World AI Show Nairobi edition saw an elite line-up of AI experts and key government representatives come together to talk about the changing dynamics of AI and Kenya’s approach towards adoption and implementation of potential emerging technologies across the country’s various industry verticals. The 2-day global tech event saw the presence of 500+ attendees that included CIOs, IT leaders, tech enthusiasts and government authorities who engaged in some of the most thought-provoking and insightful panel discussions, tech-talks and use cases.

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3. World AI Show Nairobi edition saw an elite line-up of AI experts
and key government representatives come together to talk about
the changing dynamics of AI and Kenya’s approach towards
adoption and implementation of potential emerging technologies
across the country’s various industry verticals.
In support of Kenya’s vision to become a world leader in
technological innovation through the nation’s ‘Big Four Agenda’,
The 2-day global tech event saw
the presence of 500+ attendees
that included CIOs, IT leaders,
tech enthusiasts and government
authorities who engaged in some
of the most thought-provoking and
insightful panel discussions, tech-talks
and use cases.
The event also featured Furhat (AI
powered face swapping humanoid
robot) that engaged in interactions
with attendees.
World AI Show ended on a high note
with ‘UTU Technologies’ winning the
Startup World Cup regional finale pitch
competition powered by Fenox Venture
Capital, which featured more than 15
startups showcasing their ideas and
innovations in front of global investors
including VCs, angel investors and key
government authorities.
SUMMARY

4. “We believe that AI, blockchain and other
disruptive technologies can provide
new ways of tackling the challenges of
unemployment, corruption, insecurity and
poverty within Kenya.
I am looking forward to learning how
these technologies can propel Kenya as a
forward country and position the nation as
a regional and international leader in the
areas of ICT.”
Jerome Ochieng
Principal Secretary, Ministry of Information,
Communication and Technology and
Innovation, Government of Kenya
DAY 1

5. Alfred Ongere delivered the opening keynote on
the importance of ethics and algorithmic bias for
businesses building and using AI.
Ongere’s interesting presentation threw light on
how computer systems reflect implicit values of its
human designers in its behaviour, leading to false
categorizations.
Alfred Ongere
Founder, AI Kenya
Peng Wu’s presentation demonstrated UBTECH’s
core AI technologies and products. He also
highlighted the importance of synergizing AI and
Education as a national strategy.
“UBTECH’s vision and dream is to have robots in
every family and business scenario”
PENG WU
Deputy General Manager Overseas, UBTECH
Robotics, China

6. Panel Discussion: Finance
How AI is shaking up the Banking Industry
The experts on the panel discussed the integral role of
AI in transforming the financial services landscape.
How financial institutions are leveraging more of data
analytics to track customer behavioural patterns for
fraud identification.
The potential impact of AI on the future of Insurance
sector.
Panelists
Billy Odera
Data Scientist, Commercial Bank of Africa,
Kenya
Stanley Chege
CIO, Madison Group Kenya
Timothy Muinga
Manager, Data & Analytics, KPMG, Kenya
MODERATOR
Chris Orwa
Lead Data Scientist, I&M Bank, Kenya

7. Raymond Mugo
Manager, IT Advisory Services, KPMG, Kenya
“AI is not bad, it is actually unstoppable. The whole
space of talking within digital is about having tribes,
and the tribes are constituted to include all the
required skillsets including an assurance function
whose role is not to stop the innovation but to
ensure that the innovation meets its objectives.”
Julius Kipng’etich gave an interesting
introduction of Julia, the first AI-powered
chat assistant of her kind in the insurance
industry in East Africa to improve interactions
with Jubilee Insurance clients as well as
disrupt the service delivery value chain.
Julius Kipng’etich
CEO, Jubilee Insurance, Kenya

8. Panel Discussion
Understanding the role of AI TaskForce in driving Kenya’s
Big 4 Agenda
The acclaimed panellists gave insights into Kenya’s
strategy of leveraging the AI Taskforce to increase job
creation and to strengthen the nation’s industry verticals.
Panelists
DR BITANGE NDEMO
Chairman of Blockchain and AI
TaskForce, Government of Kenya
HON. MICHAEL ONYANGO
Member of Distributed Ledgers and
AI TaskForce, Ministry of Information,
Communication and Technology,
Government of Kenya
Lesley Mbogo
Co-Founder & COO, GoBEBA, Kenya
MODERATOR
LAURA CHITE
CEO, CIO East Africa
HON. MICHAEL ONYANGO
“As Kenyans, we need to realize that people around us
have woken up. There needs to be far more collaborative
efforts between businesses. Within the field of AI, we need
to be very purposeful and clear and know what exactly is
it that we want to achieve as a nation.”

