Talks
Invited talks, keynotes, and conference presentations.
I regularly give invited talks, keynotes, and panel presentations on natural language processing for low-resource languages, African NLP, and AI for Social Good.
Keynotes & Invited Talks
The Languages AI Forgot — How AI Misrepresents African Languages and Cultural Contexts Keynote · Inspire through Impact, Imperial College London, UK · June 2026
Invited Talk Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK · February 2026
Speaker, AI for Decision Making Session 2026 U.S.–Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium, Dakar, Senegal · February 2026 Organized by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Keynote Talk International Conference on the Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Language Education, Saadatu Rimi College of Education, Kano, Nigeria · February 2026
Keynote Talk MMLoSo Workshop at IJCNLP–AACL 2025 · December 2025
Panel Speaker, Language Inclusion in AI Google Community Forum, with a focus on African languages · December 2025
Invited Talk Microsoft Research Lab – Africa, Nairobi, Kenya · October 2025
Keynote Speech Workshop on Multilingual and Equitable Language Technologies (MELT), Palais des Congrès, Montreal, Canada · October 2025
Keynote Speech Empowering India Through Inclusive Generative AI Workshop, OdiaGenAI · July 2025
Keynote Speech York St John University, UK · June 2025
Conference Presentations
AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages NAACL 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA · April–May 2025