Main Stage:
Startup & Community Day:
https://youtube.com/live/IlAxLUtrCHA?feature=share
Day 1:
https://youtube.com/live/0ks8trW-eFs?feature=share
Day 2:
https://youtube.com/live/LpUZJxzwFx0?feature=share
Day 3:
https://youtube.com/live/yueiukXnqbw?feature=share
WSS2:
Startup & Community Day:
https://youtube.com/live/zGSI8tLaKVU?feature=share
Day 1:
https://youtube.com/live/fxdNP2ZfJYM?feature=share
Day 2:
https://youtube.com/live/05dsVDljCiw?feature=share
Day 3:
https://youtube.com/live/zNBIbV-Gl-Q?feature=share
WSS3:
Startup & Community Day:
https://youtube.com/live/ewWEPK7The0?feature=share
Day 1:
https://youtube.com/live/wXZNhhJqUNk?feature=share
Day 2:
https://youtube.com/live/F8EBuKNxR78?feature=share
Day 3:
https://youtube.com/live/wQ23TOvi33E?feature=share
Tickets (incl. free lunch)
Online Tickets
Online Free Ticket
0.00 USD
On-site Tickets
Student
5.00 USD
Student Group (3 students)
12.00 USD
WITS Faculty Member
20.00 USD
Startup Member
20.00 USD
Regular
75.00 USD
Organizer Ticket
Organizer
0.00 USD
Agenda
Monday, January 26
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
Event Start
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome Coffee & Registration
9:30 AM - 9:35 AM
9:30 AM - 9:35 AM
9:35 AM - 9:40 AM
9:35 AM - 9:40 AM
Working to boost Digital and Entrepreneurship Skills in South Africa
9:40 AM - 9:50 AM
9:40 AM - 9:50 AM
Africa Bridge
The voice pushing the growth of secondaries for high flying ventures and beyond.
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
Scalar: Venture Capital and Private Equity
Investments in energy and digital infrastructure that accelerates innovation and adoption of new technologies.
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
10:00 AM - 10:40 AM
• Bernadette Bule: Business and Partnerships Manager at 22 On Sloane
• Keshni Morar (Jozi Angels): Fractional Strategy & Operations Partner
• Hubèrt Gutsa: Chief Executive Officer at Scalar
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
Giveways -NotionAI - OPPO - Acalytica
1:40 PM - 2:30 PM
1:40 PM - 2:30 PM
Meet the AI and ML communities driving impact across Africa. Learn about their missions, how to get involved, and collaboration opportunities.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Tuesday, January 27
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Grand Opening
WSS2
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
Emile Jordaan : AI for Sustainable Agriculture & Water Management
WSS1
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
Ahsan Mahboob : AI for Energy Transition: Climate Adaptation & Mining.
WSS3
AI for Urban Management & Circular Economy.Gilles Q. Hacheme
WSS2
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Dhruti Dheda Subtrack: AI for Energy Transition: Climate Adaptation & Mining.
WSS3
Yanet Niguse Tesfay: FarmBuddy
WSS1
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Jean-Claude Baraka Munyaka: Turning Watersheds into Digital Twins: ML-Driven Tools for Risk, Mobility, and Early Action
WSS2
10:20 AM - 11:20 AM
10:20 AM - 11:20 AM
Bravian Nyatoro: Flood watch Africa
WSS2
Khungeka Njobe : AI for Energy Transition: Climate Adaptation & Mining.
WSS3
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Tapiwa Chiwewe : AI for Energy Transition: Climate Adaptation & Mining.
WSS3
10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
10:40 AM - 11:40 AM
Nadine van de Walt :AI for Urban Management & Circular Economy.
WSS2
Tara Southey : AI for Sustainable Agriculture & Water Management
WSS1
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Priya L. Donti AI for Sustainability
WSS2
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo : Genomic Diversity and Personalized Medicine.
WSS2
Dino Rech : Public Health Surveillance and Care Delivery.
WSS3
Mihir Patel : AI-Driven Diagnostics and Digital Health.
WSS1
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Gina Itzikowitz : Public Health Surveillance and Care Delivery.
