7:30 – 8:45

Breakfast

8:45 – 9:00

Opening Remarks
Director General Lacina Koné, Smart Africa

9:00 – 10:00

Ministerial Panel

H.E Paula Ingabire – Minister of ICT & Innovation, Rwanda H.E Honorato Evita Oma – Minister of Transport, Post Office and New Information and Communication Technologies, Equatorial Guinea Hon. William Kabogo Gitau – Cabinet Secretary, Information, Communication & the Digital Economy, Kenya H.E Cina Lawson – Minister of Digital Economy and Transformation, Togo H.E Dr Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Federal Republic of Nigeria Moderator: Amb Professor Bitange Ndemo

10:00 – 10:45

The Human or the Agent: Impact of AI on Africa’s Workforce
H.E Honorato Evita Oma – Minister of Transport, Post Office and New Information and Communication Technologies, Equatorial Guinea Uyoyo Edosio – Principal ICT and Innovation Expert at the African Development Bank. Linda Bonyo – CEO, Lawyers Hub Holy Ranaivozanany – Deputy Executive Director, the Africa-Europe Foundation Dr Olayinka David West – Dean, Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University Moderator: Dr Jane Munga – Fellow,Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

10:45 – 11:30

Bias or Blind: Why we need women leading AI in Africa
H.E Paula Ingabire – Minister of ICT, Rwanda Alice Munyua – Senior Director, Mozilla Samb Sokhar – Women in Machine Learning and Data Science Dr Anino Emuwa – Founder, 100 Women @ Davos Launch of the Mozilla African Women in AI Fellowship
Moderator: Crystal Rugege – MD,Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Rwanda

11:30 -11:50

Break

11:50 – 12:35

Deep Thoughts: What compute infrastructure is for Africa
Alex Tsado – Co – founder, Ahura AI Kate Kallot – Founder & CEO, Amini Rama Afullo – Founder & CEO, Satlyt Krupa Suchak -Director, EMEA Data Centre Transactions
Moderator: Robin Miller, Founding Partner, Axum

12:35 – 1:20

Data Flows, Data Sovereignty and Africa AI Innovation System
Dr Bunmi Ajala – Senior Special Adviser (AI, Data & Research) to the Ministry of ICT, Nigeria – John Walubengo, CISA, CDPSE, (OGW) – Deputy Data Commissioner, Kenya Angela Lungati -Executive Director, Ushahidi Mbaye Derguene, General Manager, Galsen AI, Senegal
Moderator: Helene Smertnik, Caribou Digital

1:20 – 1:50

Lunch

1:50 – 2:35

Life or Hype: AI for the Africa’s 3 Musketeers (Sickness, Hunger, Poverty)

Jay Patel, Director of Technology, Jacaranda Health Tokpanou Kpégo sévérin, Programme IA & Data Academy, Benin Ismaila Seck , Lengo AI, Senegal Toriola Oladeji Joseph, Vinsighte Limited, Nigeria Moderator: Asha Mweru, Qhala

Panel Discussions on What Africa Wants

2:35 – 3:20

AI AND CHILDREN IN AFRICA (Hybrid Session)
Deputy Minister Mondli Gungubele – Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, South Africa Mr. Joshua Ongwae, Child Fund Africa Union Dr Laila Macharia, Founding Director, Aspen Initiative Africa – Nairobi Director, Ms Angela Martins, African Union Ms. Catherine Karoki, Deputy CEO; Mtoto News Representative from ADMI Marija Manojlovic – Executive Director, Safe Online Child Representative, Sierra Leone and Nigeria Moderator(Child): Upendo Nawire

Tea Break

3:20 – 3:40

3:40 – 4:25

What Africa Wants: Conversation with Researchers

Bulelani Jili – Meta Research Ph.D. Fellow Dr.Chinasa T. Okolo – The Brookings Institution Prof. Milind Tambe – Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard Dr. Dennis Mwighusa – Executive Director, Africa Research Institute For AI

Moderator: Kojo Apeagyei, Qhala

4:25 – 5:10

What Africa Wants: Conversation with Startups

Mr Alexander Arphul – Chief Director and the Administrative Head at the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation,Ghana Mutembei Kariuki – CEO, Fastagger Ojoma Ochai – MD, Co-creation Hub Julie Lanckriet – COO, Emerging Valley Silas Adenkule – Co-founder, Awarri Djiba Daouda – Co-founder and President, AI Hub Senegal Moderator: Leonard Mungarulire, Associate Partner, Dalberg

5:30 – 8:00

Networking Cocktail