Day 1 – 29th October Expo opens 08:00

09.30 am – Welcome & Ministerial Address

• PLENARY KEYNOTE – The rapid AI race defining four future profiles – ServiceNow

11:00-11:30 Coffee & Networking

• TRACK KEYNOTE – Building Africa’s Agentic Enterprises on a Foundation of Trust – Linda Saunders – Country Manager – Salesforce – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – AI Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) – JP De Villiers – Senior Account Manager – Supermicro – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – AI Reshaping Lives, Industry and Productivity – Banele Shozi ICT Marketing Manage – Huawei – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – Open Source AI Infrastructure: Your Path to AI Sovereignty – Dharhas – Pothina – CTO – OpenTeams – USA

12:15

• TRACK TALK – Double the Impact Not the Headcount: Meet Your Agent Co-pilot – Luis Silva – Solution Consultant – Verint – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Enabling Data for AI in the Enterprise – Jacques Visagie – General Manager: AI and Services – Pinnacle – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – From Interaction to Intelligence: How AI is Shaping Public Sector Customer Experience – Julius Segole – Chief of Growth & Strategy – Boxfusion – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – RAG in a Box: Building Agentic AI Applications with InterSystems IRIS Data Platform – Reven Singh – Sales Engineer – InterSystems – South Africa

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Networking

• TRACK TALK – AI-Driven Transformation – Craig Abrahams – Chief Technology Officer – LRMG – South Africa
• TRACK TALK -Effortless Accounts Payable Reconciliation: Using AI to Boost Accuracy and Efficiency – Matthew Farquhar – Senior Sales Consultant – Interface Systems – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Beyond the Code: How Strategic Partnerships are seeding Africa’s AI future – Sipho Mtombeni – Government Affairs and Public Policy Manager – Google
• TRACK TALK – PANEL – Zero brain cycles, end-to-end automation in the real world – Werner Stucky CEO Stubber with FlySafair & Haygrove

14:45

• PANEL – Green Compute & DC Investment in Africa – Challenges & Opportunities – French Embassy / EDF, OADC, Mavin Power Cube, ADC
• TRACK TALK – AWS Credit and Funding Programs – Chuka Ezenwalie – Customer Engagement and Portfolio Manager – Silicon Overdrive – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Trust, Bias & Halucinations in AI – The challenge of our time – Pravir Ishvarlal – Data Science Manager – Standard Bank Group – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Beyond the Hype – Real enterprise Gen-AI – A journey for practical & measurable ROI – Xander Coetzee – Chief of Delivery & Architecture – CohesionX – South Africa

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Networking

• TRACK TALK – The New Era of Business-Led AI – Kim Schulze – Head of Digital Advisory Practice – ADG – Accelera Digital Group – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The use of RAG & Agents in Legacy Environments – Sekhar Subramoney – Business Development Manager – Aptus Data Labs – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Consumer Data & AI-Driven eCommerce: Is it Unlocking Value or Killing Consumer Trust? – Katekani Baloyi – Digital Commerce Lead – PepsiCo – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – AI to detect counterfeit medicine – Thilo Fuchs – CEO – Vrai AI – France

16:45

• TRACK TALK – How Takealot is preparing for third-party shopping agents – Axel Tidemann – Machine learning manager – Takealot – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The State of GenAI Right Now – Daniel Wertheimer – Group Lead: Knowledge & Insights – Coca Cola Beverages Africa – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Case Studies in Retail Analytics Diffusion: Lessons and Best Practices from South Africa’s Traditional Sector – Shaun Moloi – Senior Data Scientist – First National Bank – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Build Your Own AI Advisory Board – Mike Lysko – CEO – ZapDash.studio – Portugal

Workshops

• Huawei – How Datacenter Virtualization Solutions are speeding Up AI Adoption to Reshape Various Industries
• Silicon Overdrive & SW7 – Accelerating Growth for AI-Driven B2B Founders
• Salesforce – Unlock AI Capabilities in your Custom Apps
• Pinnacle – Building Sovereign AI for Enterprises – Defining Strategy, Building Use Cases, and Creating Appliances Experiences

17:30 Extended networking in main Expo Hall

SHOW CLOSES 20:00

Day 2 – 30th October – Expo opens 08:00

09.30 am – Welcome & Ministerial Address

• Plenary Panel -Sovereign AI & AI4Good in Africa – Will AI Factories & Compute get us there ? Open Teams, Open Access Data Centres, UN ITU, Google

11:00-11:30 Coffee & Networking

• TRACK KEYNOTE – Data Sovereignty / Sovereign AI Relative to Africa – Ayotunde Coker – CEO – Open Access Data Centres – Nigeria
• TRACK KEYNOTE – Using AI RAG’s & Avatars for Social Impact – Jay Shapiro – Chairperson – Pan Africa Gaming Group (PAGG)
• TRACK KEYNOTE – Building an AI-Ready Workforce in South Africa: The Power of Public-Private Partnerships – Smangele Nkosi – Sub Saharan Africa GM – Cisco – South Africa
• TRACK KEYNOTE – Seeing Smarter: How AI Video Analytics Build Intelligent Cities – Scott Howard – Field CTO – VAST Data – Australia