WSS3
Lily Paemka :Genomic Diversity and Personalized Medicine.
WSS2
Rose Nakasi: Artificial Intelligence for Diagnostics in Africa - the reality and the hype.
WSS1
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Nasreen Mahomed : AI-Driven Diagnostics and Digital Health.
WSS1
Tariq Daouda : Genomic Diversity and Personalized Medicine.
WSS2
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM
Elias W. B Subtrack: AI-Driven Diagnostics and Digital Health.
WSS1
2:50 PM - 3:30 PM
2:50 PM - 3:30 PM
Jason Hinch : Public Health Surveillance and Care Delivery.
WSS3
2:50 PM - 3:40 PM
2:50 PM - 3:40 PM
Kamil Seghrouchni: The AI Application Layer: Building New Breed Of Techbios On Africa's Biobank Infrastructure
WSS2
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Tom Lawry : AI for Healthcare
WSS2
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Panel with Tom Lawry, Mary-Anne "Annie" Hartley, Greg Barett
WSS2
Wednesday, January 28
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Georges Jojo Boateng: Leveraging Smartphones and AI to Provide Coding Skills to Africans
WSS2
Montassar Ben Messaoud: AI4SE in Action: Insights from the TBS-VERMEG Partnership
WSS3
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
Edzai Zvobwo : AI for Entrepreneurship.
Tebogo G. Tlhopane: Building Applied ML Systems in Data-Scarce Informal Economies
WSS3
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Alex Pryor: Low Bandwidth, High Impact: Designing AI for African Reality
WSS2
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Jacques Ludik Subtrack: AI for Entrepreneurship
WSS2
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Praise Anomye : COST-AWARE CREDIT SCORING FOR AFRICAN MICROFINANCE
WSS3
11:00 AM - 11:30 PM
11:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Kabelo Makwane: AI at Google Keynote: Dive into Gemini and AI culture at Google
WSS2
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
AI Panel with Benjamin Rosman ,Vukosi Marivate, Jonathan Schock and Jacques Ludik
WSS2
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Hein Badenhorst: Bringing a scaled sovereign AI factory to South Africa
WSS2
Robert Basmadjian : Toubkal Supercomputer: Powering Morocco’s HPC Future
WSS3
Robert Basmadjian: Toubkal Supercomputer: Powering Morocco's HPC Future
WSS3 - Online Speaker
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Bonaventure F. P. Dossou: Active Learning for Efficient Low-resource Efficient NLP
WSS3
Mickey Moyo: Small Data, Massive Innovation Opportunity
WSS2
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Amos Chege Kirongo: Low-Resource Language Preservation: AI-Assisted English-to-Kimeru text Translation System with User-Driven Validation and Adaptive Dataset Expansion
WSS3
Kato Steven Mubiru: Scaling Afri-Aya's Vision-Language Model for African Languages
WSS2
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Isheanesu Misi: Doing More With Less: Transfer Learning and Prioritization for African Language AI
WSS2
Marie Didier: Decoding Cultural Heritage: hardware-enabled AI and material DNA
WSS3
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Prof Chijioke Okorie Keynote: AI for Cultural Preservation
KEYNOTE : WSS2
4:20 PM - 5:20 PM
4:20 PM - 5:20 PM
Workshop : IBM Research Africa
WSS1
GEOStudio: Using Geospatial Exploration and Orchestration Studio for disaster mapping
Thursday, January 29
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Bunmi Akinremi
WSS2
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM
Martin Bekker
WSS2
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Dr Edmund Ugar
WSS2
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Antoine Bosselut
WSS2
10:55 AM - 11:00 AM
10:55 AM - 11:00 AM
Karima Bardaoui
WSS2
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Samuel Segun
WSS2
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Panel
1:45 PM - 1:50 PM
1:45 PM - 1:50 PM
Tshilidzi Marwala
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Joseph JTR
Miriam Nkomalago
Main Stage - WSS2
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Nazareen Ebrahim
Sipho Mtombeni
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM
Anriette Esterhuysen
Jacquelene Friedenthal
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
Safiia Mohamed
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM
Bienvenu Agbokponto SOGLO
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Panel
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Event End
AMLD Africa
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