We are grateful for the generous support from our 2018 Indaba sponsors and partners!
Nile Sponsors
At DeepMind, our mission is to solve intelligence and then use that to make the world a better place. Our motivation in all we do is to maximise the positive and transformative impact of AI. We believe that AI should ultimately belong to the world, in order to benefit the many and not the few, and we steadfastly research, publish and implement our work to that end.
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At Microsoft, we aim to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We care deeply about having a global perspective and making a difference in lives and organizations in all corners of the planet. This involves playing a small part in the most fundamental of human activities: Creating tools that enable each of us along our journey to become something more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and we aim to enable our customers to thrive in this world.
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Congo Sponsors
AI that moves the world. Uber’s mission is to make transportation as reliable as running water—everywhere, for everyone. At AI Labs, we drive this mission by developing cutting-edge machine learning algorithms that extend the state of the art. By blending a wide variety of approaches across the field, we deliver innovation to application.
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Zambezi Sponsors
At IBM Research, we invent things that matter to the world. Today, we are pioneering promising and disruptive technologies that will transform industries and society, including the future of AI, blockchain and quantum computing. We are driven to discover. We are home to 3,000+ researchers including 5 Nobel Laureates, 9 US National Medals of Technology, 5 US National Medals of Science, 6 Turing Awards and 13 Inductees in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Some of Nedbank's bold investments are in the technology industry and in enabling us to introduce clients to disruptive innovation. We experiment and distribute the innovation to improve not only our own growth, but also improve efficiencies within our clients’ businesses along with banking solutions. We invest in technology companies that are category defining, working alongside the management teams to scale their businesses.
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At Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) we are passionate about solving problems for our clients by asking the hard questions. We challenge accepted thinking. We analyse and seek solutions beyond the obvious. We are innovative in our thinking and turn challenges into opportunities. We call ourselves Solutionist Thinkers who deliver on Traditional values. Innovative ideas.
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Salesforce Research advances state-of-the-art AI techniques, developing models, prototypes, and experiments that pave the path for innovative products on the Einstein AI Platform. We tackle real-world problems from Salesforce's enterprise customers harnessing the latest deep learning models, from image recognition to natural language processing.
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Limpopo Sponsors
Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon.com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers, sellers and developers. For more information about research at Amazon, visit: aboutamazon.com/research.
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Anglo American Platinum Limited is a member of the Anglo American plc Group and is the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals. Anglo American is a globally diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class competitive mining operations and undeveloped resources provides the raw materials to meet the growing consumer-driven demands of the world’s developed and maturing economies. Our people are at the heart of our business. It is our people who use the latest technologies to find new resources, plan and build our mines and who mine, process and move and market our products – from diamonds (through De Beers) to platinum and other precious metals and copper – to our customers around the world.
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We are a Cape Town-based AI company that is dedicated to creating process optimization and quality control solutions for the manufacturing industry. We are the creators of OMNI and OMNI Vision. These technologies help manufacturers to significantly reduce defects in their completed products and enable them to operate within their optimal yield regions. Basically, we provide straightforward AI technology that offers real ROI and improves efficiency. The DataProphet team consists of more than 30 AI industry professionals, including data scientists, statisticians, mathematicians, actuaries, engineers, and software developers. Let us help your factory achieve a zero-defect manufacturing future.
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