• 29th October 2024 – Show Build 
• 29th October 2024 – Private VIP Welcome Function (VIP ticket holders only) Level 2 SCC 18:00-20:00
• 30th October 2024 Day 1 – Expo Opens 08:00 & Speaking Programme Opens 09:00 – Closes 20:00
• 31st October 2024 Day 2 – Expo Opens 08:00 & Speaking Programme Opens 09:00 – Closes 17:30

SHOW OPENS (Expo Hall & Registration) 08:00

• Welcome & Opening Remarks
• Ministerial Address
• Plenary Keynote – AI Reshaping Industries, AI Accelerating Digital Africa – Huawei – South Africa

COFFEE & NETWORKING 11:00 -11:30

• TRACK KEYNOTE – Scaling “AI for Good” Problem Solving Globally – International Telecommunication Union – Switzerland

• TRACK KEYNOTE – 28 Days Later: How AI is delivering blockbuster customer engagement – in weeks not months – Verint – UK

• TRACK KEYNOTE – The Agentic Revolution: Why AI-Led Process Transformation is a C-Suite Imperative – UiPath – South Africa

• TRACK KEYNOTE – The bold new future of enterprise AI with Salesforce – Salesforce – South Africa

• TRACK TALK – Leveraging Quantum Computing for Africa’s Future – NITheCS – South Africa

• TRACK TALK – Why AI-ready platforms are crucial for generative AI success – Supermicro – Netherlands

• TRACK TALK – Empowering Enterprises with Secure, In-House AI Solutions – Pinnacle – South Africa

• TRACK TALK – The ‘Why’ Behind the ‘What’: The Power of Prediction Explanations – The KID Group – South Africa

LUNCH & NETWORKING 13:00 -14:00  [ UN ITU AI for Good Innovation Factory Africa Pitching Session Main Plenary Room ]

• TRACK TALK – Harnessing Crowdsourced AI Solutions for a Sustainable Future – International Telecommunication Union – Switzerland
• TRACK TALK – Interaction Science: How a Real-Time Behavioral Platform Can Revolutionize Personalized Experiences – ecosystem.Ai – USA
• TRACK TALK – A Case Study in Innovation & Strategy: A purpose-built enterprise AI solution – AdvanceGuidance – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Enhancing security with the most advanced Purchase-to-Pay Automation solution – Yooz / Interface Systems – South Africa

• PANEL – South Africa’s National AI Strategy – Progress So Far

• TRACK TALK – Is your Datacentre / Compute AI ready? Powercube – UK

• TRACK TALK – The AI Mastery Playbook: Crafting Tailored Upskilling Programs for Enterprise Success – Analytics Vidhya – India

• TRACK TALK – AI and the Public Sector: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges – Boxfusion – South Africa

COFFEE & NETWORKING 15:30 – 16:00

• TRACK TALK – The impact of Agentic Workflows and the future of federated decisioning in AI – MoData – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The Mega Infrastructures Powering Artificial Intelligence – Teraco Data Environments – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – AI regulation roulette: Navigating privacy, security & local trends – ITLawCo – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Body Vitals Monitoring Using STM32 and Blynk.io – AlgoAtWork – South Africa
• Panel – AI 4 Good in Africa – Using AI to solve SDGs & Challenges
• TRACK TALK – The Role of the Semantic Layer in Driving AI Adoption across the Enterprise – Photon Data – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Transforming Employee Learning Experiences through AI – Nedbank – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Edge AI with Nvidia TAO and Edge Impulse: Deploying Models to Micro-controllers – Edge Impulse – South Africa

WORKSHOP TRACK

• Workshop 1 (09:30) – Supermicro & NVIDIA – The Building-Block Approach to Scalable Data Centers for AI Deployments
• Workshop 2 (11:30)  – Google – Gemini & Vertex AI: Democratizing AI for a Responsible Future
• Workshop 3 (14:00) – ARM – Accelerating AI Inference with Arm CPUs: Unlocking the Power of Efficient, Scalable Processing
• Workshop 4 (16:00) – AWS – AWS Master Class Built to Sell – How to launch, lift and scale your AI & analytics business
• RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION 18:00 – 19:00
• EXTENED NETWORKING SESSION 18:00 – 20:00

SHOW CLOSES 20:00

SHOW OPENS (Expo Hall & Registration) 08:00

• Welcome & Plenary Session
• Plenary Keynote – Is there a path to AGI? – Nvidia – Singapore
• Plenary Keynote – AI Factories: Boosting the Fourth Industrial Revolution – Supermicro – Netherlands

