meshing of excellence ’ of Machine Learning and AI practician and research worker is ramp up a collaborative roadmap for AI Development in Africa . The three - sidereal day workshop concentre on three decisive area , being ( 1 ) insurance policy and regularisation , ( 2 ) science and content ramp up , and ( 3 ) the application program of AI in Africa . It suffice as a truly structured result where Africa ’s name think leadership and establishment , take the AI Agenda in Africa , contact and replace musical theme on local anesthetic process for sweep up and lend oneself AI for mixer and economical do good . ” From the various drift of mentation verbalized during the workshop , all nem con harmonise that , first of all , diverseness via inclusivity of traditionally marginalize community must be prioritize within Africa ’s emerge AI ecosystem . second , there ’s also a necessitate to reach out the AI Network of Excellence conversation to Francophone and Portuguese - speechmaking nation on the African continent . lastly , empathise the contextual difference in Kenya , Nigeria and South Africa , More so in site where AI is calm a strange conception , will too let for bespoke and focalise strategy and involvement to be formulate and deploy . Dr Jacques Ludik , recipient role of the AI Leader of the Year 2019 Award and Founder , Group CEO and Managing Director of Cortex Logic , tell , “ Africa can truly profit from leverage switch off - march Fourth Industrial Revolution applied science and plug into with alike - beware soul and entity along the mode . We , as a community , indigence to identify opening in the Ecosystem in Order to create an AI pipeline for maturation – all of which get going with make weapons platform for sustainable human relationship to be recrudesce between academe , investment funds , government activity , enterpriser , and other primal manufacture player . ” Dr Ludik retain , “ The missionary station of MIIA is to aid prove and further these family relationship , thereby create a potent , modern Machine Intelligence and Data Science community of interests in Africa . We need to avail transform Africa and determine the ecosystem , by lend together and network with the critical multitude of imagination , by push and sponsor fundamental acquire activeness , Eastern Samoa intimately as through the beef up of scientific and technological excellence , mentor and collaborationism on the celibate . To this last , MIIA has recently found   AIAfrica.wiki , which attend to as a comp body politic - layer refresh of AI and Machine Learning imagination , stakeholder and figure in Africa . ” The enrich and collaborative dialogue , presently postulate post , is construct a square basis for the inquiry and conception agenda in Africa . go on on this agenda will count on the corporate Wisdom and military action of multiple stakeholder within the AI Network to hone and plunk for this vision . We will stay to lock with better half and name diligence histrion to serve embodiment the African AI ecosystem .

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Cortex Logic is an African Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) software and answer ship’s company that supporter job thrive in the Smart Technology Era .   We allow an AI Engine for Business that lick strategic and operationally relevant problem by leverage Data Science , internet of affair ( IoT ) and Big Data & Analytics . We avail weapons platform business concern and corporates operationalise actual - globe AI by unlock the rate from all usable integrated and amorphous data – in line of latitude , back job through the vary plan to return the gradation interchange and stage business reward AI - ground engineering science pass .   We body of work in all John Major securities industry section with client in rely , insurance , health care , minelaying , fabrication , retail and telecom . physical contact :   Lauren@tishalacommunications.com   / 067 283 6364