DSC MENA 2024
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Highly Successful People are Mentally Resilient: Cultivating a Growth Mindset | Tim Taylor | 01h 17m |
Introduces a tested mindset meter with ten states from Just Born up to Leader, shows how triggers flip people between growth (On Target, High Achiever, Leader)… | ||
| AI in Software Development: Boosting Efficiency | Hany Saad Gheit | 01h 16m |
Argues that AI complements rather than replaces developers, claiming it can reduce a five‑person team to three by automating routine coding, reviews and tests… | ||
| Foundations of Object Detection from an Expert's Overview | Jean-Pierre Fakhry | 01h 14m |
A practical walkthrough that trains and evaluates a YOLO pipeline on a pothole dataset using Ultralytics on Google Colab, including code to prepare data… | ||
| Document Q&A using LangChain | Amir Siddiqui | 01h 13m |
A working RAG pipeline that loads web or PDF content, chunks it, creates Hugging Face embeddings, stores them in Chroma DB, and uses LangChain… | ||
| Enhancing Your CV with AI: A SOAR Approach | Mostafa Elzeney | 01h 17m |
Teaches a concrete SOAR method: write Situation, Obstacle, Action, Results stories, then condense them into 1–2 line achievement statements using AI; uses SOAR… | ||
| AI as a Service | Ammar Mohanna | 01h 43m |
Defines AIaaS as hosting models in the cloud for pay‑as‑you‑go access and claims it cuts cost and speeds deployment; demonstrates a live case where an… | ||
| The Developer's Guide to ChatGPT API | Jihad Ftouny | 01h 33m |
Covers neural nets, Transformers and the attention idea, then moves to hands‑on use of the OpenAI API from a Google Colab notebook using Python, tiktoken and… | ||
| Mentally Resilient Success: Communication Mastery | Tim Taylor | 01h 21m |
Cites an APA study that resilient people are 6× more likely to meet goals, teaches a practical core-values method (three columns: values / beliefs / behaviors)… | ||
| Build your own AI Agent | Mostafa Sakr | 01h 23m |
Explains how to assemble agent chains that reflect on answers, call tools, and iterate without a human in the loop; demos show a workflow that ingests hundreds… | ||
| How To Evaluate and Improve Machine Learning Models | Ma Althea Retig | 57m |
Google Colab notebook walks through loading Titanic CSV, filling 177 missing ages with the mean, encoding gender, and building classifiers with… | ||
| Navigating the World of NLP and Text Analytics | Israel Odeajo | 01h 38m |
Walkthrough of practical NLP workflows that actually run end to end on Google Colab using NLTK and TextBlob plus spaCy and Gensim, showing regex cleaning… | ||
| Image Generation with AI | Mrad Sleiman | 01h 27m |
Demonstrations use Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, MidJourney-based tools plus playground.com, getimg.ai, Civitai, Adobe Firefly and Runway to turn text and images… | ||
| Building an Image Search Engine with Generative Computer Vision Models | Mohamed Rashad | 01h 26m |
Walks through building a working image search pipeline that pairs CLIP embeddings with an approximate vector database and nearest-neighbor search, includes a… | ||
| Classification of Mauritania dialect using ML Algorithms | Mohamed El Moustapha El Arby | 17m |
Local Mauritania dialect data harvested from Facebook and labeled into positive, negative and neutral classes gets cleaned, tokenized (Arabic normalization… | ||
| High Impact AI Projects in the Egyptian Government | Deena Hassan | 25m |
Applied Innovation Center (AIC) within Egypt’s MCIT builds production AI systems using an on‑site high‑performance cluster and a roughly 200 engineers… | ||
| Building the Best Cloud Data Architecture: Avoiding Costly Pitfalls | Amr Nasser | 59m |
Discusses designing cloud data architectures to avoid wasted capital from upfront on‑prem hardware by using cloud billing and scalability; recommends AWS S3… | ||
| Empowering Learning: IT, Education, and Ethical Considerations | M. Soudio | 01h 23m |
Shows concrete tools and outcomes: using Gemini and TR to auto-generate personalized English lesson paths and claim prep time drops from ~49% to ~25%; pilots… | ||
| A Guide to the Modern Data Stack | Aya Khaled, Essam Ammar | 01h 28m |
Claims that moving from on‑prem ETL to a cloud ELT not ETL pipeline cuts delivery from months or years to days or hours, offloads infra to cloud, and makes… | ||
| Machine learning in Action | Mariam Gaafar | 01h 23m |
