2019 Milestones at Data Science Nigeria

We have had a very awesome 2019. We have activated our vision to raise one million Artificial Intelligent talents in 10 years. We have scaled up sustainability and built unique platforms to support our operation and expansion.

We are indeed very grateful to our inspiring staff, awesome sponsors, amazing advisory board members, supportive partners, and the ever-energetic community members.

Of a truth, we are well-positioned to achieve our mission to build a world-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) knowledge, research and innovation ecosystem that delivers high-impact transformational research, business use applications, AI-first start-ups, support employability, and social good use cases in Nigeria and beyond.

Read some of our major milestones in 2019

• Artificial Intelligence and multidisciplinary research workshop and AI+ Professional meet-up with Dr. Stephen Odaibo – supported by Terragon Group

 

• Provision of unlimited internet broadband to the AI Hub by MainOne

 

• A showcase of our work at the Artificial Intelligence for Good, Geneva Switzerland

 

• AI Invasion in 30 cities – Beginners masterclass in Machine learning

 

• Hosting of a masterclass with Sarah Hooker of GoogleAI as part of our weekly Pre-university Machine learning class

 

• Award of 2019 Maathai Impact Award to the Lead mentor and founder, Bayo Adekanmbi

 

• Won the 2^ème Best Research poster at Deep Learning Indaba, Kenya 2019

 

• AI Knowledge Box, a USB of over 10,000 videos to democratize access to world-class AI content

 

• AI Wednesday for Beginners – free hands-on classes for beginners

 

• Participation in the National Economic Summit Group 2019 on Data Economy and imperatives for Nigeria

 

• AI Researcher Masterclass with Tyler Lu of Google Canada

 

• Collaboration with the South-Africa based i2ifacility to host the 1st DataHack4Fi to Nigeria

 

• Artificial Intelligence Summer School free holiday classes for JSS1-3 (Grade 7-9)

 

• Pan-Nigeria kick-off AI+ club on university campuses – a drive for inclusion to take AI to every corner of Nigeria

 

• AI+ Masterclass with Italy-based AI doctoral researcher, Samuel Edet

 

• Relocation to new office space and AI Hub in Yaba

 

• Data Science Nigeria AI Everyday classes

 

• 100 Days of Machine Learning and Deep learning online classes to kick start the learning for the 2019 Bootcamp

 

• AI Researcher Forum with Kaggle Grandmaster, David Odiabo PhD

 

• Best practice showcase at AI Kenya, Nairobi

 

• Engagement and best practice showcase at AIMS, Kigali Rwanda – partnership for high-impact AI in Africa

 

• Participation in the Pan-African Artificial Intelligence for Development African Network

 

• Participation and co-sponsorship at IndabaX Nigeria with an award of a travel grant to the 1^er runner-up, poster presentation to Deep Learning Indaba, Kenya

 

• A showcase of our work at AIHackTunisia by the lead mentor & founder, Bayo Adekanmbi

 

• Kick-off of the FREE Introduction to Deep Learning class

 

• AI Hub Library expansion with new books–now 130 titles!

 

• Industry engagement meet-up on AI for the Logistics industry with MaxNg and SeqHub

 

• Participation and showcase at the GoogleTensorflow Roadshow Lagos

 

• Strategic expansion into 24 cities with AI City Lead appointment

 

• Launch of FREE 1st Artificial Intelligence book for Nigerian elementary schools.

 

• Data Analytics classes for Business Professionals – completion of two cohorts

 

• AI Summit for Socio-Economic Development

 

• Artificial Intelligence Bootcamp with 232 Bootcamp participants 26 international speakers and 11 local facilitators

 

• Masterclass on AI/ Big Data Demystified for Executives

 

• Acceptance of our work at NeurIPS Black-in-AI workstream on Classroom Behaviour Monitoring using AI

 

• Strategic expansion to offer consulting services with expanded workforce and product/service portfolio

 

• Awarded Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation project Grant for Lagos Integrated Data Management platform

 

• Hosting of 2-day NeurIPSConf Meet-up in Lagos 13&14 Dec. 2019

 

• Business Strategy Retreat for 2020 strategic planning

 

• Teach-the-Teachers session on Artificial Intelligence – hosting 121 teachers from 83 primary & secondary schools

 

• Launch of DataCrowd- a crowdsourcing data collection solution for government, businesses and non-profit to track local events, monitor trends, report insights, etc.

 

• Data Science Nigeria unveils AI+ Clubs for primary & secondary schools in Nigeria

 

• 600,000+ downloads of our free ebook on Artificial Intelligence for starters