✨ Celebrating Our Community Champions! ✨ At this year’s Deep Learning Indaba, AfriClimate AI hosted a workshop where nine brilliant selected community members showcased their cutting-edge work at the intersection of AI and climate resilience in Africa. We are excited to celebrate our three Lightning Talk Award Winners: 🏆 Josiah Kimani PiggyCast: An AI Weather Prediction (AIWP) model that outperforms frontier AIWP models by exploiting their strengths via ensemble learning (stacking). 🏆 Hossein Masoumi Karakani, Ph.D. The Topology of Drought: Geometric Fingerprints of Climate Resilience in African Landscapes 🏆 Koomi Toussaint AMOUSSOUVI Towards Affordable Weather Forecasting in South Africa: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of an AI Weather Foundation Model We also extend our congratulations to all lightning talk speakers for their inspiring contributions: Feres Jerbi – Enhancing Solar Reliability in Africa: An AI Framework for Forecasting and Defect Detection Samuel Babalola – Fauna Pulse: AI-Powered Soil Biodiversity Monitoring for Climate Resilience in African Agriculture Barkawi Mansour – GeoAI for Climate Resilience: An Early Warning Tool to Monitor Agricultural Drought in the Sahel Region Ronnie Atuhaire – Explainable Spatial-Temporal Ensemble Modeling for Predicting Food Security with Knowledge Distillation Mbuotidem Awak – Did AI Get It Right? Comparing Flood Hub’s Forecasts with Media-Reported Flood Events During Nigeria’s 2024 Rainy Season Assala Benmalek – Towards High-Resolution Methane Emissions Detection in African Oil & Gas Fields Using Open Satellite Data 🌍 Together, these talks reflect the innovation, diversity, and passion of Africa’s growing AI for Climate community. A special thank you to our co-founder John Bagiliko, who led this activity, and to the entire AfriClimate AI team and judges for making this possible.
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