Insights from ‘Unlocking COVID-19 current realities, future opportunities: Artificial intelligence in the time of COVID-19’

摘要

The University of Cape Town, in partnership with Standard Bank, hosted a webinar entitled ‘Unlocking COVID-19 current realities, future opportunities: Artificial intelligence in the time of COVID-19’ on 19 August 2020.The webinar was facilitated by Professor Tommie Meyer from the University of Cape Town’s Centre of Artificial Intelligence Research at the Department of Computer Science.The two speakers for the event were Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg and a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in South Africa and the Deputy Chair of the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).The second speaker was Mr Nanda Padayachee, Head AI, Automation and APIs at the Standard Bank Group.He has extensive experience in digitisation of capabilities and established the Inaugural Data Science capabilities within the Standard Bank Group.