Schedule

Workshop Schedule 📯

8 September 2023

Time Title
11:00AM Opening remarks
11:05AM Keynote: A Quantitative Approach to Measuring Responsible AI, Reflections from RAIN by Prof. Jerry John Kponyo
11:35AM Keynote Q&A
11:45AM Phonocardiogram Classification: Leveraging 1D Inception Time Convolutional Neural Networks with Explainable AI using Grad-CAM. Bjørn-Jostein Singstad, Antony M. Gitau.
11:55AM On Diagnostics for Understanding Agent Training Behaviour in Cooperative MARL. Wiem Khlifi, Siddarth Singh, Omayma Mahjoub, Ruan de Rock, Abidine Vall, Rihab Gorsane, Arnu Pretorius.
12:05PM Fairness in Credit Scoring. Nokuthula K., Nathi N., Nadiera M.,Siyanda N.
12:15PM Morning Session Q&A
12:30PM Network Session & Lunch break
2:00PM Keynote: Larger isn’t always better by Dr. Abeba Birhane
2:20PM Keynote Q&A
2:30PM Investigating the Robustness of Arabic Offensive Language Transformer-based Classifiers To Adversarial Attacks. Maged Abdelaty, Ahmed El-Sayed Mahmoud, Shaimaa Lazem.
2:40PM Algorithmic Techniques for Mitigating Gender Bias in Word Embeddings. Victor Ashioya.
2:50PM Afternoon Session Q&A
3:10PM Keynote: Thinking of Trust beyond Data and Models by Dr. Aisha Walcott
3:30PM Keynote Q&A
3:40PM Keynote: Training Dynamics and Trust in Machine Learning by Dr. Nicolas Papernot
4:00PM Keynote Q&A
4:10PM Network Session & Coffee break
4:30PM Panel Discussion Going beyond buzzwords and metrics: What will it actually take to achieve equitable, accessible and transparent AI? Panelists: Roseanne Liu (Google DeepMind), Tyna Eloundou (OpenAI) and Siobhan Mackenzie Hall (University of Oxford) Moderator: Nathi Ndlovu (South Africa Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
5:50PM Closing remarks
6:00PM End of the Workshop