Program

Opening Ceremony: H.E. Aawatif Hayar
Minister of Solidarity, Social Integration and the Family

Conference Chairs Welcome


Keynote 1: Prof. Rachid Guerraoui, Full Professor at EPFL
Artificial Intelligence: let's be serious

Keynote 2: Prof. Malik Ghallab, Emeritus Director of Research at LAAS, CNRS
Ingredients for a National R&D Strategy in AI

Keynote 3: Prof. Said Hamdioui, Chair Professor at TUDelft
Computation-in-Memory for Edge AI: Opportunities and Challenges

Keynote 4: Dr. Bouchra Bouqata, Principal Machine Learning and AI Scientist at Microsoft Azure Research
Unleashing the Power of Deep Learning for Robotics Trends and Challenges

Keynote 5: Prof. Abdelaziz Berrado Professor at EMI, UM5R
Managing System's Performance in the Age of AI: An Industrial Engineering Perspective

Keynote 6: Dr. Priya L. Donti Co-founder and Executive Director of Climate Change AI
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

Panel: Towards a National AI Strategy For Sustainable Development
Moderator: Dr. Salim Chemlal, Co-founder of MoroccoAI






Mehdi Ghissassi, Google DeepMind, UK
Dr. Manal Jelloul, AI Lab Solutions, Lebanon
Prof. Mohamed Essaaidi, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco
Hamid Maher, BCGX, Morocco
Dr. Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM Research, USA
Walid Daou, OCP Group, Morocco
Dr. Manal Jelloul, AI Lab Solutions, Lebanon
Prof. Mohamed Essaaidi, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco
Hamid Maher, BCGX, Morocco
Dr. Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM Research, USA
Walid Daou, OCP Group, Morocco

Networking

Honorary Keynote: Prof. Geoffrey Hinton Full Professor at University of Toronto
Learning Deep Neural Networks without Propagating Derivatives

Workshop : Nvidia Deep Learning Fundamentals
Instructed By: Dr. Manal Jelloul


Challenge Presentation & Awards
Sponsored By: NVIDIA DLI

Keynote 7: Dr. Hicham Zmarrou Lead Architect Data & AI at Microsoft
To succeed with Enterprise AI, first build the 'Bridge'

Keynote 8: Prof. Merouane Debbah Chief Researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute
Mobile AI: Challenges and Opportunities

Special Q&A Session: with Prof. Mohamed Najim
Professor Emeritus at University of Bordeaux, Founder and First Director of ENSIAS

CLOSING
Closing Remarks