Speakers
Ciira Maina
Senior Lecturer and Director, Center for Data Science and AI Dedan Kimathi University of Technology
Dr. Adeleke O. Bankole
Research Software Engineer, Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS) University of Cambridge UK
Dr. John Quinn
Director of Research Sunbird AI / Google Research
Dr Success Ojo
CEO/Co-founder GMIND.AI
Professor Olayinka David-West
Dean Lagos Business School Pan-Atlantic University
Oluwafemi Azeez
Head of Data Science Pastel Africa
Ezekiel Adebayo Ogundepo
Fellow Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Dr. Girmaw Abebe Tadesse
Principal Research Scientist and Manager Microsoft AI for Good Lab
Robert Thas John
Chief Data Officer Enterfive Ltd
Tayo Bamiduro
Max.ng
Dr. Ernest Mwebabze
Director Sunbird AI
Elaine Nsoesie
Assistant Professor Boston University
Dr. Olubayo Adekanmbi
EqualyzAI
Samuel Rutunda
CTO Digital Muganda
Steve Asemota
Access Bank
Dr. Victor Odumuyiwa
University of Lagos
Dr. Dina Machuve
Co-Founder and CTO DevData Analytics
Dr. Segun Adebayo
Director, Information & Communication Technology Bowen University, Iwo
Tejumade Afonja
Co-founder of AI Saturdays Lagos & Doctoral Researcher CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
John Dang
Cohere.ai
Dr Olusola Ayoola
RAIN
Vukosi Marivate
ABSA Chair of Data Science, Professor Department of Computer Science University of Pretoria
Blessing Oladeji
CEO Octave Analytics
Rachel Adams
Fola Adeleke
Global Center on AI Governance
Sanmi Koyejo
Dr Bunmi Ajala
Dr Bamba Gaye
Prof. Adenike Osofisan
Neil Lawrence
George Gekov
ARM
AbdulQudus Ajibade Ajibade
Dr. Kolawole Akinjiola
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