Program of the event
Day 1 - Friday
Welcome and Registration 9:00 am in Auditorium Aldo Moro - UniTO
The Conference Starts at 10:00 with the Section I
SECTION I
10:00 - 12:15
"Biodiversity, Forests, People, Ivory Coast"
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10:00 Stefano Pinardi, Researcher in Artificial Intelligence, Languages Department, A very short introduction, fighting the climate change: what is the real problem?
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10:15 Cristiana Peano, Professor of Arboriculture, DISAFA, Agroforestry: producing while respecting and diversifying: the Africa case, the global south.
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10:30 Enrica Pessione, Professor of Microbial Biochemistry, Microbiology biodiversity, environmental resistance. reuse and recycling
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11:00 Gabriele Sartor, Assistant Researcher Dept of Computer Science and Özgür Saracik, PhD Student Computer Science, UniTO. Earth observation: Forest/NON forest in Ivory Coast problems and solutions?
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11:15 Leone De Vita, Fondazione Abele, Communauté Abel, Choco+, Abidjan, Ivory Coast: The school of Agronomy/Afrogorestry: a solution to both ecology and fair productio,: equality of gender?
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11:30 Cristina Bosco, Professor in NLP, Computer Science Department, UniTo, Natural Language Processing for addressing environmental topics"
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11:45 – 12:15 SECTION I PANEL
Participants: all the speakers of the Section I session
Discussant: Damiano Cortese, Professor and Researcher in Business Administration - Languages Department UniTO
LUNCH BREAK 12:15 - 13:45
SECTION II
13:45 - 16:00
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13:45 Professor Marcella Costa Director of the Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures Department, Director's Welcome to the conference.
"Agriculture, Production, Artificial Intelligence, Global South"
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14:00: Stefano Pinardi, A.I. Researcher: Multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, a question of sharing? (From the niche of innovation to the general landscape : the case of cocoa in Ivory Coast).
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14:15 Rino Rocchelli, Agrimagni Cocoa and Agricolture Producer in Ayamè, Ivory Coast Testimonies from the Field: "How Global Warming is affecting agricoltural production and population in Ivory Coast: problem and solution? The cocoa farming communities and production issues in the south east of Ivory Coast"
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14:30 Rosa Meo, Professor in Machine Learning, Department Of Computer Science, Open Science and open source as a relevant prerequisite for a fair research.
SHORT BREAK 10'​
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15:00 Andrea D’Onofrio - Microsoft, Western Europe Lead Data, Analytics & AI , Generative AI and Chatgpt to help agricoltural communities in Europe and the Global South, two examples.
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15:15 Filippo Colaianni, ST Microelectronics, Engineer, Technical Marketing Manager in IoT & Connectivity, Sensors for agriculture and livestock: how they can help a fair and intelligent production?
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15:30 – 16:00 SECTION II PANEL
Participants: all the speakers of the section II
Discussant: Stefano Pinardi UniTo and Roberta Bruno of Microsoft Italy
MID AFTERNOON BREAK 16:00 - 16:30
SECTION III
16:30 - 18:30
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16:30 Special Guest, Maria Paola Azzario, President CLUB for UNESCO in Turin, Environment and territories need to work together: what the UNESCO is doing in Piedmont and Italy.
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16:45 Dani Strickland, Professor and Engineer, Loughborough College University, UK, The Voltaic Minigrid, bringing energy where it does not exist, social change, agricultural production and the environment. The case of Malawi.
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17:00 Dario Minervini, Professor in Environmental Sociology, Social Science Department of Università di Napoli "Federico II" and Alice Palmieri, Bursary, Social Science Department of Università di Napoli "Federico II".
Off-grid Community and Energy Innovation in Africa: The LoCEL-H2 Project (*temporary title)
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17:30 Stefano Ferraris, Full Professor of Hydrology DIST and Matteo Salis, PhD Student of the Modeling and Datascience PhD School
Matteo Salis’s speaking: The Earth’s observation and satellite, environment, and lands. Water management and forecasting for Ivorian and European land policies
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18:00 – 18:30 SECTION III PANEL
Participants: the speaker of the section III
Discussant: * and Stefano Pinardi.
Salutations to the Friday Attendees
18:30
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Day 2 - Saturday
SECTION IV
9:00-13:00
Low Resources Languages, NLP (Natural Language Processes) and Computational Linguistics
9:00 - 11:30 Low Resurces Languages, Computational Linguistics and Endangered Cultures
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Endangered Populations and Cultures + Waters' Data
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09:15 Ishrat Fatima, PhD Student, Analyzing and predicting River Flow using Time Series Techniques
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09:30 Shiyue Wu, PhD Researcher, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), Department of Applied Linguistics, Documenting material culture through the lens of linguistics: Name list of ‘Moko’ drums from Alor Island, Timor area, Southeastern Indonesia
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SHORT BREAK 10'
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Low Resources Languages NLP (Natual Language Processes), Computational Linguistics and West African Languages
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10:00 Valentin Vydrin , Professor of Mande languages, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations orientales in Paris, Corpora of West African languages and low resource languages questions.
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10:20 Chiara Bonfanti, PhD student Modeling and Datascience, UniTO: Under-represented languages and agnostic machine translators: enabling technology for action and cultural and linguistic cooperation in socially complex areas.
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10:40 Andrij Rovenchak, Professor of Physics and expert in Quantitative Linguistics, National University of Lviv: Some results of Quantitative Studies on Low-Resource West African Languages.
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11:00 - 11:30 SECTION IV PANEL
Participants: the speaker of the section IV will talk and discuss of Endangered Languages, Low Resources African Languages, and the intersection among cultural, linguistics and NLP questions. (Discussant Sarah Luger, Senior Director of AI, NLP, and ML at Orange Silicon Valley).
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
11:30-13:30
(IN ITALIANO!)
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11:30 Stefano Pinardi, Perché il clima è una questione urgentissima e cosa possiamo fare come cittadini?
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11:45 Francesco Valerio Buccoli, Microsoft Western Europe, Cosa è il cloud e perché (anzi quando!) è amico dell’ambiente ?
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12:00 Ilaria Alvaro and Martina Lopez (Studentesse di Lingue per la Comunicazione Internazionale UNITO che lavorano su questioni ambientali per le attività delle loro tesi ) Giulia Cristiano (Laureanda in informatica UNITO in tesi)
Mini-workshops (brevi laboratori)! Obiettivo: come usare i social e il web per comunicare idee di trasformazione ambientale
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Impareremo cosa comunicare, come farlo e come costruire un sito web! Anche senza avere nessuna esperienza.
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Ci si divide in gruppi e si verrà simpaticamente “sfidati” a sviluppare un'idea comunicativa o trasformativa a favore dell'ambiente, ogni idea è valida anche la più avventurosa!
Le migliori idee saranno mostrate e presentate dagli autori stessi in auditorium alla fine dell’interazione!
Ogni gruppo riceverà un Certificato di Partecipazione
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13:30 Saluti e ringraziamenti ai presenti
14:30 Internal meeting of the Open Mind Group
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Brainstorming "Innovation, social and communicative transitions"
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Lesson Learned from the Hemisphere 2024.