AI Expo Africa’s rapid success | The Planner

AI Expo Africa, the continent’s largest B2B trade event focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions and innovations for business leaders, will take place at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape Town on the 3rd and 4th of September 2020.

The event has experienced phenomenal growth despite only launching in 2018. For example, AI Expo Africa 2019 reported the following statistics:

• 1027 registered delegates (42% growth)
• 372 companies (35% growth)
• 106 speakers (53% growth)
• 55 sponsors (27% growth)
• 35% female engineers at talent workshops (34% growth)

Nick Bradshaw, AI Expo Africa Co-founder, says, “The success of AI Expo Africa has seen our community grow to over 3000+ members. In 2019 we brought together the African AI community at the largest B2B business focused AI & Data Science event in the region that attracted 1000+ delegates, 100+ speakers & 50+ sponsors from world-leading brands like AWS, Microsoft, SAP, Nvidia, UiPath, Blue Prism, MTN, Hitachi, Persistent Systems as well as Government and NGO interest.”

Bradshaw adds, “AI Expo Africa 2020 is aimed at C-Suite decision makers and buyers in business seeking to better understand the application of AI, RPA [Robotic Process Automation] and related automation and data science technologies in the Enterprise. We also have a strong interest from investors and innovators focusing on the disruptive nature of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Analytics, Cloud platforms, hardware, devices and Internet of Things (IoT) in the real world environment of business TODAY.”

AI Expo Africa is produced by the AI Media Group. To learn more, go to www.aiexpoafrica.com.