COFFEE & NETWORKING  11:00 -11:30

• TRACK KEYNOTE – A policy agenda for responsible AI – Google – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – WHEN AI CHANGES EVERYTHING: Make certain your DC is ready – Africa Data Centres – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – Building a New Engine for High-quality Development of Digital Economy and Real Economy Integration – Huawei – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – Enabling accelerated AI Everywhere on Arm  Arm – USA         
• PANEL – Security & Privacy in the Age of AI – Strategies for Business
• TRACK TALK – Unravelling Infrastructure technologies to enable the AI revolution – Vertiv Africa – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Charting Africa’s AI Future: A Call for Sovereignty – FNB – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The G7 AI Hub for Sustainable Development Co-Design: Startup Acceleration Pilot & Demonstrations

LUNCH & NETWORKING 13:00-14:00

• TRACK TALK – Paving the Way for South Africa’s Inclusive Digital Future -CSIR – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Transforming Business Operations through RPA and Conversational AI: Unlocking the Next Level of Intelligent Automation – Jubilee Insurance – Kenya       
• TRACK TALK – Heineken’s Generative AI Journey: From Small Innovation to Global Scale – Heineken – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Developing GenAI applications for Computer Vision using NVIDIA Vision Language Model – NVIDIA – Italy
• PANEL –  Data Centres in Africa – Opportunities & Challenges
• TRACK TALK – The human-AI collaboration imperative – AIForged – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The Dawn of the Smart Shopping Assistant – Rysun Labs – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Humans are not special – LLMs as a fundamental discovery tool for humanity – Stubber Inc – South Africa

COFFEE & NETWORKING 15:30-16:00

• TRACK TALK – The Future of AI in Financial Services: Leveraging Generative AI and Large Language Models for Innovation and Efficiency – ABSA Group – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Analytics in the Age of Generative AI – Matogen Applied Insights – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – From RAG to Riches – Helm – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – AI for Everyone: Closing the Language Gap for Broader Social Impact – Akili IT Services – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Crisis Intelligence: How 0-LA is Revolutionizing Offline Disaster Response for NGOs – Cognition – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Large Language Models are the new security risk for your business – The AI Shop – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Integrating AI in the classroom – KWC Evolve School – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The Impact of Generative AI in Cybersecurity: Fighting Machines with Machines – Tshwane University of Technology – South Africa

WORKSHOP TRACK

• Workshop 5 (09:30) – Huawei – AI Data Lake Solution: Data Awakening, Building AI-Ready Data Infrastructure
• Workshop 6 (11:30)  – Salesforce – Salesforce Salesforce AI Assistant Bootcamp
• Workshop 7 (14:00) – Verint – CX Automation Workshop – Considering whether to invest in AI to automate your customer engagement processes
• Workshop 8 (16:00) – AIMS – The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Master Class AI Research – Where are we now, trends & possible futures

SHOW CLOSES 17:30

Our academic poster programme (Innovation wall) is always massive success helping to share R&D innovation with industry practitioners and investors.  The R&D posters to showcased at AI Expo Africa 2024 include; 

• CSIR – Breaking Down isiZulu texts: Supervised Segmentation for Better Language Modelling ​ and Translation
• Sol Plaatje University – Envisioning AGI: A Future Paradigm for Combatting Climate Change
• University of the Witwatersrand – Enhancing IoT Security with Explainable AI Powered Intrusion Detection System
• Tshwane University of Technology – Development of a Human Intention Prediction Model for Enhancing Human-Robot Collaboration in an Inclusive Task Environment
• Stellenbosch University (AIMS) – Posture Estimation for the Endangered African Penguin
• University of the Witwatersrand – Data-driven sensitivity mitigation techniques for Genetic Algorithm. Long Short-Term Memory water quality prediction model
• Tshwane University of Technology – Leveraging Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Tuberculosis Screening in Low-Resource Settings
• University of Pretoria – TeleoWatch: Pose-Transformer-Based Advanced Action Recognition
• Tshwane University of Technology – Autoencoder-Based Marine Stereo Video Synchronisation and Cropping
• Tshwane University of Technology – Energy-Efficient And Reliable Wireless Sensor Network (Wsn) Mac Protocol For Asset Tracking
• Tshwane University of Technology – Multimodal Emotion Recognition to Assess the Adoption of Assistive Technology Devices
• Tshwane University of Technology – Explainable Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Contextual Understanding
• Tshwane University of Technology – Machine Learning-Enhanced Long-Range (LR) Ranging Using 2.4GHz WiFi for TUT Smart Farm
• Tshwane University of Technology – AI-Tutor: Enhancing Learning for Students and Lecturers