Program

Opening Ceremony Minister Ghita Mezzour,
Minister Delegate in Charge of Digitalisation and Administration Reform

Conference Chairs Welcome
Prof. Mohammed Khalil, Dr. Salim Chemlal and Prof. Abdelhak Mahmoudi



Keynote 1: Mehdi Ghissassi, Head of Product Management at Google DeepMind
Building Research grounded products that impact billions of users.

Keynote 2: Prof. Hajar Moussannif, Associate Professor at Cadi Ayyad University
Artificial Intelligence: Unlocking Real Value Beyond the Hype.

Accepted Paper Presentations & Lightning Talks - Session 1

Keynote 3: Walid Daou, AI and Data Science Lead at OCP Group
How AI can Create Value for Corporates : History and Use Cases

Keynote 4: Dr. Halima Bensmail, Principal Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute
Harnessing big 'Omics' data with ML and AI for disease signature discovery

Keynote 5: Kemal El Moujahid, Product Director at Google Tensorflow
Google Machine Learning Ecosystem for Research and Production

Networking

Honorary Keynote: Prof. Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila
Cognitively-inspired inductive biases for higher-level cognition and systematic generalization

Day 2: Opening Speech
Dr. Salim Chemlal, MoroccoAI Co-Founder

Keynote 6: Dr. Ulrich Paquet, Research Scientist at DeepMind
AlphaZero: A Retrospective Story

Keynote 7: Prof. Mohamed Essaaidi, Full Professor at Mohammed V University
Morocco's Strategies and Policies to Leverage AI For Its Socioeconomic Development

Workshop : Natural Language Processing for Moroccan Darija
Organized By: Dr. Imane Khaouja, Khalil Mrini, Ihsane Gryech, Abderrahmane Issam





Happy Hour & Networking

Day 3: Opening Speech
Dr. Salim Chemlal, MoroccoAI Co-Founder

Keynote 8: Prof. Ali Idri, Full Professor at ENSIAS and Affiliate Professor at UM6P
Data Preprocessing in Medical Knowledge Discovery

Accepted Paper Presentations & Lightning Talks - Session 2

Data challenge Presentation & Awards
Sponsored By: NVIDIA DLI & ANRT & NASSMA

Paul Kennedy, Chief of Staff at Zindi Africa
The exponential power of community and connection for African data science

Saad Benjelloun, Assistant Professor at UM6P| Co-Founder of NASSMA
Training and Data availability, two barriers for AI in Morocco and MENA region

Lunch Break

Keynote 9: Dr. Kawtar El Maghraoui, Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research AI
Powering the Future of AI through Specialized AI hardware Accelerators

MoroccoAI Session with Founders and Team: “Now, Near, Far”





CLOSING
Closing Ceremony