8:00 - 8:15am: Welcome & Opening Remarks by Toyin Aguda (JPMorgan AI Reseach)
8:15 - 8:45am: AI Research Challenges and Opportunities in Ethiopia Keynote by Dr. Taye Girma (Ethiopia Artificial Intelligence Institute)
8:45 - 9:15am: Low Resource Natural Language Processing Research: Applications for social good Keynote by Dr. Joyce Nabende (Makerere AI Research Lab)
9:15 - 9:30am: Coffee Break / Tech Startups Videos
9:30 - 10:30am: Oral Presentations
9:30 - 9:37 Atieno Ogayo, Graham Neubig, Alan Black: Building African Voices
9:37 - 9:44 Rahel Tamiru, Sentence Level Automatic Speech Segmentation for Amharic
9:44 - 9:51 Assala Benmalek, Hssene Brahimi, Tiziri Kashi, Meriem Bekhoucha, Ilhem Bekkar, Day and Night Fire Detection systems with cameras and drones based on Ensemble learning
9:51 - 10:00 Q&A for first 3 Presenters
10:00 - 10:07 Olubayo Adekanmbi, Gbemileke Onilude, Ayodele Olabiyi, SMS Fraud Detector and Instant Fraud Prevention
10:07 - 10:14 Denish Azamuke, Marriette Katarahweire, Engineer Bainomugisha, Evaluation of key fraudulent scenarios in mobile money transactions in Uganda
10:14 - 10:21 Nelson Yego, Joseph Nkrunziza, Juma Kasozi, Predicting Pension Uptake in Kenya - A comparison of 3 tree-based ML models and Logistic Regression
10:21 - 10:30 Q&A for last 3 presenters
10:30 - 11:30am: Panel Discussion
Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google
Bubacarr Bah, Head of Data Science Research Group, African Institute of Mathematics (AIMS)
Somkele Awa-Kalu, Special Assistant, Economic Research and Data Analytics, President of Nigeria
Yvonne Wambui-Gitau, Data Engineer, IDinsight
11:30 - 12:00pm: How did speech representation learning successes lead to the emergence of Textless NLP research Keynote by Dr. Abdelrahman Mohamed (Facebook AI Research)
12:00 - 12:15pm: Closing Remarks by Dr. Sammy Assefa (US Bank)