As a Media and Communications Specialist, I've consulted on, experienced and directed the workings of online and corporate communications and marketing across a variety of industries over the last 15 years. My clients have been predominantly within the technology, education, agriculture and retail spaces. Consulting services are provided under Naz Consulting - Corporate.Media. Academia founded in 2010. This is a Level 1 BEE, Black Woman -Owned South African business.
My journey as an AI Ethics Officer began in March 2020. This is in preparation to strengthen the AI Africa Report research team at tech social enterprise Socially Acceptable, of which I am the CEO and Founder. I am under the mentorship of Kay Firth Butterfield - Head of AI And Machine Learning at the World Economic Forum.
In addition to my extensive portfolio of consulting work, I provide face-to-face training and entrepreneurial mentorship on projects with institutions like Johannesburg's Tshimologong Precinct and Durban's Innovate Durban. I was incredibly pleased to hear that the team I mentored last year on the Conlog project with Tshimologong was awarded their first contract with the company at the start of 2020. Proud mentor parent!
Having an acute and intuitive sense of communications has certainly helped the television and radio business shows I produced and anchored in the last few years. Over the last decade, my broadcast portfolio has grown with interviews across local and national radio stations in South Africa. Currently, I have a guest tech slot with Lester Kiewet on Cape Talk.

Dr. Raziq Yaqub earned a Ph.D. from Tokyo, Japan, in Wireless Communication Systems, and an MBA from New Jersey, USA in Marketing. He is an inventor of technologies in Cybersecurity, Wireless Communications, and Smart Grid, with 40+ issued patents. He has been an inductee of New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, since 2014. He received an award of “Excellence in Scholarship and Research 2019” from the President of Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, an award of “Innovator Young Faculty”, and an award of “Outstanding Engineering Educator” from the Dean of the college, and an “Outstanding Engineer 2020” award from IEEE region-3.
He has 25 years of experience in industry, government, and academia in USA. Currently he is serving as an Associate Professor to lead Cybersecurity, Wireless Communication, and Smart Grid. He steered 4G/LTE research and standardization efforts as an Executive Director of Toshiba America Research, directed Cybersecurity training efforts as a Department Head of NIKSUN University, and led research and development team to develop wireless charger and media hubs for the automotive industry as a Director of Global R&D of Tecvox. He remained Sr. Consultant to the State of New Jersey to secure $87M grant for 4G/LTE deployment for first respondents, a spokesperson in 3GPP for the Department of Homeland Security, an invited Researcher in NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH to lead cybersecurity of aerial vehicles in 2019, and Artificial Intellgence based falut detection and prediction in 2021. He also remained an inventor for Wells Fargo, USA for cybersecurity of Fintech.
He served scientific community as a Chairman and a contributor in standards organizations such as MWIF, 3GPP, IEEE, WiMAX, and OMA, a lead member for ABET accreditation, Chair of Academic Standards Committee, Chair of IEEE Membership Development, Evaluator for technical papers, Ph.D. theses, patents and grant proposals, Vice Chair of IEEE Southeast Conference 2019, organizer of numerous global conferences, Invited/Keynote speaker, Panel Moderator/Resource Person in international events, and a Senior Member of IEEE. Gained cultural competence and social skills around diversity by living in different countries, serving in historically black university, and communicating in English, Japanese, Hindi, and Urdu.

Oscar Correia has more than 25 years’ experience in Information Technology spanning various sectors including education, telecommunications, mobile financial services, IT outsourcing and product management. His previous assignment was leading one of the largest mobile money managed services as Vice President, Financial Services at MahindraComviva. Prior to that he spent 10 years at Airtel Africa working in Kenya where he played various roles from IT Director to Head of Products. He is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor at Cavendish University Zambia and the Director of Technology at Maarifa Education Holdings (the university’s holding company). He teaches and has in interests in project management, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. Oscar has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nairobi, a Post Graduate Diploma in Telecommunications from Ashton University, UK and an MBA from Warwick Business School, UK. He also holds certifications in CISM, ITIL, Oracle and Cisco as well as PRINCE2 certification.

Pradeepta Mishra has 16 + years of experience and currently is the Head of AI Fosfor, leading a group of Data Scientists, computational linguistics experts, Machine Learning and Deep Learning experts in creating value. He has expertise across core branches of Artificial Intelligence including Image Processing, Audio Processing, NLP, NLG and NLI and design and implementation of expert systems and personal digital assistants.
Last 2 years 2019, 2020 Awarded as "India's Top "40Under40DataScientists" by Analytics India Magazine.
His first book has been recommended in HSLS center at University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Two of his books are translated into Chinese and Spanish based on popular demand. His latest book #PytorchRecipes is the chosen one to be in the Buswell Library, Wheaton College, IL, USA.
He has delivered a keynote session in Global Data Science conference 2018, USA. He has mentored more than 2000 data scientists globally. He has delivered 200+ tech talks on data science and AI in various meetups, technical institutions and community arranged forums.

Technology and business leader with a strong focus on helping companies get to the next level of their work within AI. Passion for building up high performance, cross-functional, and self-managed balanced teams.
Currently building and leading an organization of senior Data scientists, AI-developers, and Data Engineers. The main focus of the team is to become a knowledge hub within the field of AI. This is done by building strong independent consultants and a toolbox of great analytics tools, like the machine vision platform flowity.io.
The switch between a strategical and managerial job, as well as being able to dig deep into the technology is one of my main drivers. I'm keen on solving a problem with the right technology instead of just throwing new, hyped, heavy algorithms on everything. These are great and interesting in a lot of ways, but who isn't fascinated when the right solution for a complex problem turns out to be a polynomial regression.