Automating Marketing and Build Interactive Content with AI
AIZA August Meetup focused on growth, content systems, and real-world Claude workflows for marketing.
- Claude
- Marketing automation
- Interactive content
- Growth
Past AIZA events
The talks, demos, and discussions that have brought the community together since 2016.
2026
3 gatherings in this archive
Policy, Strategy, and Real-World Claude for Business
AIZA May Meetup on South Africa's AI future, responsible implementation, and Claude for business.
- AI policy
- Responsible AI
- Claude
- Business strategy
Automate what matters: from bottleneck to scalable AI systems
A practical meetup on identifying automation opportunities, finding AI leverage, and building scalable AI systems that drive business value.
- AI automation
- Enterprise AI
- ROI
- Agentic systems
2025
3 gatherings in this archiveFrom Education Automation to Human-AI Interactions
AIZA meetup featuring agentic question paper generation and practical guidance for designing better human-AI interactions.
- Education
- Agentic AI
- Human-AI interaction
- Product design
AI-ZA Networking June 2025 and Pub Trivia Night
A community networking evening for AI practitioners, builders, founders, and enthusiasts in Johannesburg.
- Networking
- AI community
- Johannesburg
AI-ZA Networking April 2025 and Pub Trivia Night
A Johannesburg AI community night focused on meeting peers, sharing practical context, and strengthening the local network.
- Networking
- Community
- AI practitioners
2024
3 gatherings in this archiveAI-ZA Networking Sept 2024 & Pub Trivia Night
Join us for an exciting evening of professional networking and pub trivia, hosted by Artificial Intelligence ZA. Connect with like-minded individuals in artificial intelligence, generative AI, LLMs, data science, and computer vision while enjoying a fun and interactive pub trivia quiz.
AI-ZA Networking & Pub Trivia Night
Join us for an exciting evening of professional networking and pub trivia, hosted by Artificial Intelligence ZA. Connect with like-minded individuals in the field of artificial intelligence, generative AI, LLMs, data science, and computer vision while enjoying a fun and interactive pub trivia quiz.
JHB - Grounded & Helpful Large Language Models with RAG
We are kicking off 2024 with insights on Large Language Models (LLMs) for enterprise enhancement, tackling risks like hallucinations and prompt injections. We'll discuss managing these challenges with a spotlight on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Join us for a deep dive into safe, scalable AI operations and networking.
2023
3 gatherings in this archiveJHB - Artificial Intelligence ZA Year End Event 🎉
Let's close off the year with stimulating talks on LLM chat application, guiding path finding robots, and a fun AI trivia pub quiz, along with plenty networking opportunities.
Practical Generative AI
Get ready to dive into the rapidly evolving world of AI, with engaging talks on generative AI, LLMs, stimulating discussions, and plenty of networking opportunities.
PTA - Navigating the sea of generative AI, Networking & Lean Coffee Discussion
Get ready to dive into the rapidly evolving world of AI, with engaging talks on generative AI, LLMs, stimulating discussions, and plenty of networking opportunities at our long-awaited in-person event.
2021
1 gathering in this archivePanel: Our future relationship with computers: Vision, Voice, Neurons?
Grab a drink and join us for a discussion on the future of human-computer interaction. We have a group from different backgrounds and viewpoints, including media personality and business woman, Kriya Gangiah, human-centred design expert, Sean Buch, and author of Grokking AI Algorithms, Rishal Hurbans, as our host.
2020
5 gatherings in this archiveOnline - Quantum Computing for the Curious, Spooky Computer Companions, Pub Quiz
Grab a drink and join us for the Spooktober AI ZA meet up. We have an exciting lineup of talks, including spooky companions and quantum computing, plus a fun pub quiz with prizes!
Online - AI Ethics - How far along are we?
🎤 Join us for our slightly shorter format of the AI-ZA meetup. Since we're all on video calls throughout the day, we thought a shorter session would be appreciated.
Online - Data Science in Production, Augmented Reality, Building a racing bot
In this talk we will introduce the Entelect Challenge and what it is about. How to enter the challenge yourself and win the tournaments to get to the finals at Comic con. We will give an overview of the systems making this possible (the new game-engine written in Scala), and an overview of the serverless cloud architecture and containers to make it possible.
