Speakers

Akua Gyekye

Director, Government Affairs - Africa, Microsoft

Dr. Albert Njoroge Kahira

Director & Head of Research at Datawise Africa

Dr. Anthony C.K. Kakooza

Acting Head of the Commercial Law Department at the School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala

Dr. Betsy Muriithi

Research Fellow at @iLabAfrica

Bobina Zulfa

Data and Digital Rights researcher, Pollicy

Prof. Caroline B. Ncube

Professor and Research Chair: DSI-NRF SARChI Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development

Chebet Koros

Researcher, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT)

Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo

Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Prof. Chijioke Okorie

Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa and Principal Investigator and

Prof. Desmond Oriakhogba

Associate Professor in the University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Fatma Haruna Songro

Head Of Technology Law Department, Victory Attorneys & Consultants

Hlengiwe Dube

Project Manager, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria

Prof. Idrissa Sarr

Professor of Big Data and Data Science at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Director of the Research and Training Center on Web Technologies (CURI), Vice Chairman of the African Top Level Domain Organization, Managing Director of the ccTLD Registry of Senegal (NIC Senegal) and Coordinator of the Data Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (DiCentre4AI) at UCAD.

Prof. Jake Okechukwu Effoduh

Assistant Professor, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University

Joshua Kitili

Researcher, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT)

Kathleen Siminyu

Natural Language Processing Researcher at the DAIR Institute

Leonida Mutuku

AI Research Director, The Local Development Research Institute

Linet Kwamboka Nyang’au

Senior Manager, Innovations for Development, Data4Now

Loise Asewe Ochanda

Program Officer, International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Mark Irura

Advisor on Global Public Sector Engagements at the Mozilla Foundation.

Mary N. Kerema, OGW

Secretary ICT, E-Government and Digital Economy Ministry of ICT&DE

Dr. Melissa Omino

Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT)

Dr. Mugambi Laibuta

Chairperson of the Data Privacy and Governance Society of Kenya

Mukiri Mwirigi

Chief Operations Officer, Neural Labs Africa

Nashilongo Gervasius

Director of NamTshuwe Digital, Lecturer at the Namibia University of a Science and Technology, Founding President and Board Member of the Internet Society Namibia Chapter and an Advisor to the Namibia National Working Group on Internet Governance Forum

Rebecca Ryakitimbo

Feminist Technologist/AI researcher, KsGEN/Core23lab

Ridwan Oloyede

Director at the Center for Law and Innovation and Co-founder of Tech Hive Advisory Africa

Prof. Saliou Diop

Lecturer of Private Law, Ethics, and Professional Conduct, Specialist in Good Governance and the Fight against Corruption, Head of the Strategic Monitoring and Studies Division at the National Office for the Fight against Corruption in Senegal

Sandra B. Ongaki

Senior Business Development Officer, African Advanced Level Telecommunications Institute (AFRALTI)

Sharola A. Odipo

Founder & President, Women in AI in Africa (WAIA)

Susan Otieno

IP Lawyer and Researcher in the intersection of Art and Technology

Victor Ndede

Technology & Human Rights Manager, Amnesty International Kenya

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