Thu, Sep 02
Fri, Sep 03
Sat, Sep 04
08:45
Conference Opening
With Mohamed Kafsi
08:45 - 09:00, Sep, 02OnlineOpening & Closing CeremoniesView detail09:00
[Invited Keynote] Reimagining a More Inclusive Future with AI
With Tawfik Jelassi
09:00 - 09:30, Sep, 02OnlineOpening & Closing CeremoniesView detail09:30
[Invited Keynote] - The Great Potential of AI to Address Global Health Challenges
With Aisha Walcott-Bryant
09:30 - 10:00, Sep, 02OnlineAI & HealthcareView detail10:00
Tunisian AI Tech to fight covid19 with limited resources
With Mustapha HAMDI
10:00 - 10:20, Sep, 02onlineAI & HealthcareView detail10:20
Automatic image analysis and artificial intelligence for cervical cancer detection with a smartphone-based solution
With Magali Cattin
10:20 - 10:40, Sep, 02onlineAI & HealthcareView detail10:40
[Panel Discussion] - How AI is helping health reach the unreachable
With Emilian Popa, Eduard Booty & Valeria De Luca
10:40 - 11:20, Sep, 02onlineAI & HealthcareView detail11:30
[Invited Keynote] - Measuring and optimizing crop production using aerial imagery and machine learning
With Benji Meltzer
11:30 - 12:00, Sep, 02onlineAI & AgricultureView detail12:05
Predicting Regional Locust Swarm Distribution with Recurrent Neural Networks
With Hadia Samil
12:05 - 12:25, Sep, 02onlineAI & AgricultureView detail12:30
Developing localized data models for smallholder farmers
With Aisha Raheem
12:30 - 12:45, Sep, 02onlineAI & AgricultureView detail12:45
Developing and deploying data-efficient land classification models for agriculture
With Ivan Zvonkov & Gabriel Tseng
12:45 - 13:05, Sep, 02onlineAI & AgricultureView detail13:15
Tech- No Superhero Machine Learning, Africa and Sustainable Ag.
With Bernard Wright
13:15 - 13:30, Sep, 02AI & AgricultureView detail13:35
A simple NLP Chatbot for obtaining real-time farm production data at scale via SMS
With Adam Abramson
13:35 - 13:50, Sep, 02AI & AgricultureView detail14:10
[Invited Keynote] - Earth Observations and Machine Learning for Food Security in Africa
With Catherine Nakalembe
14:10 - 14:40, Sep, 02onlineAI & AgricultureView detail14:50
Model Predictive Control for Microgrid applications in Africa
With Alejandro Yousef Da Silva
14:50 - 15:10, Sep, 02onlineAI & EnvironementView detail15:15
Mapping of Africa’s Built Environment using remote sensing
With Abigail Annkah
15:15 - 15:35, Sep, 02onlineAI & EnvironementView detail15:40
AI for Low-Cost Urban Air Pollution Monitoring
With Ihsane Gryech
15:40 - 16:00, Sep, 02onlineAI & EnvironementView detail16:00
The next generation of African infrastructures, challenges & opportunities: a computer vision case study
With Mohamed Makni
16:00 - 16:20, Sep, 02onlineAI & EnvironementView detail16:20
Will Africa leapfrog to renewable energy this decade?
With Galina Alova
16:20 - 16:40, Sep, 02onlineAI & EnvironementView detail16:55
Leveraging machine learning to achieve cleaner air in African cities.
With Engineer Bainomugisha
16:55 - 17:15, Sep, 02onlineAI & EnvironementView detail17:15
[Invited Keynote] - Measuring Economic Development from Space with Machine Learning
With Stefano Ermon
17:15 - 17:45, Sep, 02onlineAI & EnvironementView detail17:45
[Panel Discussion] - How AI is changing the world of low carbon electrical energy systems.
