Track / Schedule

[Invited Keynote] - Setting up a Research Cloud for Africa

With Carolina Odman

Enhancing African Machine Learning at a low cost

With Houcemeddine Turki

Zindi and the power of ML for good

With Celina Lee

The Deep Learning Indaba Mentorship Programme

With Siobhan Mackenzie Hall

[Invited Keynote] - AI, The past and a Future

With Rachid Guerraoui

Machine learning for preserving heritage with Google Arts & Culture

With Chance Coughenour

The current state of AI in Tunisia

With Elyes Manai

[Invited Keynote] - Taking AI from the Lab to the Real World

With Amit Joshi

AI for business impact : the curse of Kaggle

With Walid Daou

[Invited Keynote] - TensorFlow and the AI community

With Anitha Vijayakumar

Power the next generation of AI use cases

With Wei Xiao

[Invited Keynote] - Why we need a movement to educate 100k ML practitioners across Africa

With Kamal Bhattacharya

Track / Speakers

Kamal Bhattacharya

Professor, IU International University

Amit Joshi

Professor of AI, Analytics and Marketing Strategy, IMD

Carolina Odman

Associate Professor, University of the Western Cape

Anitha Vijayakumar

Technical Project Manager, Google Brain, TensorFlow

Rachid Guerraoui

Professor, EPFL

Houcemeddine Turki

Research Assistant, University of Sfax

Elyes Manai

ML Consultant & Developer Advocate

Siobhan Mackenzie Hall

Incoming DPhil student, University of Oxford

Chance Coughenour

Program Manager, Google Arts & Culture

Wei Xiao

AI in Emerging Areas at Nvidia, Professor at Santa Clara University

Walid Daou

AI Lead, OCP

Celina Lee

CEO, Zindi

Track / Co-organizers

Mazen Mahdi

Lead Data Scientist, Daskell

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