The Zenith Tech Fair holds today, Wednesday, November 27, at the Landmark Events Centre, Victoria Island, with the theme: ‘Future Forward’ and powered by Zenith Bank Plc, the event will cover conversations and exhibitions in emerging technologies.
Speaking on the initiative, the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive, Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, noted that the event will cover conversations and exhibitions in emerging technologies, as well as a Hackathon to identify and finance innovative startups.
Onyeagwu said Lagos is part of the bank’s efforts to align and key into new technologies that provide innovative solutions to customers’ numerous financial challenges.
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The Herald gathered that the CES and EmTech Asia, the fair will showcase leading technology innovations that cut across different aspects of life such as Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Robotics, Big Data, FinTech, Augmented Reality, Data Analytics, 5G and Communication Technologies, among others.
He said: “In today’s fast-changing world, we know that our customers need to perform easy, fast and secure financial transactions, wherever, whenever and however.
“So we need to go ‘future forward’ to provide banking services using cutting-edge technologies and seamless processes in the best interest of our customers.”
The discussions at the Zenith Tech Fair will be handled by Captains of industries and top industry experts. Some of the dignitaries and industry experts that will keynote at the event include the Founder and Chairman, Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Jim Ovia (CON); Country Director, Google Nigeria, Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor; Country Manager, Microsoft Nigeria, Akin Binuso; Managing Director, Huawei Technologies Nigeria, Eric Zhang; and Country Managing Director, Oracle Nigeria, Adebayo Sanni; amongst others.