Speakers

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Aby Louw

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Text-to-speech for African languages

Day 2 - 14h30 - 16h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Language Language Research Research
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Alta de Waal

BMW Group South Africa

AI use cases in BMW Group South Africa

Day 2 - 10h30 - 12h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry MLOps MLOps
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Andrea Bohmert

Knife Capital

Control your own Destiny

Day 3 - 13h00 - 15h30

Women in Tech Workshop Women in Tech Workshop
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Asad Jeewa

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Reinforcement Learning

Day 2 - 16h30 - 18h00

Foundations Foundations RL RL
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Aurona Gerber

University of the Western Cape

The Digital-first World

Day 1 - 10h30 - 12h00

AI Ethics AI Ethics Research Research
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Ayogeboh Epizitone

Durban University of Technology

AI applications in healthcare

Day 3 - 13h00 - 15h30

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Healthcare Healthcare Ml in Healthcare Workshop Ml in Healthcare Workshop
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Batsi Ziki

InstaDeep and University of Cape Town

Curiosity: The compass that leads to intrinsic motivation

Day 3 - 10h30 - 12h00

Research Research RL RL
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Benjamin Sturgeon

UCT, EA UCT

An introduction to technical AI safety and alignment research

Day 3 - 13h00 - 15h30

AI Ethics AI Ethics AI Safety and Governance in Africa Workshop AI Safety and Governance in Africa Workshop Research Research
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Cassandra Durr

Stellenbosch University

Contrastive Learning: Fundamentals and Practical Applications

Day 1 - 14h30 - 16h00

Language Language Research Research Vision Vision
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Chijioke Okorie

University of Pretoria

Navigating legal and licensing landscape for machine learning applications

Day 3 - 10h30 - 12h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Legal Legal
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Daniel Nico Wilke

University of Pretoria

Decoding Data Science to Encode Concepts

Day 1 - 10h30 - 12h00

Foundations Foundations

Deshen Moodley

Centre for AI Research, University of Cape Town

Embracing Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence: The rise of Augmented AI systems

Day 1 - 10h30 - 12h00

Research Research
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Dineo Makoro

Vodacom Group

How a line graph can ruin your day

Day 1 - 14h30 - 16h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Data Science Data Science Explainable AI Explainable AI
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Divanisha Patel

Instadeep

Reinforcement Learning and its Applications to Real-World Problems

Day 3 - 10h30 - 12h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry RL RL
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Eileen Izette Carter

South African Human Rights Commission

RightsTech: Balancing Innovation and Human Rights in the Age of Deep Learning

Day 3 - 10h30 - 12h00

AI Ethics AI Ethics Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Legal Legal
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Emile-Reyn Engelbrecht

Stellenbosch University

Semi-supervised learning and novelty detection using Generative Adversarial Networks

Day 1 - 14h30 - 16h00

GANs GANs Research Research
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Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem

University of Pretoria and South African Centre for AI Research

AI and Agency

Day 2 - 13h00 - 14h00

AI Ethics AI Ethics Keynote Keynote
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Frank Ortmann

Spatialedge

MLOps in Enterprise

Day 2 - 10h30 - 12h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry MLOps MLOps
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Gabi Immelman

Mindjoy

Minds and Machines: The most powerful technology in the classroom?

Day 1 - 10h30 - 12h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Education Education
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Gemma Dawson & Stephanie MĂĽller

IBM Quantum

IBM Quantum Research in Healthcare

Day 1 - 10h30 - 12h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Healthcare Healthcare Quantum Computing Quantum Computing
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Herman Kamper

Stellenbosch University

What can large spoken language models tell us about speech?

Day 2 - 10h30 - 12h00

Language Language Research Research
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Isaac Itumeleng Setshedi

University of Pretoria

Unveiling hidden parameters: Transforming the classic solve for X problem to data driven interpretable latent parameters

Day 1 - 10h30 - 12h00

Data Science Data Science Research Research
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Jacobie Mouton

Stellenbosch University

An Introduction to Variational Inference and its Application in Deep Learning

Day 2 - 14h30 - 16h00

Foundations Foundations Inference Inference
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Jacques Ludik

Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA), Cortex Logic

Pushing AI innovation to develop trustworthy explainable AI, AGI and autonomous Intelligent Agents in a Decentralized World

Day 1 - 10h30 - 12h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Explainable AI Explainable AI
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Jay van Zyl

Ecosystem.Ai

Human Organism as Algorithm

Day 2 - 09h00 - 10h00

Keynote Keynote Social Science Social Science
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John Kamara

Adanian Labs & AAICE

The AI opportunity for Africa

Day 3 - 09h00 - 10h00

AI in Africa AI in Africa Keynote Keynote
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Jonas Kgomo

Equiano Institute

A Guided Walkthrough the African AI Safety Landscape

Day 3 - 13h00 - 15h30

AI Ethics AI Ethics AI Safety and Governance in Africa Workshop AI Safety and Governance in Africa Workshop
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Joseph Muthui Wacira

Stellenbosch University and AIMS South Africa

Advances in Machine Learning for Renewable energy

Day 2 - 14h30 - 16h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Research Research
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Junior Muka

PhD Candidate - University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Improving data quality using machine learning

