Dr. Jacques Ludik

Dr. Jacques Ludik is a smart technology entrepreneur, Artificial Intelligence (AI) expert, investor, ecosystem builder, and award-winning AI Leader with a Ph.D. in Computer Science (AI) and 25+ years’ experience in AI & Data Science and its applications. Dr. Jacques Ludik recently won the Africa AI Leader of the Year Award and is currently, amongst other roles, the Founder & Group CEO of Cortex Group, Founder & MD of Cortex Logic and Founder & President of the Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA) and has also founded CSense Systems (Africa’s first AI company that was sold to a multi-national company, specifically General Electric in 2011), Bennit.AI, Mosaic, and SynerG. Apart from his executive management responsibilities in these companies, he was previously Vice President Data Science & Chief Data Officer at Jumo, Director and Big Data & Analytics Leader at General Electric and Senior Lecturer & Researcher at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.