Fireside Chat with Olubayo Adekanmbi

Join us this Saturday as we engage Olubayo Adekanmbi on an interactive session on the topic, High-impact Artificial Intelligence: Capacity building for businesses and social use cases.

About the speaker
Bayo Adekanmbi is an award-winning business executive who combines 18 years of cognate industry experience in Strategy, Marketing, Analytics and Business Transformation from two of the largest economies in Africa (Nigeria and South Africa).

Bayo is a Kaggle-validated hands-on Data scientist who has participated in many top global Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence projects on Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/). He has a patent on final approval in the USA for a Data Science product on Social Pricing Recommender. He graduated with Distinction from the University of Reading postgraduate School, United Kingdom, and has also had both full-time and executive education in many other leading institutions, including Columbia Business School, New York; The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago; INSEAD Business School, France; Telecoms Training Institute, London; ETH Zurich, Switzerland; and Gatton College of Business at the University of Kentucky, Kentucky.

He finished his PhD research during his two-year sabbatical at the University of London, having taken time off from his role as the Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at MTN Nigeria, where he has also been awarded with the prestigious MTN Yello Star award for the conceptualization of a Customer Value/Risk Management framework, which led to a multi-billion naira revenue growth.

Post-sabbatical, Bayo is back at MTN Nigeria as the Chief Transformation Officer, driving a holistic programme aimed to accelerate business and financial performance through business reengineering, innovation and advanced analytics.

He is the convener of Data Science Nigeria (https://www.datasciencenigeria.org/), a non-profit that is building a world-class Artificial Intelligence knowledge, research and innovation ecosystem which delivers high impact & transformational research, business use applications, AI-first start-ups, employability and social good use cases. He is the author of "The Future is Shared" and “Artificial Intelligence Simplified for Starters”.

Bayo will touch on the work he is doing with Data Science Nigeria and then provide insights on how businesses can build capacity and ensure delivery of high impact in Artificial Intelligence.

Event Program
9.30am - 10am : Attendees check in
10.00 am - 10.10am; Welcome by hosts(ALX)
10.10am - 11.00 am: Presentation by Bayo
11.00am - 11.40am: Q and A from a moderator and the audience
11.40 am - 12 pm: Networking, Event ends, attendees leave at their convenience

Please arrive and check in for the event early so that we may finish on time!