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Keynote Speaker: Professor Abejide Ade-Ibijola, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Applications
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Tools for Small Businesses.
This year, a comprehensive six-month program was initiated to empower 70 South African small businesses with cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence Tools. This initiative stands as a collaborative effort between Machines with Minds and the Centre for Emerging Researchers (CER), aimed at fostering innovation and technological advancement within the local business landscape.
Development of Curriculum and Learning Materials.
MWM is leading a comprehensive initiative to elevate the skills of educators in South African schools through three focused Short Learning Programs (SLPs) on Coding & Robotics, Digital Innovation, and Virtual Pedagogies. Running from September 2024 to January 2025, this project aims to equip teachers with the knowledge and tools to integrate coding, robotics, and digital artifacts into their classrooms. Teachers will develop essential skills in Python, robotics, AI applications, and virtual learning environments, ensuring they meet the demands of a rapidly evolving educational landscape.
A cross-sector record of AI work moving from executive awareness to institutional capability. Selected projects are presented as evidence of capability; product reuse is subject to client, institutional and IP arrangements.
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SARS senior managers trained
147
GEMS staff reached
1.2M
Telkom tweets analysed
12
SACNASP service innovations
150
ETDP graduates trained
150+
Proprietary tools portfolio
CASE 01
AI for the future of revenue administration
Senior engineering leaders needed a practical view of AI opportunities, risks and strategic use in modern revenue administration.
A 21-person senior management cohort engaged AI as a practical institutional capability rather than a distant technology trend.
Reusable offer
AI Strategy Immersion for Revenue Authorities
CASE 02
From AI ideas to banking use cases
Corporate and investment banking teams required frameworks for embedding AI into decisions, operations and future-facing services.
The engagement translated executive ambition into use-case thinking, tools, financial-planning concepts and institutional AI language.
Reusable offer
AI for Financial Institutions + CIB Product Lab
CASE 03
Solving for Africa with AI
The challenge was to position AI as a strategic tool for African structural problems, not only as operational automation.
The work reframed banks as platforms for inclusive economic development and AI-enabled African growth.
Reusable offer
AI for Inclusive Banking and Economic Development
CASE 04
Customer intelligence from public conversations
A telecom operator needed sharper visibility into customer pain points, satisfaction signals and emerging service themes.
The project showed how unstructured public data can become a structured customer-intelligence asset for executives and service teams.
Reusable offer
Customer Intelligence and Social Listening AI
CASE 06
Public-sector systems, skills and service delivery
Government and public agencies required practical technologies, service-delivery innovation and future-skills capability.
The work combined policy-adjacent technology, capacity development and real public-sector product delivery.
Reusable offer
Government AI Innovation and Service-Delivery Lab
CASE 07
AI literacy for healthcare institutions
Healthcare and medical-administration teams needed a gentle but practical introduction to AI and its organisational implications.
The engagement created an entry point for AI adoption across non-technical healthcare and administrative teams.
Reusable offer
AI for Healthcare Executives and Public Health Systems
CASE 08
AI leadership through simulations and co-creation
Executive education departments need differentiated AI programmes that combine strategy, practical tools and experiential learning.
The model moves executives from curiosity to clarity, strategy to execution, and experimentation to institutional capability.
Reusable offer
Co-branded Executive AI Programmes for Business Schools
CASE 09
Immersive simulations for professional training
Law students and legal institutions require realistic practice environments that bridge theory, procedure and professional judgement.
The VR Courtroom won the Business Tech Africa 2024 African Tech Innovation of the Year Award in the AI category.
Reusable offer
Immersive Training and Simulation Studio
CASE 10
From social impact to commercial execution capacity
Africa needs AI builders, not only AI users. Machines with Minds links commercial projects to trained African innovators.
The model creates a skills multiplier: young Africans gain opportunity while clients receive locally relevant AI capability.
Reusable offer
Sponsored AI Skills, Innovation and Product Pipelines
Each case study points to a repeatable commercial service that can be tailored to a new institution.
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Board and leadership programmes that turn AI into decisions, priorities and action.
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Fast discovery of use cases, risks, data readiness and prototype candidates.
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Policy, governance, risk templates, AI register and implementation workshop.
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Chatbots, dashboards, decision tools, digital humans and AI-enabled workflows.
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Serious games, VR environments and AI-generated decision scenarios.
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Six- or twelve-month strategic AI advisory for boards and executives.
Machines with Minds helps governments, boards, business schools and corporations turn AI ambition into execution.
