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Kathleen Siminyu is an AI Researcher who has focused on Natural Language Processing for African Languages. She works at Mozilla as a Machine Learning Fellow to support the development of a Kiswahili Common Voice dataset and to build speech transcription models for end use cases in the agricultural and financial domains. In her NLP research, Kathleen has previously worked on speech transcription for Luhya languages and contributed to machine translation for Kenyan languages as part of Masakhane.

Kathleen Siminyu

A deep look at Mozilla Common Voice’s Kiswahili work – an initiative to bring a vital language of East Africa online, and to make voice technology accessible to Kiswahili speakers. The talk will cover the mission, challenges, and successes of building an open-source Kiswahili speech data set + community of contributors.

Honoring Kiswahili through technology and community

La Bourse

Thierry Brunfaut is a creative director and one of the founding partners of Base Design, the international network of branding studios based in Brussels, New York, Geneva, and Melbourne. He is the author of the renowned 5–Minute poster series, a professor, and a regular speaker at design and branding conferences around the world. Thierry bears a striking and seemingly contradictory resemblance both to Moby and Kermit the frog.
Base Design is an international network of studios that creates brands with cultural impact. Located in Brussels, New York, Geneva, and Melbourne. Our team of creatives, 
strategists, and digital experts design and develop simple yet powerful brands, and build unique personalities.
Base knows that branding is first and foremost about people, so specializes in helping companies – whether new or established; large or small – to become human-centric brands with vision, clarity, and empathy.
Founded in the early ‘90s, the company has evolved continuously over the years and is now steered by partners across all four studios. Clients include Apple, The New York Times, The Institut Français de la Mode, la Fondation Cartier, Studio Brussel, MoMA, Bob Dylan Center, Dior Galerie, La Monnaie Opera, IFAW, The Prince Estate, Orior, Bozar, NY Mets, Caran d’Ache, Caudalie, the JFK Terminal 4, and many more.

Thierry Brunfaut 

Thierry Brunfaut is a graphic designer, therefore learned graphic design. Also, Thierry is an entrepreneur. However, he did not know anything about people management or human resources. So, with his partners, Thierry made ALL the possible mistakes you can make while running a creative business. Until the day they decided to redesign Base, their own company. Thierry will share this journey with the Base teams, how they changed and implemented new processes and rituals while maintaining personal inspiration and accelerated creativity in their four studios in Brussels, New York, Geneva, and Melbourne. Moreover, he will also give you one or two simple but effective bits of advice &#8230;

How to create a studio culture

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Base Design

Thomas Kubski
Thomas is a digital strategist and service designer, director at Deloitte Digital. He is co-author of the Digital Delivery Model, that combines design thinking and agile and that has been successfully used in many digital transformation cases. For many years, he&#8217;s conducted research on the added-value of extended reality for organizations.
His 15+ years of experience in digital transformation have led him to complement his skills as a digital strategist with those of service designer, enterprise architect and program manager. His focus lays on accompanying his clients and colleagues to materialize innovation and transition from complex situations to pragmatic solutions with rapid implementation.
Sophie Belaey
Sophie is a service and experience designer, senior consultant at Deloitte Digital. She laid the foundations for the inception and implementation of the Digital Studio and Factory under the proven &#8220;Digital Delivery Model&#8221; framework, that combines design thinking and agile delivery to enable swift and effective digital transformations. Her focus lays on leading transversal and vibrant teams throughout the iterative design and delivery cycles. She envisions and brings to life state-of-the-art and future-proof digital solutions and experiences that not only meet end-user needs, but change their lives.

Thomas Kubski & Sophie Belaey

It’s a question that many clients have asked us. Beyond the buzzwords, we accompany our clients (and sometimes colleagues) to figure out the added value that immersive technology can bring them. We refuse work when we can’t find a clear answer, as we believe that there must be some value if we push enough the boundaries of our minds. It&#8217;s indeed the first problem we face when discussing about AR/VR/MR: how to conceptualize ideas and share them? How to imagine concepts that are based on a reality we don’t know (yet)?
Through case studies, we will walk you on a journey that starts with carrot fields in Wallonia, then brings us to the top of Swiss mountains and coffee plantations in South America, looking for the value delivered by AR/VR/MR.

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