AI Expo Africa 2019 Awards

AI Expo Africa 2019 Awards - All the Winners

The AI Expo Africa Awards are based on feedback from the African AI community and delegates who attended the show and recognise the hard work, innovation and dedication of those companies or individuals in the African AI community who are at the forefront of AI in Africa.

AT THE AI Expo Africa 2019 show, delegates are given the opportunity to vote for 9 stand out categories of award to reflect the effort and dedication by the individual recipients d companies as seen in the eyes of the delegates and partners that attend. Now the votes have been counted and the results are as follows:

BEST PLENARY KEYNOTE Winner – Dr Simon See – Nvidia 2nd Place – Dr Karim Beguir – InstaDeep

BEST MAIN TALK Winner – Dr Jay Van Zyl – Ecosystem AI 2nd Place – Chris Currin – UCT

BEST FLASH TALK Winner – Jade Abbott – Retro Rabbit 2nd Place – Amira Abbas – UKZN

BEST WORKSHOP Winner – Rhoban RoboCup Joint 2nd Place – AWS & UiPath

BEST STAND Winner – UiPath 2nd Place – Ocular Technologies

BEST START UP [ HOSTED @ THE AWS INNOVATION CAFE ] Winner – Offer Ze Joint 2nd Place – 2 Way Systems & Grenadilla Insurance

BEST POSTER [ HOSTED @ THE MTN INNOVATION WALL ] Winner – Christopher Dunderdale – Photovoltaic Defect Classification through Thermal Infrared Imaging using Machine Learning – Nelson Mandela University 2nd Place – Jeanne Daniel – Towards Automating Healthcare Question Answering in a Noisy Multilingual LowResource Setting – University of Stellenbosch

AI MEDIA DIRECTORS AWARD Winner – Mustapha Zaouini – AI in Africa & FLIPTIN for an outstanding contribution to grass roots AI skills development with young learners in South Africa ai