Larry Madowo's robo-bae is coming to Kenya

The only woman that Larry Madowo has ever asked the crucial question to is coming to Kenya.

Her name is Sophia. Larry was in Barcelona for an award ceremony and Sophia presented an award with him.

Larry said,

“The world’s most famous robot knows my name! Sophia even asked me to invite her to Kenya. We’re presenting one of the #GLOMOAwards categories together tomorrow at #MWC19.”

Sophia is a social humanoid robot, modelled after actress Audrey Hepburn.

The AI program analyses conversations and extracts data that allows her to improve responses in the future.

Check out the video of the proposal.

That said, Sophia will be in attendance at the Trescon’s World AI Show will be taking place in Nairobi from March 21 to 22, 2019, at the Villa Rosa Kempinski.

The World AI Show aims to address the rising interest in innovative technologies for multiple countries across the African continent.

The show will play host to a slew of industry thought-leaders and policymakers such as Dr. Bitange Ndemo, Chairman of Blockchain and AI Task force for the Government of Kenya; the Hon’ Mr Michael Onyango, Member of Distributed Ledgers and Artificial Intelligence Task Force, Ministry of Information and Communication and Technology for the Government of Kenya.

Kenya is one of the pioneering nations in Africa that is exploring the adoption of innovative technologies.

“The AI and Blockchain Task Force of Kenya is implementing radial changes in the education sector to boost national learning capabilities” says Hon. Michael Onyango, a member of the taskforce mandated to publish a roadmap for distributed ledger and AI for the country with the primary objective of making Kenya a leader in job creation through the big four agenda.

Hon. Onyango adds that the task force has concluded their initial research and will soon be releasing the report to the public.

Mohammed Saleem, CEO of Trescon, says that “The rate of adoption of innovative technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning has helped businesses across the globe become more efficient and transparent. Hence, countries in Africa that suffer from extreme poverty and business mismanagement will benefit the most from these futuristic technologies. Keeping this in mind, we are hosting the World AI Show in Kenya because the local economy in the country is slowly imbibing these advancements, and this summit could just be the push it requires”.

The event will be exploring various relevant topics surrounding AI, ML and Robotics based technologies through a series of interactive panel discussions, tech-talks and keynote presentations.