
Sekou Lionel Remy
IBM Research Africa Reinforcement Learning Fundamentals
Reinforcement Learning Fundamentals

Meredith Palmer
University of Minnesota
How can Machine Learning Inform ecology?

Ciira wa Maina
Lecturer at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology in Nyeri, Kenya, One of the driving forces of Data Science Africa (DSA)
Symposium Keynote and Makers Session

Benjamin Rosman
Researcher, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Reinforcement Learning Frontiers

Kris Sankaran
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
Attention and Memory
Laura Sevilla
University of Edinburgh
Vision and Interactive Research Skills

Nyalleng Moorosi
Researcher at Google AI, Ghana
Data Science

Daniela Massiceti
PhD Candidate, University of Oxford
Computer Vision and Presentation Skills

Avishkar Bhoopchand
Research Engineer, DeepMind
Recurrent Neural Networks

Karim Beguir
Co-founder and CEO of InstaDeep, Google Developer Machine Learning Expert
Startups and Innovation in Africa

Saumya Jetley
FiveAI
Computer Vision

Kathleen Siminyu
Data Scientist Africa's Talking; Co-organiser, Nairobi Machine Learning and Data Science
Natural Language Processing

Sara Hooker
Google AI Ghana
Machine learning in Resource Constrained Environments

Daniele Orner
Brave Venture Labs
Machine Learning in Production

Emily Muller
Imperial College
AI and Fairness Workshop

Willie Brink
Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
Optimisation in Deep Learning

Ulrich Paquet
Research Scientist, DeepMind, London
Bayesian Inference Fundamentals

Delmiro Fernandes-Reyes
University College London
Machine Learning for Healthcare

Jade Abbott
RetroRabbit
Machine Learning in Production

Herman Kamper
Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
Natural Language Processing and Speech and Language

Manohar Paluri
Facebook AI Research
Computer Vision

Natalia Neverova
Facebook AI Research
Computer Vision

Vukosi Marivate
Chair of Data Science, University of Pretoria; CSIR; and Deep Learning Indaba
AI and Fairness Workshop

Preston Adie
Africa's Talking
AI in Kenya

Babatunde Ekemode
Africa's Talking
AI in Kenya

Abdoulaye Banire Diallo
Professor, Director of the Bioinformatics Lab at Université du Québec à Montréal & co-founder and Chief Scientist of at My Intelligent Machines
Keynote

Ruha Benjamin
Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Founder of the JUST DATA Lab
Keynote

Samory Kpotufe
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Keynote

Aisha Walcott-Bryant
Research scientist and manager at IBM Research Africa - Nairobi, Kenya
Keynote

Finale Doshi-Velez
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
Keynote

Richard Socher
Chief Scientist at Salesforce
Keynote

Marc Deisenroth
Imperial College
Bayesian Optimisation and Hyperparameter Search

Stig Petersen
DeepMind
How can Machine Learning Inform Ecology?

Gilbert Lim
National University Singapore
ML for Health

Jonathan Gerrand
University of the Witwatersrand
ML for Health

Olivier Bent
University of Oxford
ML for Health

Pashmina Cameron
Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK
Deep Learning Fundamentals

Victor Akinwade
IBM
IBM

Stuart Reid
Chief Scientist and partner, NMRQL Research
Startups and Innovation

Stefano Ermon
Stanford/Atlas AI
Datasets for African AI

Pete Warden
Tensorflow at Google
Machine learning in Resource Constrained Environments

Raymond Onouha
UNESCO inclusive policy lab
AI and Fairness

Nazneen Fatema Rajani
Salesforce
AI and Fairness

Teki Akuetteh Falconer
Senior Partner at Nsiah Akuetteh & Co.
AI and Fairness

Grace Mutung’u
KICTANet
AI and Fairness

Josephine Miliza
Tunapanda Institute
AI and Fairness

Robert Muthuri
AI4D
AI and Fairness

Alex Comninos
AI4D
AI and Fairness