You've got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.

The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.

We must develop open source systems that enhance trust and transparency. We must build quality data centres free from biases, we must democratise technology and create people centre applications. We must address concerns related to cyber security, disinformation and deepfakes. We must also ensure that technology is rooted in local ecosystems for it to be effective and useful. Loss of jobs is AI's most feared disruption, but history has shown that work does not disappear due to technology, only its nature changes. We need to invest in skilling and re-skilling our people for an AI-driven future.

There's so much happening with the youth looking at local or national problems and solving them with innovation and technology. This is what startup success means.