The 7th Edition of AI Expo Africa held in Johannesburg, sees largest gathering of Artificial Intelligence buyers and practitioners as AI Boom accelerates in Africa
JOHANNESBURG, GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA 22nd November – Africa’s largest Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Automation event, AI Expo Africa, wraps to outstanding feedback with big expansion plans into 2025. Now entering its 8th year, the annual AI Expo Africa event has again united regional and international AI thought leaders, suppliers and start-ups to discuss and showcase the latest AI & Smart Tech innovations, from the biggest global brands to the smallest and newest local SMMEs.
The core focus of the show are the real world AI applications that can be deployed by Enterprise, Government and NGO buyers with a diverse range of suppliers ranging from lead AI Hyper-scalers like Google to bleeding edge AI start-ups, educators, ecosystem builders and investors.
Nonnie Kubeka, Executive Director of the Gauteng Convention & Event Bureau stated, “We are happy to have welcomed the AI tech ecosystem to the Gauteng Region for the 3rd year running. This year’s show again hosted 48 AI startups / SMMEs with a new investor match making feature and AI4Good Pitch Fest – it’s one of the fastest growing sectors globally and presents lost of engagement opportunity. It’s a key pillar of our ICT activities and we want to showcase the local ecosystem to a regional and international audience.”
With a community of 50k+ practitioners, the show format is built upon the phenomenal success of the previous six annual events that have cemented AI Expo Africa as the largest AI business gathering of its kind, attended by Enterprise buyers, Governments, practitioners, decision makers, international trade missions, vendors and SMMEs.
Dr Nick Bradshaw, Founder of AI Expo Africa & Chairperson of the South African AI Association stated, “This was our 7th Anniversary Edition and biggest show to-date, with over 1000+ unique companies at the show and 2300+ delegates attending. The current buzz around generative AI, data centres, national strategies, security and AI4Good were just some of the many themes our 60+ speakers and delegates were discussing. We were extremely happy to welcome the likes of Dr Simon See from Nvidia as a keynote speaker this year and a visiting delegation from the UN ITU AI4Good / UN DP community who ran a new AI4Good Pitching session at the show, won by SA Startup AI Diagnostics.”
The new CPD certified AI Skills workshop sessions were run over 8 sessions to 1500 delegates and over 800 CPD certificates were issued by the SA AI Association. As with previous years, multiple VCs were attending and identifying candidate investments from the new AI start-ups exhibiting at the event.
About the AI Media Group
The AI Media Group is a South African based industry analysis, publishing & advisory consultancy focused on the AI and smart tech sector in Africa. The group runs the South African AI Association and are the organisers of AI Expo Africa, the continent’s largest Enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) trade show. They also publish The State of AI in Africa Report and Synapse Magazine, Africa’s only AI trade magazine charting Africa’s 4.0 innovation journey. The group also runs AI TV which hosts discussions on trends in AI / deep tech technologies with local, regional and global thought leaders.
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