80% Of Enterprises Will Adopt AI By 2026 – Report

A new report by Gartner, has predicted that 80 per cent of enterprises will have used generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) or developed their own by 2026.

This is even as Nigerian financial industry experts are gearing up to discuss trust, security and privacy in the era of AI, ar the maiden edition of Payments Forum Nigeria (PAFON), scheduled for the first quarter of this year.

The Payments Forum Nigeria is a cross-industry platform focused on addressing issues that require broad cooperation and coordination across many constituents in the payments industry. The Forum is aimed at providing an inside-look at the industry, offering perspectives from key stakeholders, including payment networks, technology innovators, leading merchants, issuers, acquirers and payment processors.

In a press statement, made available to LEADERSHIP, the co-founder of TechCastle Foundation, organisers of Payment Forum Nigeria (PAFON), Mr. Chike Onwuegbuchi, averred that, “Our goal is to enable information exchange and knowledge sharing on key industry insights issues amongst key stakeholders, with the objective of ensuring a collaborative and proactive approach to push for policies that enable growth, tackling/mitigating fraud and limiting occurrences and losses.”

Onwuegbuchi said the Forum is driven by the reasons to; “educate and inform financial service players and other stakeholders on various issues and trends (both locally and globally); proactively share data/information amongst banks, Fintechs and other service providers, to enable prompt responses to prevent and/or limit (customer-related) losses; and discuss key Payments security trends.

“Speakers will be drawn among industry players such as banks, Fintechs, mobile money operators, blockchain experts, Cybersecurity, etc., as we expect attendees from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); e-Banking Heads; Chief Compliance Officers of banks in Nigeria; Chief Internal Auditors of banks in Nigeria; Office of The National Security Adviser; Switching companies; the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission; Licensed Mobile Payment Operators; Electronic Payments Providers; Information Security Experts; Consumer Protection; Financial Policy and Regulation; Information Technology; Legal Services; Banking Supervision; Corporate Communication; Shared Services Office; Blockchain Security Experts, etc”, he added.