Theme: Machine Learning for Sustainable Development

Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique de Yaoundé

September 13-14 2023

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Speakers

Hassan Kane

MIT Alumni, CEO at Medium Biosciences

Loïc Kwate

Research Engineer - Google DeepMind

Bernabe Batchakui

Professor - Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique de Yaoundé

Boris Fonyuy

Research Engineer - Google

Benjamin Akera

Researcher at Mila - Quebec AI Institute

Pascal Tikeng

Researcher - Mila

Brown Ebouky

Researcher - IBM

Esdras Fandio

Engineer - Dassault Systèmes

Pimi Yvan

Data Scientist - Ipro

Tentative Schedule

Sep 13 (Wed)

09:00 - 09:30

Check in

09:30 - 09:45

Opening remarks

09:45 - 10:30

Esdras Fandio: Machine Learning Nowadays

10:30 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 12:15

[Tutorial] Ebouky Brown: Generative AI

12:15 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:30

[Keynote] Hassan Kane: Generative AI & African Development: Empowerment or Exploitation?

14:30 - 15:30

Boris Fonyuy: TBD

15:30 - 15:45

Break

15:45 - 16:30

Panel Discussion: Pr Bernabé Batchakui, Boris Fonyuy, Yvan Pimi, Amaël Bogne

Sep 14 (Thu)

08:30 - 09:00

Networking and Breakfast

09:00 - 09:30

Spotlight presentations

09:30 - 10:30

Yvan Pimi: ML for Cameroonian Languages

10:30 - 10:45

Break

10:45 - 12:15

[Practical] Loïc Kwate: Hands on Jax, from PyTorch

12:15 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:00

Industry demos

14:00 - 15:00

[Keynote] Benjamin Akera: Machine Learning applied to Climate Change

15:00 - 16:00

Pascal Tikeng : Rethinking Generalization in Deep Learning

16:00

Closing remarks

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Organizers

Brice Nanda

Researcher - Mila

Alex Kameni

Data Scientist - Ivalua

Loïc Kwate

Engineer - DeepMind

Amaël Bogne

CEO at KYME

Patrick Talom

IT Consultant - Freuli Partners

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