With Shinez Chalabi, Rosina Norton & Elizabeth Nyeko
17:45 - 18:15, Sep, 02AI & EnvironementView detail09:00
[Invited Keynote] - A Future of Shared AI Knowledge
With Moustapha Cisse
09:00 - 09:30, Sep, 03Opening & Closing CeremoniesView detail09:30
Strategies to apply speech recognition in low resource language : WOLOF use case
With Thierno Ibrahima DIOP
09:30 - 09:50, Sep, 03onlineAI & NLPView detail09:50
Tunisian dialect NLP journey as low-resourced language
With Hatem Haddad
09:50 - 10:10, Sep, 03onlineAI & NLPView detail10:15
[Invited Keynote] AI Language Models - Latest Developments
With Karim Beguir
10:15 - 10:45, Sep, 03AI & NLPView detail10:45
[Panel Discussion] - About NLP and the African context featuring Instadeep and Rural Sense
With Lauren Newbould, Nourchene Ferchichi & Abdoulaye Diack
10:45 - 11:15, Sep, 03onlineAI & NLPView detail11:30
[Invited Keynote] - Setting up a Research Cloud for Africa
With Carolina Odman
11:30 - 12:00, Sep, 03onlineAI & CommunityView detail12:00
Enhancing African Machine Learning at a low cost
With Houcemeddine Turki
12:00 - 12:15, Sep, 03onlineAI & CommunityView detail12:15
Zindi and the power of ML for good
With Celina Lee
12:15 - 12:30, Sep, 03onlineAI & CommunityView detail12:30
The Deep Learning Indaba Mentorship Programme
With Siobhan Mackenzie Hall
12:30 - 12:45, Sep, 03onlineAI & CommunityView detail13:00
GESDA Roundtable: Anticipating the future of ML and its impact
With Nanjira Sambuli, Rüdiger Urbanke, Martin Müller, Muthoni Wanyoike, Fabrice Lauper & Alexandre Fasel
13:00 - 14:00, Sep, 03Online - SocioOpening & Closing CeremoniesView detail14:00
[Invited Keynote] - AI, The past and a Future
With Rachid Guerraoui
14:00 - 14:30, Sep, 03OnlineAI & CommunityView detail14:30
Machine learning for preserving heritage with Google Arts & Culture
With Chance Coughenour
14:30 - 14:50, Sep, 03onlineAI & CommunityView detail14:50
The current state of AI in Tunisia
With Elyes Manai
14:50 - 15:10, Sep, 03onlineAI & CommunityView detail15:15
[Invited Keynote] - Taking AI from the Lab to the Real World
With Amit Joshi
15:15 - 15:45, Sep, 03OnlineAI & CommunityView detail15:45
AI for business impact : the curse of Kaggle
With Walid Daou
15:45 - 16:05, Sep, 03onlineAI & CommunityView detail16:05
[Invited Keynote] - TensorFlow and the AI community
With Anitha Vijayakumar
16:05 - 16:35, Sep, 03onlineAI & CommunityView detail16:35
Power the next generation of AI use cases
With Wei Xiao
16:35 - 16:55, Sep, 03onlineAI & CommunityView detail17:00
[Invited Keynote] - Why we need a movement to educate 100k ML practitioners across Africa
With Kamal Bhattacharya
17:00 - 17:30, Sep, 03onlineAI & CommunityView detail17:30
Guiding StyleGAN to generate Labeled Synthetic faceimage dataset for under-represented groups
With Kidist Amde Mekonnen
17:30 - 17:50, Sep, 03onlineAI for Social GoodView detail17:55
ASMSpotter: discover and track artisanal mining using AI
With Moritz Besser
17:55 - 18:15, Sep, 03onlineAI for Social GoodView detail18:15
Building a Virtual Cooking Assistant for visually impaired individuals using ML Services on AWS
With Kimessha Paupamah, Saubia Khan & Gabrielle Dompreh
18:15 - 18:30, Sep, 03onlineAI for Social GoodView detail18:30
09:00
Machine Learning & Deep Learning for Computer Vision: From Zero to Hero
With Wael Ouarda
09:00 - 14:00, Sep, 04Online - SocioWorkshopView detailFundamentals of Deep Learning Workshop
With Usman Amjad, Muhammad Umair, Twaha Zia & Humera Tariq
09:00 - 14:00, Sep, 04Online - SocioWorkshopView detailTidy Modelling in R
With Astrid Radermacher, Amieroh Abrahams & Andrew Collier
09:00 - 14:00, Sep, 04Online - SocioWorkshopView detail10:00
Fundamentals of Accelerated Data Science with RAPIDS [NVIDIA]
With Manal Jalloul
10:00 - 14:00, Sep, 04Online - SocioWorkshopView detail13:00
Benchmarking Algorithms for Time Series Modeling
With Mouafek Ayadi
13:00 - 15:00, Sep, 04Online - SocioWorkshopView detail14:00
Data Science on AWS
With Antje Barth & Chris Fregly
14:00 - 17:00, Sep, 04Online - SocioWorkshopView detailHands-on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning using Mava
With Faten Ghriss, Khalil Gorsan Mestiri & Claude Formanek
14:00 - 17:00, Sep, 04Online - SocioWorkshopView detailDeep Learning on ALL the data - beyond the basics with FastAI
With Jonathan Whitaker
14:00 - 17:00, Sep, 04Online - SocioWorkshopView detail16:00
Introduction to Recommendation Systems
With Walid Krichene
16:00 - 19:00, Sep, 04Online - SocioWorkshopView detailMoroccan Darija Wikipedia: Basics of Natural Language Processing for a Low-Resource Language
With Ihsane Gryech, Khalil Mrini, Abdelhak Mahmoudi, Anass Sedrati & Imane Khaouja
16:00 - 22:00, Sep, 04Online - SocioWorkshopView detailAMLD / Global partners
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