12:15

• PANEL – Agentic AI – Beyond the hype towards the Autonomous Enterprise – Are we there yet? Love Africa, Stride Strideshift Global, Salesforce, ServiceNow
• TRACK TALK – GPU & Software Trends for Real World AI in Business – Jacques Visagie – General Manager: AI and Services – Pinnacle – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The AI-Ready Enterprise: Building Trust and Resilience Through Cloud and Security Integration – Johan Steyn – Consultant – Rectron – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Quantum-Inspired Algorithms for a Classical World – Francesco Petruccione – Director – NITheCS & Stellenbosch University – South Africa

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Networking

• TRACK TALK – Beyond the hype: AI Strategy in CX – Dion Millson – Head of AI Strategy – Connect – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Trust in AI and Governance – Bryan McLachlan – Executive Vice President: EMEA – iTuring.ai – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Agentic Agents – Conversational AI enabling Research at Scale – Tandi Kolbe – CEO and Founding Director – Surveya Global – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – GenAI: Agents for Change – Peter Wilson – AI/ML Manager – Silicon Overdrive – South Africa

14:45

• PANEL – Responsible AI – What is it & How do we do it? GIZ, Edge AI Foundation, UN ITU, SA AI Association
• TRACK TALK – Civic Twin Intelligence: AI-Powered Digital Twins for Policy Simulation and Inclusive Governance – Mayur Akole – COO – InfyStrat – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Faster, Smarter, Leaner: How AI Transforms New Product Development – Tomoko Ueta – Innovation Service Line Lead – Ipsos – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – FRENCH AI STARTUPS – LIGHTENING TALKS – Vrai AI, Duke Analytics, Toum AI & Gleamer AI

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Networking

• TRACK TALK – Standardising Agentic AI Skills for BRICS+ Countries – Jacqui Muller – Industry Coordinator & BRICS Skills Working Group – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – The Zindi Platform – 8 Years building Africa’s largest AI Challenge Platform – Paul Kennedy – Chief of Staff – Zindi – Portugal
• TRACK TALK – From Plans to Platforms: Continuous Strategy for the AI Era – Alison Jacobson – Director – Strideshift Global – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Closing the personal safety gap using AI: Multilingual, multimodal public safety tools for Communities left off the map – Nick Mills – Co-Founder – Community Wolf – South Africa

16:45

• TRACK TALK – Developing Human Potential in the Era of Gen AI – Nyari Samushonga – CEO – WeThinkCode – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Re-imagining Assessment in the AI Era: Strategies for Developing Future-Ready Learners – Karen Walstra – Educational Consultant – KWC Evolve School – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Jen-ai Unimaginable buildings and Urban Designs at Speed and Scale – Jennifer Mirembe – Architect – Jen-ai – South Africa
• TRACK TALK – Agentic AI in Payments – Prakhar Srivastava – Chief AI officer – FlowFirst – South Africa

Workshops

• CISCO – Practical Strategies: Accelerating Africa’s AI with Intelligent Infrastructure from Data Center to Edge
• Google Cloud – The New Way to Cloud

17:30 AI for Good Impact Africa VIP Opening (private function)

SHOW CLOSES 20:00

Day 3 – 31st October – AI for Good Impact Africa – Expo opens 08:00

09.30 am onwards Plenary Room / Track Room 1

• 9:30 Artistic intelligence Opening Performance, LJ Rich, Inventor/Musician and International Broadcaster, Perfect Pitch Productions, Thobekile Mbanda, Founder, Mmaletsatsi Productions     
• 9:45 Welcome remarks, Seizo Onoe, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU     
• 9:55 Opening address, Government Representatives from SA & China     
• 10:05 [PANEL] AI Connectivity & Standards, Seizo Onoe, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU, HE Bo, Director of the Internet Law Research Center, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Tskfak Djoumessi Epgnimpieba Pauline Otavid, Directrice chez Ministère des Postes et Télécommunications, Cameroun, moderated by Kseniia Fontaine, Senior Business Development and Operations Manager, AI for Good, ITU     
• 10:35 [PANEL] AI & Cultural heritage, Vukosi Marivate – Chair of Data Science, University of Pretoria, Chenayi Mutambasere, Director – Africa Centre for Economic Justice), Paul Kernnedy, Chief of Staff at Zindi, Chenxi Qiu, Deputy Director, Center for Global Digital Governance (CGDG), China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), moderated by Vishnu Ram, Independent Research Consultant, ITU      

11:00-11:30 Coffee & Networking

• 11:30 [PANEL] Developing inclusive AI for everyone, Naria Santa Lucia, General Manager, Digital Inclusion and Community Engagement, Microsoft Philanthropies, Microsoft, Vukosi Marivate – Chair of Data Science, University of Pretoria, Boitumelo Makgoba, Founder, Fetsi Data Technologies, moderated by LJ Rich, Inventor/Musician and International Broadcaster, Perfect Pitch Productions 
• 11:55 AI Showcase, Michael Mollel, Founder, Sartify, Tunga Tessema, Professional in Residence at The Upazi Network, Carnegie Mellon University Africa, Innocent Nzimenyera, Data Scientist, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) 
• 12:15 [DEMO] Brain-computer interface demo, Liang Liyan, Standardization Director, Brain Computer Interface Industry Alliance  
• 12:30 [DEMO] AI robot tutors: Revolutionizing language learning through intelligent companions, Bonisiwe S. Gumede, Founder and CEO, BSG Science and Technology Centre 
• 12:40 Quantum for Good, Yaseera Ismail, Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics and Head of QuPhotonics Lab, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, Jiang Shichang,Senior Expert of CAS Quantum Network Co. Ltd. 

