Join Femi Idowu, Ahmad Bature & Stephen Ozoigbo For The Arm Dev Summit
Weekly Community Updates
Hi!
Welcome to the third week in the month of October 2021 and we hope you’re doing well. Here are the weekly updates from the AI+ Community. Kindly remember to share, and make the most of the opportunities here.
To all the ladies in our communities, happy International Day of the Girl Child.
Register For the ARM Dev
Join the global community of hardware designers and software developers for an immersive online program. Join Femi Idowu, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Microsoft, Ahmad Bature Manager, Google Developer’s Group and Stephen Ozoigbo Senior Director, Emerging Economies, Arm at this event and be the first to learn about the latest advancements shaping the next decade of computing. Register here: https://devsummit.arm.com
Wuraola Oyewusi Mentioned In 80 African Women Advancing AI In Africa & The World
Wura Oyewusi, Research and Innovation Lead at Data Science Nigeria was mentioned as one of the 80 women of African descent advancing the knowledge of AI within the African continent and in the world.
The publication read thus “At Data Science, Wuruola Oyewusi leads research, publications, supports the AI Knowledge leadership that DSN is known for and oversees consulting support for clients and partners”
Wuraola is being recognized in the AI Community for her work on Scispacy, a Python programming language containing SpaCy models for biomedical scientific or clinical text processing. SpaCy is a python software library for automatic language Read more here
Other Nigerians mentioned in the list includes Toju Duke, Ifeoma Nwogu, Nwamaka Okafor, Kafayat Adeoye, Omoju Miller, Professor Ifeoma Nwogu Adaora Udoji, Tejumade Afonja, Nenne Adaora Nwodo, Chika Yinka-Banjo, Inioluwa Deborah Raji. Simi Awokoya, Professor Chinwe Ekenna, Dr Anne- Marie Imafidon, Rachel Orumor and Dr Stephanie Kuku
Lead A DSN AI+ Community In Your Campus/City
Are you passionate about building communities? If yes, then quickly send in your application.
We seek passionate and skilled AI+ members to lead AI+ Communities in cities and campuses across Anambra, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Katsina, Nasarawa, Somoto, Taraba, Yobe, and Zamfara states.
Sign up here https://www.datasciencenigeria.org/become-an-ai-community-champion/
Call for Posters
Showcase your AI & Data Science research, products, or projects at the 2021 AI Bootcamp Poster Session for the chance to win poster awards!
We seek authors to submit as posters: research, products, projects, and concepts solving local problems with Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for presentation at the 2021 AI Bootcamp.
Submission Deadline: 16 October 2021
Acceptance notification: 20 October 2020
Submission and details: https://lnkd.in/ge6WEVRj
Give 24 Hours In A Year to Build Africa’s AI Talents
We are seeking experts in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and associated specializations, to gift a minimum of 2 hours in a month over a 12 months period to support our 1 million AI talent vision by:
1. Facilitating live or pre-recorded class sessions
2. Providing hands-on project work-through
3. Supporting academic research paper writing
4. Guiding and partnering on Kaggle/Zindi projects
Experts are needed across the world to teach and mentor in any of these languages: English, French, Arabic, and Portuguese
Visit https://lnkd.in/gWw4jmuu for more details.
Special call to English, French, Arabic, Portuguese speaking Artificial Intelligence and Data Experts!
Gift 24 hours in a year to support Africa’s AI talents
Donnez 24 heures par an pour soutenir les talents Africains en matière d'IA
تطوع لمدة 24 ساعة في السنة لدعم مواهب الذكاء الاصطناعي في إفريقيا
Presente 24 horas em um ano para apoiar os talentos de IA da África
2021 AI Bootcamp Deadline Extended
The 2021 AI Bootcamp deadline has been extended till 17th October 2021. Please find below the details you’d need to get started on the Bootcamp Qualification Hackathon. You can register now, get on the leaderboard, and join Africa’s finest at the AI Bootcamp.
To join the qualification hackathon, click here: https://www.datasciencenigeria.org/2021-bootcamp/
Please note that the details to join are on the form submission page. You can also submit your email as indicated on the submission page which will enable you to receive the hackathon details.
Explore These Opportunities at the 2021 AI Bootcamp
When you participate in the 2021 AI Bootcamp, you have access to the following opportunities;
Access to Scholarships, Internships, Job Opportunities, Research Collaboration, Startup Building and many more.
Top 10 Female & Male Hackers will have the opportunity to compete for a 2 million Naira prize at the Bootcamp.
Access to learning and being mentored by World-Class experts
Gift, prizes and awards throughout the Bootcamp sessions
How to get started on the Hackathon:
Join now by clicking QUALIFICATION HACKATHON here: https://www.datasciencenigeria.org/2021-bootcamp/
Check out these Hackathon resources: https://bit.ly/3o0XV9UCheck out this Hackathon Starter Notebook: https://bit.ly/AIB2021StarterNB
You can generate your #Hack display picture here: https://bit.ly/AIB2021Hacker
Share your #Hack DP with us on social media:
• LinkedIn: https://ng.linkedin.com/in/datasciencenigeria
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/datasciencenig/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datasciencenigeria/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/DataScienceNIG
Tech News
Netflix Establishes $5.4 Million Chadwick A. Boseman Scholarship at Howard University
Google announces $1B Investment plan to support Africa’s Digital Transformation
Job Opportunities
Program Manager at Chowberry Inc. Send cv’s to hr@chowberry.org
Manager FINTECH Lead Information Security Officer at MTN Nigeria
Saroafrica International Limited Undergraduate & Graduate Internship Programme 2021
Scholarships
Christian Studies Double Major Scholarships 2021 at California Baptist University in USA
2021 Sport International Scholarship Ambassador Program at University of Queensland in Australia
International Endowment Funds 2021 at International Islamic University Malaysia
International Masters Scholarship 2021 in Ethics Education at Fordham University in USA
Have a wonderful week!