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

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

Guest: Olubayo Adekanmbi

Date: Thursday, May 7, 2020

Time: 10.00am

Platform: Livestream on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

Topic: COVID-19: The FourthIndustrial Revolution and Implications for Nigeria

Highlights: Available later in the daywith link to full video.

Host: OttoabasiAbasiekong, Editor, WebTV

Co-Host: BoasonOmofaye, 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 withtrack record of superior performance in conceptualising and implementing business/commercial/analyticalstrategy with commendable managerial ability to motivate his team for success.He has broad-based experience in multinational commercial strategy and advancedlevel analytics.

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

He is a hands-on Data scientist, activelyparticipating in global data science projects on Kaggle.com and currently ranksNo 1 on the Data Science Dojo project. He has a patent on final approval in theUSA for a Data Science product on Social Pricing Recommender Software for lowincome prepaid telecommunication users using uncalled-called numbers modelling.

He graduated with Distinction from theUniversity of Reading postgraduate school, United Kingdom, and has also hadboth full-time and executive education in many other leading institutions,including Columbia Business School, New York; The University of Chicago BoothSchool of Business, Chicago; INSEAD Business School, France; Telecoms TrainingInstitute, London; ETH Zurich, Switzerland; and Gatton College of Business atthe 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 hehas also been awarded with the prestigious MTN Yello Star award for theconceptualisation of a Customer Value/Risk Management framework, which led tomulti-billion naira revenue growth.

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

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

Heis the author of "The Future is Shared" and "Beginners ArtificialIntelligence and Python Programming".

Youcan follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

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