9. FIRESIDE CHAT: LEGAL
GDPR Compliance and its impact on Machine Learning systems
It was an exchange of views between the expert
lawyers on GDPR Compliances in the context of
AI.
Both speakers addressed the legal conundrums
associated with data privacy regulations of GDPR
being compatible with AI implementation.
SPEAKERS
Catherine Kariuki
Partner, Tripleoklaw Advocates LLP, Kenya
CATHY MPUTHIA
Advocate, C.Mputhia Advocates, Kenya

10. Philip gave a glimpse into what is happening
in the world of innovation and disruption and
the current startup scenario in Africa.
Eng. John Tanui
CEO, Konza Technopolis Development Authority
(KoTDA), Government of Kenya
Philip Kiracofe
CEO, Startupbootcamp AfriTech,
South Africa
John Tanui’s spoke about how Kenya is on track to
become a global technology and innovation hub.
He also illustrated the nation’s vision to develop
sustainable smart cities that connect human
capital, social capital and ICT infrastructure and
an innovation ecosystem, contributing to Kenya’s
knowledge-based economy.

11. Daniel delivered his presentation on AI-driven
decision-making. He spoke about how ‘The
Busara Centre for Behavioral Economics’ helps
organizations solve their problems in market access
and consumer understanding.
Tesfa Yohannes
Chief Technology Officer, iCog Labs Software
Consultancy, SingularityNet, Ethiopia
Daniel Mellow
Data Specialist, The Busara Centre for
Behavioral Economics, Kenya
Tesfa Yohannes delivered an informative
presentation that expounded the essential
components of a chatbot such as speech to text
engine, text to speech engine, chat scripts, emotion
recognition, question answering tools and sentiment
classification and text processing.

12. Panel Discussion
How AI will enable to re-imagine the customer experience
The focus of the discussion was on the use of AI as a
means to bridge the digital divide and improve customer
interaction for enterprises.
Georgina briefly elucidated how AI and ML can help with
understanding patterns and cognitive analytics, which can
ultimately enhance customer experiences.
Panelists
Georgina Mukami
Head Enterprise Services, National
Bank of Kenya
PREBEN WIK
Co-Founder, Furhat Robotics, Sweden
MODERATOR
Stuart McGreevy
Chairman, Digital Leadership Forum,
United Kingdom
GEORGINA MUKAMI
“I believe no business can go wrong if the focus is on good customer experience”

13. It was a captivating and almost human-like
interactive session between Furhat (AI powered face
swapping humanoid robot) and Preben Wik where
he demonstrated the bot’s ability to engage and
react to humans with lifelike facial expressions.
PREBEN WIK
Co-Founder,
Furhat Robotics, Sweden
DAY 2
“It is time for us to take charge of our destiny. For
Kenya we must rethink and re-change our strategy,
we need to know what it is we are doing within our
core creation hubs. With or without AI, emerging
technologies and the rest of Africa is moving ahead”
HON. MICHAEL ONYANGO
Member of Distributed Ledgers and AI TaskForce,
Ministry of Information, Communication and
Technology, Government of Kenya

14. Panel Discussion: INVESTMENT
Mapping the trends in funding and AI eco-system in Africa
Panelists
Robinson Muiru
Founder, Computer Engineering Forum,
Kenya
Jason Eisen
Founder & CEO, UTU Technologies, Kenya
GRANVILLE WAFULA
CEO & Co-founder, Thebhub, Kenya
KEN WAIRAGU
Director, Service Delivery, Samasource,
Kenya
MODERATOR
Paul Kamau
Executive Director, Finaltus, Kenya
Jason Eisen
“At some point, we need to view AI as a tool that
enables other things and unlocks value in many
different sectors.
We should stop focusing on the hype around the
technology and focus on the value it can deliver
in a particular area, this will really help move the
industry forward.”

15. Iraneus expounded the current state of drug
discovery and the potential of AI in healthcare.
He spoke about how the goal of AI is to
shorten the research, discovery and preclinical
stage from 3-4 years to a matter of months.
Stuart McGreevy
Chairman, Digital Leadership Forum,
United Kingdom
Iraneus Ogu
Head, Africa AI for Healthcare Initiative Insilico
Medicine, Inc, Nigeria
“There is great hope in east Africa and amazing
hope in Kenya.
Kenya does have the courage to pioneer new things,
but of course, we do need to be able to enrich the
country’s ecosystem, develop the technologies and
relationships, safely, carefully but very confidently
and boldly.”