Online - Strange Times, What World Do We Want to Design, Virtual Lean Coffee
UX designers and engineers have an ever-growing responsibility to society, as more and more people make tech a part of their daily lives - staying healthy, earning an income or even finding love. How has design helped us and where has it failed? Critical design, through approaches like design futures and speculative design, allow us to explore the cultural, social and ethical implications of…
JHB - Fake News Detection, Predictions for 2020 and Beyond, and a Pub Quiz !
In this session, we will look into how to identify misinformation (a type of Fake News) using Python TensorFlow-gpu, Word2Vec and Spacy. Will give recommendations on how to work with large data sets and highlight some AWS services that are useful for this task. For more information on Fact Extraction and Verification check out http://fever.ai.
2019
11 gatherings in this archiveJHB-Working with Genetic Algorithms, Growing and Marketing your Business with AI
This talk will be going through the fundamental concepts of Genetic Algorithms (GA's) and will outline a few strategies when developing these algorithms, how to tune its hyper parameters and the effects these have.
JHB - Spooky AI, Bits to Bites - Agriculture & AI, An Image is Worth 1000px
Welcome to our Spooktober Meetup. We like this time of year, and will be hosting an extra special event in October!
Special Event- Inclusion & Diversity in AI: Criminal Justice
Artificial Intelligence has the ability to transform business and empower people. As a society, we are leveraging the increasing capabilities of AI to improve lives. However, with the multitude of people being impacted, we need to ensure the AI we create is inclusive and fairly representative.
JHB - Creating AI to Play Racing Games and Lean Coffee Discussion
Welcome to our September Meetup. We've expanded the topic range of the meetup to include anything "future tech" such as IoT, VR/AR, Game development, Cloud, etc. We're also trying to include a lightning talk at each event exclusively for new presenters to help encourage more people to share their work and gain experience speaking and interacting with the community. So get in touch to speak 💯
AIZA @ AI Summit 2019 - Sandton Convention Centre
Welcome to our September event! We have been invited to host a AIZA event at the LeaderEx AI Summit in Sandton Convention Centre.
JHB - A Dive Into Speech Technologies and AI Lean Coffee Discussion
Welcome to our July Meetup. We've expanded the topic range of the meetup to include anything "future tech" such as IoT, VR/AR, Game development, Cloud, etc. We're also trying to include a lightning talk at each event exclusively for new presenters to help encourage more people to share their work and gain experience speaking and interacting with the community. So get in touch to speak 💯
PTA - Image Processing AI, Building AI to play worms, and Lean coffee discussion
Welcome to our June Meetup. We've expanded the topic range of the meetup to include anything "future tech" such as IoT, VR/AR, Game development, Cloud, etc. We're also trying to include a lightning talk at each event exclusively for new presenters to help encourage more people to share their work and gain experience speaking and interacting with the community. So get in touch to speak 💯
JHB - Image Processing AI, Building AI to play worms, and Lean coffee discussion
Welcome to our May Meetup. We've expanded the topic range of the meetup to include anything "future tech" such as IoT, VR/AR, Game development, Cloud, etc. We're also trying to include a lightning talk at each event exclusively for new presenters to help encourage more people to share their work and gain experience speaking and interacting with the community. So get in touch to speak 💯
JHB - AI Writing Magical Stories with NLP, Building Self-Driving Cars, and More!
Welcome to our April Meetup. We've expanded the topic range of the meetup to include anything "future tech" such as IoT, VR/AR, Game development, Cloud, etc. We're also including a lightning talk at each event exclusively for new presenters to help encourage more people to share their work and gain experience speaking and interacting with the community. So get in touch to speak 💯
PTA - The Dark Side of AI +AWS ML Overview + Lean Coffee Discussion
Welcome to 2019. We're kicking off the year with a new approach, and a new format! We're expanding the topic range of the meetup to include anything "future tech" such as IoT, VR/AR, Game development, Cloud, etc. We're also including a lightning talk at each event exclusively for new presenters to help encourage more people to share their work and gain experience speaking and interacting with…
JHB - The Dark Side of AI +AWS ML Overview + Lean Coffee Discussion
Welcome to 2019. We're kicking off the year with a new approach, and a new format! We're expanding the topic range of the meetup to include anything "future tech" such as IoT, VR/AR, Game development, Cloud, etc. We're also including a lightning talk at each event exclusively for new presenters to help encourage more people to share their work and gain experience speaking and interacting with…
2018
11 gatherings in this archivePTA - Reflecting on the Deep Learning Indaba + Reinforcement Learning & Friends
We've got two great talks, a lean coffee discussion given enough interest and time, pizza, and drinks. Please ensure that your RSVP is accurate!
