AI Hack for Good – Exploration Space

It was a real privilege being a small part of this event. The “AI Hack For Good” event was all about using AI to do something positive for social good.

It was also great fun being a mentor and helping to enable teams to complete their solutions using whichever technology they chose. (.NET, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin)

Twitter Verse

It was truly inspiring being a small part of the "AI for Good Hack" last week in Johannesburg. Working with all these amazing teams, out to do good in the world with #ai was an incredible experience. Hope to see you at the next hack! #azure #python #dotnet #java #swift #kotlin pic.twitter.com/KCu7bSE4xT
— Allan Pead (@adpead) December 20, 2018

Congrats to team #AzureGremlins for winning the @MicrosoftSA AI hackathon. They worked on a #FakeNews detecting solutions. They win R40 000 #MSAIHack #AIForGood #Azure pic.twitter.com/Zd4jFhN1DO
— Geekulcha 🇿🇦 💻 (@Geekulcha) December 13, 2018

The winners trophy of the #MSAIHACK at @MicrosoftSA went to Azure Gremlins. Innovative use of multiple features of @Azure to identify Fake News. Streaming services, sentiment analysis, @AzureML, @AzureCosmosDB, Bing Search API. Very impressive delivery in a short space of time!! pic.twitter.com/YibHDt0jzj
— TangentDave (@TangentDave) December 13, 2018

Just landed at Microsoft for the AI Hackathon @elonmusk @TiyaniTee @Geekulcha
— Sifiso: 15 years old Developer (@_NextElonMusk) December 13, 2018

. Net developers at the #MSAIHack in Johannesburg @MicrosoftSA Loving all the stickers. 😍😍 @dotnetfdn pic.twitter.com/evrFGm0kgD
— Allan Pead (@adpead) December 13, 2018

It was truly inspiring being a small part of the "AI for Good Hack" last week in Johannesburg. Working with all these amazing teams, out to do good in the world with #ai was an incredible experience. Hope to see you at the next hack! #azure #python #dotnet #java #swift #kotlin pic.twitter.com/KCu7bSE4xT
— Allan Pead (@adpead) December 20, 2018

All the teams. Great ideas and innovation shown on @Azure! #msaihack @MicrosoftSA pic.twitter.com/Ve83tyQJXp
— TangentDave (@TangentDave) December 13, 2018

Great vibe at the #microsoft office today with the #ai hack for social good. Being a mentor to the teams building using #azure. #msaihack #aiforgood #innovation #technology #learning #teambuilding #mentoring #msftadvocate https://t.co/QryK4ovuRb
— chetan (@chetangordhan) December 12, 2018

Team #SIGNificant take home R20 000 for their second place position. They worked on a solutions that uses AI to help translate and understand sign language #MSAIHack pic.twitter.com/659u1jxQZP
— M I X O 📷💻😎 (@4otune) December 13, 2018

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I am a Xamarin Most Valueable Professional (MVP), Microsoft Developer Technologies MVP, Microsoft Internet of Things MVP, Microsoft Azure MVP, Architect, Software Developer, Organizer and Sponsor of the CPTMSDUG, JHBMSDUG and DBNMSDUG User Groups and father of 2.