16. “There is a very big promise for Africa and Kenya at
large in terms of where the technology is.
We have over 70% mobile penetration rates, we
have a lot of youth above the age of fifteen that are
doing interesting things with technology, but most
importantly, we have more than 5/10 fastest growing
economies sitting out of East Africa that are actually
leapfrogging when it comes to technology”
Bastian Blankenburg
CTO, UTU Technologies, Kenya
Lenin Oyuga
Region Business Head, East Africa & Indian Ocean
Islands, Refinitv, Kenya
Bastian illustrated a technical use case presentation
on building models of trust infrastructure using
various AI techniques at ‘UTU’

17. Michael Michie
Chief Information Security Officer,
M Oriental Bank, Kenya
“Games, in general, are sort of the unsung heroes for
world problems, no one really looks at games and
thinks there is a solution here for something critical,
but in most cases you find what we’re trying to do
has been done in games and there are concepts
which could be borrowed from that to actually
improve AI”
DR BITANGE NDEMO
Chairman of Blockchain and AI TaskForce,
Government of Kenya
“We should look at the young people of Africa as an opportunity and exploit it as a means
to provide services to the world. We have the opportunity in the fourth industrial revolution,
which is underpinned by emerging technologies like AI and Blockchain. We must develop
the necessary capacity to make Africa a well-resourced continent.”

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WINNER - UTU TECHNOLOGIES

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23. MEDIA COVERAGE

24. SPEAKERS
Jerome Ochieng
Philip Kiracofe
Principal Secretary, Ministry of
Information, Communication
and Technology and Innovation,
Government of Kenya
CEO, Startupbootcamp AfriTech,
South Africa
DR. BITANGE NDEMO
Alfred Ongere
Chairman of Blockchain and AI
Taskforce, Government of Kenya
Founder, AI Kenya
HON. MICHAEL ONYANGO
Michael Michie
Member of Distributed Ledgers
and AI TaskForce, Ministry of
Information, Communication and
Technology, Government of Kenya
Chief Information Security Officer,
M Oriental Bank, Kenya
Chris Orwa
Tesfa Yohannes
Lead Data Scientist, I&M Bank,
Kenya
Chief Technology Officer, iCog
Labs Software Consultancy,
SingularityNet, Ethiopia

25. SPEAKERS
Iraneus Ogu
Eng John Tanui
Head, Africa AI for Healthcare
Initiative, Insilico Medicine, Inc,
Nigeria
CEO, Konza Technopolis
Development Authority (KoTDA),
Kenya
Jason Eisen
Catherine Kariuki
Founder & CEO, UTU Technologies,
Kenya
Partner, Tripleoklaw Advocates LLP,
Kenya
Billy Odera
Bastian Blankenburg
Data Scientist, Commercial Bank of
Africa, Kenya
CTO, UTU Technologies, Kenya
Julius Kipng’etich
Lenin Oyuga
CEO, Jubilee Insurance, Kenya
Region Business Head, East Africa &
Indian Ocean Islands, Refinitv, Kenya

26. SPEAKERS
PREBEN WIK
CATHY MPUTHIA
Co-Founder, Furhat Robotics,
Sweden
Advocate, C.Mputhia Advocates,
Kenya
Robinson Muiru
Stanley Chege
Founder, Computer Engineering
Forum, Kenya
CIO, Madison, Kenya
Daniel Mellow
Paul Kamau
Data Specialist, The Busara Centre
for Behavioral Economics, Kenya
Executive Director, Finaltus, Kenya
Lesley Mbogo
KEN WAIRAGU
Co-Founder & COO, GoBEBA, Kenya
Director, Service Delivery,
Samasource, Kenya

27. SPEAKERS
GRANVILLE WAFULA
TIMOTHY MUINGA
EO & Co-founder, Thebhub, Kenya
Manager, Data & Analytics, KPMG,
Kenya
STUART MCGREEVY
RAYMOND MUGO
Chairman, Digital Leadership Forum,
United Kingdom
Manager, IT Advisory Services,
KPMG, Kenya
Laura Chite
PENG WU
CEO, CIO East Africa, Kenya
Deputy General Manager Overseas,
UBTECH Robotics, China
Georgina Mukami
Head Enterprise Services, National
Bank of Kenya, Kenya

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