Tentative Schedule
University of Dschang
16 November 2021
08:00-12:00: Communication from young researchers
13:30-16:30: Posters presentation (by students)
Full day: Forum and exhibitions in stands (business partners, etc.)
17 November 2021
08:00-09:00 : Registration
09:00-09:15: Welcome speech from the Head of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science: Prof Marcellin NKENLIFACK (University of Dschang)
09:15-09:30: Opening remarks from the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences: Prof Emmanuel NGAMENI (University of Dschang)
09:30-10:30: Intervention of the Technical Manager of Afriland First Bank (Title: Importance and impact of the deployment of cybersecurity mechanisms within a large structure): (Afriland first bank, Dschang)
10:30-11:15: Presentation of a Project in Machine Learning: Dr. Elie FUTE (University of Buea) & Prof NKENLIFACK (University of Dschang)
11:15-13:00: Coffee break
13:00-13:45: Tutorial (Title: Best Practices for Machine Learning in Developing Countries): Prof Christopher THRON (Texas A&M University, USA) Presentation Slide
13:45-14:30: Keynote 1 (Title: Foundations of Machine Learning): Dr. Marcelin ATEMKENG (Rhodes University, South Africa) Presentation
14:30-16:30: Hands-on Tutorial (Title: Supervised Machine Learning: Classification): Prof Christopher THRON (Texas A&M University, USA) Notebook, Materials
16:30-17:30: Posters presentation
18 November 2021
08:00-09:00: Registration
09:00-09:30: Recap of the first day
09:30-10:30: Hands-on Tutorial (Title: Hyperparameter Tuning For Classification Model and Best practices To Win A Competition): Mrs. Irene Raissa KAMENI KAMENI (Vector Institute, Canada) Notebook
10:30-11:15: Tutorial (Title: Presentation of Zindi and How to do a competition on Zindi): Miss. Amy Bray (Zindi, Africa)
11:15-11:20: Hackathon
11:20-12:00: Lunch
12:00-13:00: Keynote 2 (Title: The Growing Role of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity ): Dr. Charles A. KAMHOUA (US Army Research Laboratory) Presentation slide
13:00-14:00: keynote 3 (Title: Impacts of AI in Engineering) : Eng. Uriel Pascal ELINGUI ( Groupe CERCO, Côte d’Ivoire) Presentation slide
14:00-14:45: Tutorial (Title: CA application on Dimensionality Reduction): M. YOUGA Guy Mathias (University of Johannesburg South Africa) Presentation slide
14:45-15:30: Hands-on Tutorial (Title: Machine Learning and Applications): Mr. Constant WETTE (Ericsson, Canada)
15:30:16:00: closing remarks: Prof. Marcellin NKENLIFACK
Hackathon
The hackathon offered by Zindi will focus on this competition.
The Hackathon will END on Sunday, November 21 at 11:00 P.M. (local time) and the results will be ANNOUNCED on Monday, November 22 at 9:00 A.M. (local time)
NB: Further communication may be added after the registration of additional participants.
National Advanced School of Engineering, Yaoundé
19 November 2021
08:00-22:00: Hackathon
Full day: Forum and exhibitions in stands (business partners, etc.)
20 November 2021
07:00-07:55: Setting up and welcoming the participants and speakers
08:00-08:15: Welcome by the head of the Department of Computer Engineering: Prof Bouetou Bouetou Thomas
08:20-09:20: Fundamentals of deep learning by Saurabh Shahane, CEO of The machine learning company
09:25-10:25: Build Machine Learning Solution on Google Cloud by William Dekou, Cloud Architect at Google Cloud
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:05-11:30: Break
11:30-12:30: Deep learning application on real-life problem by James Asseine, Research Engineer at DeepMind
12:30-12:45: Coffee break
12:50-13:20: Machine learning and agriculture by Dr. MVONDO NGANTI Dorothée, Technical Director of Agrix Tech
13:25-14:00: Impact of deep learning in agriculture by Eng. Yannick Serge Obam, Machine learning engineer at isoMora
15:30-16:00: PyTorch Vision tutorial
16:00-16:30: Intervention of the representative of Zindi, TCHANGMENA A NKEN ALLASSAN - Robotic Engineer & Zindi ambassador
16:30-17:00: Award ceremony and closing remarks.
Hackathon
The hackathon will focus on this competition
Note: the hackathon will start and end on Friday 19th November and the result will be given on Saturday 20th November.