Polymorph CCO attending VR Days in Amsterdam!
Starting tomorrow (Wednesday, 25 October), VRDays 2017 kicks off the third edition of their conference. Three days of inspiring keynotes, expert sessions, workshops and seminars with leading thinkers and the most creative content! Below are a few of the great talks I am excited to attend: It all kicks off with a conference at DeLaMar […]
Meeting the humans in AI (part 2)
Themes at WorldSummitAI It would be impossible to summarize the talks, events and experiences co-founders Sarah Porter (Inspired Minds), Christoph Auer-Welsbach and Mike Renier (City.AI) curated. So I would like to highlight three themes that I kept following and which I saw coming up in all the talks; The limits as of right now. Specifically, […]
Meeting the humans in AI (part 1)
a “Mind Blowing” experience at Artificial Intelligence Conference, WorldSummitAI, 2017 I met Pepper the Robot… Well, I met two Peppers. It was a fangirl moment. I have wanted to meet Pepper since they were born. Created. Developed. Assembled… Assembled is still not the word I would associate with Pepper. It is easy to become transfixed […]
Looking forward to the VR Days conference in Amsterdam next week
My whirlwind trip through the conferences and summits of October and November starts with WorldSummitAI this week and then moves onto VRDays on 25 – 27 October. In-between is the amazing Dutch Design Week to help out Anke Kuipers at Bendit Shoes. Anke and I worked together on the first #cocreate2Accelerate 2016 as Anke was […]
Curating and the art of the physical UX design (Part two)
A forest is full trees, but what we don’t always see at first glance is it is filled with insects too. As a curator and within my retail environments, what I work to create for visitors are spaces that allow a relaxation of the senses, so that people could be present. Unencumbered by restrictions on […]
E-book launch: Product Development Canvas Step-by-step guide
Many of the anxieties around starting a company, building a new product and developing a new app are related to lack of information and an actionable roadmap. Most entrepreneurs, and even seasoned business owners, don’t always realise that there are tools to assist with putting an idea into a plan. One of the first tasks […]
Join us at the WorldSummitAI (Artificial Intelligence) event in Amsterdam, Oct 2017
This year, I had the honor to lead #cocreateSA Inspiring Fifty. Co-founded by two extraordinary women, Janneke Niessen and Joelle Frijters, and brought to South Africa by the incomparable Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Bonnie Horbach, the project highlighted the work of women in STEM in SA and created the first list […]
Curating and the art of the physical UX design
“A forest is full trees, but what we don’t always see at first glance is it is filled with insects too” As a curator and within my retail environments, what I work to create for visitors are spaces that allow a relaxation of the senses, so that people could be present. Unencumbered by restrictions on […]
The Future of Mobile App Development
Some say that the mobile app boom is over, but let me show you a few figures and outline the future of mobile app development. Growth App Annie reports that in 2015, the mobile app industry generated a $41.1 billion in gross annual revenue and that this figure will rise to $50.9 billion. According to […]
Speaking at the annual Executive Machine Learning Conference
The eXeML Conference opens in Sandton today and I am one of twelve American and South African leaders in Machine Learning sharing their knowledge. When successfully implemented, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence can have a profound effect on the landscape of the industries it is used in and Polymorph was chosen as one of the […]