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Ahead of Tomorrow on WebTV: Discussions on COVID-19; The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Nigeria

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Wednesday, May 06, 2020, 2020 / 09:05 PM / WebTV / Header Image Credit: Ecographics

WebTV's Market Review segment dedicated to #Coronanomics will be featuring a robust conversation on 'COVID-19: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Implications for Nigeria'.

Guest: Olubayo Adekanmbi

Date: Thursday, May 7, 2020

Time: 10.00am

Platform: Livestream on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

Topic: COVID-19: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Implications for Nigeria

Highlights: Available later in the day with link to full video.

Host: Ottoabasi Abasiekong, Editor, WebTV

Co-Host: Boason Omofaye, Guest Analyst and CEO Frontier Africa Reports

Key Questions for Discussion

How Data Science Can Provide Solutions To Deadly Pandemics Like COVID-19
Exploring Ways DSN and Other Tech Players Can Support the FG and States In Data and Economic Planning
How Analytics, AI and Big Data can be deployed to Provide effective Social Services Post COVID-19
Effective Infrastructure Support to Enable the Digital Economy Thrive In Nigeria
Outlook for the Digital Economy Post COVID-19

Guest Profile:

OLUBAYO ADEKANMBI is an award-winning business executive with track record of superior performance in conceptualising and implementing business/commercial/analytical strategy with commendable managerial ability to motivate his team for success. He has broad-based experience in multinational commercial strategy and advanced level analytics.

He combines 19 years of cognate industry experience in Strategy, Marketing and Analytics from two largest economies in Africa (Nigeria &South Africa)

He is a hands-on Data scientist, actively participating in global data science projects on Kaggle.com and currently ranks No 1 on the Data Science Dojo project. He has a patent on final approval in the USA for a Data Science product on Social Pricing Recommender Software for low income prepaid telecommunication users using uncalled-called numbers modelling.

He graduated with Distinction from the University of Reading postgraduate school, United Kingdom, and has also had both full-time and executive education in many other leading institutions, including Columbia Business School, New York; The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago; INSEAD Business School, France; Telecoms Training Institute, London; ETH Zurich, Switzerland; and Gatton College of Business at the University of Kentucky, Kentucky.

He was on PhD research sabbatical (June 2015- Sept 2016) from his role as the CMO at MTN Telecommunication Nigeria, where he has also been awarded with the prestigious MTN Yello Star award for the conceptualisation of a Customer Value/Risk Management framework, which led to multi-billion naira revenue growth.

Post-sabbatical, Bayo is back at MTN Nigeria as the Chief Transformation Officer, driving a holistic programme aimed to accelerate business performance, innovations and advanced analytics.

He is the convener of Data Science Nigeria a non-profit that is building a world-class Artificial Intelligence knowledge, research and innovation ecosystem which delivers high impact & transformational research, business use applications, AI-first start-ups, employability and social good use cases.

He is the author of "The Future is Shared" and "Beginners Artificial Intelligence and Python Programming".

You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

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