Data Science Nigeria will be organizing its annual summit and bootcamp. The Summit will focus on the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in financial inclusion strategy, with a specific focus on understanding the financially excluded segment, use of alternative data in developing credit risk scoring algorithm, and building simpler AI-enabled financial delivery interfaces.
The Summit will be taking place at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos on October 10, 2018. The theme for the Summit is “New Algorithms for the Financially Excluded Segment.”
Leading local and international experts such as Adebisi Shonubi, MD/CEO, NIBSS; Dr (Mrs) Yinka David-West, Director, Lagos Business School; Matt Grasser, Director, Inclusive Fintech, Bankable Frontiers Associate, USA; Temitope Akin-Fadeyi and Head Financial Inclusion Secretariat, Central Bank of Nigeria; Ekow Duker would be leading the plenary and discussions at the summit.
The one-day Summit will be followed by a five-day residential, all-expenses-paid Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp and hackathon on emerging trends in machine learning and deep learning between 10 and 14 October 2018.
The goal is to build world-class capacity in advanced data analytics, upskill financial inclusion data analysts and researchers in emerging best practices, and to support the development of the contextually relevant algorithm and tech innovation.
The boot camp will include face-to-face teaching, virtual online classes, and a hands-on hackathon using the Kaggle.com platform. Distinguished data scientists from leading institutions including the Google AI Lab, Stanford AI Research, GitHub and Bankable Frontiers Associates will facilitate the sessions. An ongoing pan-Nigeria selection competition will select the 150 best-performing students/researchers/practitioners that will be accepted into this free boot camp.
Over 10,000 students from 90 universities and polytechnics have participated in the preliminary phase. This year’s boot camp will include a very competitive hackathon using Nigeria-centric data to explore, extrapolate and explain emerging possibilities in financial inclusion algorithms.
The boot camp learning sessions will be enriched by experts across the world, including Matt Grasser, Director, Inclusive Fintech, Bankable Frontiers Associate, USA; Moustapha Cisse PhD, Google AI Lab; Sara Hooker, Google AI Lab; Prof Tom Dietterich, Distinguished Professor & Director Oregon State University & Founder BigML; Dr Emmanuel Doro, Principal Data Scientist, Jet.com, USA; Dr Sulaimon Afolabi, Argility South Africa.
Participation in the one-day summit is free and interested participants can register here while the 5-day AI bootcamp is based on pre-competition qualification, you can access it here.
