AI Expo Africa is the continent's largest B2B trade-focused AI business event. The expo, which is now in its third year, will be held at the Century City Convention Centre in Cape Town from Thursday, 3 September to Friday, 4 September.

AI Expo Africa event director Roy Bannister says, "We are really excited to welcome Neil Sahota to our community. He has amassed 20+ years of business experience in a multitude of domains and has 17 awards, 26 publications and 15 patents under his belt. His thought leadership around helping clients and business partners to create next-generation products powered by emerging technology will be highly valued by our community."

Sahota lectures at UC Irvine in the Unites States and is a keynote speaker and author on topics including:
  • emerging technologies
  • AI 
  • blockchain
  • entrepreneurship
  • intrapreneurship
  • innovation, and
  • social good.
"I am very excited to gain insights from the African AI community," says Sahota. "The AI Expo Africa 2020 event gives both myself and many business leaders the opportunity to immerse themselves in two days of real-world AI debate, talks and hands-on demos of the 4IR technologies that are changing business and society; it's the largest event of its kind on the continent and I'm looking forward to making a contribution."

During the AI Expo Africa 2020 event, Sahota will deliver a talk titled, 'The AI Frontier: A Great Divider or A Solution?". In the presentation, he will discuss techniques and tools which organisations and under-served communities can use to ideate and implement value-added solutions. In addition, he will be hosting a master class on 'AI for Good', coupled to social innovation models and joining an expert panel discussing ethics in AI.

AI Expo Africa event co-founder Dr Nick Bradshaw says, "Sahota's work experience spans multiple industries including:
  • legal services
  • healthcare
  • life sciences
  • retail
  • travel and transportation
  • energy and utilities
  • automotive
  • telecommunications
  • media, and
  • communications and government."
"He is also co-author of the best-selling book Own the A.I. Revolution: Unlock Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Disrupt Your Competition, which will be made available at the show to delegates that attend," adds Bradshaw.

According to the event, Sahota joins a growing list of leading figures and companies that have engaged with the AI Expo Africa community, including:
  • AWS
  • Microsoft
  • Google Cloud
  • IBM
  • PWC
  • Kenyan Government
  • ITU
  • Nvidia
  • Intel
  • SA Government
  • Dimension Data
  • UiPath
  • Blue Prism
  • Vodacom
  • Hikvision
  • SAP
  • SAS
  • French Embassy
  • Telkom
  • Deloitte
  • Accenture
  • EY
  • Persistent Systems
  • ABSA, and 
  • Standard Bank.
For more information, visit www.aiexpoafrica.com. You can also follow the AI Expo Africa on Facebook, Twitter or on Instagram.