CommunicationsWeek Media Limited, a certified global ICT company with over two million online subscribers, is delighted and proud to announce Prof. Yakub Aliyu, as the keynote speaker at Africa’s Beacon of ICT Merit and Leadership Distinguished Lecture series 2024.
Aliyu, will be speaking on the theme: Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Good, The Complex and The Anticipated”, this leans heavily on the fact that AI changing our lives– we just need to know where to look today.
This year’s rebranded Africa’s Beacon of ICT Merit and Leadership Distinguished Lecture/Awards Series is slated for Saturday, May 25, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton, Lagos.
The event is the most prestigious annual event that brings together captains of industry in both technology and financial worlds.
According to the CEO, Communication Week Media Ltd, organisers of the ABoICT Distinguished Lecture/Awards Series, Ken Nwogbo: “The choice of Prof. Yakub Aliyu is deliberate because of his exceptional career in Artificial Intelligence (AI)”.
He added that AI is considered to have the potential to instigate a fourth industrial revolution, and is dramatically changing people’s patterns of interaction and economic activities.
“The traditional factors of production and physical capital and labour may no longer promote substantial economic growth. It is generally believed that AI will be one of the most important factors determining future economic growth,” he said.
Prof. Aliyu is a Professor of Microelectronics and a scholar-practitioner in artificial intelligence and deep machine learning for industrial applications and high-speed application processors. His research interests include Multimodal AI models for high-efficiency industrial robot applications and Human AI interactions.
He also has adjunct academic professorships at five African, USA, and UK universities. Holds a BS in Applied Physics Electronics from Karlsruhe and A Bello Universities in Germany and Nigeria, an MBA in International Business Management from the University of London, an MSEE (Master of Engineering, Electronics), and a Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from the University of Wales.
Prof. Aliyu is the Global Quality Director for Bourns Inc., Riverside, California, USA, an electronics system, and components manufacturer. I oversee quality functions in 21 factories worldwide.
He has also held quality and operational management leadership positions at National Semiconductors, Bell Labs-Lucent Technology, Texas Instrument, Global Foundries, and Roper Technologies USA.
Authored and coauthored over 30 Advanced Technology United States-issued patents in High-Speed Application Processors and contributed to over 40 international impact Journals, chapters, and conferences; FASI, SMIEEE USA, MIEE UK, M. Inst pf Physics Chartered Phys and C Eng UK.
Past lecturers included former Executive Vice Chairman, Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Ernest Ndukwe; former Director-General of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Engr. Yomi Bolarinwa; CEO at OR System France, and a specialist in Counterparty Risk Dr. Jean Luc Fort; and Chairman, Knowledge Factory International, United Kingdom, Professor Chris Nwagboso,.
Others were: Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), Uche Orji; Managing Director/CEO, VDT Communications, Biodu Omoniyi; Ayotunde Coker, Managing Director, Rack Centre Limited; Managing Director And Chief Executive Officer, Sidmach Technologies Nigeria Limited, Peter Adedayo Arogundade; Chief Visionary Officer, Digital Encode, Dr. Adewale Obadare; CEO and founder of Systemspecs, John Obaro; former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantanmi; co-founder, Digital Encode, Dr. Seyi Akindeinde; Regional Director, Africa Data Centres, Dr Krishnan Ranganath.
