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The “AI in Africa & SDGs: Bridging Networks and Fostering Climate Action” workshop, hosted by Naixus, aims to harness Artificial Intelligence (AI) for advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a focus on climate action in Africa. This event features a Half-Day Workshop exploring AI’s role in climate resilience, sustainable agriculture, and policy support for SDGs, alongside a Discovery Workshop facilitating brief, impactful presentations on AI innovations for SDGs. Designed to stimulate discussion, encourage collaboration, and showcase AI solutions, the workshop seeks to connect researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and communities across Africa.

By highlighting successful AI projects and fostering knowledge exchange, this initiative endeavors to strengthen networks for AI and SDGs in Africa, outline actionable strategies for leveraging AI in climate action, and contribute to the achievement of SDGs through innovative technological applications. Open to a wide range of participants, the workshop is a step towards creating a sustainable future through the intersection of AI technology and sustainable development in Africa.

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09:00 John Shawe-Taylor, Davor Orlic and Essa Mohamedali Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00 – 09:30 Joao Pita Cost, IRCAI, and Mustapha Zaouni, AI Africa Building an African Water Observatory from Open Data and AI
09:30 – 10:00 Simon Ndogo Ndung’u, Kabarak University A Data-driven Model for Sustainable Deployment of Water Resources in Africa
10:00 – 10:30 Victor Magnus Oldensand, Tanzania AI Community Twiga: the RAG-backed WhatsApp bot for Tanzanian Teachers
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Essa Mohamedali, Tanzania AI Community Improving the Use of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Protocols in Tanzania
11:30 – 12:00 Nirel Kadzo, CMU Africa "Hello Afrika”, Speech Commands in Kinyarwanda
12:00 – 12:30 Gabriel Isaac Lacson Ramolete, Aboitiz Data Innovation Opportunities for Property Valuation and Sustainable Growth with Machine Learning and Alternative Data in Kenya
12:30 – 13:00 Amal Nammouchi,
Sabrina Amrouche, AfriClimate AI		 Leveraging AI for Climate Resilience in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Need for Collaboration
13:00 – 13:30 Edmond Anthony Ng’walago Determination the use of digital tools solving energy-water inefficiency of irrigation systems

 

The EU-funded HumanE-AI-Net project unites leading European research centers, universities, and industrial enterprises into a network of excellence. This collaboration involves top global artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories working with key players in fields such as human-computer interaction, cognitive science, social science, and complexity science. The project aims to push researchers beyond their specialized domains and connect them with those exploring AI on a broader scale. The challenge is to develop robust, trustworthy AI systems that can understand humans, adapt to complex real-world environments, and interact appropriately in complex social settings. HumanE-AI-Net will establish the principles for a new science of AI grounded in European values and designed to be more relatable to Europeans.

The meeting is planned as follows:

  • 8 April: Integration workshops for the macro-projects. All macro-project participants are expected to attend. The workshop is expected to be hands-on, leading to concrete improvements in the work.
  • 9 April: General project meeting, including short presentations of each macro-project. Representatives of each partner are expected to attend. There is a possibility for the macro-projects to continue their work in parallel to the project meeting.

HumaneAI-Net project meeting in Sweden
HumaneAI-Net project meeting in Sweden
HumaneAI-Net project meeting in Sweden

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13:00 Armin Barbalata Joint welcome of the organizers
13:10 Prof. Dr. Alexander Pretschner Introduction to AI
13:40 Nicole Höss Examples from medium sized companies
14:05 Johanna Fahrnhammer Make or Buy? Two examples of collaboration with start-ups
15:15 Dr. Martin Häusl Generative AI: An introduction
15:30 Johanna Fahrnhammer Workshop "Experience AI Introduction"
16:30 Closure & Networking

Background

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most important cornerstones of digitalization as a key technology. Due to the emergence of generative AI solutions such as ChatGPT, Google Bard and DALL-E, the topic has noticeably broadened its potential. The possible applications in a wide variety of industries and business areas are diverse. The benefits for companies should not be neglected, however, as AI can be used to save resources, increase efficiencies and develop entirely new business models.

To make AI more tangible for businesses, the annual conference “AI for SMEs” will take place on October 26, 2023. Join us and receive numerous impulses through expert presentations and best practices. Look forward to learning how other companies have implemented AI, what funding opportunities are available, how you can implement AI yourself, and more. Also, take the chance to network with experts and other AI-interested people in our networking area!

Prof. Dr. Alexander Pretschner, scientific director and speaker of fortiss GmbH, asks the crucial question during his talk "When is AI good (enough)?" How "well" does AI work, and when does it work well enough? We prefer to use machine learning, currently the most successful form of AI, for problems that we cannot describe precisely ("Detect pedestrians!" or "Give useful answers to arbitrary questions!"). The question of the quality of corresponding systems is a very difficult one from the outset. He argues that it is often useful and sometimes not – and what that means for the application of Machine Learning in practice.

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  • Florian Waldeck (LUCE)

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Time Speaker Description
Introduction to AI Alexander Pretschner Introduction to AI

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Results from existing AI research projects and digitization solutions from the development and research environment will be presented.

You will also get to know the new Bavarian Center for Software Innovation: Its partners OTH Amberg-Weiden, TH Ingolstadt and fortiss GmbH will present current trends in software development and AI that you can use for your own benefit.

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  • Frank Dignum (UMU)
  • Virginia Dignum (UMU)

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  • Frank Dignum (UMU)

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12.15 Carlos Zednik Upcoming seminar Friday 6 October: Does Explainable AI Need Cognitive Models?

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#frAIday is a series of inspiring talks on Artificial Intelligence organised by TAIGA, the Centre for Transdisciplinary AI at Umeå University. Participating in #frAiday is your opportunity to share your knowledge about AI, learn more, and discuss a wide range of perspectives on AI. Join, and meet new interesting people!