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Networking

• 14:00 AI for Good in action, Frederic Werner, Chief, Strategy and Operations, AI for Good, TSB, ITU 
• 14:20 [PANEL] AI for resilient health systems, Wang Shouxin, Senior Product Manager, Antgroup, Fazlyn Petersen, Senior lecturer, University of the Western Cape, Fredrick Endeki, Regional Head of ICT, Ministry of Health, Kenya Medical Training College – Machakos  
• 14:40 [PANEL] AI for education & skills, Edith Luhanga, Assistant Teaching Professor, CMU-Africa, Ben Ruhinda, Senior Systems Officer, Inter-University Council for East Africa  
• 15:00 [PANEL] AI for agriculture & food security, Central University of Technology, LI Zhenting, Director of Standards dept. of Zhejiang Lab, Elizabeth Mwashuma, Founder & CEO, Good Partners, moderated by Kseniia Fontaine, Senior Business Development and Operations Manager, AI for Good, ITU 
• 15:20 [DEMO] When the System Fails: AI, Resilience, and Crisis Innovation in the Global South, Samantha Wolhuter, COO, Crisis Cognition Disaster relief   

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Networking

• 16:00 Innovate for Impact 
• 16:20 The Importance of Policy in AI Governance, Gregory Rammego, Government and Public Services Leader, Deloitte 
• 16:40 Innovation Factory Pitching Competition, Philip Kiracofe, CEO & Co-Founder, Startupbootcamp Afritech, Frederic Werner, Chief, Strategy and Operations, AI for Good, TSB, ITU, Astride Melvin Fokam Ninyim, Chief Operating Officer, SYNTHI-AI, Victor Daniyan, Founder at Nearpays, Lumona Mulengwa, Founder & CEO, Electrixiaty, Joseph Nguthiru, Co-Founder, M-Situ, Derick Nwasor, Co-Founder, Newdigit, moderated by Guillem Martínez Roura, AI and Robotics Programme Officer, ITU 
• 17:10 Closing remarks  

AI4Good Impact Africa 2025 Workshops

11:30-13:00

• AI-Ready and Beyond: Fine-Tuning the Future
• AI and Space Computing
• Create and Collaborate: Open Source AI in Practice (Provider: FAIR Forward-AI Skills Coalition)

14:00-15:30

• AI-Ready and Beyond: Fine-Tuning the Future
•  Edge AI Innovations in Africa
• Using AI Responsibly when Trust is on the Line (Provider: ALX Africa-AI Skills Coalition)

16:00-17:30

• Harnessing AI innovations: From use cases to practice
• Machine Learning 5G Challenge
• Turning AI Potential into Positive Action (Provider: ALX Africa-AI Skills Coalition)

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 be showcased at AI Expo Africa 2025 include; 

• Leveraging Machine Learning to Enhance Cybersecurity in Large-Scale Cloud Environment: A Case Study of Hybrid ML-based Intrusion Detection System.
• Detecting pyrite (FeS2) nodules in coal seams using Machine Learning
• Automated Biomass Estimation Using Self-Supervised Vision Transformers
• Clinical Coding empowered through an AI chatbot wizard
• Teaching AI to Read Between the Lines: Interpreting isiZulu Idiomatic Expressions through Retrieval Augmented Fine-Tuning
• Amalgamation of Blockchain and AI for 5G and Beyond Applications: Opportunities and Challenges in Africa
• Predicting Electoral Violence Using Integrated Conflict Data
• Adopting Machine Learning for Prescriptive Maintenance in Small-Scale Mining Operations
• AI Driven Last-Mile Delivery Optimisation : Enhancing Consumer Satisfaction in South African e-commerce and omni-channel retailing 
• Role-Based Player Performance in Apex Legends: A Public Dataset for Esports Analytics
• Techno-Economic, Environmental, and Social Multi-Objective Optimization of a Grid-Connected Hybrid Renewable Energy System Using Metaheuristic Algorithms
• Nwulite Obodo Open Data Licence (NOODL): Equity, not just equality, in African data sharing
• Identifying Merchants in Rwanda’s Mobile Money Data
• GenAI Inside: A Practical Methodology for Embedding AI Across Enterprise Workflows
• AI-Driven Multimodal Driver Fatigue Detection for Safer Transportation Systems
• How Good Are Large Language Models at Arithmetic Reasoning in Low-Resource Language Settings