8:10am - 8:30am: Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:30am - 9:00am: Keynote #1: Generative Diversity - Building Large Language Models (LLMs) for Social Inclusion (Olubayo Adekanmbi, CEO, DSN)
9:00am - 9:30am: Keynote #2: A Look at the Next Generation of AI and Data Innovators (Celina Lee, Co-Founder and CEO, Zindi)
9:30am - 10:00am: Oral Presentations
9:30 - 9:40 Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan, Nuhaila Innan, Jahvaid Hammujuddy: Ellucidating Common Fallacies and Misconceptions about LLMs
9:40 - 9:50 Serah Akojenu, Olubayo Adekanmbi, Anthony Soronnadi, David Akanji:Â Geo-visualizing Hotspots of Citizen Dissatisfaction Using Social Media Print
9:50 - 10:00 Ulises Hernandez, Abel Perez-Vargas, Nicolo Ricca, Simerjaut Kaur, Keshav Ramani: Hierarchical Topic Modeling and Topic Evolution in Email Dataset
10:00am - 10:10am: Break
10:10am - 10:40am: Keynote #3 (Sekou Remy, Research Scientist, IBM Research-Africa)
10:40am - 11:10am: Keynote #4: Empowering Financial Inclusion through Generative AI - Opportunities and Challenges in Ethiopia (Israel Goytom, Co- Founder & CTO, Chapa)
11:10am - 11:40am: AI Research Talk
11:40am - 11:55am: Open Forum/Discussion
11:55am - 12:00pm: Closing Remarks