TAFFD's Generation 4IR Global Summit

March 24, 2022 - March 25, 2022
Science and Technology, Tshwane University of Technology

0316
R556, Sun City,
Sun City 0316
South Africa

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  • South Africa Government
  • Tshwane University of Technology
  • Streamyard

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For the past three years, TAFFD's (taffds.org) has worked so hard with one single vision in mind - to aggregate the vision of over 3 billion minds across different fields, sectors and industries. 
To achieve this vision, we decided to follow the mother nature path and begin the journey where she began hers - Africa. 

As an agora for future discussions, we understand that we cannot talk about the world's future and humanity without understanding her origin. The origin of humankind is its future.

Africa has the youngest population on the planet, with a median age between 16 to 35. We, therefore, understand the enormous potential that lies in this human capital.

As emerging and converging technologies transition humanity into a fourth industrial revolution, there's a need to empower this young population to create this future. The process of empowerment begins with harnessing creative energies and aggregating ideas.

Against this background, we are happy to announce our 2022 global summit. We have identified this GENERATION4IR - which stands for the Generation Fourth Industrial Revolution. 


THEME: ACCELERATING OUR SINGULARITY FUTURE FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA. 


This is the first time futurists, transhumanists, singularitarians, longevity scientists, and industry pioneers will converge in Africa to create initiate projects and ideas that would decide the future of humanity in the 21st century.

This summit will feature all sorts of idea generation, including paper presentations (kindly visit gen4ir.org for abstract/paper submission), project exhibitions, prototyping, masterclasses, war games, and much more. We invite you to join us.

Beyond the business formalities of a summit, this event is a tourist exploration (plan to see the big five on a game drive inside the forest) of the rich cultural heritage of the cradle of humankind from which novel ideas will birth a new world for Africa will emerge.

Join this train that boards the minds and ideas that are creating and deciding the path of the fourth industrial revolution.

DATE: March 24th to March 25th 2022.
VENUE: Convention Center, Sun City Resort, North West, South Africa.

The aim is to:   

1. Harness untapped reservoir of African indigenous practical solutions to global problems looking at the signals talking to Africans.  


2. Strategize diverse global solutions to current issues in Arica.


3. Produce the best ideas for driving the progress of the fourth industrial revolution in Africa.   

With this said, we welcome you to join us and other futurists, transhumanists, longevity scientists, biomedical technologists, and industry pioneers who will converge in Africa to initiate projects and ideas that would decide the future of humanity in the 21st century. We hope you will be a part of this pioneering project. Become part of the TAFFD's force that aims to shape humanity's future.    

In closing, we are delighted to announce that we have received support from the South African government through the Tourism Board, which has helped us secure the venue for the event and its technical support. On the other hand, we have also received an educational endorsement from the Tshwane University of Technology (the centre for 4ir hub in South Africa) to enable an academic ecosystem for translating the summit proceedings into something pragmatic without it being just a talk show.   N/B: We are interested in inventions and technical papers by students/academics that will contribute to improving the state of Africa.       


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS  

Our current 21st-century world and humankind; through a new set of modern, radical tools characterized as emerging/exponential technologies, stands at the verge of another technological, industrial and human (r)evolution; a Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), and just as with the story of our origins, the future of this technological revolution lies again in the promise of Africa. 

With its status as having the youngest population on Earth, Africa is strategically positioned at the forefront of the global race to be the 4IR powerhouse thanks to this vast resource of its digital and boundlessly creative youth whose limitless and undeniable technological drive, innovativeness and potential make Africa increasingly attractive to major tech companies and investors around the globe as they yearn to draw closer and tap into a force rapidly diminishing in the relatively more advanced societies of the world. Generation4IR-the deserving label for this emergent young, audacious, problem-solving, technopreneurs and cosmopolitan African breed-hence appears on the scene with a promise of igniting a whole new century of 4IR economies both on the Continent and across the globe.   

Consequently, this minefield of human resources represents a critical base for whom the empowerment to ideate, create, solve for technological convergence, and establish lasting change and impact for the present and future of our species has become an imperative, and especially so as we transition to a Metaverse and Singularity world. 

In the run-up to TAFFD’S Generation4IR Summit, South Africa 2022 themed Accelerating Our Singularity Future for Development in Africa, we at this moment invite ABSTRACT submissions for well-researched papers to be presented at panel sessions during this Strategically Inclusive Working Conference to provide scholars, industry players, decision and policymakers, and thought leaders with African youth-oriented intellectual analysis and contextualization, trusted strategies, ahead-of-curve insights, and emerging techniques to put exponential technologies to work for business, industrialization, and development.  

Recognizing the potential of Africa’s Youth and as well presenting approaches for addressing the urgent and critical need to empower Africa’s Generation4IR as a medium for accelerating our Singularity future for development; both on the Continent and for the entirety of our human world, should form the core of the papers.   

Sub-topics for the Abstracts, and subsequent papers, include the following and other related topics:  

1.The Singularity and Technological Entrepreneurship in Africa  

2.Metaverse and Opportunities for a Creative Youth Economy in Africa  

3.African Youth as Global Beacon for the Fourth Industrial Revolution  

4.Experiential Reality (XR) and the Future of Work  

5.Digitization and Digital Leadership   

6.Mining in the Digital Age  

7.Digital Business and Execution  

8.Property Rights and Securities in Digital Economy  

9.Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR)  

10.Internet of Things (IoT)  

11.Robotics and Robot Rights  

12.Longevity/Life Extension and Human Enhancement Technologies (HETs)  

13.Nano, Bio, Info, and Cognitive (NBIC) Technologies and 4IR  

14.Vertical Farming and New Agricultural Revolutions  

15.Sustainable Healthcare Systems  

16.Smart City Planning and Development  

17.Virtual/Automated Learning and the Future of Education  

18.Space Exploration Technologies and Entrepreneurship   

19.Digital Governance, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology  

20.Gamification, Experiential Reality and African Cosmology  

21.African Philosophy and the Fourth Industrial Revolution  

22.Generation4IR and Africa’s Creative Industries  

23.Socio-Political Economy and Models 4IR Success  

Abstracts of not more than 250 words can be submitted to the online platform.   GUIDE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION   

Papers and abstracts are to be submitted to [email protected].  

For more information, sponsorship or endorsement, contact -   

Ms. Brenda Ramokopelwa 

CEO TAFFD's & Summit Organizing Chairperson  

[email protected] +27 71 053 3436 (Mobile & WhatsApp) or visit gen4ir.org or taffds.org.

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Carla de Jager

PCO TAFFD's Gen4ir Summit +27 83 376 2368 [email protected] VAT 464 0232 106

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