Talks

Kennedy has delivered numerous keynote sessions, workshops, presentations, and talks at local and global technology, data, and artificial intelligence conferences. From presenting his work from UNEP at the 22nd Scipy Conference 2023 in Austin, Texas, to the 4th UN Data Forum 2023 in China, the UNDP Africa Borderlands Data Forum 2023, the Mozilla Festival House Kenya 2023, Deeplearning.AI monthly webinars, the ALX Africa Nairobi Karibu Ceremony, the NVIDIA GTC 2021 Conf, the Deep Learning Indaba and in many other forums.

Areas of Specialization and Interests 📊🤖

I’m grateful for every opportunity to share my work. I can talk about:

1. Natural Language Processing for Low Resource African Languages
2. Automated Fact Checking and Toxic Content Detection in NLP
3. Spatial Data Science
4. Developer relations, building and supporting inclusive technology ecosystems
5. Data product management
6. Time Series Forecasting

Selected Public Speaking, Talks, Workshops, Meetups and Conferences ⚡🧠

2024

• 11th Annual Subcommittee Meeting of the UNEP CPR: “Artificial Intelligence Governance and Environmental Impact Considerations”

Imagining an Ethical Place for AI in Environmental Governance and Policy: Sharing Lessons from leveraging machine learning to combat waterways and marine plastic trash along Tana River

• African Development Bank Group: 2024 Annual Meetings: “Charting a New Path From Aspirations to Operations: Funding Africa’s AI Ecosystem to Unlock Opportunities for Growth and Development”

• eMobilis MobiGirlz Community: Empowering Young Women and Girls in Data Science for Growth and Innovation

2023

• Women In Data: The Data Journey Nairobi Summit

• Data Science Dojo Webinar: Fullstack Machine Learning: A Data Scientist’s Roadmap Guide

• Azubi Africa: Building a Career in Data Science and Analytics

• Azubi Africa: Opportunities ❙ Demand and Career Growth Opportunities in Data

• Data Science East Africa Ultimate Python Meetup:

• DSEA Meetup: Leverage Python to Understand and Build Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and MLOPs Projects

• Data Science East Africa: Beyond the Hype Data Science Hands-On Meetup:

• The UNDP Data-driven policy and development in Africa borderlands

2022

• How to Build a Real-World AI Project Portfolio:

• How to Build a Real-World AI Project Portfolio:

• Amref Annual Technical Review Meeting 2022:

• JENGA School Open Day: Envision A Technology Africa

• How to Get a Data Science Job in 2022 – Combining Theory and Real-World Projects to Stand Out

• How to #BeADeepLearner- A live Ask Me Anything alongside Andrew Ng

2021

• NVIDIA GTC 2021: A New Africa and a New World: The State and Future of African Developer Ecosystems

• Deeplearning.AI: Breaking into AI: I took an Online Course, What’s Next?

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2020

• Scorpio: Interview with ConfluxAI Data Scientist- Kennedy Wangari

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• Ishan Sharma Podcast: Machine Learning Roadmap 2020: Machine Learning for Beginners:

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• Balancing AI Courses and Real-World Projects, Mindset, and Securing an NVIDIA Internship

• Jenga School Webinar Bytes Series: Where do you find the data science opportunities and tap into the talent?

• Omdena AI Webinar: Are Competitions Enough to learn Data Science Skills Required to Excel on the Job?

• International Webinar on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: JSPM’s Jayawant Institute of Management Studies, Pune, India (03-05th June, 2020)

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• Formulating your career Path in Data Science (1st February, 2021)

Deeplearning.AI Nairobi: Formulating your Career Path in Data Science (1st February 2021)

• Mastering Data Science Interviews Loop: AI Ghana (1st May, 2021)

• Data Science Open Day: Predictive Analytics Lab (19th August, 2021)

Co-organized by Me:

• Pie & AI: Nairobi, Kenya: NeurIPS 2020 Meetup (10th December, 2020)

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• Pie & AI: Nairobi, Kenya: The Full Stack Data Scientist: Myth, Unicorn or New Normal? (17th November, 2020)

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• Pie & AI: Nairobi, Kenya: Organization, Tools And Workflows For Modern Data Scientist (15th September, 2020)

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• Pie & AI: Kigali, Rwanda: Breaking into AI: Learning Artificial Intelligence (22nd August 20220)

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• Pie & AI: Nairobi, Kenya: Career Pathways in Artificial Intelligence (25th June, 2020)

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• Pie & AI: Nairobi, Kenya: Deep Learning on AWS (20th June, 2020)

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• Pie & AI: Chennai, India: Breaking into AI: Learning Artificial Intelligence (5th May, 2020)

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• Pie & AI: Nairobi, Kenya: Deploying: AI Machine Learning in Production (04th April, 2020)

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