What's going on in Oliver's life? See his latest post for an update 🤗
Happy to share that from this week I am 100% independent — working full-time on my own company Ishango.ai, along with my brilliant co-founder Eunice Baguma Ball. Ishango has been a side project of mine for the past few years, but now I have enough of a financial buffer and deep confidence in our business model, to take more (calculated) risk 🚀 In collaboration with senior supervisors with 10-15+ years of experience as well as younger talent from Africa, Ishango is a gateway to a number of impactful Data & AI initiatives: 1️⃣ Our standard service offering for clients 📈: on-demand, cost-effective Data & AI consulting services, starting with low-cost POCs to showcase our capabilities 2️⃣ AI for Weather Prediction (AIWP) over Africa 🌦️: ishango has coordinated a group of senior AI & weather experts (thanks to Ana Lucic; Jan Ravnik; Luke Gregor; Laique M. Djeutchouang, PhD; Chris Toumping Fotso) to supervise 3 talented & ambitious MSc students (Koomi Toussaint AMOUSSOUVI; Josiah Kimani; Benedict Ejelonu) at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 3️⃣ Agentic AI 🤖: In October, I will be teaching a course at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) along with one of our Senior Data Scientists at Ishango (Cyrille Feudjio) in software engineering best practices & Agentic AI 4️⃣ Finance 💸: Bringing AI to the Asset Management sector in Zurich to automate more (more on this in a future linkedin post) 5️⃣ Research 🔬: AI is moving so quickly, that CTOs are often confused about how and where to invest for positive Return on Investment. In my substack, I cut through hype to help guide decision makers: https://lnkd.in/dS-7jgS3