Accra Bespoke Innovations Conference

& The Africa AI Stakeholders Summit

An iSTEAMS Event Series 35

Dates: Wed 31st May - Fri 2nd June, 2023

Venues: University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

Academic City University College, Accra, Ghana

Modes: Phsical/Virtual Blended

Organized by the

Society for Multidisciplinary & Advanced Research Techniques (SMART) Africa

in Collaboration with

Academic City University College, Accra, Ghana

IEEE Nigeria Section Computer Society

The ICT University Foundations

Welcome to the

Accra Bespoke Innovations Conference

& The AI Africa Stakeholders Summit

On behalf of the Organizers, Partnering Institutions and Collaborators for the Accra Bespoke Innovations Conference and the AI Stakeholders Summit it is my pleasure to welcome prospective participants, delegates, students, scholars, researchers, practitioners, students and multidisciplinary enthusiast to this multidisciplinary, inter tertiary collocated event

Our world has been dramatically impacted by Post-COVIO Pandemic and other issues. Nevertheless, research innovations has continued to progress with concerted efforts directed at evolving new and innovative ways not only to address the effects and impacts of the pandemic but to mitigate and deal with human-centred and infrastructural challenges that has plagued the world. pre-pandemic while also looking beyond the pandemic to a world driven by digitization and digitalization; a world where artificial intelligence drives innovations, technologies, thinking, processes and human interactions.

Collocating the Accra Bespoke Innovation conference with the AI Stakeholders forum has therefore comes at an opportune time to provide a platform for cross fertilization of ideas on common and divergent interest that presently impact and will in the future determine how positioned or prepared we are to live in a technology-driven world. This Conference seeks to facilitate research innovations, knowledge discoveries, socioeconomic and human capital development through the dynamism and interaction of human and material resources both locally and internationally with the attendant aim of addressing the myriads of solvable global challenges using multifaceted technology-based solutions.

We welcome prospective participants to consider submitting research articles, position papers, reports, and all forms of articulations in all fields of human endeavours and explore the opportunities offered by the clustering of brilliant minds at this conference to obtain valid inputs that will further fuel research agendas and innovations in our multifaceted world. I believe your participation will add zest to what is potentially a great and highly impactful event.

Akwaaba - WELCOME to Ghana.

Prof. Longe Olumide Babatope

Distinguished Fulbright, UI-McArthur & HLF (GERMANY) Fellow

Co-Convener Accra Bespoke Innovations & AI Africa Stakeholders Forum

Faculty of Computational Sciences & Informatics - Academic City University

Accra, Ghana.

GENERAL CONFERENCE SCOPE

The Accra Bespoke Conference 2021 is a multidisciplinary forum. Authors in the academia, professionals and practitioners are invited to submit papers in all areas of Science, ICTs, Engineering, Education, Health Sciences (Medicine, Nursing, Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacy), Law, Arts, Management, Business, Agriculture, Geosciences, Policy, Agriculture, Forestry, Religious Studies, Environmental Sciences, Arts & Design, Hospitality Management, Survey & Geo-informatics, Applied Sciences, & the Social Sciences for the iSTEAMS Conference. Papers should contain substantial ideas which have the potential of aiding inventions, growth, development of human capital, industrial process optimization, energy conservation, inter-tertiary innovations, theories, practices, design, modeling and collaborative research. Papers are also welcome in the following conference sub-themes/domains:

Engineering Technologies & Innovations
Educational Technologies & Innovations
Knowledge Discovery in Medical & Pharmaceutical Sciences
Financial Management & Economic Recovery
Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, Ethics, Responsible AI. & Machine Learning
Public health and the COVID Pandemic
Inter-tertiary Collaborations and its impact on Innovation and Development
Multidisciplinary Research and its role in Combating Terrorism and Insurgencies
Collaborative Research Paradigm for Addressing Global Health Issues.
Cross – Religious Tolerance & Transformational Leadership
Waste To wealth Issues and the Green Environment
Impact of Visual Arts on Human Development and the Environment
Entrepreneurship & Employment Creation
Technical Vocational Education and Its role in Nation Building
Waste To wealth Issues and the Green Environment
Leadership and Political Stability, Peace and Conflict Resolution
Climate Change and the Green Environment
Combating Corruption for Economic Transformation
ICTsand Its Application to Education, Agriculture & Health Sciences
Development Informatics and Economic Development
Educational Technology and Its role in nation Building
Project Management, Engineering dynamics and Infrastructural development
Architecture and architectural Innovations
Nanotechnology & Microbial Research and disease control
Algorithms, Datamining and Scalable network Systems
Cyber security and crime control, Electronic commerce and merchandising
Innovation in Teaching & Learning

SPEAKERS

Dr. Philip Kukpe

Dept of Bus Admin

Academic City University

, Accra, Ghana

Irene Attachie

Nursing Department

University of Health Sci.

Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

Prof. Edward Santiago Blase

St. Leo University

St. Leo Florida

Florida State, USA

Theme: Bespoke Research Findings for Addressing Human Centred Challenges in a Pandemic World

Prof. Friday Wada

Department of Management

University of Hartford

WH Connecticut USA

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DETAILS

Physical Participants USD 200 Flat registration Fee

Virtual Participants USD 150 Flat registration Fee

Graduate Students USD 120 Flat Registration Fee

CONFERENCE ACCOUNT DETAILS

Acc Name: Creative Research Conference Account

Account Banker: UBA Bank Current Account
Account No: 1017041046

Swift Code: UNAFNGLA

Exchange Rates

Participants should ascertain prevailing exchange rate of the dollar to the Cedi HERE before departure from their countries of origin so as to be able to properly budget for travel, health, sundry and accommodation needs.

