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 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

Note: the hackathon will start and end on Friday 19th November and the result will be given on Saturday 20th November.