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The AWS Smart Business Podcast is your destination for insights on applied Gen AI for businesses and the latest advancements in technology across various sectors.
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Project Gaia: How Drones, Computer Vision and AI Are Changing Nature Conservation (opens the original)
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What you can count, you can protect. Willem Kellerman and Dirk Straus (Chisl Group), with Henri Zietsman (Silicon Overdrive), on using solar-charged drones, computer vision and AI to map 100,000 hectares of Sabi Sand and Timbavati in five days, and on what that kind of detail lets a reserve see, manage and protect. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
Purple Group & Finch Technologies: AI Rewrote the Maths of Modernisation (opens the original)
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Paul Jansen van Vuuren (Purple Group, EasyEquities) and Kirsten Hancock (Finch Technologies), with Deon Stroebel (LSD Open), on an 18-month rebuild compressed into a 3-day prototype, why the organisational 70 percent is still the hard part, and the meter that never stops once intelligence is priced per token. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
TTS Talent & OTpro: How AI Renews Legacy Code in Record Time, and What That Means for Business (opens the original)
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Renier Lewis (TTS Talent) and Reshika Ramlal (OTpro), with Saireshan Govender (Blue Pearl), on how AI agents are renewing classic codebases in a fraction of the time they used to take, what that does to the business case for modernising, and where a human still has to sign off. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
Saigen: How Do You Train Speech AI on 56 Hours of Audio? (opens the original)
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Arnold Pretorius and Felix McGregor of Saigen on training speech recognition for South Africa's languages when the flagship corpus holds around 56 hours per language and Whisper had 680,000: semi-supervised training, cross-lingual transfer, and finding GPUs on a continent short of them. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
JobZapp & Tyflex: The Real Ups and Downs of Building a Startup on AI (opens the original)
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Thabiet Davids (JobZapp) and Tamuka Machakaire (Tyflex), with Oliver Downs (Cloud Bridge), on handing your thinking to a system: you lose control and you gain consistency. From AI-assisted vetting in Cape Town to Vekta, the commerce and fulfilment platform Tyflex is building for Zimbabwe. Recorded live at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg.
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