CREDIT/DEBIT CARD

Important Information

International/Foreign and other participants can also make payment using credit or debit cards. Please click the Buy Now button above. Payment through Bank Transfers, mobile banking, quicktellers and Paypal are accepted. Please notify info@isteams.net after payment. Click HERE to REGISTER for the i Accra Bespoke Innovations Conference 2021. Note that REGISTRATION for the conference only require you to provide data that will assist the organizing committee in planning for the conference. You can register NOW and make payments later. Please call +233595479930 or +2348160900893 if you have any challenges with paper submission or need any further clarifications.

AI Africa Stakeholders Forum

Various stakeholders influence adoption, difussion, uptake and the implementation of AI in different sectors of the society. The objective of the AI Africa Stakeholders forum is to gather under omne umbralla these stakeholders to find meaningful ways of addressing the evolving AI Ecosystem in Africa with a view of initiating policy discussions, ethical practices in data gathering and data governance, AI Education, Legal Issues relating to adoption and difussion as well as technological and innovative ways of deploying AI for use. Professionals and stakeholders in healthcare, security, data protection, policy, AI experts, pharmaceutical companies, legislative, regulatory, government and public sector bodies are welcomed. Our interactions and presentations will cover (but not limited to) the following themes: :

Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development
Duty/ Standard of Care for AI
Artificial Intelligence and Health Care
Artificial Intelligence in Education, AI Curriculum and Teaching
Convergence of AI and IT
Artificial Intelligence & EdTech
Business Intelligence & AI, Block Chain& AI
AI and Data Governance, Data Protection and AI
AI and Public Utility Services
AI and its Criminal Liability, AI & Person-hood
I & National Security Challenges
Application of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice
Legal Regulation of AI, Intellectual Property issues in AI
Artificial Intelligence Data Protection, AI and Law Processing
AI & Legal Procedure: Question of Fact/Law and Evidence
Machine learning and data mining for e-discovery and other legal applications
AI and No Fault Liability/Strict Liability/Absolute Liability
Ethical Dilemmas of AI, Regulating the Artificially Intelligent Chatbot
Use of AI in curbing Fake News, Legal Personality of AI
Right to explanation & AI, Virtual Cloning and its legal
implication, NLP and AI

Paper Submission Instructions

Paper Submission Deadline is Sunday 5th December, 2021. Articles should be in MS Word usually be between 4000-5000 words or 6 pages max, Arial Narrow (Font), 11 points, single spaced. Authors should use APA Referencing style. Paragraphs should be separated by spaces and be in block form - no indents. Article Title, Name of Authors, Affiliations, E-mail address and phone numbers should be at the beginning of each paper and centralized as itemized line by line. All articles must carry e-mail address and phone numbers. Articles should be sent as E-mail ATTACHMENT to info@isteams.net. PDF submissions will not be accepted. Please mark the title of the E-mail as Accra Bespoke Conference Paper Submission Although FULL Papers are usually preferred for the iSTEAMS Conference, ABSTRACT ONLY SUBMISSIONS ARE WELCOMED. Full papers could be developed after the conference and submitted for Journal publication in any of the iSTEAMS Series of International Journals. Click HERE to download the Submission Template

Important Information on Traveling to Ghana

A negative COBID-19 PCR test is required for entry into Ghana. Participants should equally ascertain prevailing travel requirements through their airline websites. as these may be updated/adjusted periodically. Please check exchange rate of the dollar to the Cedi HERE before departure from their countries of origin so as to be able to properly budget for travel, health, sundry and accommodation needs.

Visa(s) & Travel Information to Foreigners & ECOWAS Citizens

ECOWAS citizens includng Nigerians do not need visas to visit Ghana. The ECOWAS passport is all that is required. Road and other forms of transportation are available to travel from ECOWAS countries to Ghana. Kindly check with the Ghanaian Embassy or Consulate in your country for visa requirements if you are travelling to Ghana from any country other than an ECOWAS Country. Citizens whose countries do not have a Ghanaian Embassy (such as Cameroon) can obtain Visas on Arrival. A list of Ghanaian Diplomatic Missions/Embasies/Consular can be found HERE. For additional information on applying for visas to Ghana visit the Ghana Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration website www.mfa.gov.gh or contact your local Ghana High Commission. Kotoka International Airport, located in Accra, is Ghana’s premier international airport. Air connection to Accra is very easy and many hotels in Accra provide airport transfer service. Road connections are also available from a range of African Countries. Make travel plans ahead to ensure that you have the right information. Prospective participants can contact the organizers by e-mail for information and clarifications

Brief on Lodging & Feeding

A variety of accomodation options are available for conference participants within the host city and environs. Our Conference partner hotels are the Yiri Lodge and the University of Ghana Guest House all situated within the University of Ghana Campus. Please note that Participants are solely responsible for their accommodation and travel expenses. Assistant for pre-arrival hotel bookings and travel can be accommodated by the conference organizing committee. Participants can also book online directly with hotels as soon as possible. Participants should budget between $20 - $30 per day for additional meals apart from the lunch which will be served during the conference

Tourist Attractions

There are several tourist attractions in Ghana. Click HERE to check out possible tourist interest and make plans to visit.