Guest Lecture: Stéphan-Eloïse Gras
November 26, 2021
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. CAT
Hybrid, in-person session will be in room F305
How to work at the intersection of tech, research, and development in Africa
About the speaker: Stéphan-Eloïse Gras is an entrepreneur and a researcher, and currently the executive director of Digital Africa, an initiative and 130M€ funds launched in 2018 by President Emmanuel Macron to support African digital entrepreneurs in designing and scaling digital innovations for the real economy.
Previously, she co-founded Africa 4 Tech and headed the strategic development in Africa of Open Classrooms. She holds a Ph.D. in communication sciences and in philosophy. Her Ph.D. dissertation traces the emergence of early AI patterns through the analysis of a music recommendation algorithm acquired by Spotify.