Schedule

Day 1

February 4, 2022

Opening Day

3:30-4:00 PM EST

Welcome Ceremony

Lelia Marie Hampton, David Hill, Jr., and Hamza Hawkins

4:00 PM EST

nanoSPLASH: Quantum Engineering Rapid COVID Testing

Ryan Robinson, CEO and Founder of Conduit

Twitter | LinkedIn | Press | Press

Day 2

February 5, 2022

Tech for Social Good #CommitToChange

10:45 AM EST

Zindi Introduction

Come meet zindi.africa!

12 PM EST

Sign-to-Speech Modeling for Nigerian Sign Language Understanding

Steven Kolawole, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta

Twitter | LinkedIn | Medium

1 PM EST

Constructing a Visual Dataset to Study the Effects of Spatial Apartheid in South Africa

Raesetje Sefala, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

Website | Twitter | LinkedIn | NeurIPS 2021 Paper

Day 3

February 6, 2021

Closing Ceremony

9 AM EST

Closing Keynote: Can computing be decolonised?

Roundtable Discussion with Professor Ron Eglash (University of Michigan School of Information) and Dr. Syed Mustafa Ali (Open University, Critical Information Studies, UK)

Ron Eglash: Twitter | Website | Books | TED Talk

S. Mustafa Ali: Twitter | Scholarly Articles | Previous Talk

10:30-12:00 PM EST

Judging

Judges: Alicia Boyd, Azubuike Onwuta, and Danilo Symonette

1 PM EST

Winning Teams Announcement