[MLDS - AFRICA] [Seminar - Fireside chat with Lelapa AI]

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🔥 Fireside chat with Lelapa AI

 

Register to participate (limited capacity): https://cassyni.com/events/G9K4JabNmpDJi5FrGjMQxm?ldl00q

Watch live stream (cannot directly participate): https://youtube.com/live/PczbbDFMlyA?feature=share

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Lelapa AI seminar

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Abstract

Lelapa.AI (https://lelapa.ai/) is a socially-grounded Africa-centric AI research & product lab

As part of our AI 4 Health Ideathon Series, join SisonkeBiotik for a conversation with their CEO (Pelonomi Moiloa) and COO (Jade Abbott).

Lelapa.AI is built upon three primary intentions:

WISDOM
Lelapa is a concentration of Africa’s niche skills in resource efficiency. This wisdom around resource efficiency is imperative for the advancement of AI technology globally – and especially for solving the complex problems posed by the Global South (the Majority World).

FAMILY

Grounded in the philosophy of Ubuntu (I am because we are) Lelapa’s mission is to develop technology for the global family. We explore how contemporary challenges can be solved through centering technology on humanism based on relationality – advancing global Responsible AI practices on the continent and beyond.

HOME
African AI talent needs a home – an opportunity to contribute to solving problems that represent their best interests, in a place that facilitates them doing their best research, without compromising the kind of remuneration warranted by the application of such critical skills. Lelapa is that home.

Bio

Pelonomi Moiloa

Pelonomi has spent 8 years in the data science domain, leading data science teams in developing and productionalising machine learning solutions in the finance industry.

She has Biomedical and Electrical Engineering degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MSc from Tohoku University where she did research on a deep learning application for neurophysiology.

A community organiser she is Trustee of the Ruth First Jeppe Memorial Trust and runs the Code Kamoso coding academy for girl teens as co-director of The Ungovernable NPC. Pelonomi was named to the 200 Young South Africans list in 2019.

Jade Abbott

Jade has 10 years experience building and professionalizing AI in industry working across banking to NGOs to startups. She is co-founder of Masakhane, the grassroots organisation driving NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans. Abbott holds an MSc. from the University of Pretoria. Recent honours include being one of South Africa’s Inspiring Fifty 2020 and Mail&Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans 2021.

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