Welcome and Opening Remarks

Community Presentations

Speed Dating

Responsible AI in Africa, challenges and opportunities

With Elizabeth Mutua

Edtech AI in Africa from founders

With Kiko Muuo, Mumbe Mwangangi, Ngugi Karega & Felix Malombe

Interlude: Rhythms of the continent

Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence to end new HIV Infections among the Kenyan Youth

With Marilyn Ronoh

Closing

Registration

Opening Ceremony

With Marcel Salathé, Kamil Seghrouchni, Mohamed Ali Dhraief & Omolola (Lola) Omole-Odubekun

AGI4Health: Building the world’s first true Generalist AI Doctor

With Darlington Akogo

Towards Autonomous AI Agent for Drug Discovery

With Emmanuel Noutahi

Coffee Break

Context-adapted Large Language Models to Improve Health Access in Africa

With Mary-Anne Hartley

Evaluating Large Language Models for Safe and Effective Use in Healthcare (Large language models)

With Sandeep Reddy

Harnessing hidden signals in medical images

With Judy Gichoya

Lunch Break

An artificial intelligence approach to malaria case detection in Siaya, Kenya

With Sandra Barteit

Infant Cognitive Monitoring Using Computer Vision

With Leah Mutanu Mwaura

A Study of Acquisition Functions for Medical Imaging Deep Active Learning

With Bonaventure F. P. Dossou

Impact of bowel sounds on symptoms and colonoscopy outcomes

With Nour Ghalia Abassi & Kais Bouslama

Algorithms to improve fetal-maternal health using magnetic resonance imaging

With Mazdak Abulnaga

Improving Global Access to Maternal Healthcare using AI and Ultrasound

With Angelica Willis

Interlude: Rhythms of the continent

Novartis Presentation - Health Tech Innovation Hub

With David Kihumba

Applying AI to enable Biological discoveries

With Tariq Daouda

The AI Doctor Will See You Now: Navigating AI's Ethical Impact on Healthcare Equity & Inclusion

With Alexandra Ebert

Panel Discussion

With Mary-Anne Hartley, Emmanuel Noutahi, Judy Gichoya, Kamil Seghrouchni & Therence Bois

Day 1 - Closing Remarks

Day 2 - Opening Remarks

The African NLP Moonshot: Start your Rockets

With Vukosi Marivate

Exploring the Frontier: The Challenges and Opportunities in Building Kenya's National Language Corpus

With Mark Irura Gachara

Bridging Linguistic Frontiers: Machine Learning & NLP Innovations Empowering African Languages: Challenges, Progress, and Promising Futures

With Bonaventure F. P. Dossou

How AI and Virtual Reality Can Help Revolutionize Cultural Heritage in Africa

With Cornelius Maroa

Lunch Break

African AI Pioneers: Charting the Course for Innovation and Impact

With Darlington Akogo, Vukosi Marivate, Alfred Ongere & Moses Kemibaro

Day 2 - Closing Remarks

Day 3 - Opening Remarks

Theory-to-Practice: Ensuring positive impact from ML solutions

With Girmaw Abebe Tadesse

AI for Biodiversity: Combatting Extinction Together

With Tanya Berger-Wolf

Weather technologies without borders: Closing Africa’s infrastructure gap

With Santiago Hincapie Potes

Interlude

Geospatial AI foundation models for Climate change discovery

With Julian Kuehnert

How WWF leverages AI for its work?

With Attila Steinegger, Confrey Alianji & Jonas van Duijvenbode

Sustainable water management

With Warren Ochieng

Lunch Break

The Future of Entrepreneurship: Leveraging Generative AI

With Alfred Ongere

ASR for informal retailers

With Ismaila Seck

Machine learning and spectral matching techniques improve landscape-scale crop type classification

With Kudzai Shaun Mpakairi

No GPU No Problem!

With Victor Jotham Ashioya

Intelligent Document Processing - Your First Step Towards Digital Transformation

With Yassine Hamdaoui

Privacy-Preserving Technologies for Africa

With Elnathan Tiokou

Interlude: Rhythms of the continent

African Guarantee Fund: Data management for loans

Democratizing Deep Learning: The On-Device AI Revolution

With Mohamed Abdelfattah

Advancing Africa's Climate Resilience and Agricultural Sustainability Through Environmental Data & AI

With Clinton Oduor & Steve Firsake

The Role of AI In Shaping Of Industry And Economic Impact On Emerging Markets

With John Kamara

Event Retrospective & Closing Discussions