Atlas Convention set to boost economic transformation
........all sectors to have more opportunities in the Global economy
SCIENCE and Advanced Global Innovation Technologies (SAGIT) in partnership with the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education Innovation Science and Technology development is the Atlas Convention 2021 under the theme Igniting Infinite Possibilities. Set to be Zimbabwe's biggest Innovation, Science and Technology Convention. The Atlas Convention is an integrated national-innovation technology symposium to be held annually to actively converge experts from all economic sectors on sustainable development, innovation-driven and private sector-led economic transformation through initiatives benchmarked to national, continental and global economies. This year’s Theme is Igniting Infinite Possibilities and registration is in progress on the event platform www. atlasconvention.com.
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The Atlas convention come at a point in time where as a nation we need more strategic efficient and safe ways to do business in the new normal with exposing our people to the pandemic that Zimbabwe has managed to keep
Keynote speakers are drawn from the national, regional/ continental and global context
1)National: Honourable Minister Professor Amon Murwira 2)Continental: Smart Africa Director General Mr Lacina Kone
3)Global United: Nations SDGS Ms Maria R
1.Hon Amon Murwira National, NDS1 and Agenda 2030 His remarks as the Patron of the Atlas Convention at the official launch of the Atlas Convention showed how the Atlas convention is a very strategic platform to bridge the industry and Academia as well as act as a spring board for economic transformation at both continental and global level.
The Atlas Convention; an integrated technology and economic transformation initiative, which is set to transform the innovation agenda in Zimbabwe. The convention brings together government, private sector and the academia as it seeks to further open up and enhance the innovation space by driving economic development through innovation. This will also assist Zimbabwe in the attainment of Vision 2030 “Zimbabwe becoming and upper an upper middle-income economy”.
The rapidly ever-changing business environment calls for the formulation of innovative multi pipeline and bridging concepts with a global perspective. In our country the call for innovation has never been more intense. Undoubtedly innovation plays a key role in driving sustainable development, spurring growth of organisations and economies by unlocking latent market value.
The Atlas Convention will bridge the gap between academia and industry, setting the stage for the establishment of a broad-based economy with a more diverse industry and export portfolio. Our aim is to convert innovation potential to commercial products and services which will steer economic growth hence the theme for the Convention is “IGNITING INFINITE POSSIBILITIES”
Our country has a huge store of innovative talent with great potential to provide solutions to the country’s most pressing problems. The aim of the Convention is to showcase to industry some of the prototypes that have been developed and enable partnerships that will bring solutions to the problems faced by industry. Academia will be able to explore their technology talent while solving real life and industrybased challenges.
Through this initiative we urge the private sector to seek collaborative synergies to “MAKE YOUR BRAND RELEVANT TO A YOUNGER AUDIENCE”. Advanced subjects like Artificial intelligence can be rooted and conceptualised in the academia through research and development that is industry oriented. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already playing an increasing role in many existing and evolving technologies that can help us advance more rapidly towards the achievement of the SDGs and Vision 2030.
It is our responsibility to utilise initiatives like the Atlas Convention and Innovation Challenge examined ways to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to catalyse development in Africa. To reduce the current gap between developed and developing countries. AI can help with some of the region’s most pervasive problems: from allowing faster knowledge sharing and improving education, to enabling more accurate forecasting, delivering healthcare and eradicating diseases.
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