JHB - Reflecting on the Deep Learning Indaba + Reinforcement Learning & Friends
We've got two great talks, a lean coffee discussion given enough interest and time, pizza, and drinks. Please ensure that your RSVP is accurate!
JHB - Deep Dive: Logistic Regression Tutorial, AI Lean Coffee Discussion
Logistic regression is a binary classifier used in economics, probabilistic modeling and other sub-disciplines of computer science and statistics. It has notably gained popularity in machine learning over the years as a basic go-to binary classifier. In this deep-dive session, I'll be going through the intuition, mathematics and code up of the logistic regression classifier.
PTA - Healthcare Insurance Fraud Detection and ML, Lean Coffee Discussion
The health care industry has become a very important pillar in the modern society but has witnessed an increase in fraudulent activities. Traditional fraud detection methods have been used to detect potential fraud, but for certain cases they have been insufficient and time consuming. Data mining which has emerged as a very important process in knowledge discovery has been successfully applied…
JHB - Healthcare Insurance Fraud Detection and ML, Lean Coffee Discussion
The health care industry has become a very important pillar in the modern society but has witnessed an increase in fraudulent activities. Traditional fraud detection methods have been used to detect potential fraud, but for certain cases they have been insufficient and time consuming. Data mining which has emerged as a very important process in knowledge discovery has been successfully applied…
PTA - Something Something Data Science, Neural Computing, Lean Coffee Discussion
Data science is all over the news. The job of data scientist is said to be one of the fastest growing jobs. But what is data science? Is it just another name for Business Intelligence? And how does “Big Data” fit into the picture. In this talk, I’ll take your through what Data Science is, and what it is not, and then we’ll try and solve some simple Data Science-type problems in R, Python and…
JHB - AI from the Tech Giants, Lean Coffee Discussion
Recently the tech giants held their developer conferences where they announced new products, services, and research in the field of AI. This talk is an overview of what's new in AI from a commercial and research perspective from major companies like Google, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, Telsa, and more.
PTA - Augment your Reality, See in Multiple Dimensions, Lean Coffee Discussion
This is our first meetup in Pretoria! From the survey I recently sent out, there was high demand for meetups in Pretoria.
JHB - Building an Artificial John Lennon, SVMs, and Lean Coffee Discussion
Edwin is currently working at Entelect as an Intermediate Software Engineer. He has a keen eye for user experience design and is passionate about full-stack development. He started at Entelect as a graduate in January 2016 and has since then worked his way into a trustworthy role on his team. Edwin also helps to run the Entelect Challenge and volunteers to help update some of the internal…
Augment Your Reality & Beginner ML Intro Tutorial - Johannesburg
Deep Learning has the ability to disrupt and to disrupt fast. The democratization of AI has meant that algorithms and tools are mature enough to make a difference in almost any industry. The uptake of AI to augment our world will depend on the ability to interact with AI services in a familiar way. The recent agreement between Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella to integrate…
The State of the Art in Deep Learning - JHB
Benchmarks in every machine learning task from image classification to machine translation and voice-to-text are bing shattered by Deep Learning. This talk is a quick crash-course on Deep Learning. We will cover the essential theory and some state-of-the-art model architectures to show how the building blocks of deep learning can be composed in a near infinite number of ways to solve an…
2017
12 gatherings in this archiveDeep Learning Convolutional Neural Networks in Autonomous Vehicle Control - JHB
A brief introduction to the history and the fundamental design of Neural Networks. The talk will cover a high level overview the internal workings of Artificial Neural Networks and how this is extended to other types, such as RNNs and CNNs.
Machine Learning with Elastic - JHB
A brief overview of the unstructured machine learning tools available with the Elastic cluster. An example of how to ingest data and configure jobs to perform machine learning on time series data will be given.
Gameplay Immersion with NLP and Facial Expression Analysis -JHB
In recent times game development has gained a lot of popularity. A lot of effort has been put into developing games that are not only compelling to play but also interact with the players to engage player’s immersion in the game environment. This talk is based on a research paper that explores the possibility of using facial expression analysis and natural language processing to enhance a…
Getting Started with Big Data & Machine Learning on Google's Cloud - JHB
We will show how to get started on the Google Cloud Platform using tools such as Big Data and machine learning, how to visualise this data and save time and money by only crunching the data when we need to.
