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South Africa is one of the more digitally connected countries on the African continent and there is a variety of Technology Innovation events that take place every year for people to attend.  Some of the events that you can attend are once off symposiums and others are regular events. 
Here are 10 Technology Innovation Events You can attend in South Africa

Technology Events

1.    Gartner Symposium and ITExpo
Gartner is the name most people trust when it comes to facts about trends and direction for just about any industry sector.  From 18 to 21 September 2017 the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo will be held in Cape Town providing CIOs with a clear idea of the current IT and Business trends that are shaping the way South Africa, Africa and the world is working.

More Details: http://www.gartner.com/events/emea/cape-town-symposium#


2.    SA Innovation Summit
The South African Innovation summit will be held at the Cape Town Stadium from 6th to 8th September 2017. This is the premier Technology and Innovation event in South Africa that is a platform for new ideas and growth as well as a showcase of the best innovation in South Africa today. This event brings thought leaders and creative minds together to accelerate innovation in SA and into Africa.

More Details: http://innovationsummit.co.za/about/


3.    Microsoft Tech Summit
Microsoft is key player in the technology and innovation space word wide. Keeping abreast of developments within the Microsoft space is vital and the Microsoft Tech Summit Cape Town from 13 to 14 February 2018 is one of the best FREE learning events in South Africa you can attend.

More Details: https://www.microsoft.com/en-za/techsummit/cape-town

4.  IT Web Digital Economy 2017
ITweb host many IT and Innovation events throughout the year. The ITweb Digital Economy 2017 on at the Focus Rooms, Sunninghill from 7-8 November 2017 puts disruption under the spotlight. When it comes the tech and innovation, disruption is something that both developers and users need to fully appreciate.

More Details: http://www.itweb.co.za/event/itweb/digital-economy-2017/?page=home

5.    Internet of Things Africa 2018
Another very important Tech and Innovation event is IoT 2018 being held at the Gallagher Convention Centre  from 14 to 15 March 2018. Under the title “Powering a new era in operational intelligence”  this event showcases the technology, devices and platforms that will drive and power the future of business.

More Details: http://www.iotforumafrica.com/

6.    Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival
The Fak’ugese African Digital Innovation Festival is a celebration technology, design, creativity and innovation. Held in Braamfontein from 6th to 16th September 2017 is an eye opening event for anyone with an interest is creative technology.

More Details: http://fakugesi.co.za/


7.    Intrapreneurship Conference
Under the title “Africa 4.0: Creating, Capturing and Capitalizing on Opportunities for Growth”  the Intrapreneurship Conference is being held in Cape Town on Friday 13 October. This Intimate 1-Day conference will bring innovation leaders together to discuss how companies and organisations should organise and plan innovation and innovative strategies for growth in Africa 4.0

More Details: https://www.intrapreneurshipconference.com/cape-town/

8.    International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communication Systems
This 2-day conference aimed at those working in computer science, information systems, communication and engineering presents the latest developments in Big Data, Cloud Computing and computer security among other topics. Held in Durban from 6 to 7 August 2018 the event has some of the top speakers and experts in the industry making this a must for those who technology and innovation seriously.

More Details: http://icabcd.org/

9.    Africa Com
Africa Com is the largest 3-day event showcasing equipment, products and innovative ideas in Telecoms Industry in Africa. Held at the CTICC in Cape Town from 6th to 10th November 2017 this is event is a must for anyone in the telecoms sector in South Africa and Africa.

More Details: https://tmt.knect365.com/africacom/

10.  IT Leaders Africa 2018
Africa's largest CIO event talks tech and innovation to the best from the best ensuring all CIOs and other leaders in industry are equipped with the latest, most relevant and innovation information.  Held at the Century City Conference Cente, Cape Town the event runs from 23rd to 24th May 2018

These are just 10 Technology and Innovation events you can attend in South Africa, there are many more, often niche, events that happen every year providing an opportunity for anyone to learn and grow and find success. 
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Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the area of computer science that deals with the creation of intelligent machines based on computer programmes to make them work and react like humans. Artificial intelligence has become an important part of the technology industry. It requires highly technical and specialized research involving programming computers for certain traits including;

  • Perception
  • Reasoning
  • Learning
  • Knowledge
  • Planning

AI

Science fiction often equates artificial intelligence to robots with human-like characteristics. However, artificial intelligence is wide and encompasses a lot; from Google’s search algorithms, IBM’s Watson to autonomous weapons.
Today, artificial intelligence is properly known as narrow/weak AI because it is designed to perform narrow tasks such as facial recognition only, the internet searches only or even simply driving a car only. Many artificial intelligence researchers have a long-term goal of coming up with a general artificial intelligence system that can perform multiple functions. Narrow artificial intelligent systems only outperform humans in their specific areas. On the contrary, general artificial intelligent systems are expected to outperform humans at nearly all cognitive tasks.
Branches of artificial intelligence
a) Logical Artificial Intelligence
Logical artificial intelligence holds that a programme decides what to do by inferring the actions appropriate in achieving a particular goal. The programme makes use of what it already knows about the world in general and the specific facts of the situation at hand. Its goals are represented by sentences of mathematical logical language.
b) Pattern Recognition
in order to make any observation, a programme is set so that it can compare what it sees with a particular pattern. A vision programme may, for example, try to match the pattern of nose and eyes in a scene to find the face. There are more complex patterns such as natural language recognition.
c) Inference
A programme is able to infer something from a set of facts. Monotonic inference makes use of mathematical logical deductions while non-monotonic deductions apply more than simple mathematical deductions so that a logical conclusion can be withdrawn if there is evidence contradicting it. A good illustration is that when you hear of a bird, you infer that it can fly, but once you learn that it is a penguin, you withdraw the conclusion since penguins do not fly.
  • Representation
  • Search
  • Common sense knowledge and reasoning
  • Planning
  • Learning from experience
  • Epistemology
  • Ontology
  • Heuristics
  • Genetic programming
Application of artificial intelligence
There are numerous applications of artificial intelligence, the most notable of them include;
  • Speech recognition
  • Game playing
  • Understanding natural language
  • Computer vision
  • Heuristic classification
  • Expert systems
The advancement in the field of artificial intelligence has greatly contributed to the development of the robotics industry. Artificial intelligent enabled-robots can handle such tasks as navigation and object manipulation together with sub-problems of motion planning, localization, and mapping.
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