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| Time | Thur Session | Thur Parallel | Time | Fri Session | Friday Parallel | |
| 8.30 | Opening remarks: Dr. Mphatso Kamndaya | 8.30 | Welcome and Announcements | |||
| 8.45 | Keynote: Solomon Dindi, MAREN | 8.45 | Marije Geldof: Data Quality and Contextualisation of technology | |||
| 9.00 | Keynote: Solomon Dindi, MAREN | 9.00 | Lightning Talk 6: Patrick Phandera, Disease detection and recognition using deep learning and computer vision | Foutse Yuehgoh: Recommender Systems | ||
| 9.15 | Questions and Interaction | 9.15 | Lightning Talk 7: Macphail Magwira, Making AI Adoption cheaper, faster and more accessible to anyone in Africa | Parallel 1: Practical Intermediate ML | ||
| 9.30 | Dr. Thomas Basikolo: Machine Learning for Sustainable Development, Crowd Sourcing Problem Solving | 9.30 | Practical: getting started with ML | Parallel 2: How to work with Git Hub | ||
| 9.45 | – Dr. Basikolo cont – | 9.45 | Practical: getting started with ML | cont | ||
| 10.00 | Sponsors’ Spotlight: Inq Inc | 10.00 | Mzuzu Lightning Talk 8: Florence Love Nkosi- Chagoma, Machine Learning for Predictive Analysis: A Financial Auditing Case Study | |||
| 10.15 | MACRA Deputy General: How Regulation impacts the technology ecosystem in Malawi | 10.15 | Mzuzu Lightning Talk 9: Michael Zimba, Stanley Ndebvu, Rueben Moyo and Chimango Nyasulu, TinyML: A viable option for Malawi | |||
| 10.30 | – MACRA cont – | 10.30 | Talk 10: Carl Meyer, ShiftIT, Bitwalking | |||
| 10.45 | Refreshments | 10.45 | Refreshments | |||
| 11.00 | Alinafe K: Present on the biodiversity monitoring project in NKK WR | 11.00 | Davor Orlic, IRCAI Lightning | |||
| 11.15 | – Alinafe K – cont | 11.15 | Enoch Singano, Using Machine Learning for detecting Phishing Websites. | |||
| 11.30 | Overview of Spatial Datasets and Tools | 11.30 | Machine Learning with Google Could and BigQuery | Ethics and AI: A focused discussion | ||
| 11.45 | – cont – | 11.45 | cont | cont | ||
| 12.00 | Drones with Alexander Mtambo | 12.00 | Lightning Talk 10: Takondwa Kapyola, An application for a Music Distribution Licence | |||
| 12.15 | – cont – | 12.15 | Lightning Talk 11, Newton Kelvin, Water level and Quality monitoring system using message Queueing Telemetry Transport Technology, (Electrical And Electronics Department, Dedan Kimathi University Of Technology,KENYA) | |||
| 12.30 | LUNCH | 12.30 | LUNCH | |||
| 12.45 | LUNCH | 12.45 | LUNCH | |||
| 13.00 | Lightning Talk 1: Patrick Ken Kalonde, Utilizing Drone Technology for Mapping Domestic Waste Piles in an Urban Environment | Parallel 1 : Inq Female Arduino Hackathon from 1 – 4pm | 13.00 | Lightning Talk 12: Paul Chris Mwale, Imajinet Unleashed | MSc projects presentation 1 | |
| 13.15 | Lightning Talk 2: Chikumbutso Beza, Generating a simple Map from open data sources, Using GIS. | 13.15 | Lightning Talk 13: Doreen Ndovi, Open Source in Malawi, student MUBAS | MSc projects presentation 2 | ||
| 13.30 | Lightning Talk 3: Blessings Chiepa, The use of deep learning models for mapping dwellings in unplanned settlements. | 13.30 | Lightning Talk 14: Patrick Nyasulu, An application to Helmet Safety in engineering, student BIS MUBAS | |||
| 13.45 | Questions and Interaction | 13.45 | Questions and Interaction | |||
| 14.00 | Elena Stamatelou – The Impala Project | 14.00 | Workshop: Scientific Writing | |||
| 14.15 | Veronica – BaseFlow (WASH datasets) | 14.15 | Farrelly, Colleen M, An introduction to time series data with R and Malawian agricultural data | |||
| 14.30 | Charlie Maere: Computer Vision Practical | 14.30 | Farrelly, Colleen M, An introduction to quantum machine learning | |||
| 14.45 | – cont – | 14.45 | Interaction and Questions | |||
| 15.00 | REFRESHMENTS | 15.00 | REFRESHMENTS | |||
| 15.15 | Blessing Mlundira: DeepMute | 15.15 | Sam Masikini: The ZIndi Competition Platform | |||
| 15.30 | Lightning Talk 4: Mudaniso Hara, Applications of Machine Learning for Predicting School Dropouts | 15.30 | How to Participate in a competition Zindi or Kaggle – learning how to compete | Parallel: Short Competition | ||
| 15.45 | Lightning Talk 5: Leonard Mutambanengwe, Artificial Intelligence for the African Economy: Discussing AI use for our society’s opportunities | 15.45 | How to Participate in a competition Zindi or Kaggle – learning how to compete | Parallel: Short Competition | ||
| 16.00 | Questions and Interaction – End of day 1 | 16.00 | Concluding Remarks, Prize giving and end of the day | Concluding Remarks, Prize giving and end of the day |
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