Alpha Direct is a Botswana-HQ, Africa-focused risk carrying Insurtech that is focused on using cloud, big data and AI to deliver compelling insurance products for Africa’s growing consumer market. The insurance sector in Africa is underpenetrated vs most of the World. Given affordability, accessibility and inflexibility, insurance is seen as being a product “that is only available to the rich”. The company has become the fifth largest short-term insurance underwriter in their home market in under 5 years, and is now focused on regional and continental expansion across Africa as well as entering the long-term insurance market. The company has a strong stable of intellectual property including software, trademarks and patents. The company recently won The African Insurance Award for Innovation of the Year, for their insurance in a box product sold through retail outlets (with a cloud-based activation and policy management platform) where they have acquired thousands of customers and are scaling up rapidly. Over the next 5 years Alpha Direct plans to expand its product offering to include long-term insurance products as well to expand its footprint to include South Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Nigeria. Alpha Direct plans to license its products and technology in 10 African countries outside those where it has a physical presence.

Much of the world's cargo travels from port to port and then on to rail and road in more than 20 million containers. Today only 77,000 containers are actively tracked. By 2016 this number is expected to increase to 1 million. Through the Weft platform, which integrates with Weft sensors as well as sensors from other providers, and with ERP and CRM systems, users log in to get the current status and to set alerts for out-of-bounds conditions (location, temperature, moisture, shock/vibration) and stages completed. Through predictive analytics, Weft takes the current location and planned route of all shipments on the platform and combines this information with historical data to identify likely bottlenecks and alert shippers to potential problems before they occur. Shippers can then adjust routes and schedules to increase the likelihood of on-time delivery. Weft is available through ERP providers, telecommunications companies, and shipping and logistics companies. The company is participating at SAP TechEd in Las Vegas on October 21, 2013. More information about Weft is at http://weft.io and via e-mail to hello@weft.io.

Ideatolife is a top-tier development company that mainly acts as your interim CTO and delivers projects ranging from e-commerce platforms, HRM systems, to Big Data management projects and machine learning systems. IdeatoLife is a hands-on technical and business partner that establishes and develops companies in digital technology. They understand that the right guidance by technical experts accelerates the growth of digital entreprises and startups, while its lack slows it down. Non-technical professionals face challenges such as compromising quality and speed by relying on freelancers, or spending big chunks of their budgets on agencies that offer technical support without taking the business aspect of the entreprise into consideration.

Xiaoyezi is an AI-driven technology music education company, committed to making music education more interesting and efficient through excellent products. The sales of its The ONE smart piano has been in the forefront of the same category on Tmall 11.11 for seven consecutive years; there are more than 5,000 smart piano classrooms around the world. The smart sparring mode pioneered by Xiaoyezi, through AI error correction, scientific and efficient piano practice. Currently, Xiaoyezi has users in 131 countries around the world.

Strossle is a fast growing media tech company, helping publishers to optimize content distribution. We use machine learning technologies to adapt the user experience based on context and personal interests. It’s Artificial Intelligence for media. Strossle was founded in Sweden in 2013 by a team of entrepreneurs with an extensive media background. The shared perception was that the media industry was losing ground with its conservative view on technology and business models. Instead of embracing new distribution and business opportunities, media companies tried to lock users into their own channels and increase the amount of intrusive display ad formats that users had to sit through. Strossles mission is to help publishers out of this negative spiral and become future-proof. With Strossle publishers empower their content by: - Making sure every user is presented to an optimal mix of content - resulting in higher engagement. - Attracting new users through promotion of their best performing content in Strossle's publisher network. - Leveraging their premium environments by offering native advertisers extended reach. These values have clearly resonated with publishers. Since launch Strossle has had an average monthly growth rate of 20%, and now we're going global with our way of thinking. Today the company has offices in Stockholm, Malmö, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Madrid and New York. And there's more to come.

G3T LiV3 Inc is an Autonomous Systems Developer with experience in Video Game Artificial Intelligence, Physics Engines, Advanced Defense Robotics, various open-source gaming platforms, reconnaissance drones, and all other autonomous systems.

Tecnos Data Science Engineering provides solutions utilizing big data and artificial intelligence (AI) and AI products.

SBDA Group Ltd. is an AI company that provides retail banks with solutions for boosting customer engagement. The tip-based approach allows a bank to evolve from reactive to proactive through becoming a scalable customised personal financial assistant with the use of advanced AI techniques. SBDA technology helps banks leverage client transactional data and public data about merchants to automatically generate highly personalized tips. The company is recognised as Top-10 AI banking company worldwide being a finalist of BBVA Open Talent Artificial Intelligence 2017 and as a gold winner of the UniCredit international hackathon 2016. More than 10 top tier banks are currently served by SBDA technology which has processed over 100m customer profiles. Strategic offices are located in Dublin, London, New York.