Training Workshop on:

"Big Data, ML, and AI in Social Sciences"

The lack of relevant technical skills, particularly among young people, prevents the continent from fully harnessing the potential of transformative technologies and industries. MDAISS will help to bridge the skills gap by offering a training workshop on big data and IA technologies applied to social sciences. This intensive training will take place on June 20 and 21, 2024. The primary goal of the training is to acquaint entrepreneurs, practitioners, industry experts, and students with large language models (LLM), ML, and AI tools that offer opportunities to address health, economic, and financial issues in the African continent. The training will cover two modules described as follows:

• Module I: AI, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Applications
• Module II: Challenge Competition and Presentation of Projects

Training will be provided by eminent experts, including: Serge Nyawa and Samuel Wamba Fosso.

The training is dedicated to students in Master of Sciences (M1 and M2), students in the last 02 years of an Engineering School with an interest in Data. The participants will apply their skills to a challenge competition or Datathon. Participants will be split into teams to work through a large and complex dataset and then present their findings to the trainers who act as judges. Participants in the Datathon will be evaluated relative to the performances of others.  The main outcome of this training workshop will be to give participants preliminary skills that they will implement in solving analytics models in any public or private working environment. Upon completing the training, participants will be able to propose simple solutions to managerial questions using AI and data. The five finalists of the AI Challenge competition (Datathon) will receive financial and mentoring support for their projects.