SA Urged to Act on AI Opportunities as Market Set to Triple

Huawei South Africa Connect 2026 Explores How South Africa Can Scale AI Across Industries - SME Tech Guru

Huawei held its flagship Huawei South Africa Connect 2026, bringing together 2,900 leaders from government and industry to examine how AI and intelligent digital infrastructure can help South African organisations adopt AI at scale. Under the theme “Where Innovation Shapes the Future,” discussions focused on how South Africa, ranked first in Sub-Saharan Africa for AI readiness, is positioned to turn its AI ambitions and digital foundations into …

Huawei South Africa Connect 2026 Explores How South Africa Can Scale AI Across Industries

Huawei held its flagship Huawei South Africa Connect 2026, bringing together 2,900 leaders from government and industry to examine how AI and intelligent digital infrastructure can help South African organisations adopt AI at scale. Under the theme “Where Innovation Shapes the Future,” discussions focused on how South Africa, ranked first in Sub-Saharan Africa for AI readiness, is positioned to turn its AI ambitions and digital foundations into …

SA urged to act on AI opportunities as market set to triple

Government and business leaders discussed the realities of increasing AI adoption in SA at the Huawei South Africa Connect 2026 event.

South Africa Emerges as Africa’s Leading AI Hub

South Africa is rapidly establishing itself as Africa’s leading artificial intelligence hub, driven by advanced cloud infrastructure, strong research institutions, skilled software talent, and growing investment from global technology companies including Google and Microsoft. Over the past 18 months, adoption has shifted from pilot testing to full deployment across banking, retail, healthcare, and government. Companies […]

Why Assistive AI Could Be Africa’s Biggest AI Opportunity

Artificial intelligence discussions often focus on who will build the next ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. For Africa, however, the more important question may be different: how can AI help millions of people perform their existing jobs better? This is the promise of Assistive AI—systems designed to support human judgement, increase productivity and reduce repetitive work rather than remove people from the process. Assistive AI is not a separate tech…