Hands-on ML pipeline that loads the Titanic dataset with pandas, drops unique IDs and names, imputes age with the median and embarked with the mode, applies… | ||
| AI and Social Entrepreneurship | Ola El Sheikh | 01h 51m |
Covers concrete AI vs ML vs DL distinctions and deployment tradeoffs, notes deep models need huge data and days of training and that many real projects use… | ||
| Launch your career in AI | Samer El Zant | 01h 27m |
Clear roadmap for four market roles: data analyst (clean, visualize, translate insights into actions using Excel/Tableau/PowerBI), data scientist (statistical… | ||
| Integrating AI into your Design workflow | Mostafa Elzeney | 01h 40m |
Claims that designers who use AI will outpace others and that AI’s core strengths are autonomy and adaptivity; demos show concrete workflows: transcribed… | ||
| Accelerate Business Delivery With AI and DevOps | Mohamed Radwan | 01h 31m |
Shows concrete, working automations: PowerShell reads a CSV and generates dozens of Markdown member profiles pushed to Azure Repos, with AI-assisted code… | ||
| How AI revolutionized marketing | Ahmad Yahya Shaheen | 01h 04m |
Shows concrete results: using GPT-4 API in 18 hours for $18 to analyze 70,000 PDFs and found 8 of 12 gaps from PhD literature, then builds a go-to-market for a… | ||
| ChatGPT & Prompt Engineering | Soulayman Al-Abdallah | 02h 00m |
Covers how ChatGPT and GPT models work, shows GPT-4 multimodal input (text, images, CSV) and explains prompt types: zero/few‑shot and chain‑of‑thought, plus… | ||
| The Rise of AI: A Reality Check on Generative AI | Utkarsh Mittal | 47m |
Overview of concrete claims, tools and numbers: large models use embeddings and RLHF to auto-regress next-token text; GPT‑3.5 is 175B parameters and GPT‑4 is… | ||
| Hands-On Quantum Computing | Petar Korponaic | 01h 35m |
Three-part, hands‑on overview: basics of quantum states and gates, a quick tour of Qiskit/Python and OpenQASM, then live coding that builds circuits from… | ||
| Data Science life cycle from a technical perspective | Rania Elshenety | 02h 00m |
Argues that data prep and clean code matter more than chasing models and shows end-to-end choices: source invoice tables (customer ID, invoice ID, amount… | ||
| Build CDC pipeline using Kafka ecosystem | Karim Tawfik | 02h 03m |
Shows a hands‑on CDC pipeline built with Docker Compose using MySQL → Kafka Connect → Kafka → BigQuery, including ksqlDB, Schema Registry, Kafka UI… | ||
| From On-Ground to On-Cloud Data Engineering | Omar Shaalan | 01h 26m |
Covers how cloud data engineering turns messy sources into usable outputs with concrete tradeoffs and patterns including scale, freshness, correctness… | ||
| Generative AI: Overview and use cases | Ibrahim Sobh | 53m |
Survey of methods and demos: GANs produce fast samples but are tricky to train and require a generator/discriminator loop; diffusion models trade speed for… | ||
| Create your own AI talking avatar | Rahma Tolba | 01h 15m |
Step‑by‑step demo of end‑to‑end avatar creation: generate an avatar from 8–12 selfies using tools like down AI, Leonardo AI or photobooth from open art, or… | ||
| BankReport Reader - OCR Tool For Bank Reports | Mersiha Karamustafic | 01h 10m |
BankReport Reader is an OCR pipeline that converts single‑page PDFs to images with pdf2image, converts to NumPy arrays, applies OpenCV preprocessing (resize… | ||
| Unleashing the Power of AWS: A Workshop on Bedrock Assistant | Mohamed Amr | 01h 30m |
Hands-on tutorial that builds a working Bedrock pipeline: Python Lambda invokes Bedrock models (AI21 Jurassic, Anthropic Claude, Cohere embeds, Meta Llama 2… | ||
| Digital Titans: Inside Google and Facebook's Data Empires | Mohammad Omara | 28m |
Claim that a global Wi‑Fi build collected 2.7 million hotspots across 73 countries and dumped ~3 GB of raw text daily, then used location intelligence and a… | ||
| Data governance and quality | Youssef Kamal | 30m |
Defines a pragmatic data governance path: start with a data asset inventory and label PII, apply policies (GDPR where relevant), and score use cases with a… | ||
| Building & Delivering Valuable Intelligent Data Product at Scale | Abdelrahman Ghallab | 02m |
Dsquares builds a big-scale AI product that ingests disparate client datasets across industries and turns them into business-critical outputs for end… | ||
| Empowering Egypt's AI & Biotechnology Scene | Medhat Kandil | 06m |
Work on classifying neurodegenerative diseases uses an 1,000‑patient FDG‑PET dataset where each scan starts as ~1,000,000 voxels and is reduced to 58 features… | ||
