GlobalSaké Q4 Interactive Virtual Event:
Africa Deep Dive

December 7, 2023. 9-11:30am PT

Video created by Stefan Huyghe

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This event will include sign language interpretation thanks to GlobalSaké sponsor, MasterWord

Sign Language Interpreters:

Israel Rivera, Staff ASL Interpreter, Deaf Hard of Hearing at MasterWord

Jacob Garner, Operations Specialist at MasterWord

Program

9:00-9:10 am - GlobalSaké Q4 Virtual Event Kickoff and Welcome message

Talia Baruch, CoFounder CEO at GlobalSaké

John Hayato Branderhorst, Cofounder COO at GlobalSaké

9:10-9:20 am - Interactive warm up: Did You Know That? Africa Quiz

Helga Walker, Head of Strategic Customer Development at Hybrid Lynx

9:20-9:40 am - Co-Presentation: Narrowing the Gap: Solving for Africa's low-resourced languages. Exploring the journey of NLP in low-resource African languages, from data collection, tokenization and standardization to language model development. Why we do it and what's the impact.

Moderator:

Darrin Wittwer, Head of Sales, North America at BLEND Localization

Speakers:

Sheriff Issaka, Lead Artificial Intelligence Researcher at African Languages Lab

Nicte Aguillon Jimenez, Ozy Genius Award Recipient

9:40-10:00 am - Interactive Presentation: Voice Over Africa: Musical Localization, Transadaptation and Local Content Origination for East African locales in Audio & Video Ad assets. Colgate and Coca-Cola case studies for Marketing & Advertising multimedia material in Audio, Video, and Text.

Ricky (Richard) Kalu, Managing Director at Kalu Media

10:00-10:15 am - Co-Presentation: Africa's Internal, Inbound and Outbound payments landscape. Flutterwave will present Africa's Payments landscape overview and will speak about the challenges and opportunities present across Africa and specifically Nigeria and other major countries.

Jimmy Ku, Head of Global Growth at Flutterwave

Opeoluwa Abitoye, Head, Global Account Management at Flutterwave

10:15-10:35 am - Co-Presentation: Alphabetizing text-less low-resource African dialects: challenges, solutions, and the inspiring future this enablement will fuel for people empowerment. This presentation offers the Journey story of alphabetizing non-script low-resource languages in Africa and its impact on expanding Generative AI solutions for the diverse populations of the world.