A walk-through of Knowledge Graphs;How COVID has impacted the employment market

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A walk-through of Knowledge Graphs
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# Speaker
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Adit is the Lead Data Scientist at Cape AI - an AI startup based in South Africa and the Netherlands - and is currently involved in developing ML solutions for several industries. Beyond AI, Adit has a particular interest in Values-Based Leadership and Entrepreneurship, and is passionate about building high performing, values-based tech teams.

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# Abstract
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Each of our brains house a comprehensive knowledge base. As we interact with the world, this knowledge base is used every second and updated with new information. The information contained within this knowledge base captures information about millions of entities, their attributes, and their relationship to other entities. Utilising this knowledge base effectively serves to form our thoughts and inform our actions appropriately. Similarly, in the field of AI, structured and unstructured data can be organised to create knowledge graphs which depict information about entities and their relations intuitively with high reliability and reusability.

In this talk, I will discuss what knowledge graphs are, highlight their value, demonstrate a knowledge graph in action, and discuss some of the use cases currently being explored by Cape AI.

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Mission Impossible – How COVID has impacted the employment market in South Africa.
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# Speaker
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Anene Britz

I am your friendly neighbourhood nerd, I like data and helping people - put those two together and you're left with recruitment, training and talent advising. Which is where I thrive! I am currently building an initiative called the Speaker's Forge whereby we are training teams to present, share knowledge and build their personal brands. . I am ranked as one of LinkedIn's top 1% SSI in the IT and Sales Industries in South Africa. At the core of it all, I am passionate about candidate-centric recruitment and growth.

I form part of a high performing team at Dariel where we build cool things with cool people and for cool people. When I am not busy sourcing, networking and exploring tech, I am stuck with my nose in a book, getting my run in for the day, hanging out with my amazing SO or binging a podcast or seven.

I hope you have great time listening to my talk!

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# Abstract
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Things are changing at the speed of information, work from home is becoming the new norm and the job market seems to be shifting. How do we navigate these uncertain times? Many companies are facing job and salary cuts or fundamentally changing the nature of roles and structures. In this talk we will be exploring the COVID employment landscape in South Africa, what to do if your job has been impacted, where recruiters find candidates – how do you stand out or, hide when you aren’t looking at making a move. And what you can do to stay at the bleeding edge of your skillset.