Introduction and guest background

0:03 So uh Jackie started off uh you know his journey with data science I think in Jquad if I'm not wrong or with his undergraduate at Jquad and then he came to learn data science at Africa data school that's where we met and then after he finished working I mean learning data science at Africa data school he became a tutor at ADS and after a H he went on to Hur and that's when we had the chat.

0:54 From then on, I think he's done like three more major steps uh over the course of the year. So, it's all right if we catch up with him right now. So, without much further ado, Jackies, uh I don't know how you introduce yourself now. Back then, you used to introduce yourself differently. I think now you have more experience. I think more titles. So please go ahead and introduce yourself. Yeah, thank you. Thank you Duncan for that.

1:16 Um my name is Jack Isa. Um like Duncan has mentioned uh we have actually worked together before and also we have partnered partnered on a various number of uh projects. uh besides that uh that's uh all of that is what actually has brought me to be who I am today through the different experiences and the networks that you have actually had. So uh currently um I'm the CEO of Vad's companion and also a co-founder. For the last two years we've been building these uh travel tech startup.

1:40 U majorly what we doing is we are streamlining the uh workflows and operations for uh travel professionals and also uh boosting the customer engagement of the personalization of uh customer experience as they are using or maybe trying to access their travel products. We've been able to do that for uh quite a number of months now. We are running a pilot stage with number of uh number of companies in the pipeline and also we have made some very uh good uh partnerships with AWS and Microsoft who has enabled us to to be able to bring this solution to the market.

2:26 Um in my day job I'm actually an AI engineer. So I I have installed being an AI engineer. uh I believe that it's just a different stage where I have different responsibilities but on a day-to-day basis I still learn I still uh think well about where AI is going how what's the impact and how we can uh bring that back to the community and also try to educate people and see what are the opportunities that they can have in this space so really glad and really thankful for you to have me here thank you