The HumaneAI project partners will be presenting the project progress at our second review with the European Commission. After 24 months of successful implementation, the consortium will have the chance to showcase their impressive results at our review meeting, which took place on 2nd October 2023.

00:20 09:00 09:20 Tour de table
00:30 09:20 09:50 Overall progress overview
01:00 09:50 10:50 WP1/2 progress overview
00:20 10:50 11:10 break
00:30 11:10 11:40 WP4 progress overview
00:30 11:40 12:10 WP5 progress overview
01:00 12:10 13:10 WP6/7 progress overview
01:00 13:10 14:10 lunch
00:30 14:10 14:40 WP3 progress overview
00:30 14:40 15:10 WP8 progress overview
00:20 15:10 15:30 break
00:30 15:30 16:00 WP9 progress overview
00:20 16:00 16:20 WP10/11+Summary
00:30 16:20 16:50 reviewers internal discussions
00:20 16:50 17:10 feedback/discussion

In this half-day workshop, we highlight various research opportunities and career paths for excellent researchers in the field of computing, with reflections on gender equality and diversity. We have invited a select number of successful researchers from industry and academia, who will take the stage to share their perspectives and unique insights into their careers and research domains. With this event we aim to foster mentorship in career development for young (female) researchers by establishing and strengthening a network of Women* in Computing.

Agenda

11:00-12:00 Discussions on the Workshop Series (SFB-internal)
12:00-12:30 Opening and Welcome (with finger food)
13:00-13:30 Flash introductions
13:30-15:30 Speaker session I

  • Andrea Volkamer (Saarland University)
  • Miriam Butt (University of Konstanz)
  • Sarah Völkel (Google)
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-18:00 Speaker session II

  • Enxhi Gjini (Takeda)
  • Andrea Šipka (DFKI)
  • Passant Elagroudy (DFKI)
18:00-18:30 Group discussions (with finger food)
18:30-19:00 Concluding discussion and closing
20:00-22:00 Working dinner: Planning WiC ‘24 (organizers + speakers)

Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence (HHAI2023) is the second international conference focusing on the study of Artificial Intelligent systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence.

Find the program here and an overview of all papers here.

HHAI2023 is organised by the Dutch Hybrid Intelligence Center and the European HumaneAI Network, as the second conference in what we intend to become a series of conferences about Hybrid Human Artificial Intelligence.

HHAI aims for AI systems that assist humans and vice versa, emphasizing the need for adaptive, collaborative, responsible, interactive and human-centered intelligent systems that leverage human strengths and compensate for human weaknesses, while taking into account social, ethical and legal considerations.

This field of study is driven by current developments in AI, but also requires fundamentally new approaches and solutions. In addition, we need collaboration with areas such as HCI, cognitive and social sciences, philosophy & ethics, complex systems, and others.

In this first international conference, we invite scholars from these fields to submit their best original, new as well as in progress, visionary and existing work on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence.

The second International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence
The second International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence

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The German Entrepreneurship’s AI Beyond Borders Awards have been created to recognize the top 3 AI startups who are not only pushing the boundaries in artificial intelligence technology, but also are about to take off on an exciting journey across borders to expand internationally.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) startups face particular challenges when they take their business across international borders, be those national data regulations, or simply the cultural acceptance of artificial intelligence technology. It’s important for startups to plan for internationalization early, to educate themselves on potential markets, to make early connections, and to forge long-term partnerships in each new country.

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13.30 - 15.00 Mireille Hildebrandt (moderator), Gianmarco Gori (introducing the Report as author), Paul Lukowicz (coordinator HAI Net), Masha Medvedeva (CS), Tom Lenaerts (CS), Johannes Textor (CS), Irena Kamera (Law), Michael Veale (CS, STS, Law)

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The machine learning pipeline kicks off with the collection and curation of training data. Besides the environmental impact of generating, storing and processing ever more data, there are more reasons to question the sustainability of this type of data-driven AI systems. This panel will engage with a report written by Gianmarco Gori for the Human AI Network that is focused on groundbreaking research into human-centred AI. The report investigates how a ‘legal protection debt’ builds up in the ML pipeline where upstream design decisions may have a major downstream impact on the fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons. The report confronts the legal duties of the GDPR and the legal framework for open data and open science, highlighting the need for responsible AI from the perspective of legal protection by design. The panel hosts computer scientists, developers and legal scholars, promising an animated debate about arduous issues in data-driven research.

Please consult the report in this link: https://www.cohubicol.com/assets/uploads/hai-net-report.pdf

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EurAI annually sponsors a specialized Artificial Intelligence course called the Advanced Course on AI (ACAI). EurAI invites member societies to submit proposals for organizing the 20th Advanced Course on AI (ACAI-2023).

From this year EurAI made the ACAI school to be part of a larger European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI), structured following the successful model developed by ESSLLI.

Core local organizing committee

Aleksander Sadikov (University of Ljubljana)
Vida Groznik (University of Primorska, University of Ljubljana)
Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute)
Jure Žabkar (University of Ljubljana)

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Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey to tackle today’s challenges? “Founders4impact Night – Co-founder Match” connects early-stage entrepreneurs with outstanding talents that are ready to leverage their expertise to create impactful ventures.

Get inspired by thrilling pitches, engage in networking with free drinks and food and get to know startup enthusiasts sharing the same values and interests by joining dedicated discussion tables. Find someone joining your mission or make your fellow founder’s mission your own!

In an exciting evening, we facilitate this first step in the successful journey of outstanding founding teams. We want to empower entrepreneurs to take action, in a world calling out for innovative solutions.

Join us at the event for free and kickstart your entrepreneurial journey!

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952026.

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