The summit will also include robust industry discussions about real-world applications of data science in the economy, consumer behaviour, health, business, city planning, security, agriculture, manufacturing and logistics.
Confirmed speakers for the summit include Olumide Olayinka of KPMG (Partner), Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor of Google Nigeria (Country Director), Babafemi Ogungbamila of Interswitch (CIO), Dipo Faulkner of IBM (Country Manager), Olufemi Awoyemi of Proshare Nigeria (CEO), Ayotunde Coker CEO Rack Centre and Bernard Kijie Ewah President/Chief Creative Officer, keoun.ng
Other leading experts expected at the conference are Dr Tunji Adegbesan of Gidimo, Nadayar Enegesi of Andela, Dr Sulaimon Afolabi, Babajide Ogunsanwo of Leadership-By-Data, Dele Tejuoso of Wifi Combat Academy, Steve Babaeko of X3M Ideas, Oluseun Onigbinde of BudgIT, Ngozi Dozie of OneFi, Adetayo Bamiduro MAX.ng. In addition, the summit will showcase some experts like Shingai Manjengwa of Fireside Analytics Canada, Samuel Odeloye, Dr Jacques Ludik and Emeka Okoye of Cymantiks.
The event which is barely three weeks to kick off has already received endorsements and partnership boost from multinational firms like KPMG, Microsoft, Proshare, Google and others.
The boot camp which is aimed at bridging the capacity gaps in Data Science for intermediate and expert-level Nigerian professionals and students will have in attendance experts around the globe to teach machine learning, R or Python programming languages and Statistics for advanced data analytics.
The boot camp will include face-to-face teaching, virtual online classes, and a hands-on hackathon using the Kaggle platform. The sessions will be facilitated by leading local and international PhD-level data scientists, in the industry and the academia.
“This is part of an effort to make Nigeria the Data Science outsourcing hub for Africa before 2019 and to create 1 million new jobs during the next 10 years”, Bayo Adekambi, MTN Nigeria Executive said.
This will be followed by a Kaggle competition to select the best participants for the intellectually stimulating and career-enhancing boot camp.
Best participants at the boot camp can access internship and mentoring opportunities provided by KMPG, Microsoft 4Afrika and OneFi while DataCamp shall provide free access to its learning platform. Full details of how to enrol in the boot camp and participate in the summit are available on www.datasciencenigeria.org
The boot camp will also include a very competitive hackathon aimed at using Nigeria-centric data to explore, extrapolate and explain local socio-economic issues. The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics and ProShare Nigeria will provide data support services to the participants.