Applied Machine Learning Days

Present your work at AMLD Africa 2022!

We are happy to announce that the second edition of AMLD Africa will take place in Morocco !

The event will be in hybrid format to allow participants to attend remotely if they can’t come in person. We would like to explore and learn how Machine Learning can help enable the sustainable development of African countries in various fields (Agriculture, Healthcare, Education, etc.)

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, field experts or machine learning and AI enthusiasts, we encourage you to submit a proposal.

Presentation Format

Language: all presentations are in English
Topic: we encourage talks that explore 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 between 10 and 30 minutes long, 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 focusing your application. With the high number of submissions we get, the more concise it is the higher chances of it catching our interest.
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 and the scientific committee that is composed of professors and researchers with senior experience in ML-related fields. 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. Ability to cover the topic during 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.

To have some insights on the kind of presentations we want to have, feel free to watch some of last year presentations here.

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, please let us know.

If in doubt, please reach out! If you have an idea for a presentation, but are unsure, please talk to us! You can reach us via content@mlafrica.org.

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