Intelligent Agents on Smart Factories - Johannesburg
This session is presented by Oluwabamigbe Oni, also known as Bami Oni. He is a data scientist/software engineer at Entelect. A young man with a vision of an interconnected world made possible by IoT. He is deeply fascinated by analysis and intelligence that can be performed in this space.
AI & Machine to Machine(M2M) Learning in the Physical Security space (Joburg)
Analytics, machine learning, management by exception, AI, IoT, autonomy are all terms that are featuring in today’s world of security and CCTV.
Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Processing (Cape Town)
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a kind of neural network - a so called “deep learning” model - that is at the cutting edge of computer vision applications.
Feature Selection for Classification and Forecasting
A bit rusty with Classification and Forecasting? Not to worry, we will be doing an overview on that as a refresher!
Swarm Intelligence Concepts - Durban
This meetup will be around swarm intelligence concepts.
Swarm Intelligence Concepts - Johannesburg
This meetup will be around swarm intelligence concepts.
Genetic Algorithms & Drones - Durban
The first meetup of the year will be around genetic algorithms with the hackathon based on creating a GA to optimize drone navigation.
Genetic Algorithms & Drones - Johannesburg
The first meetup of the year will be around genetic algorithms with the hackathon based on creating a GA to optimize drone navigation.
2016
16 gatherings in this archiveYear End Hackathon - J.A.R.V.I.S - Durban
Snacks, drinks, and good conversation about AI with people passionate about it. There will also be various prizes up for grabs (Since the festive season is near :P)
Year End Hackathon - J.A.R.V.I.S - Cape Town
Snacks, drinks, and good conversation about AI with people passionate about it. There will also be various prizes up for grabs (Since the festive season is near :P)
Year End Hackathon - J.A.R.V.I.S - Johannesburg
Snacks, drinks, and good conversation about AI with people passionate about it. There will also be various prizes up for grabs (Since the festive season is near :P)
AI Hackathon JHB - Image Classification
We will be expanding on image processing and image classification using convolutional neural networks. Please note: The meetup starts with food and drinks from 18:00 to 18:30. The talk and hackathon starts at 18:30.
AI Hackathon Cape Town - Image Processing
We will be exploring image processing and it's surrounding concepts. Please note: The meetup starts with food and drinks from 18:00 to 18:30. The talk and hackathon starts at 18:30.
AI Hackathon Durban - Introduction to Machine Learning
The goal of the AI Meetup is to expose developers to AI and machine learning concepts to increase our local competency and give everyone something interesting and fun to do at the hackathon.
AI Hackathon Cape Town - Classification and Regression
We will be expanding on classification and regression in machine learning.
AI Hackathon JHB - Image Processing
We will be exploring image processing and it's surrounding concepts.
AI Hackathon Cape Town
This session is for everyone who has been to the meetup thus far and/or are comfortable with the concepts. We will be moving to regression problems in machine learning.
AI Hackathon JHB - Neural Networks
We will be exploring neural networks and it's surrounding concepts.
AI Hackathon JHB - Introductory Track
This session is for everyone who is new to the meetup and/or the concepts around machine learning.
AI Hackathon Cape Town - Introductory Track
The goal of the AI Meetup is to expose developers to AI and machine learning concepts to increase our local competency and give everyone something interesting and fun to do at the hackathon.
AI Hackathon JHB
This session is for everyone who has been to the meetup thus far and/or are comfortable with the concepts. We will be moving to regression problems in machine learning. If you have any ideas of your own, email rishal@prolificidea.com
AI Hackathon JHB - Introductory Track
This session is for everyone who is new to the meetup and/or the concepts around machine learning.
AI Hackathon
We will continue with a focus on machine learning using Python and R. We are also looking into incorporating other technologies in the meetup, namely, Java and JavaScript to make our exercises more accessible to everyone. If you have any ideas of your own, email rishal@prolificidea.com
Artificial Intelligence South Africa Meetup 2016: Introduction to AI
An early AIZA talk on what AI is, how intelligent systems can be built, and where AI is useful in real-world applications.
- AI fundamentals
- Community history
- 2016