Join us for a day of discovery of African innovation.
Africa Innovates is a new conference that aims to promote internal collaborations between Africa-focused Science, Policy and Education initiatives at Imperial and build bridges with external partners, focusing specifically on STEMB (Science, Technology, Medicine and Business). Africa Innovates cultivates an interdisciplinary dialogue for key researchers, shapers, and decision-makers to explore innovative ideas of how to address some of the grand challenges that African societies are facing today. This first conference will showcase some of the Africa- focused activities currently taking place at Imperial.
Event schedule
- 15:00 – 15:10 Opening Remarks – Prof Washington Ochieng CBE and Assoc. Prof Tom Weiss
Science Talks
15.10 – 15.30 Prof Faith Osier – Make Malaria History
15.30 – 15.45 Prof Hippolite Amadi – A Polite Heart
15.45 – 16.00 Prof Mike Templeton – Sustainable Sanitation for All
16.00 – 16.15 Prof Julie Makani – Curing Sickle Cell Disease
16.15 – 16.35 Prof Washington Ochieng CBE – Engineering Safety
16.35 – 16.45 Q&A
16.45 – 17.15 Refreshments
Outreach and Entrepreneurship
17.15 – 17.25 AIMS – Speaker TBA
17.25 – 17.35 Imperial Enterprise Ghana
17.35 – 17.50 Dr Shamsuddeen Muhammad – Democratising AI
17.50 – 18.05 Prof Samuel Agyei-Mensah – The Next African Academics
18.05 – 18.15 Dr Sunday Popo-Ola – Building Bridges
18.15 – 18.30 Q&A
18.30 – 19.30 Networking