DataFest Africa 2024 - Day 2

09:40

Alright, we've off to a start.

09:48

Ayodele giving the welcome address.

09:55

Brief chat meeting people sitting beside me then Prof. Ndubuisi should be coming up to give the keynote address.

10:02 - Keynote Session

Maximising Business Value in AI-Driven Era – Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Prof. Nduibuisi has a comprehensive and thorough theory of production–hos individuals and business create value. He applies his advanced technological skill to illustrate how AI will impact this value creation process and highlights how businesses can take advantage of this technology.

10:51

Think AI Will Fix Your Data Skills? Think Again – Samuel Iheagwan

Don't Skip the Basics

Your mist valuable ability is the skill to learn, adapt and grow.

If you take Artificial Intelligence as a sports car, you are better served to put a skilled driver in the cockpit instead of a novices. Hence, you want to be a well-skilled data professional using AI, instead of assuming AI will solve all your needs as a novice.

11:10 - Sponsorship Session

State of the Employed Report - PaidHR

11:19 - Sponsorship Session

Dataphyte Foundation.

A not-for-profit organisation focuses on data collection and management for the civil space in Nigeria. They have set up Open Data Portals for a couple of state governments in Nigeria.

Goloka - Data access platform, a tool for distributed data collection

Nubia - Story telling/generation, built originally for the journalism space

Igba - Geolocation data tool

Dataphyte Academy

Ekiti State Open Data Portal

Anfani - Government procurement data

11:23 - Expert Session

AI at Scale: Transforming Enterprises with Intelligent Solutions – Dr. Jania Okwechime, Partner at Deloitte

11:57 - Sponsorship Session

Periculum Connect - Connecting students to financial partners in Canada

12:13

Data Maturity - Preparing your E-commerce Data Team for AI Transformation — Peniel Ilechie

12:28 - Sponsorship Session

Dinma, Katwig and Dale

Prevent "I'll call my lawyer for you" situations.

12:38

How to contribute ML Research from Where You Are — Busayo Awobade

Contribute from where you are; Join ML Communities; Have fun.

12:51

Empowering Underrepresented Groups Through Data Literacy - Stephanie Egharevba

13:01 - Sponsorship Session

Data Global Hub

Ikenne

Community Manager - Aremo Olamilekan

Datarango

13:12

The Unique Role of Local Data in Shaping the Future of AI in Africa

13:28

Early lunch.

Came back.from lunch to the middle of another session:

13:45 - Sponsorship Session

ProveHub

14:10

Actual Lunch.

Met Kunle Adelowo of Dataphyte Foundation and had a pleasant chat about their GoLoka product, their data collection in Education and internal data storage systems. Also met Kachi Kanu, looking forward to chatting with him.

Caught up with Tobi Yusuf again, from FUTA.

Caught up with Daniel Dayo, I met him at Moonshot.

14:55 - Expert Session

Transforming Healthcare: AI's Role in the Future of Healthcare — Chuks Nwachukwu

15:27 - Speed Networking

15:51 - Expert Session

AI for a Better World: Driving Development and Civic Good with Data and AI — Adekunle Adelowo

16:22

Hackathon Showcase

5 teams presented their data collection, preparation, and analytic process to solve a problem of degrading exam scores in a secondary school. The end result is expected to be predictive analytics of issues for the school management to address.

• Data Sa - Very impressive use of an actual college as case study, collecting real data from two schools and a tutorial center, and creating interactive PowerBI dashboards with relevant insights.
• Data Baddies - Impressive use of open source tooling
• Team IO
• Team Arrow - Interrsting mention of a bar code scanner for data collection
• Team Starlighters

17:04

Closing Remarks

Read Day 3 here.