2022 Pan-Africon AI conference
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Guest of Honor, Speakers, and Panelists
H.E. Abiy Ahmed (PhD)
Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Guest of Honor
Mr. Antonio Pedro
Acting Executive Secretary United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Speaker on The Role of the UNECA in Developing AI in Africa
Dr. Mohamed Al-Kuwaiti
Head of Cyber Security, UAE Government
Speaker on: UAE Model: AI in Cybersecurity
Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Schwenker
Professor at Institute of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany
Speaker on: Mathematical Aspects of Deep Neural Networks
Prof.Tommie Meyer
Professor in Computer Science University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Co-director of the South African Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research
Speaker on: AI in Africa’s Context
Abeba Birhane (PhD)
Adjunct Assistant Prof., Complex Software Lab School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland
Panelist on: It’s Incomprehensible: On Machine Learning and Decoloniality
Prof. Achim Ibenthal
Professor at HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Göttingen, Germany
Panelist on Impact of AI for African sustainable development
Herman Kojo Chinery-Hesse
Chairman, the SOFTtribe
Panelist on Impact of Ai for African sustainable development
Sabelo Sethu Mhlambi
Founder & CEO of Bhala AI
Panelist on Impact of Ai for African sustainable development
MERCY NDEGWA
Public Policy Director, East & Horn of Africa at Facebook
Panelist on Impact of AI for African sustainable development
Editors
Dr. Taye Girma Debelee
Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute Deputy General Director
Prof. Achim Ibenthal
Professor at HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Göttingen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Schwenker
Professor at Institute of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany
Program Committee
Worku Gachena Negera
Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute, Ethiopia
Israel Goytom
Chapa, Ethiopia
Solomon Kassa
International Tech Consultant & Strategist, Founder, 1888EC, Author, Public Speaker
Yehualashet Megersa
Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute, Ethiopia
Samuel Rahimeto
Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute, Ethiopia
Cordula Reisch
HAWK Univ. of Applied Sciences & Arts, Germany
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse
IBM Research, Africa
Conference Papers
You can access the published paper here https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-31327-1
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