Schedule

The time corresponds to GMT + 1

• 10:00-10:05 Opening Remarks and Presentation of KmerAI (Foutse Yuehgoh: CNAM & ESILV)

• 10:05-10:35 Talk on The AI Revolution is there: Are you ready? (Rockefeller: Stellenbosch University) slides

• 10:35-11:15 Talk on Principle of Language Modeling and Transformers in NLP (Irene Kameni: AMMI Alumna) notebook

• 11:15-11:35 Practical Presentation on Object Detection with the case of POP-UP using the YOLOV5 method (Elodie Kemadjou: University of Lorraine - Alumna) slides & notebook

11:35-11:55 Coffee break

• 11:55-12:35 Talk & Demo on NLP from a technical view to a business use case (Isaac Yimgaing: BLIINK) slides & demo

• 12:35-13:15 Talk on the Mathematics behind NLP (Prof. Thron Christopher: Texas A&M University-Central Texas )

• 13:15-13:55 Talk on Transforming Text Data to Matrix Data via Embeddings (Colleen Farrelly: Datasembly) slide & notebook

13:55-14:15 Coffee break

• 14:15-14:55 Talk on Privacy and Fairness Perspective on Web Scraping (Ivoline Ngong: University of Vermont ) slide

• 14:55-15:35 Talk on SOTA AI Tools at Google (Harry Winner: University of Yaoundé) slide

• 15:35- 15:55 Hands-on Tutorial on Automatic Questions and Answer Generation using NLP (Tatiana Moteu: AMMI Alumna) notebook

• 15:55-16:00 Closing Remarks (Foutse Yuehgoh: CNAM & ESILV)