| Navigating the Pathway to AI: Startup Journey | Shady Adly | 06m |
From a dorm-room project to a market-ready effort: builds a small wind turbine prototype that lights a bulb, iterates through failures and pivots, wins second… | ||
| Unleashing Innovation Beyond Brainstorming: Where Data Meets Creativity | Asmaa Eltaher | 06m |
Argues that pairing data with creative techniques produces higher-impact innovations and shows how through concrete examples: built advanced analytics and ML… | ||
| Advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Text Analytics | Nada GabAllah | 06m |
Traces NLP’s evolution from rule-based grammars to transformer-era models, contrasts classic statistical pipelines with large language models, and lays out… | ||
| NLP & LLMs: Mastering Arabic Language Intricacies | Yasser El-Bendary | 06m |
Claims that modern NLP and LLM approaches can handle Arabic morphology and mixed Arabic-English text by using a released Annotated Arabic-English Receipt… | ||
| Building a Data Driven Culture in Your Organization | Basma Rady | 06m |
Argues that data is the new form of capital and gives a concrete evaluation method — the four Ws framework — to inventory assets (who collected, what, how… | ||
| Data-Driven Disruption: The Role of Data Strategy in Business Model Innovation | Ziad Diab | 07m |
Claims that a clear data strategy turns analytics into new revenue streams and product shapes by enabling customer-level personalization, faster pivots and… | ||
| Where to start your Data Analytics Journey | Ahmed Refaay | 07m |
A practical roadmap for beginners that couples business problems to data work: start by mapping processes and KPIs, apply Six Sigma Define Measure Analyze… | ||
| Unleash AI Power in Your Software: Exploring Azure OpenAI Service | Hany Saad Gheit | 18m |
Azure OpenAI Service on Azure exposes GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 plus embeddings, DALL·E and Whisper as managed APIs and requires subscription then resource then… | ||
| Huawei Cloud, Reshaping Industries with AI | Eric Bai | 38m |
Claims concrete numbers: large multimodal foundation models cut data, talent and development cycles by 5–10x using a suite with auto data cleansing, semi‑auto… | ||
| Revolutionizing Governance with Hybrid Cloud and AI | Mostafa Essa | 18m |
Covers how hybrid cloud plus AI actually classifies and routes data—AI-driven data placement recommends keeping sensitive records in a private cloud while… | ||
| Data Science and AI for Egypt: Innovation and Growth Opportunities | Mennen el Kalyoubi, Haitham Hamza, Mohamed al Assaal, Amani Eissa, Mohamed el Beltagy | 19m |
Panel states Egypt prioritizes healthcare, education, law enforcement and cites a 2020 national AI strategy being reworked around national impact, skills and… | ||
| Navigating the AI Renaissance: From Fundamentals to Frontiers | Tarry Singh | 19m |
In the DSC MENA offline session 'Navigating the AI Renaissance: From Fundamentals to Frontiers,' Tarry Singh, CEO of DK AI Holding, delivered a compelling… | ||
| Let's Talk GenAI | Sohaila Diab | 19m |
Covers generative AI history from ELIZA in the 1960s to the 2017 Transformer (Attention Is All You Need) architecture and practical limits: models trained on… | ||
| Leveraging Scene Graphs for Generative AI and Innovative Data Products | Mohammad Essam | 19m |
Claims that converting images and video into explicit graphs yields stronger conditioning for generative models, reducing illogical outputs (e.g., extra limbs)… | ||
| The Rise of AI agents and open sources Ai models | Omar Mohamed Elmetwally | 32m |
Claim: open-source models are exploding — 600,000 open-source models exist and major releases like LLaMA 3 open-sourced let firms run large models offline… | ||
| Official Opening Ceremony | Amani Eissa, Eng. Walid Saad, Eng. Aleksandar Linc-Djordjevic, Eng. Mostafa Essa, Eng. Ahmed El-Zaher, Reem Bahgat, H.E. Dr. Amr Talaat | 37m |
Ceremony frames DSC MENA as a launched regional hub with over 1,000 registrations and 90+ speakers and workshops delivered so far, a three‑day program of… | ||
| Data as the new commodity: AI. Sustainability and Financial Innovation | Luis Seco | 28m |
Argues data replaces equations as the core commodity for solving sustainability and finance problems, citing 17 UN SDGs and 193 countries plus the Paris… | ||
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