Advisory Board
Our founding partners and Advisory Board members are drawn from across multiple domains and passionate about the adoption of responsible AI. Many of our Advisory Board members are community builders in their own right, tackling key issues like education, inclusion, training, regulation, ethics, policy and investment.
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Alfred Mashishi
Chief Director Forecasting and Modelling - Department of Communications and Digital Technologies![](https://saaiassociation.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/ilsa-karg-1-500x500.jpg)
Ilse Karg
4IR: Future Production Technologies Ministry of Trade, Industry & Competition, South Africa![](https://saaiassociation.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/web__0001_Karim-Djouani.jpg)
Karim Djouani
DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Enabled Environment & Assistive Living and Full Professor University Paris-Est, Creteil, France: Tshwane University of Technology![](https://saaiassociation.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/web_0003_Debra-Mmabatho-SETSIBA.jpg)
Debra Setsiba
Director information Society and Development: Dept of Communication and Digital Technologies
SAAIA
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