Call for presentations AMLD Africa

Want to speak and present your work during the first AMLD event in Africa!

This is the first AMLD event in Africa! We would like to explore and learn how Machine Learning can help enable sustainable development (economy, health, education, etc) in Africa.

If you have some interesting research, a practical project, an awesome product, a promising startup, a sharp expertise, a strong opinion or anything worth sharing and discussing with other researchers, practitioners, fields experts or machine learning and AI enthusiasts, we encourage you to submit a proposal for one of the tracks in development.

Presentation Format

Language: all presentations are in English
Topic: we encourage talks that explores how Machine Learning can help enable sustainable development in Africa.
Presentation duration: we would like to keep the sessions interesting, full of energy and fast-paced. We’re looking for talks of a length between 10 and 30 minutes, most being on the shorter end. We will be on a tight schedule and will enforce the time limits rigorously. We suggest that you time your presentation accordingly in advance.
Brevity: keep the proposal concise and focused. If you need more than two paragraphs to get to the point, we ask you to put more time into focussing your application. With the amount of submissions we get, the quicker you can make a good first impression, the better.
Originality: one of the things we want to do at AMLD is to push the community forward. Thus, we favor original content. If you want to present a topic that you have talked about elsewhere, try to add a twist, new research or development to it - something to make it unique.

Selection process

Here’s how presentations will be selected:

All submissions are reviewed and voted for by the conference organizers. Each presentation is rated, taking into account the following criteria:
1. relevance of the topic to the AMLD Africa
2. coherence and clarity of the proposal
3. novelty/originality of the topic
4. Can the topic be reasonably covered in the allocated time

Video recording for presentations

We plan to record and publish all talks online for free, along with a recording of the slide deck, live demo, and any on-presenter-screen activity. We do this for the benefit of the larger ML community and those who couldn’t make it to the conference. Since you retain full ownership of your slides and recording, we’d like to ask you to make your materials and recording available under a Creative Commons (we default to non-commercial reuse) or other open source licenses.

We hope you agree with us, but if you are uncomfortable with this in any way, let us know.

If in doubt, reach out! If you have an idea for a presentation, but are unsure, please talk to us! Reach out to africa@appliedmldays.org.

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