Dedan Kimathi University of Technlogy, Nyeri, Kenya,
18 - 19 June 2015
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organized by Ciira wa Maina, Neil Lawrence, Andreas Damianou, John Quinn,
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Schedule
Thursday 18 June
8:30 Arrival and Registration
9:00 Opening Remarks, Ciira wa Maina
9:00 Session 1: Agriculture
9.20 Optimizing Small-scale Farm Management in Kenya using a Frugal Plant-Based Approach for Irrigation Scheduling, Lianna Samuel, IBM Research Africa
9.50 Automated Monitoring of Viral Cassava Disease, Ernest Mwebaze, Makerere University
10.20 Coffee break
Session 2: Crisis Management
10.50 Construction Of A Resiliency Platform for Preventing Future Crises In Sierra Leone, Nuri Purswani, IBM Research Africa
11.20 Umati: Monitoring Dangerous Speech Online, Sidney Ochieng, iHub
11.50 The Punya Mobile Application Development Platform, Julius Adebayo, MIT
12.20 Lunch
Session 3: Health and Bioinformatics
13.30 Personalised Medicine, Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield
14.00 Improved Modelling of Malaria Incidence with Telecoms Data, Martin Mubangizi, Makerere University
14.30 Coffee Break
15.00 Comparative Genomics of Tsetse’s Chemosensory Proteins, Rosaline Macharia, ICIPE
15.30 Concordance of Morphometrics and DNA barcoding in identifying Stingless bee species (Apidae: Meliponinae) in Kenya, Nelly Ndungu, ICIPE
16.00 Investigating Traditional Systems of Medicine Using Phylogenies Derived from Gene Sequences, Ciira Maina, DeKUT
Friday 19 June
Session 4: Data Sources and Privacy
09.00 Free Datasets For All, Prestone Adie, Kenya Open Data Team
09.30 Humanitarian Data Exchange Project, Moses Sitati, UN OCHA
10.00 Differential Privacy, Michael T. Smith, University of Sheffield
10.30 Coffee break
Session 5: Water
11.00 Using Frugal Smart Meters to Increase Water Security in Kenya, Muuo Wambua, IBM Research Africa
11.30 Understanding Nairobi’s Water Supply Landscape: The Data Driven Approach, Peninah Waweru, IBM Research Africa
12.00 Lunch
Session 6: Markets and Economy
13.00 Auction Systems for Real-Time Agricultural Market Analysis, Kenneth Bwire, Kudu/Makerere University
13.30 Time Series Analysis of Financial Market Data [To be Confirmed], Cyprian Omari, DeKUT
14.00 Wrap-up and discussion – next steps for data science in Africa?