Scientific Calendar Event



Starts 31 Mar 2025
Ends 4 Apr 2025
Central European Time
Zomba - Malawi

An ICTP Meeting

TinyML is a new technology that allows machine learning models to run on low-cost, low-power microcontrollers. This technology has a significant role to play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in enabling new applications in fields such as healthcare, agriculture, environmental monitoring and conservation. TinyML is also a great educational tool as it explores topics from across the computer science and engineering curricula. In this workshop we will discover practical applications of TinyML in addressing global challenges that are particularly relevant to African researchers and we will provide hands-on training on commercially available hardware.

Topics:
  • Introduction to TinyML
  • Sensors and Data Collection
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Health Monitoring
  • Agriculture Monitoring
  • Ethics and Machine Learning

Programme: https://tinymlmalawi.notion.site/

Note: Participants will be invited to submit articles in Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development (JAISD).

The Workshop is partially supported by the European Union’s-funded project RAIDO with the Grant Agreement No 101135800

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

**DEADLINE: 25/01/2025**
Organizer(s)
Thomas Basikolo (ITU, Switzerland), Chomora Mikeka (Ministry of Education - Malawi Government), John Shawe-Taylor (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia), ICTP Scientific Contact: Marco Zennaro (ICTP)
Cosponsor(s)
IRCAI | International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligenceircai, Naixus | Global Network of AI Excelence Centresnaixus, ITU: Committed to connecting the worlditu2, EDGE AI FOUNDATIONeaif, AI for Good - All Year Always Onlineai4good, University of Malawiunimal, Malawi Government Information and Service - Homemalawi_gov, Raido - Rliable AI and Data Optimizationraido
Secretary
Viktoriya Lvova, Adriana Pinto

Organizers

Thomas Basikolo (ITU, Switzerland), Chomora Mikeka (Ministry of Education - Malawi Government), John Shawe-Taylor (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia), ICTP Scientific Contact: Marco Zennaro (ICTP)