Day 3 - 13h00 - 15h30

Healthcare Healthcare Ml in Healthcare Workshop Ml in Healthcare Workshop Research Research
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Karen Viljoen

Teraflow.ai

Data plumbing 101

Day 1 - 14h30 - 16h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Data Science Data Science
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Kayode Adetunji

Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB)

Using Deep Learning to Predict CVD Multimorbidity in Africa: A Guide to Navigate the Dark Abyss

Day 3 - 13h00 - 15h30

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Healthcare Healthcare Ml in Healthcare Workshop Ml in Healthcare Workshop
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Keegan White

Founder, Taurine Technology

Smart Networks - the Power of Machine Learning Controlled Computer Networks

Day 2 - 14h30 - 16h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry
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Kevin Eloff

InstaDeep

Denoising Diffusion Models: Introduction and Applications

Day 3 - 10h30 - 12h00

Diffusion Diffusion Foundations Foundations
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Kshitij Thorat

University of Pretoria

Translating astronomical Big Data into patterns of discovery

Day 1 - 13h00 - 14h00

Astronomy Astronomy Keynote Keynote
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Leanne Nortje

Stellenbosch University

Visually grounded few-shot word learning in low-resource settings

Day 2 - 10h30 - 12h00

Language Language Research Research
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Mahmood-Ali Parker

Sybrin

Liveness Detection: Defending Against the Emerging Threat of Deepfakes

Day 2 - 14h30 - 16h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Vision Vision
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Mark Gaffley

University of Cape Town

Panel Discussion

AI in Africa AI in Africa
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Matthew Baas

Stellenbosch University

Voice conversion with just nearest neighbours

Day 2 - 10h30 - 12h00

Language Language Research Research
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Mehrdad Ghaziasgar

University of the Western Cape

Hackathon prep: An unconvoluted introduction to CNNs

Day 2 - 16h30 - 18h00

Foundations Foundations Hackathon Hackathon Vision Vision
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Mervyn Christoffels

Centre for High Performance Computing

CHPC: Localised Deep Learning Resources

Day 2 - 14h30 - 16h00

Research Research
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Mmaki Jantjies

Telkom

Intentional career development in the field of AI

Day 3 - 13h00 - 15h30

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Women in Tech Workshop Women in Tech Workshop
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Oluwasegun Julius Aroba

Durban University of Technology

Uncovering the emergent of AI in Health Care Industries in the 21st Century

Day 3 - 13h00 - 15h30

Healthcare Healthcare ML in Healthcare Workshop ML in Healthcare Workshop
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Paul Amayo

University of Cape Town

Building Intelligence for Robotics In Africa

Day 1 - 09h00 - 10h00

Keynote Keynote Robotics Robotics
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Ritesh Kanjee

Augmented Startups(Director) -| Advisory Board Member SAAIA

Mastering Modern Computer Vision Workshop: From Basics to Cutting-Edge Techniques

Day 2 - 10h30 - 12h00

Education Education Foundations Foundations Vision Vision
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Roger Carthew

DataProphet

How People Power your business

Day 3 - 10h30 - 12h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry People People
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Ruan van der Merwe

ByteFuse

Paying Attention to Transformers: A Deep Dive into Transformer Networks

Day 1 - 14h30 - 16h00

Foundations Foundations Language Language Transformers Transformers
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Sandras Phiri

Panel discussion

AI in Africa AI in Africa
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Sasha Abramowitz

Instadeep

Beyond Python: How Julia can Accelerate your Reinforcement Learning projects

Day 3 - 10h30 - 12h00

Data Science Data Science Research Research RL RL
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Sedinam Simpson

Investec

Day in the Life of a Data Scientist

Day 1 - 14h30 - 16h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Data Science Data Science
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Shane Gregory Acton

Instadeep

Natural Language AI is revolutionising Medical Science

Day 2 - 10h30 - 12h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Healthcare Healthcare Language Language
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Siphiwe Thwala

IBM Research

Biomedical Text Insights Extraction

Day 3 - 13h00 - 15h30

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry Healthcare Healthcare Ml in Healthcare Workshop Ml in Healthcare Workshop
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St John Grimbly

University of Cape Town

Intro to Causality

Day 1 - 14h30 - 16h00

Causal ML Causal ML Research Research RL RL
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Thapelo Nthite

Botlhale AI

Building an AI startup in Africa

AI in Africa AI in Africa
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Thenjiwe Kubheka

InterCodex

Developmental opportunities for women within the Technology sector

Day 3 - 13h00 - 15h30

Education Education Women in Tech Workshop Women in Tech Workshop
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Thomas Gwasira

Peralex Electronics

Reading the Air: Deep Learning in Radar, Communications and Acoustic Signal Processing

Day 2 - 14h30 - 16h00

Applied ML & Industry Applied ML & Industry
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Zainab Taonga Chirwa

Effective Altruism UCT/ University of Cape Town

Perspectives on AI Governance in Africa

Day 3 - 13h00 - 15h30

AI Ethics AI Ethics AI Safety and Governance in Africa Workshop AI Safety and Governance in Africa Workshop
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Zara Schroeder

Research ICT Africa

Panel Discussion

AI in Africa AI in Africa