African-Francophone in AI challenges and opportunities

Gather and connect African francophones who are in AI to discuss the issues other francophones ai practitioners are facing when trying to dive into ai. Suggest solutions and discuss what has been done so far.

Réunir et connecter les francophones africains qui travaillent dans le domaine de l'IA pour discuter des problèmes que rencontrent les autres praticiens francophones de l'IA lorsqu'ils essaient de se lancer dans l'IA Proposer des solutions et discuter de ce qui a été fait jusqu'à présent

Moustapha Cisse, Speaker

Moustapha Cisse, Speaker

Invited speaker, Head of Google AI Center Accra. Founder and Director of AMMI at AIMS...

Benjamin Muller [Speaker]

Benjamin Muller [Speaker]

Invited speaker, Ph.D. Student at INRIA Paris. Focusing on Multilingual Modeling. NLP Instructor at ENSAEparis....

Raoul de Charette

Raoul de Charette

Invited speaker, Inria RITS team

Galsen AI

Galsen AI

Community talk 01

Ai4Innov

Ai4Innov

Community talk 02

IVIA-AF

IVIA-AF

Community talk 03

Salomon Kabongo

Salomon Kabongo

Organizer of the conference

Gilles Hacheme

Gilles Hacheme

Organizer of the conference

Espoir Murhabazi

Espoir Murhabazi

Organiser of the conference

Nando Tezoh

Nando Tezoh

Organiser of the conference

Workshop outline :

08:00 - 08:10 : Opening remarks
08:10 - 08:30 : Invited Speaker, Raoul de Charette
08:30 - 08:35 : Q&A
08:35 - 09:55 : Community talk 02 Galsen AI
08:55 - 09:00 : Q&A
09:00 - 09:20 : Community talk 02 Ai4Innov
09:20 - 09:25 : Q&A
09:25 - 09:45 : Community talk 03 IVIA-AF
09:45 - 09:50 : Q&A
10:00 - 13:30 : Break
13:30 - 14:00 : Invited Speaker, Benjamin Muller Title: TBC
14:00 - 14:15 : Q&A
14:15 - 14:45 : Invited Speaker, Moustapha Cisse Title: TBC
14:45 - 15:00 : Q&A
15:00 - 15:30 : Collection of ideas for next steps and collaborations.