AI Factory Africa with Cassava

​In this session, find out more about AI Factories in Affrica, and learn the practical skills you need to build a career in an AI Factory.

​Speakers:

• ​Charlotte Awino (AI Engineers, Cassava)

• ​Fadzai Mboma (AI Engineers, Cassava)

​Agenda:

• ​What is an AI Factory?

  • ​Identify the 3 core components of an AI Factory

  • ​Understand how an AI idea becomes a product through a simple, visual pipeline

  • ​Walk through a small, preprepared example

• ​What does an AI Factory on the continent mean?

  • ​The specific challenges African AI teams design for

  • ​How those constraints shape real engineering decisions

  • ​A real African example, that shows what we had to adapt, and why

• ​What does an AI Factory mean to you as university students?

  • ​A simple prompt engineering task, improve this prompt, see how the answer gets better

  • ​How to turn a class project into a pipeline

  • ​A clear starting roadmap to an AI Factory career: four skills and how to practice them today