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Dr. Suraj Juddoo<\/strong>\u00a0is currently the\u00a0Executive Director<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0Mauritius Digital Promotion Agency<\/strong>\u00a0which caters for digital proficiency courses with a planned one focused on basic AI concepts and also promoting open data in the country. He is also the\u00a0Chairperson<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0Mauritius Emerging Technologies Council<\/strong>, whose main focus is to advise the Government on the use of Emerging Technologies. Suraj Juddoo had an extensive career in academic, research and consultancy. He has been involved in research surrounding Big Data in the health care sector as part of a doctoral work towards optimizing data quality. He applied AI as part of the methodology with the aim of automating the data quality lifecycle. He has been publishing in various conferences in topics related to Big Data, Machine learning and other IT related fields. He is involved in cross disciplinary research by working with co-researchers from Mauritius, UK, USA, Brazil, Italy and China. He has been part of several externally funded research projects and is still currently involved in many initiatives such as being country level expert for responsible AI deployment.<\/p>\n

Title of Speech: Impact of Data Quality for the Growth of AI Technology.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Dr Laurie Butgereit<\/strong> works primarily as a Java Developer who specializes in integrating various AI capabilities into existing applications through the use of OpenAI\u2019s GPT API.\u00a0 She also holds a research appointment at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa.\u00a0 In the previous two years, Dr Butgereit has been creating AI based tutoring bots in a variety of academic subjects which communicate with users in a variety of human languages including Arabic, Mauritian Creole, Seychellois Creole, Zulu, Shona, Sesotho, Ndebele, Afrikaans, English and Amharic.\u00a0 Dr Butgereit\u2019s keynote talk will focus on the types of people required on a research team implementing and investigating the use of AI tutoring bots in education and research as this is a merged conference with both researchers and \u201ctechies\u201d.<\/p>\n

Title of Speech: Using AI Tutoring Bots for Effective Research.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\"\"<\/td>\nProfessor Hanan Elshair<\/strong> is the vice dean for graduate studies and research, Fulbright scholar and formal head of the department of instructional and information technology, manager of eCourse development center at EELU, and manager of instructional design at SCU, Egypt. Professor Elshair published two books at Dar Elfikr ElAraby, and more than 20 papers in top rated journals, and supervised more than 50 master and doctorate students. She participated in a number of national and international educational projects. She is also a consultant for a number of eLearning institutions. Professor Elshair has a series of articles published in Al-Ahram daily newspaper and a series of TV interviews in the Egyptian official TV channels. She taught many courses in undergraduate and post graduate levels at Ain Shams University and AUC, Hemdan University, UAE. She is a professional trainer and eContent designer of learning materials and training. Professor Elshair is the founder of Seminar and Misriqia academic journal and the Ethical Approval Committee at the Faculty of Women.<\/p>\n

Title of Speech: Synergy in Diversity: Orchestrating Multidisciplinary Research Teams.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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