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Africa’s Next Tech Wave: Can AI and IoT Move from Innovation to Scale?

AI and IoT are already being deployed across Africa – but can the continent build the skills, infrastructure and systems needed to take them to scale?

In this episode of Let’s Talk Energy, Joshua Opoku Agyemang, President of IoT Network Hub Africa, explores how smart technologies are being applied across sectors from energy to agriculture, and why Africa’s young innovators are increasingly leading deployment, not simply participating in it.

Recorded at the West African Energy Cooperation Summit (WAECS) at YES! On the Road Ghana in partnership with The Electricity Hub, the conversation looks at what comes next as Africa’s digital economy moves from adoption to execution.

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