Track / Schedule

[Invited Keynote] - Measuring and optimizing crop production using aerial imagery and machine learning

With Benji Meltzer

Predicting Regional Locust Swarm Distribution with Recurrent Neural Networks

With Hadia Samil

Developing localized data models for smallholder farmers

With Aisha Raheem

Developing and deploying data-efficient land classification models for agriculture

With Ivan Zvonkov & Gabriel Tseng

Tech- No Superhero Machine Learning, Africa and Sustainable Ag.

With Bernard Wright

A simple NLP Chatbot for obtaining real-time farm production data at scale via SMS

With Adam Abramson

[Invited Keynote] - Earth Observations and Machine Learning for Food Security in Africa

With Catherine Nakalembe

Track / Speakers

Benji Meltzer

CTO, Aerobotics

Catherine Nakalembe

Associate Research Professor, University of Maryland

Aisha Raheem

Vision Director, Farmz2U

Ivan Zvonkov

ML Engineer, NASA Harvest

Hadia Samil

Research intern, Mila Quebec AI institute

Gabriel Tseng

Machine Learning Engineer, NASA Harvest

Adam Abramson

CEO, Farmster

Bernard Wright

Managing Director, Fieldy

Track / Co-organizers

Alexander Immer

PhD student, ETH Zurich

AMLD Africa 2021 / Tracks & talks

AI & Environement

Stefano Ermon, Engineer Bainomugisha, Galina Alova, Ihsane Gryech, Abigail Annkah, Alejandro Yousef Da Silva, Mohamed Makni, Shinez Chalabi, Rosina Norton, Elizabeth Nyeko

AI & NLP

Karim Beguir, Hatem Haddad, Thierno Ibrahima DIOP, Abdoulaye Diack, Lauren Newbould, Nourchene Ferchichi

AI & Community

Kamal Bhattacharya, Amit Joshi, Carolina Odman, Anitha Vijayakumar, Rachid Guerraoui, Houcemeddine Turki, Elyes Manai, Siobhan Mackenzie Hall, Chance Coughenour, Wei Xiao, Walid Daou, Celina Lee

AMLD / Global partners